Prophetic failure.

[heidler1]

Here are 10 that didn't pan out, so far:


The Prophet Hen of Leeds, 1806


History has countless examples of people who have proclaimed that the return of Jesus Christ is imminent, but perhaps there has never been a stranger messenger than a hen in the English town of Leeds in 1806. It seems that a hen began laying eggs on which the phrase "Christ is coming" was written. As news of this miracle spread, many people became convinced that doomsday was at hand - until a curious local actually watched the hen laying one of the prophetic eggs and discovered someone had hatched a hoax.
The other nine are at http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091104/sc_livescience/10faileddoomsdaypredictions

[sui generis]

1. Weather's great, I'm going for a bible dip . . .

drum roll please . . . . institutional-investor

(it was hyphenated, I swear!).

okay, so I can't actually handle a bible, without bursting into flame, so I used an industry white paper.

I think it means Jesus is coming. Ew m'gawd!!!!!! Wait, wait . . . Jesus Garcia de Ponga is not coming down, he's stepping down from his position as CEO of Metrovacesa. Wait wait, oh crap. I just predicted the past.

Dang.

[stopbush]

2. The OT test for determining whether a prophet was a false prophet or a god-sent prophet was easy:

if they weren't correct 100% of the time, they were false prophets.

Jesus prophesied that his second coming would happen during the lifetimes of the people living in the generation in which he lived. It didn't happen. Jesus was just as wrong about his imminent return as were the Hens of Leeds.

Ergo, according to the Bible, Jesus was a false prophet.