Please give serious consideration to the following:
The book of Daniel is purported to have been written during the Babylonian captivity of the Jews (around 500 BC). Copies of Daniel found among the Dead Sea Scrolls are virtually identical with the book of Daniel in modern Bibles. The scrolls have been carbon-dated to AT LEAST 150 years before the time of Jesus.
In Chapter 9 of the book of Daniel, it is prophesied that 483 years will transpire from the "...time of the decree to rebuild Jerusalem to the arrival of the Anointed One, the ruler...".
This decree from Artaxerxes (King of Babylon) has been found and it was dated. Adding 483 Hebrew years (their calendar was only 360 days) gets you to the date of March 30, 33 AD. This is the date of Jesus triumphal entry into Jerusalem prior to his crucifixion.
How can you explain such an accurate prediction. If you think it was a lucky guess, please calculate the odds of this explanation.
2007-11-26
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