Did things pertaining to Jesus saying it (peters denial) happen because Jesus said it would happen?

Question

or was Jesus just prophesying?

Answer 1

Jesus said that because He knew what Peter can be.

Answer 2

jg tibbs is incorrect. The first of the Gospels may have been around as early as the year 45 C.E.( Gospel of Mark). Most of the New Testament was written before 70 C.E. The Pauline Letters were written before 70 C.E. because the apostle Paul was beheaded under the order of the Roman emperor Nero in 68 C.E. Also the apostle Paul never mentioned anything about the destruction of the Second Temple which Jesus prophesied would happen and did happen in 70 C.E. The Second Temple was destroyed by, at the time, General Titus who later became the Roman emperor Titus. If such a catastrophic thing happened before Paul's death why would he not mention it, given that this prophesy was one of Christ's prophesies? Common sense should say to you that if this catastrophic event had taken place before Paul's death he certainly would have written about it. Also, Paul was a Jew so he had other strong connections to the Temple in Jerusalem. Paul was raised in all the teachings of ancient Judaism. So he knew the significance of the Temple's destruction and of course would have written about it if that catastrophe had happened before his death. Also, Paul frequented the Temple in Jerusalem so, again, if anything catastrophic had happened Paul would have heard about it from someone or gone back to Jerusalem to see for himself and he would have written about it. Many people mentioned Jesus and his followers in contemporaneous extra-biblical texts long before 750 years after his death. Even the emperor Nero knew of Jesus and his followers. Nero used the Christians as scapegoats for the fire that destroyed Rome during his reign. Anyway, to answer the question at hand, Christ is the second person of the Holy Trinity, he is G-d in the flesh. Jesus said, "...he who has seen me has seen the Father." As Christians we believe that Jesus is both human and divine. Jesus merely did his "G-d thing" and knew what Peter would do/ say and spoke it out loud. One could call it prophesying, but when you think about it, does G-d prophesy or is it that he knows the future and declares the end from the beginning?

Answer 3

Actually nothing was written about jesus until 750yrs after he died

Answer 4

Beliefs are never questioned or doubted. Belief is belief!