Quote Originally Posted by Ocelot
False. well.... semi-false. at this poin in their life they are already brainwashed into doing and acting as they do, a change is not likely. however, I myself was raised in one of these families and brought myself out of it because I think far too much and none of the bible made sense to me. it didn't add up.

ok so please, just for me, will you give examples of these predictions? I'd like to see them and read them, please be as accurate as you can.

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I think his statement is pretty accurate. He didn't comment on the likelihood he simply said they have the choice to explore and follow their own hearts. The internal nature of faith often makes children choose things differently from their parents. Every person has the choice. There are consequences just like with any other choice, but that doesn't mean they don't have some option. Most of the people I know who are believers don't believe exactly what their parents do and most people who I know that claim to be atheists or agnostics come from some sort of religious background. This denotes that his statement has no false edges to it. Just like voting...every U.S. citizen can vote, but not all of us do, and for the ones that do they can vote in many different ways.

Predictions in the Bible. Specifically look in the Old Testament. The prophets of the old testament would warn the people of the impending courses of slavery and hardships in the times of their denial and reluctancy to look to God.

Specifically look at the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel. Those prophecies that are made are most directed at the Jewish people and they came true in their very lifetime or within the period. Then there are prophets who are considered minor prophets and they wrote about the coming messiah, his lineage, how he would be killed (even though crucifixion was not practiced at the time of the prophecies) and they wrote about specific details like the lack of a broken bone in his body (which is significant because the crucifixion process ended with the roman soldiers breaking the legs of the person being crucified, but this did not happen with Christ, and this was unusual for that method of execution. Anyway some of the minors are Hosea, Zechariah, Joel, Amos, Habakkuk, Malachi, Obediah, and Micah. There are more, but these are the ones I think are easiest to read. But either way, many of these men made claims during their life that were ignored by the Jews, some of them were beating and run off, but many of them saw their prophecies fulfilled in their lifetime.

Read on your own for specifics. But I will say that many of the prophecies about the jewish nation disobeying God and being punished were fulfilled shortly after they were prophesied and you can read those accounts as well.