(03-09-2018 04:06 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  the world was always going to end based on all doctrine written by 'prophets that scribbled' that didn't have a clue other than 'stories based on vague macrame'.....that's a safe one to state as "fact" relative to the history of mankind.....

Actually its not. Other religions don't even try to prove their authenticity by giving real tangible provable evidence or prophecy.

Sure, some like to point to an end time apocalypse, but they offer nothing tangible to illustrate their validity until you are already dead and its over. They don't even try.

The bible is a gigantic text in total, and nearly 1/3 of the book deals with real, tangible specific and illustratable prophecies that are meant to be evidence and proof to the reader and believer. They help faith grow and remove doubt for the believer, and serve as a witness to the unbeliever.

Thus the OT (which predates Christ by centuries) offers entire chapters and books of prophecy concerning the first coming of Christ, his life, birth, crucifixion and Resurrection, the entire gospels and all that surrounded them.

It also lays out in grand detail the entire history of the nation of Israel from the time of Christ until the modern-day return of the Jews to the Holy land, STILL rejecting Christ as their Messiah. It also lays out the change of the body of believers from Jews to gentiles for 2000+ years of the current church age.

To say there is nothing similar to that in any other religion in the history of the world is the understatement of all eternity. You yourself have never even looked at the evidence, so its easy to convince yourself it doesn't exist anyway.