Comments on: So atheists, how do you explain Jesus correctly anticipating Protestant / Catholic war?

By: Rick Monday Saves the Flag

Rick Monday Saves the Flag — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:13:03 +0000

They were at war with each other, while St. Paul was still active … you have not read any of Paul's letters, condemning "the wrong type of Christians? For someone like St. Paul says, certainly AP * ss-poor reading it ….

By: Rick Monday Saves the Flag

Rick Monday Saves the Flag — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:13:03 +0000

Jesus was not predicting the Protestant and Catholic divide. He was saying that, because of their faith, members of his own family people would turn against them.
The Catholic Church was announced several times in the New Testament. One passage says that those who would teach the "doctrines of demons", such as forbidding people to marry (such as priests, monks, nuns) and the command not to eat certain meats on certain days. Sounds familiar, right? And in Revelation, there are several chapters describing the great whore of Babylon, and after careful consideration it becomes clear that the Roman Catholic Church is the whore. * * That is where the Church is prophesied.

By: Blue-Eyed Christian

Blue-Eyed Christian — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:13:03 +0000

It is only if an accurate prediction is supposed to mean what you said that means. We have no way of knowing what he meant when he said that. He also said he came to set man at variance against his father. It was clear he meant me and my dad when he wrote and did not happen so his prophecy is incorrect. If you get the sense after the fact to fit the prediction is very easy to say it was fulfilled.

By: NOJ

NOJ — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:13:03 +0000

This quote is more like the rivalry between Christians and Jews, with the man that Christians and Jews is the father.
Regardles, Jesus knew what he was teaching was revolutionary and that people questioned his teachings. He did not really need to find 1500 or 2000 years in the future to see that … what was happening in his life already!

By: Scott B

Scott B — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:13:03 +0000

The families were divided by the Mason-Dixon line during the Civil War. Perhaps Jesus was talking about that?
This is one case of Christians to take something very, very vague, its application to something unimportant, and praising Jesus into heaven for his incredible vision.
I sincerely hope they are not as ignorant and desperate as the sound on this issue. You're clutching at straws, dear.

By: AlexAlex

AlexAlex — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:13:03 +0000

And where did you get the bit about "the home could be part of the whole Church"?
That's not a prediction. That is that the reinterpretation of the words and give whole new meaning to seem that there is a prediction. They have been doing that for ages with Nostradamus.

By: rac EAC Evil Atheist Conspiracy

rac EAC Evil Atheist Conspiracy — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:13:03 +0000

it isn't accurate. the fact that you have to say "could be" do not make an accurate prediction. is requiring that fits your idea. same with people who believe in psychics and what Nostradamus said. its so vague that it could be anything.
i read how that text is a family feud. as in, a specific house. and hey, it happens all the time! wow, Jesus must be correct. that's all I am a Christian since he predicted that some reactionary stabbing her son and mother's boyfriend slept with daughters …. See how that works?

By: Mickey.S

Mickey.S — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:13:03 +0000

You said it yourself
The part of the home> MAY This "book" also says that the earth was created in 6 days so im still going to be skeptical TBH.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:13:03 +0000

So predicts the Protestant / Catholic war? Oh, thanks for telling me. I thought he predicted any of the civil wars or wars of religion, etc.

By: Terry W

Terry W — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:13:03 +0000

You could easily be describing the Civil War, or the end of the Amercian Idol.