Jesus as the Messiah was not predicted in the Old Testament, by any stretch of the imagination.?

Question

2 scriptures from the Old Testament that predict Christ:
Genesis 3:15 (this is vague at best)
Deuteronomy 18:15 (But this says “prophet” not messiah and it’s more likely that Moses was talking about Joshua – If you never heard of the New Testament, you’d assume this.)

It never talks about Jesus as he was, or the miracles, or that he would be sent to the cross, etc.

QUESTION:
So, since we Know that there is no way that anyone could have accurately copied the idea of a Christ like figure, before having an example to copy it from, How is it that Jesus is remarkabley similar to so many of the previous suffering saviors of mythology?

Dionysus
Osiris
Tammuz
Krishna
Zarathustra
Mithras
And many more

(for example)

No no no

I'm well aware that there were more than 2 verses. I just didn't want to make me question too long.

Answer 1

it's mythical cult nonsense.

the cult story of jesus comes from the earlier cult called mithras.

all the nonsense about jesus -- virgin birth, resurrection, savior, tortured death, etc, come from mithras. it's not an original story. not by a long-shot.

Answer 2

Read these verses in the Bible...
Psalm 22:1 --> Matthew 27:46
Psalm 69:21 --> John 19:28-29
Isaiah 53:4,6,11 -->1 Peter 2:24-25

There are more if you would like to see the God of the Old Testament is truly the Jesus Christ of the New Testament.

Answer 3

Space on this website doesn't permit a full listing of the Old Testament prophecies literally fulfilled by the life, death and resurrection of Jesus as outlined in the New Testament. Read Psalm 22 or Isaiah 53 and then read any of the four Gospels ( Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John) and you'll begin to see what I mean.

Answer 4

There are various passages in the Hebrew writings that refer to a suffering Messiah, such as Isaiah 53. For some odd reason, you never mention those.

Some scholars claim to have found superficial similarities between some Bible stories and pagan myths. To some extent, it is just an ink blot test -- you see similarities only if you want to. It also raises the question of exactly who is copying from whom. If you truly did your research, you would have noticed that also.

If you are going to say that Christians are reading the Hebrew writings with a biased eye, looking for similarities between the story of Jesus and the Old Testament Messianic prophecies where there are none, then I will accuse you of doing the same with the pagan myths.

Interesting double standard that you have, there.

Answer 5

Alfred Edersheim, was a 19th century Bible scholar who was Jewish. He researched the various prophecies, and discovered that the Jewish Messiah was in fact Jesus of Nazareth.

He wrote "The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, and in it, he listed 456 separate Messianic Prophecies that Jesus alone fulfilled.

You can point to mythology to try and disprove Jesus as the Messiah, but He alone fulfilled all 456 of these. And you can't determine your place of birth, and your historical genealogy. And you certainly wouldn't be a willing participant in your own death to prove a point, especially if you are lying about it.

The mathematical probability about anyone fulfilling just eight of these prophecies comes from Peter Stoner in Science Speaks (Moody Press, 1963) to show that coincidence is ruled out by the science of probability. Stoner says that by using the modern science of probability in reference to only eight of the prophecies, "we find that the chance that any man might have lived down to the present time and fulfilled all eight prophecies is 1 in 10 to the 17th power." (That would be 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000.)

Answer 6

The writers of the previous testomony have been basically writing for the area in trend, had they popular Mohamed became to reach upon the scene interior the 1400s they might likely have had something to declare that could desire to've banned him as undesirable of their eyes. Me i flow everywhere close to faith, i don't have self assurance in any of it, to me that is all approximately being a sturdy individual on your own maximum appropriate.

Answer 7

Read Isaiah 7 and Isaiah 53

Answer 8

If you think there were only two versus that predict Christ, you are sorely mistaken. The first verse to predict Christ was in Genesis, and Isaiah is practically full of them, there were SO many of them.....so look those up, and try again.

Appreciate the effort though!!

Answer 9

Here is a list of prophesies that Jesus fulfilled. I believe there may be even more references, but this is a good list to start from. It is incomprehensible that anyone but Jesus could have filled them all.

http://www.christiananswers.net/dictionary/messianicprophecies.html

Check the scriptural references in items 15 and 16 where it states that He will perform many miracles and specifically open the eyes of the blind

Answer 10

There are far more references in the OT that predict the messiah. See Isaiah 53 for one such example.

EDIT: "I'm well aware that there were more than 2 verses. I just didn't want to make me question too long."

Backpeddle!!!!! lol

Answer 11

He definitely wasn't the messiah from the old testament, that is why the Jews never believed in him. The Messiah was supposed to lead them to a new age, and the 100 years after Jesus was a very dark time in Judea with brutal Roman rule. In addition, Jesus did not follow the precepts of the oral traditions in their faith. None of the prophecies seem to have been satisfied with his coming.