From: user6340@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   Those who believe the Bible to be some random book   
   filled with mythical stories, are people who don't   
   even know what the Bible actually says.   
      
   The Bible prophesied (hundreds of years in advance)   
   the destruction of Israel, and that the land would   
   sit empty and desolate until God would regather His   
   people and return them to their own land.   
      
   Here are a couple of examples:   
      
   Ezekiel 36:24-28: "I will take you from the nations   
   and gather you from all the countries and bring you   
   into your own land."   
      
   Isaiah 11:11-12: "In that day the Lord will reach out   
   his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving remnant   
   of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper   
   Egypt, from Cush, from Elam, from Babylonia, from Hamath   
   and from the islands of the Mediterranean."   
      
   And before you might think this is about the Babylonian   
   exile, notice that these two verses mention a regathering   
   of God's people from multiple nations. These verses are   
   about today's Israel, in which the Jews were restored to   
   their land in 1948 -- just as God promised would happen.   
      
   How could the Bible have prophesied all of that so many   
   years in advance, if it's just a random collection of   
   (supposed) myths?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)