How can anyone deny Christianity in the face of all the fulfilled prophecy?

Question

The Virgin Mary predicted World War II in 1917 (during World War I):
The war is going to end, but if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will begin during the Pontificate of Pius XI. (Pius XI was Pope from 1922 to 1939.)

In 1917, Our Lady also predicated the Soviet Union, the rise of communism, and it's fall:
I ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart. If this is done, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace. If it is not, Russia will spread her errors throughout the world, and there will be famine, persecution of the Church and of the Holy Father. In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and there will be peace. (Russia become communist in 1917. There were famines and Christianity was persecuted. In 1984, Pope John Paul II consecrated Russia to Mary. Soon after, communism began to decline in Europe. The Soviet Union fell.)

Answer 1

there's an old saying that goes like this >>> The blind simply cannot see.



It refers to both physical and spiritual blindness - willful and otherwise

Answer 2

The Fatima secrets? Man, it's been a while since someone was stupid enough to reference those.



> The Virgin Mary predicted World War II in 1917 (during World War I):



You do know the "prophecy" wasn't disclosed till 1941? Several years after the start of WWII and plenty of time to fake whatever you want of it. The timeline is also wrong as there was a new pope at the start of WWII, making the prophecy fail right there. It's also worthy to note that between WWI and WWII it was a relative long period of peace. Pretty much every century before had European wars going every decade. If the "prophecy" was actually written in 1917, it was a fairly safe bet that a new war would erupt soon after the current ended.





> (Russia become communist in 1917. There were famines and Christianity was persecuted. In 1984, Pope John Paul II consecrated Russia to Mary. Soon after, communism began to decline in Europe. The Soviet Union fell.)



Aside from the 'prophecy' not mentioning anything of this by name, there is also the facts of reality. This falls in the category of 'if you keep doing it often enough, sometimes you might get lucky'. And it was still off by like 7 years.



"In October 1942 Pope Pius XII performed the Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary for the entire world, and in July 1952 he specifically consecrated the Peoples of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary by his apostolic letter Sacro Vergente Anno.

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On March 25, 1984, the feast of the Annunciation, Pope John Paul II consecrated Russia in a public ceremony. Russia was never specifically mentioned in the consecration prayer; the consecration was in the form of a 'whole-world consecration'."





The Soviet Union fell due to not being able to keep up with the arms race, destroying their economy and the relatively young leader Gorbachev issued in reforms that ultimately led to to dissolution of the USSR.

This was pretty inevitable and would have happened regardless of any prayers, consecrations or other religious nonsense.





An actual real prophecy should be known in advance, not be able to be caused by the believers and defy any statistical odds. Only then would it be interesting to investigate further.

Please try again.

Answer 3

Where does this prophecy mention the Soviet Union and/or the rise of communism? You're putting your own spin on it. And a lot of people knew another world war would come, hence the creation of the League of Nations. It wasn't because of claims of a prophecy.

Answer 4

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't force it to drink. You can offer prophecies, but a relationship with God is a heart thing. God has created each one of us with the power of choice. Forcing religion on someone against their will is a sure way to make sure God is not involved. In the Bible God gave the king's dream to Daniel, and it's meaning in Daniel chapter 2. Babylon was represented as the head of gold. The chest and arms of silver were Medo Persia. The loins of brass was the next kingdom of Greece. The next kingdom to come was Rome, represented by the legs of iron. Rome was in power at the time of Jesus. Then the mixture in the feet of iron and Potter's clay represented a civil and religious power. They were mixed but they wouldn't cleave one to another. Rome later ruled the world as a religious political power. With all of the bloodshed the happened in Europe, many fled for freedom of religion to the new country. In the dream there is a stone cut without hands. It shatters the image, and it blows away like the dust from the chaff at harvest time. That Rock is Jesus. He is coming. The earthly kingdoms with it's pagan influences handed down through the nations, will be no more. Revelation chapter 21 says that the former things are passed away. In Isaiah 14:12-17 we can read that it is Satan that shakes the kingdoms, makes the world as a wilderness, and destroys the cities. In reading chapters 1 and 2 of Job, we see that Satan can bring down fire from the sky. Satan destroys innocent children, destroys family income and assets, and destroys innocent workers on their jobs. Satan causes terrible storms, destroys innocent animals, brings on disease and sickness, and starts wars and raids. I know the insurance companies call it acts of God, but our enemy is Satan. He is the great liar and deceiver that destroys and kills, and then he places the blame all on God. We can trust God to always tell the truth, and to always be 100% accurate 100% of the time.

Answer 5

Christianity is only one of 5000 recognized religions, more then half are older then Christianity. And I could be wrong, but I was taught, from CCD, that God, Jesus gives everyone, the right to decide for themselves how we want to live and what we want to believe, its called free will. And I was told by my pastor, I could still be a good person and live a good life, and not believe in God. But he felt I would be more at peace if I did let God into my life.

Answer 6

You are just taking vague verses of the bible and interpreting them to be a reference to a real historical event. Unless it describes the event in exact detail of what was going to occur; it is not a prophecy. Its just a load of babbling nonsense. An all knowing deity or friend of an all knowing deity; should know the details exactly.

Answer 7

I've never seen the words "Soviet Union" mentioned in the bible. Nor does it mention anything in 1917, or Pope Pius. World War I and World War II are not named. Prophecy fail.

Answer 8

I am already here, and I refuse to ever leave this world again. For there is no other God stands before me.666 Alive and well. Yet there will be people who deny my name. Word Of God... I see and hear you are of the wise at heart, I want you to inherit this earth with me. Word Of God.

Answer 9

Yes, if you want to believe these "prophecies", then you go right ahead and believe it all.

If you want to believe the Virgin Mary lived in 1917, then don't let anything like facts get in your way.

Answer 10

Very easily. Many other religions claim to be the one true religion.



What use would an alien have for religion anyways?

Answer 11

Where are these predictions? Idk what you are talking about; they are not in the Bible. The Bible did however:

1) Predict the destruction of the 2nd temple 30 years before it happened.

2) Predict the fall of the Western Roman Empire 400+ years before it happened.

Answer 12

mary never said anything. it was popes that made up stories behind their papal infallability doctrines and you like other catholics has no choice but to believe in the fictions or youll go to hell.

Answer 13

The FSM predicted far more things than that.