prophecy about Christ?

Question

The Old Testament of the Bible was finished hundreds of years before Jesus' birth. It contains many prophecies about the coming Messiah, or Christ. A few examples are that the Christ would be born in Bethlehem, would be of the tribe of Judah, would be a descendant of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that his family would have to escape to Egypt, that he would grow up in Nazareth, that he would have an exciting entrance into Jerusalem on a donkey, that he would be betrayed for 30 pieces of silver, that that money would go to buy a potter's field, that soldiers would divide his clothes and gamble for them, that he would be crucified with criminals, and these are only a few, some claim there are hundreds of Old Testament prophecies that Jesus fulfilled.
Being that they were “guessed” hundreds of years before Jesus was even born, how, other than Him being the Son of God, would it have been possible to “guess” so many specific things about him hundreds of years before he lived?

In addition, many of the things that Jesus fulfilled from the Old Testament were not just shown in the New Testament to be true, but also in Roman, Jewish, and Islmanic history.

Answer 1

The probability of these odds.
The mathematical probability of just 8 Old Testament prophecies being fulfilled would be 1 in a hundred million billion!

A better example....
Imagine the whole world was covered with white tile that is one-and -a half inches square. Every bit of dry land on the planet covered but only one tile with a gold star painted on the bottom of it.
Then picture a person being allowed to wander the 7 continents. He would be permitted to bend down only 1 time and pick up a single piece of tile. What are the odds it would be the 1 tile with a gold star on it's reverse side? 1 chance in a hundred million billion--- the same as just 8 of the Old Testament prophecies coming true in any 1 person throughout history!

Answer 2

yawn.

what dose that prove? first off half the stuff you posted was a lie IE the living in Nazareth. Nazareth did not even exist in OT times! or the sliver nowhere dose it say that the Messiah has to be betrayed with 30 pieces of silver. Or the Bethlehem thing that just means that the Messiah has to trace his roots to Bethlehem AKA King David even if it meant that their were thousands of kids born in Bethlehem.

oh and the donkey, question if I thought that I was the Messiah and I heard a verse that said that the Messiah will come into Jerusalem on a donkey wouldn't I try and do that ? Just a question.

the fact is their is no proof that Jesus is the biblical Messiah and a lot to say that he was not

Answer 3

Why not think of it this way... if you read a book where if all you did all those things, you would be regarded as the son of god. How hard would it be to go "Hey, I was born in Bethlehem." Ride into Jerusalem on a donkey (I'm sure it was very uncommon in those days), convince someone to turn you in for 30 pieces of silver. As if soldiers WOULDN'T divide up his clothes and gamble for them... Come on now... you're saying it was predicted when in fact he probably read all that and made it appear as he was fulfilling them.

Answer 4

One then must conclude that He must be the Son of God. Everything fits and nothing was left out.


Choose what you will to believe, as for me and My household, we have chosen faith in Jesus Christ.

Answer 5

can you prove all of the things written in the bible is real and then you have some thing to discuss. how ever i can write a book about some one and write it in such a way as to make them full fill any prophesy i want them to.

Answer 6

Excellent post. God bless you.