Prophecy as proof of Divine inspiration
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Question: Did Jesus arrange His life to pretend to fulfill prophecy, as some have alleged? Some say Jesus really lived, but that He knew about the prophecies and simply deliberately arranged to fulfill them all to proclaim Himself Messiah. Indeed, we see in several cases that Jesus knew He was fulfilling prophecy, or the Gospel writer indicates that something Jesus did fulfilled a specific messianic prophecy. But there are two main problems with this theory. One is that it makes Jesus into a deceiver, pretending to be someone He wasn’t. Imagine Him trying to hoodwink people with sleight-of-hand...
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How sure can we be that the Bible is God's word? One way is to look at all the prophecies about Jesus. There are over 300 prophecies and allusions to Jesus Christ in the Old Testament. What if we took just four of them and figured out what the odds are that they could all be fulfilled by chance? The prophet Micah predicts that Jesus will be born in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2) So what would be the odds that a person born throughout history would be born in Bethlehem? Chuck Missler came up with one calculation by assuming the average population of the world of 2 billion and the average population...
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As 2012 marches on, we draw slowly closer to the infamous date of 12/21/2012, which for some, because it is the end point of the Mayan calendar and supposedly predicted by the French astrologer Nostradamus, is believed to be the “end of the world”. But who should we listen to, and what is the difference between prophets like Nostradamus, and Biblical prophets? Many think of Nostradamus when they think of prophecy. But when we read his prophecies, called “quatrains”, one notices right away how vague they are, and how many different events could be made to fit them. For example,...
© 2012 Vince Latorre, The Bible Can Be Proven