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From: tims@mako.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Can a thinking man accept the Bible? ( final)
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Date: Sun, 3-Jun-84 17:54:12 EDT
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> The New Testament is filled with prophecies of our own day.
> Jesus said that in the last days there would be wars and rumors of wars.
> He prophecied earthquakes and tidal waves. He prophecied a state of
> political turbulance and emotional upheaval. He said mens hearts
> would be failing them for fear. The Bible says that evil men and seducers
> will wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

When were there no wars and no rumors of war?  When have there been no
earthquakes and tidal waves?  When has there not been political turbulence
and emotional upheaval?  Since when haven't evil men been getting worse and
worse?  You call this prophecy, I call it tautology.
Why DOESN'T this great bible predict or say anything real about our own
times, something that might substantiate christianity.  Insted, the only
possible things in the bible that could substantiate christianity are
unexaminable because they are either too far in the past, or supposedly
coming the the future (2nd coming), or after death, none of this stuff
can be examined.  I submit this a large reason for christianity's, and
several other religion's survival.

CAN ANYONE GIVE SOME EXAMINABLE, VERIFIABLE EVIDENCE TO SUBSTANTIATE
CHRISTIANITY?