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Wooah, wait a minute, both are obviously not comparable, because modern medicine really 'works', you can't say that of God...




Thatīs a little bit black & white, isnīt it?

Of course many mistakes are made in modern medicine, just ask grandma, she can tell you lots of stories, where she had a specific problem, contacted a doctor, and he made a wrong diagnosis, then she turned to the next doctor who told her, that the first doctor was wrong ...

Most of your arguments about God are based on the assumption, that if the Bible or certain preachers, prophets are not 100 percent infallible, there canīt be God.

But if you apply the same standard to medicine, you would have to reach the conclusion, that Medicine wouldnīt make sense, which would be obvious nonsense.

But, when it comes to religion, you only see the negative examples, while medicine "really works".

The truth about medicine: sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnīt work.
The truth about religion: sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnīt work.

Itīs not all black & white, especially not, when we deal with complex systems.

The Bible does explicitly acknowledge, that there can be false prophets, that people can believe in a wrong way etc.

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Problem is that there's no proof of such a link at all.




No there is no proof. It is up to the audience of the prophet, to decide if they want to believe him. The normal thing seems to be, that people believe in the false prophets and crucify or throw stones at the true prophets.

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Prophets claim these things in order to be able to convince people, again for power and influence. It's clever talk to keep the masses' attention.




Actually the descriptions in the Bible and elsewhere show a very different picture. The prophets usually appear as social outsiders, their message is not one, that the people would want to hear. I could give you countless examples.

People, who want power and influence usually make arrangements with existing powers, tell the people nice things.

Believe it or not, but true prophets were usually not popular.