DUH!
2007-11-11 11:04:17 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Just a friendly reminder, there were many deities BEFORE Jesus who were born of a virgin and raised from the dead.
2007-11-11 11:12:30 · update #1
Hmm, I doubt it. I think it's more likely that *Paul* had a copy of the Old Testament. Afterall, most of the fulfillments of OT prophecy happen *only* in Paul's version of events -- they're omitted from accounts made by the apostles. Further, Paul was already highly educated in Greece and Rome -- he was a worldly man who was quite familiar with not only the Old Testament, but Jewish folklore.
2007-11-11 11:09:22 · answer #1 · answered by STFU Dude 6 · 4⤊ 4⤋
During the Passion - Jesus knew ahead what was going to happen - yet freely followed the plan, although being human Jesus did ask to have plan changed so he could live, when this could not be done - Jesus fulfilled the plan as they had intended.
I think He knew of course, everything, as when He saw how free will entered into the Apostles decisions, like Peter 3 times saying he didn't know Jesus; and all the lost hopeless morale in the people desperately following him, then once Jesus explained how hard life is - watching as the multitude left him.
Knowing how the leadership of the Jews and Romans would react to him - Jesus spoke and acted accordingly.
Jesus had full knowledge of all Jewish books - as a child he amazed the elders, and then there are all the miracles...
It's not cheating because all of humanity could have saved him if the masses free will - the believers were stronger in number, and morals. Being blind to who Jesus is - is still part of being human today.
2007-11-11 21:16:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure he did have a copy of his own, I mean any teach would. However it's kind of hard to fulfill the prophecy of his being virgin born, hard to fake that he would come at the exact time he did(U think the wise men just happen to notice his star by chance, or did they know an old boy named Daniel who was brought into thier midst and taught thier forefathers about the messiah and when he would come, and they were looking for it?) kinda hard to fulfill that he was born where the prophecies said he would. There are many many more that just cant be faked, let alone the miracles, let alone that he just happened to die on the passover, after coming into jerusalem4 days earlier and being examined for 4 day, then dieng at the precise moment when the sacrifice was to die on passover, thereby fulfiling the feast of passover. on there are sooooo many more that just cant be faked.
2007-11-11 19:15:50 · answer #3 · answered by mark l 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Even if he did have a "copy" (there were very few copies and most people only heard about it when they went to the Temple --it was not readily available as the Bible is today)...there are some things that really would not be able to be DONE on our own without God...such as, being raised from the dead...being born of a virgin.
2007-11-11 19:09:40 · answer #4 · answered by ? 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Ah no! Do you honestly think that Jesus was walking around reading all of the prophecies?! You also need to put into consideration that he would have to hold on to old scripts. God created the world do you honestly think that he would need Jesus to read up on the prophecies so he could pass them like passing a test at school? NO!
2007-11-11 19:11:33 · answer #5 · answered by canha30 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He fulfilled prophesies that he had no control over. For instance after he was hung on the cross, people cast lots for his clothes. He was born in Bethlehem, to a virgin. You can't purposely be a desendent of David. I just named five, but there are many more.
2007-11-11 19:09:38 · answer #6 · answered by Teha4 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Do you think if He did, and He wasn't God did he make miraculous things happen, like curing the blind, turning water into wine, feeding many people on one loaf of bread, so many miracles, and still happening today, so how would just reading something make it happen, Jesus did it because He came in the flesh as The Son of God.
2007-11-11 19:10:25 · answer #7 · answered by Lynn C 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Why didn't the others who also had copies not fulfill it? What kind of reasoning is that?
2007-11-11 19:13:15 · answer #8 · answered by Averell A 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He obviously knew the OT very well - remember even as a young boy in the temple, He was teaching the church elders and they were astonished at His authority and knowledge.
2007-11-11 19:09:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
There are no prophecies about Jesus in the old testament, or Torah, to give the correct name.
The Torah was written long, long before Jesus was born. He is never mentioned by name and any so-called 'references' to him are always based on the same old mistranslated Hebrew.
2007-11-11 19:07:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋