... that even just 48 (of 300) Old Testament prophecies were fulfilled in one person, i.e Jesus.
2007-07-10 09:43:05 · 23 answers · asked by Mike M 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Wow, that is 22 out of 23 answers that are totally ignorant in nature. I was expecting more...
2007-07-10 10:31:00 · update #1
I'm a beleiver but I had to read the rest of your question
It's all there in black and white
2007-07-10 09:50:47 · answer #1 · answered by startrektosnewenterpriselovethem 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
thats funny. You might need to get a satisfactory definition for 'fulfilled', and you also need to explain how you came up with this particular number (and such a round one, too, how amazing!)
the fulfillment of prophesies usually can be explained with the fact that one lie is written to be a fulfilment for another lie which was a prophesy. Hey, its a well known fact that the nazereth jews in particular did this quite a lot. And they rewrote a lot of their books to account for failed prophesies. This is a known fact, no debate over it. They even pretended like alexander the great was prophesized- he might have been your messiah instead, if only he wasnt so unimpressed with these people and their flattery.
but hey, let me be fair and say this. I do think it is possible that people can see part of the future sometimes. I have done it myself occasionally, had prophetic dreams. Its a phenomenon i cant really explain. It seems to occur in an altered state, mixed with a certain degree of randomness, turbulence.- the oracle of delphi was particularly brilliant with this...If prophesy is in fact possible, it would be fascinating to know how and why. Even otherwise very rational thinkers were mystified by the delphi oracle. Well, we already know, via relativity, that time doesnt exist the way we understand it intuitively. Someday, they may in fact be a genuine scientific approach to prophesy, and time travel....but it would not prove god. yes, im open minded enough to entertain the possibility of prophesy, yet I do not belive in god, especially not this savage judeo-christian one...
2007-07-10 09:51:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The fact that none of it is verified.
It is easy for a fictional character to fulfill fictional prophecies.
What about the prophecies that he failed to fulfill?
It is just a book writen by men at least a generation after Jesus' alleged death, copied by men, edited by men, translated and transcribed by men.
The gospel of Matthew, who seems the most pedantic about prophecies was written 100 years after the times it is alleged to be recording. Of course it 'fulfulls' all the prophecies, even if he got the prophecies wrong. (Mary needed to be a young woman, not a virgin.)
Get over it.
2007-07-10 10:11:58 · answer #3 · answered by Simon T 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Did you know that the gospels were written with those prophesies in mind?
Gees, it is written that the messiah will enter into Jerusalem on a donkey. Do you know how many other messiahs have entered Jerusalem on a donkey? Do you know how many other 'messiahs" have done acts to intentionally fulfill those prophesies?
If I were an author wanting to sell the story of Jesus and knew that prophesy said my hero would rise on the third day, guess what? I'll write that my hero died on the third day.
There is no magic to that.
48 out of 300 would get you an F on any Math test in the world.
2007-07-10 09:51:16 · answer #4 · answered by Shawn B 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
48 out of 300 prophecies coming true sounds like pretty close to even odds. I could make up 300 random statements and chances are 48 would apply to anyone.
2007-07-10 09:49:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 3⤋
Easy you just need 10 to the 157th power persons. Is quite obvious. Why don't you try to be a little bit less stupid?
2007-07-10 09:53:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
I think the odds of someone shoehorning old predictions into current events are exactly 1:1.
2007-07-10 09:50:50 · answer #7 · answered by stym 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
LMFAO.
When you pulled a number that small out of your ***, how much **** did you have to dig through to find it?
Doesn't the fact that you have to make up nonsense like this to support your belief system tell you something about the quality of your belief system? I believe in trees and roads and cars and the sky and stars and the sun and the seas, and I can show that they exist without having to make up that kind of silly nonsense.
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"Wow, that is 22 out of 23 answers that are totally ignorant in nature. I was expecting more..."
So you make a up a transparent lie, post it, then insult those who point out that it was a lie.
Jesus surely is guiding you through life.
2007-07-10 09:46:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 11⤊ 4⤋
Can you account for the probability that all of Hari Seledons predictions in the first of the Foundation Series books came true in later books?
2007-07-10 09:48:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 3⤋
~.^
when prophecies are open as many of the OT ones are.... its not really hard to figure.
i could tell you a great person will be born sometime in a city and will preform great things. i can almost guarentee you i'll be right. =]
2007-07-10 09:46:54 · answer #10 · answered by Chippy v1.0.0.3b 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋