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Have the Bible scriptures on prophecy always been right?

My fiance is an avid reader on prophecy, particularly on what the scriptures of the bible have said, and while I do find many of them fascinating she is certain that every single one has been accurate. Is there a biblical scripture out there that predicted something incorrectly? If so, please cite what. Thanks!

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1. They've never been right about anything.

2. I know of no Bible scripture that has EVER been provably right.

3. So far they are batting 1000

4. Hindsight bias?

5. There ARE some that have not yet been fulfilled. Judgment is still open for those.

But out of the almost 1000 prophecies in the Bible, more than 500 HAVE been fulfilled, and ALL of them accurately. The remainder have not YET been filled. Most of these reference the End of Days, like Jesus' return, The One World Order (which may be being fulfilled even now!) and The AntiChrist, and the Final Judgment.

So Biblical prophecy has a more-than-50% total accuracy rate, and a 100% accuracy for those prophecies that have been fulfilled. With a record like that, there is good reason to believe that those prophecies yet to be fulfilled WILL be completely and accurately fulfilled in the future.

6. Here's one list of failed prophecies. Google will turn up more:

http://faithskeptic.50megs.com/prophecies.htm

7. Always!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

8. Sorry kiddo she is on point and correct every single one has been accurate. The destruction of Babylon which fell to the Medes and the Persians under Cyrus. Isa. 44:24,27,28; 45:1-4. Jer. 49:17-8 The Edomites fell to the Maccabaeans, the name disappeared from history. Isaiah 9:6 + 53:1-12 has been fulfilled in Jesus. Luke 19:41-44; 21:20-21 was fulfilled in 70 C. E. Jerusalem was destroyed and the Temple left in ruins. Just to name a few. Nothing I know of has been predicted incorrectly.

9. The biblical authors did indeed pass the test for identifying a true prophet. In fact, they were the ones who laid down the tests. One of the clearest and most definitive tests was the ability to perform miracles in support of their claims. Moses performed miracles to confirm he was of God. See Exodus 4-12. The apostles also did many miracles, see Matthew 10:1-8, as did Jesus. See John 3:2 and Hebrews 2:3-4. Paul used miracles as proof that he was an apostle of God, saying, “The things that mark an apostle, signs. Wonders and miracles were done among you with great perseverance.” See 2 Corinthians 12:12.

10. if one single prophecy is untrue, then you can throw away your bible because there is no god. god stakes his entire reputation on his ability to bring to pass what he has uttered. with over 8000 prophetic verses, and roughly 90% (debatable) already fulfilled, there is every reason to expect the remainder to be fulfilled exactly as written.

of course, people have been wrong in their interpretations of what it means.
and of course, many people use a wrong interpretation to show that the prophecy failed. not so.


tyre would be the most difficult. google modern tyre and it is a gleaming city with skyscrapers. yet the bible said it would be destroyed, cast into the sea, and used to spread fishnets.

what happened?

turns out tyre was thrown into the sea, by alexander the great. he made a path out to the island using the city. we can still see this on satellite map.
modern tyre is not ancient tyre. tyre was not rebuilt. it is another city altogether, just with the same name.
i live in new zealand. we have a bethlehem and a jerusalem here. these are not the biblical ones.

http://www.apologeticspress.org/article/1790

so this is the one you'll find on most skeptic sites. agreed it is a difficult one. but there are many others which are simpler, and have dates etc.