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truelgbt wrote:

scott1328 wrote:I suppose we should be grateful that this one confines itself to a couple threads. The question is: why is this incessant preaching tolerated?

How do you propose I should post Christian prophecies WITHOUT having it fall under YOUR definition of 'preaching'?

[Reveal] Spoiler:

Remember, Christian prophecies are to be fully understood WITHIN THE CONTEXT of the Bible and the God who is providing the prophecy and causing the predicted future event to occur. Context is everything.

Without this context, it would no longer be a Christian prophecy but simply a random statement about the future, e.g. "I think this or that will happen in the future..." which certainly is NOT Christian prophecy.

So before we say Christian prophecy is, "nothing but more preaching", we need to understand the important components of prophecy.

Components of Christian prophecies include much more than just what will happen in the future. They include:

1) How the prophecy is related to Biblical principles. This shows God's consistency and how the future event in the prophecy is not just a unilateral decision made on a whim by a capricious god. Without this component, atheists would simply accuse Christians of believing in a god who made no sense - ooops, they already do that, lol. Atheists demand answers but also want to ban the answers, lol.

2) Why God is intervening in the affairs of mankind at this time and how it relates to modern events already occurring.

3) How the predicted future event relates to previous prophetic events which have already occurred. This Bible principle is from Ecclesiastes 1:9: "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." This verse tells us God causes certain prophetic events to happen over and over again throughout time so when people see events repeat, they begin to understand that God is in control. Even secular historians benefit from this.

If Christian prophecy is not understood and explained with these components in mind, we are missing the whole point, in which case, why discuss Christian prophecy at all? The forum rules should state "Christian prophecies not allowed." (but we still consider ourselves to be rational and honestly skeptical, yeah right).

I also encourage you to give the moderators "an ask" to ban me. But while you're at it, please don't forget to ask them to ban the others who have directed much cussing, name-calling, and ad-hominems toward me (OOPS! That would absolutely decimate this forum, lol - we would need to rename this forum "Lonely Planet")

Finally, if you want to ban Christian Prophecy, you will also need to consider renaming this forum: "Atheist Echo Chamber" or "Monolythic Atheist Society" or "For Atheist Ideas Only" but as for Rational or Skeptical, those descriptives would no longer apply here because both of those qualities require a certain openness of mind and a certain level of 'toleration' of other views which might be completely incompatible with atheism (I assume the name Rational Skepticism was chosen to indicate this forum was more than just about atheism but maybe I was wrong).

So, please give just one example of a hypothetical 'Christian prophecy' which is acceptable to you which I should try to emulate, but is still understandable and recognizable as a Christian prophecy and not simply a generic prediction. Just one example.