Comments by "Vvv Mmm" (@vvvmmm153) on "Responding to Comments on My Bible Videos" video.

@colinpierre3441 Turning away from religion does not necessarily make people atheists, you can be a non-religious theist. Atheists don't believe in the existence of god, but rejecting the church or the doctrine only means rejecting an institution that disappointed you one way or another.
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@colinpierre3441 Thank you for your question. I would consider myself an agnostic, I don't know if God exists or not, and I do not have a good enough proof to support either one of the statements. I turned away from the religion because in case of god's existence, I do not think that people, just regular people like you and me, have a right to talk on his behalf, dictate how others should behave, decide who is a “correct” believer and who is not. I see religion as an alternative power or business that manipulates people’s minds for money. I don’t like that religion is still attempting to suppress science or affect political decisions being responsible for too many wars and repressions throughout the history. This is my view; I am not trying to impose it on anyone, and I think any institution can exist if it does not hurt people. Religion does unfortunately.
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@colinpierre3441 I would be happy to review the prophecies in the Bible with you and compare them with the events that happened in the world. However, even if you are 100% right, and the Bible predicted world's major events, how does it prove that it's a word of God? And how does it prove that Jesus was a son of God and not just a prophet like Michel de Nostredame or a modern time Baba Vanga whose predictions were often accurate. I read the Bible a long time ago and I might have forgotten a lot of it, so I would be interested to hear your point of view.
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@colinpierre3441 You and I are talking about different things. To me a proof of God's existence would be a physical fact scientifically confirmed by multiple trustworthy sources. You believe that the prophets could predict accurately only with God's help. The key word is "believe". I can believe in anything: - They could have been helped by God - They could have some extraordinary mental abilities - They could be very smart analysts for their time - They could be time travelers. It is still my belief that does not prove anything. Now, regarding an example you are talking about, I am not even sure that it's a prediction. Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon in 539 BCE. The Book of Isaiah was started long before this date, in 8th century BCE, but nowadays the majority of scholars think that it was compiled by two or three authors separated by centuries. It means that Isaiah's prophesy could very well be written when Cyrus already existed.
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@colinpierre3441 You are proving a statement in the Bible with another statement from the Bible. That's not how it works :). Both Luke and Flavius Josephus lived eight hundred years after the Book of Isaiah was supposedly written, so why should I believe them more than I believe the modern scholars who have scientific methodology to attribute the text to the certain time based on multiple parameters?
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@colinpierre3441 "do we not prove a statement in any book if another part of the book supports it?" - absolutely not. Take any fiction book and apply your logic to it. You will end up believing in Lord Voldemort and Gendalf. I am aware of the studies where a statistical method was used to determine single authorship, and it suggested that indeed the book was all written by Isaiah based on prefix analysis. I hope you'd agree that one parameter is not enough for this type of a conclusion. I don't have much time to look for actual non-religious studies of the book, and I admit I only read the conclusions that satisfied me. It seems more logical to me that the events were described while they were happening. If we rollback to 12th century when Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra pointed out that the prophesies in chapters 34, 35 and 40 to 66 were not written in the same language as the rest of the book, we will see that the doubts were there for a very long time. Again, I am not saying that God does not exist or Isaiah did not write his book. I am saying there is no sufficient proof, and I don't have a reason to believe one side more then the other.
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