[Jack Simth]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
It is a good thing that I have never once made a claim or argument as to whether the Christian God exists or not, isn't it?

You haven't done so directly - however, many of the statements you make presuppose a total denial of the possibility of some of the attributes of God, thus indirectly saying He doesn't exist. For example:

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
No, it "has to be wrong" because logical reasoning tells you that real prophesy is impossible. You simply can not see into the future. You can make guesses, but you can not see what will undoubtedly happen. As the name supposedly prophesized appears accurate, something fishy had to have taken place for it to appear accurate (that, or Isaiah was a really good guesser, but it is very improbable that he would have been able to guess the name Cyrus).

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
The mention of the name Cyrus in Isaiah is most certainly an indication that one of 2 things occured:
1) The book was indeed written after the events took place (or even while they were taking place).
2) The book was altered after the events that were a safe bet to predict occured so that the necessary details would be correct.

Saying real prophesy is impossible is to deny the possibility of One who knows past, present, and future and who is able to communicate with mortals, some of the attributes attributed to God. Further, that quote is a logical fallacy in the context it appeared in - the debate at that point was over whether or not there was legitimate prophecy in the Bible, and the apparent reasoning in that passage lies in the assumption that prophecy cannot truly exist, yet you use this to support your claim that the specific prophecy in question was false. While I couldn't quote the Latin name for the fallacy, it is one.

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
All of these arguments are nice, but they detract from the heart of the matter. None of you yet has successfully answered my question as to why you accept Christian mythology (please read back a few Posts to see what mythology is if you do not know the real definition) and reject all other mythology as being false. Why is Christianity so special as to be right, and everything else is wrong?

Near as I can tell, the prophecy chain started because people used it as support for the Bible being correct, which would be an attempt to answer that very question.

As for my response -
I am a Christian, partly because that is what I grew up with, and partly because everything in the Bible that can be concretly tested and has been has come up in support of the Bible. For example, on the modern Mt. Ararat, buried in a glacer or two, there is a large wooden barge-like structure broken into three major pieces, of extreme age, which witnesses who have been inside say is filled with rows upon rows of what appear to be animal stalls. If you read of the flood in Genesis, specifically, the end of the flood, where Noah's Ark came to rest, you will find that it says the Ark came to rest in the Mountains of Ararat. Now, technically, this does not proove that the Bible happened. However, technically, nothing can be proven about the past. At best, evidence is "consistent with" or "inconsistent with" a particular tale of events. I find the bulk of the evidence to be consistent with the Biblical Version of events, and inconsistent with the most commonly postulated alternative, the tale of evolution. Mind you, this is a long post, so by the time I am done with it this post is likely to be outdated. C'est la vie.