Yeah, hello -- Marketing 101. If you start offerring a lesser god, the competitor religions will be able to differentiate with a greater god -- and then the sheep will switch flocks. And you know what that means to the Sunday-collection plate bottom line, ehy?
Karl Marx did see man as an purely economic animal but he was wrong. Money is not what compels man to seek God.
Hey if, Jehovah doesn't know the future and he's not the all powerful god who created the universes, then Judiasm and Christianity would both be founded on a lie. If that we're true... I'd sure like to know it!
However, if it is true, then to hold belief in Him (& his son Jesus) just because of negative preconceptions about some of the followers who aren't living consistent with their beliefs is a pretty foolish thing... don't ya think?
Whether you like it or not, the Bible is full of prophecies (hundreds) and many of which have come true. For example, there were 30 major prophecies about the messiah (where he would be born, bloodline, how he would die, etc.). All of which fulfilled in the person of Jesus of Nazareth.
What about other Old Testament prophecies (e.g. those in Daniel which fortold of the fall of Babylon and even mentioned the names of those that would divide up the kingdom - even before the kingdom was established). Many times in the OT the future was foretold and how it was fulfilled is recorded there as well.
If this almighty God that we Christians believe in is outside of the space time continuum, then yes, most definitely he can fortell the future. If he's limited by time just as we are, then there's no explanation for those times the future was fortold by Him through the prophets.
Either He knows the future and those things in the Bible are true. Or He's not and He's limited in the same manner that we are and what we believe is a lie.
Do you have any evidence to show that no time in the Bible a prophetic statement was made which was not later fulfilled?? Or least least can you discount many of those which were fulfilled?