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To: Fichori
That is asserting the non-existence of something, or, 'proving' a negative.

God is a negative. A prophesy is a positive assertion, a positive assertion can be falsified. None of the prophecies in the Bible are clear or fulfilled, thus they have been falsified.

For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Matthew 12:39-40

So the best prophecy you have is one that was written years after the event? LOL

Can you prove that, because you have never seen me perform Handel's Messiah, I never will?

Are you prophesying that you are going to perform Handel's Messiah? If I prophesy that I am going to see Handel's Messiah and go see it does that make me a Prophet?

Either you were wrong when you said 'it is impossible to prove a negative' or you are wrong about there never being any future prophets.

You are correct, I can't predict that there will not be any prophets in the future. That would be a contradiction. The hypothesis is that it is impossible to predict the future. All it would take to falsify the hypothesis (prediction) is the existence of a prophet in the future. Similarly all it would take to disprove the Theory of Gravities prediction is for a rock not to drop when when it is released.

But we are confusing Theories with Prophecy. A theory is simply a testable observation of what is. It may predict that that the sun will rise tomorrow but it is an observation not a prediction. A prophecy would predict that on tomorrow the Sun will stand still in the sky while a man raises his hands. Would you care to place a wager on which one pans out?

381 posted on 06/25/2008 7:44:34 PM PDT by LeGrande
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To: LeGrande
Actually, we were discussing the merits of Atheism and you appear to be frantically trying to change the subject.

"None of the prophecies in the Bible are clear or fulfilled, thus they have been falsified." [excerpt]
When you don't have a valid argument, just hurl Elephants.

382 posted on 06/25/2008 8:08:01 PM PDT by Fichori (Primitive goat herder.)
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