Evidence for Jesus being the Messaiah.
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He will bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.
Deuteronomy 18:15-18
The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him. For this is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, "Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die." The LORD said to me: "What they say is good. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.
How is Jesus like Moses:
Moses and Jesus narrowly escaped dead when they were born
Pharaoh killed all male children of Jews (Ex. 1:15-17)
Herod killed all infants younger than 2 in Bethlehem (Matt 2:16)
Moses and Jesus were saved by the faith of their parents
Moses' parents put him in a ark
Jesus' parents took him to Egypt to hide from Herod
Moses and Jesus fasted for 40 days
Moses: Ex. 34:28
Jesus: Matt 4:2
Moses and Jesus spoke with God face to face
Moses: Num 12:7-8
Jesus: John 1:18
Moses and Jesus took their closest followers up a mountain to meet with God
Moses: Ex. 24: 9-10
Jesus: Matt 17:1-5
Moses and Jesus faces shined with light after seeing God
Moses: Ex 34:34-35
Jesus: Matt 17:2
Moses and Jesus established a covenant between God and His people
Moses: Ex. 24:7-8
Jesus: Luke 22:20
Moses and Jesus are the only two who have ever fed a multitude of people
Moses with manna
Jesus with fishes and bread (on at least 2 occasions) - John 6:14 tells us that after Jesus performed this miracle, the people began to say "Surely, this is the Prophet (the one they are waiting for !) who is to come". The people were reminded of the prophecy that a "Prophet like Moses" will come - feeding thousands of people reminded them of the miracle of Manna in Moses' time
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Isaiah 9:6
"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." This verse points out the inescapable fact that the Messiah is God Almighty appearing in human form
Isaiah 9:1
"Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who were in distress. In the past He humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali but in the future He will honor Galilee of the Gentiles, by the way of the sea along the Jordan...'
Jeremiah 23:5-6
"The days are coming,' declares the Lord, 'When I will raise up to David a righteous Branch, a king who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land. In His days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. This is the name by which He will be called; The Lord our Righteousness.'
Psalm 2:2
"The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers plot together, against Jehovah and against His anointed, saying..."
Psalm 2:7
"I will declare the decree of YHWH. He has said to Me, You are My Son; today I have begotten You."
Micah 5:1
"But thou Bethlehem Ephratha, which art little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall One come forth unto Me that is to be Ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from old, from Ancient of Days."
Zechariah 3:8-9
'Listen, O high priest Joshua (Joshua and Jesus are the same in Hebrew)and your associates seated before you, who are men symbolic of things to come: I am going to bring my servant, the Branch. See, the stone I have set in front of Joshua! There are seven eyes on that stone, and I will engrave an inscription on it,’ says the LORD Almighty, ‘and I will remove the sin of this land in a single day.’”
Zechariah 6:9-13
"The word of the LORD came to me: ‘Take silver and gold from the exiles Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, who arrived from Babylon. Go the same day to the house of Josiah son of Zephaniah. Take the silver and gold and make a crown, and set it on the head of the high priest, Joshua (Joshua and Jesus are the same name in Hebrew) son of Jehozadak. Tell him this is what the LORD Almighty says: "Here is the man whose name is the Branch and he will branch out from his place and build the temple of the LORD. It is he who will build the temple of the LORD, and he will be clothed with majesty and will sit on his throne. And he will be a priest on his throne. And there will be harmony between the two."
Isaiah 52:13-14
"See my servant will act wisely; he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted. Just as there were many who were appalled at him - his appearance was disfigured beyond that of any man and his form marred beyond human likeness - so will he sprinkle many nations, and kings will shut their mouths because of him. For what they were not told, they will see, and what they have not heard, they will understand.
Isaiah 53:11
After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.
Isaiah 52:13 - 53:12 contains numerous description of what the Messiah must suffer, and some predictions about the Messiah (how to recognize the Messiah) - here is just a sample:
•He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth (Jesus was silent before Pontius Pilate)
•He will be pierced (Jesus was pierced on the cross)
•He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death (Jesus died on the cross among two wicked persons but he was buried in the tomb of Joseph of Aremathea - he was a rich man, who was part of the Sanhedrin and a (secret) follower of Jesus)
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Psalm 22 by King David is a cry of a suffering man - judging superficially, one may think the person in this psalm is David. But look deeper and you see it is NOT David - his hands and feet were never pierced, see Psa 22:16 (They pierced my hands and my feet)
Psalm 22:1 God predicts through David
"My God, My God why have you forsaken me?"
Matthew 27:46 Jesus says
"About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, 'Eloi, Eloi lama sabacthani?,' which means, 'My God, My God why have you forsaken Me?' "
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Psalm 22:6-8 God predicts through David
"But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by people. All who see me mock me. They hurl insults shaking their heads; 'He trusts in the Lord, let the Lord rescue Him. Let Him deliver Him, since He delights in Him.'"
Matthew 27:41-44 The people say
"In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the Law and the Elders mocked Him. 'He saved others.' they said, 'But He can't save Himself! He's the King of Israel! Let Him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in Him. He trusts in God, let God rescue Him now if He wants Him, for He said "I am the Son of God." ' In the same way the robbers who were crucified with Him also heaped insults on Him."
Psalm 22:14-15
"I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint, my heart has turned to wax; it has melted away within me. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death."
NOTE - This is a precise description of the crucifixion process where the hanging weight of a person's body would eventually cause his bones to come out of joint, and would make him as one lying in the "dust of death"
John 19:34
"Instead one of the soldiers pierced Jesus' side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water."
Medically the flow of blood and water would mean that the heart of the person had literally burst , i.e. had "turned to wax" and "melted away"
John 19:28
"Later, knowing that all was completed, and so that the scripture may be fulfilled, Jesus said, 'I am thirsty.' "
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Psalm 16
"Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men have encircled me; they have pierced (kaaru) my hands and feet."
Jesus was crucified among two convicts.
(NOTE - This prediction was made when crucifixion did not even exist at the time! Crucifixion was invented by Alexander the Great around 350 BC.)
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Psalm 22:17-18
"I can count all my bones; people stare and gloat over me. They have divided my garments and cast lots for my clothing."
John 19:33
"They did not break his legs" (to speed up death because Jesus was already dead - the soldiers checked and made sure of that when one of them pierced his heart)
John 19:23-24
"When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took His clothes, dividing them into four shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining. This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom. 'Let's not tear it,' they said to one another, 'let's decide by lot who will get it.' "
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READ THIS CAREFULLY
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Daniel 9:24-26
"Seventy sevens are decreed for your people and the Holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most Holy. Know and understand this; from the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One (Messiah), the Ruler comes, there will be Seven sevens and Sixty-two sevens. After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be cut off (i.e., die) and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. "
In other words: beginning with the moment of the decree that "Jerusalem will be rebuilt" to the moment that the Messiah will present himself, there will be "69 sevens."
Evidence that this prediction has been fulfilled:
•Artaxerxes decree to Nehemiah in 444 B. C. (see Nehemiah 2:1-8), to rebuild the city Jerusalem and the city gates as well as its walls:
•Neh 2:1 And it happened in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, wine was before him. And I (Nehemiah) took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence before.
•Neh 2:5 and I said to the king, If it please the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I pray that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' tombs, so that I may build it.
It clearly state that the CITY of Jerusalem will be rebuilt - not just the wall
•Nisan 1 444 BC is March 4, BC according to the Gregorian calendar
•The Hebrew and Babylonian calendar at that time used a 360 day year. So in the calculation of "year" referred by Daniel, we must use this "prophetic year" instead of 365 days of our current year.
The use of this 'prophetic year' in these prophecies is confirmed by comparing the 1,260 days (Rev 11:3, 12:6) with the 42 month (Rev 11:2, 13:5) and with the 'time, times, and half a time' or three and a half years of Dan 7:25, 12:7, Rev 12:14).
•The decree to rebuild Jerusalem was given on Nisan 1 in the year 444 BC (Nisan in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes)
•69 x sevens = 69 x 7 = 483 (years of 360 days)
•That is equal to 483 x 360 = 173880 days
•1 Solar year = 365.24219879 days, so 173880 days = 476.067663 solar years = 476 yrs + 24.7 days
•Working with the Gregorian calendar, starting from March 4, 444 BC and adding 476 Gregorian yrs + 25 days, we arrive at: March 30, 33 AD (Gregorian year)
•What happened that day is recorded in Luke 19:28-40:
Luk 19:28
And saying these things, He went in front, going up to Jerusalem. ...
Luk 19:37
And when He had come near, even now at the descent of the Mount of Olives, all the multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen, saying, Blessed is the King coming in the name of the Lord! Peace in Heaven and glory in the highest!
--- The Messiah had not been reveal until that moment !
Luk 19:39
"And some of the Pharisees from the crowd said to Him, Teacher, rebuke your disciples. And He answered and said to them, I tell you that if these should be silent, the stones would cry out. "
"After the sixty-two "sevens", the Anointed One will be cut off (i.e., die) and will have nothing. The people of the ruler (Roman) who will come will destroy the city (Jerusalem) and the sanctuary (temple). "
Jerusalem and the (second) temple were destroyed in 70 AD
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•In "Science Speaks" by Peter Stoner the probabilities of a man fulfilling eight of the prophecies is estimated to be 1 in 10 to the 17th power which is 100,000,000,000,000,000.
•The Old Testament contains over 300 references to the Messiah that were fulfilled in Jesus - the odds of this happening is not worth mentioning.
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Common skeptical arguments,
"The gospels on the life of Jesus were altered to make Jesus fulfill the prophecies."
Most disciples died a violent death because they preach a gospel that the Jewish authority did not like - it does not make any sense for the disciples to fabricate a fall gospel and then willingly allow themselves to be executed for a lie that they invented themselves.
"Jesus knew about the predictions in the Old Testament and deliberately maneuvered His life in a way to fulfill the prophecies.
That can be done, but only in regard to some prophecies. Jesus cannot control the fact that the Sanhedrin offering Judas 30 pieces of silver. Jesus cannot control the timing of his birth precisely at the time of Daniel's prophecy. There is a lot more Jesus can't do than can.
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He will bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.
Deuteronomy 18:15-18
The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him. For this is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, "Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die." The LORD said to me: "What they say is good. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.
How is Jesus like Moses:
Moses and Jesus narrowly escaped dead when they were born
Pharaoh killed all male children of Jews (Ex. 1:15-17)
Herod killed all infants younger than 2 in Bethlehem (Matt 2:16)
Moses and Jesus were saved by the faith of their parents
Moses' parents put him in a ark
Jesus' parents took him to Egypt to hide from Herod
Moses and Jesus fasted for 40 days
Moses: Ex. 34:28
Jesus: Matt 4:2
Moses and Jesus spoke with God face to face
Moses: Num 12:7-8
Jesus: John 1:18
Moses and Jesus took their closest followers up a mountain to meet with God
Moses: Ex. 24: 9-10
Jesus: Matt 17:1-5
Moses and Jesus faces shined with light after seeing God
Moses: Ex 34:34-35
Jesus: Matt 17:2
Moses and Jesus established a covenant between God and His people
Moses: Ex. 24:7-8
Jesus: Luke 22:20
Moses and Jesus are the only two who have ever fed a multitude of people
Moses with manna
Jesus with fishes and bread (on at least 2 occasions) - John 6:14 tells us that after Jesus performed this miracle, the people began to say "Surely, this is the Prophet (the one they are waiting for !) who is to come". The people were reminded of the prophecy that a "Prophet like Moses" will come - feeding thousands of people reminded them of the miracle of Manna in Moses' time
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Isaiah 9:6
"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." This verse points out the inescapable fact that the Messiah is God Almighty appearing in human form
Isaiah 9:1
"Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who were in distress. In the past He humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali but in the future He will honor Galilee of the Gentiles, by the way of the sea along the Jordan...'
Jeremiah 23:5-6
"The days are coming,' declares the Lord, 'When I will raise up to David a righteous Branch, a king who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land. In His days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. This is the name by which He will be called; The Lord our Righteousness.'
Psalm 2:2
"The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers plot together, against Jehovah and against His anointed, saying..."
Psalm 2:7
"I will declare the decree of YHWH. He has said to Me, You are My Son; today I have begotten You."
Micah 5:1
"But thou Bethlehem Ephratha, which art little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall One come forth unto Me that is to be Ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from old, from Ancient of Days."
Zechariah 3:8-9
'Listen, O high priest Joshua (Joshua and Jesus are the same in Hebrew)and your associates seated before you, who are men symbolic of things to come: I am going to bring my servant, the Branch. See, the stone I have set in front of Joshua! There are seven eyes on that stone, and I will engrave an inscription on it,’ says the LORD Almighty, ‘and I will remove the sin of this land in a single day.’”
Zechariah 6:9-13
"The word of the LORD came to me: ‘Take silver and gold from the exiles Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, who arrived from Babylon. Go the same day to the house of Josiah son of Zephaniah. Take the silver and gold and make a crown, and set it on the head of the high priest, Joshua (Joshua and Jesus are the same name in Hebrew) son of Jehozadak. Tell him this is what the LORD Almighty says: "Here is the man whose name is the Branch and he will branch out from his place and build the temple of the LORD. It is he who will build the temple of the LORD, and he will be clothed with majesty and will sit on his throne. And he will be a priest on his throne. And there will be harmony between the two."
Isaiah 52:13-14
"See my servant will act wisely; he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted. Just as there were many who were appalled at him - his appearance was disfigured beyond that of any man and his form marred beyond human likeness - so will he sprinkle many nations, and kings will shut their mouths because of him. For what they were not told, they will see, and what they have not heard, they will understand.
Isaiah 53:11
After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.
Isaiah 52:13 - 53:12 contains numerous description of what the Messiah must suffer, and some predictions about the Messiah (how to recognize the Messiah) - here is just a sample:
•He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth (Jesus was silent before Pontius Pilate)
•He will be pierced (Jesus was pierced on the cross)
•He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death (Jesus died on the cross among two wicked persons but he was buried in the tomb of Joseph of Aremathea - he was a rich man, who was part of the Sanhedrin and a (secret) follower of Jesus)
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Psalm 22 by King David is a cry of a suffering man - judging superficially, one may think the person in this psalm is David. But look deeper and you see it is NOT David - his hands and feet were never pierced, see Psa 22:16 (They pierced my hands and my feet)
Psalm 22:1 God predicts through David
"My God, My God why have you forsaken me?"
Matthew 27:46 Jesus says
"About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, 'Eloi, Eloi lama sabacthani?,' which means, 'My God, My God why have you forsaken Me?' "
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Psalm 22:6-8 God predicts through David
"But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by people. All who see me mock me. They hurl insults shaking their heads; 'He trusts in the Lord, let the Lord rescue Him. Let Him deliver Him, since He delights in Him.'"
Matthew 27:41-44 The people say
"In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the Law and the Elders mocked Him. 'He saved others.' they said, 'But He can't save Himself! He's the King of Israel! Let Him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in Him. He trusts in God, let God rescue Him now if He wants Him, for He said "I am the Son of God." ' In the same way the robbers who were crucified with Him also heaped insults on Him."
Psalm 22:14-15
"I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint, my heart has turned to wax; it has melted away within me. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death."
NOTE - This is a precise description of the crucifixion process where the hanging weight of a person's body would eventually cause his bones to come out of joint, and would make him as one lying in the "dust of death"
John 19:34
"Instead one of the soldiers pierced Jesus' side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water."
Medically the flow of blood and water would mean that the heart of the person had literally burst , i.e. had "turned to wax" and "melted away"
John 19:28
"Later, knowing that all was completed, and so that the scripture may be fulfilled, Jesus said, 'I am thirsty.' "
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Psalm 16
"Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men have encircled me; they have pierced (kaaru) my hands and feet."
Jesus was crucified among two convicts.
(NOTE - This prediction was made when crucifixion did not even exist at the time! Crucifixion was invented by Alexander the Great around 350 BC.)
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Psalm 22:17-18
"I can count all my bones; people stare and gloat over me. They have divided my garments and cast lots for my clothing."
John 19:33
"They did not break his legs" (to speed up death because Jesus was already dead - the soldiers checked and made sure of that when one of them pierced his heart)
John 19:23-24
"When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took His clothes, dividing them into four shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining. This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom. 'Let's not tear it,' they said to one another, 'let's decide by lot who will get it.' "
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READ THIS CAREFULLY
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Daniel 9:24-26
"Seventy sevens are decreed for your people and the Holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most Holy. Know and understand this; from the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One (Messiah), the Ruler comes, there will be Seven sevens and Sixty-two sevens. After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be cut off (i.e., die) and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. "
In other words: beginning with the moment of the decree that "Jerusalem will be rebuilt" to the moment that the Messiah will present himself, there will be "69 sevens."
Evidence that this prediction has been fulfilled:
•Artaxerxes decree to Nehemiah in 444 B. C. (see Nehemiah 2:1-8), to rebuild the city Jerusalem and the city gates as well as its walls:
•Neh 2:1 And it happened in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, wine was before him. And I (Nehemiah) took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence before.
•Neh 2:5 and I said to the king, If it please the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I pray that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' tombs, so that I may build it.
It clearly state that the CITY of Jerusalem will be rebuilt - not just the wall
•Nisan 1 444 BC is March 4, BC according to the Gregorian calendar
•The Hebrew and Babylonian calendar at that time used a 360 day year. So in the calculation of "year" referred by Daniel, we must use this "prophetic year" instead of 365 days of our current year.
The use of this 'prophetic year' in these prophecies is confirmed by comparing the 1,260 days (Rev 11:3, 12:6) with the 42 month (Rev 11:2, 13:5) and with the 'time, times, and half a time' or three and a half years of Dan 7:25, 12:7, Rev 12:14).
•The decree to rebuild Jerusalem was given on Nisan 1 in the year 444 BC (Nisan in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes)
•69 x sevens = 69 x 7 = 483 (years of 360 days)
•That is equal to 483 x 360 = 173880 days
•1 Solar year = 365.24219879 days, so 173880 days = 476.067663 solar years = 476 yrs + 24.7 days
•Working with the Gregorian calendar, starting from March 4, 444 BC and adding 476 Gregorian yrs + 25 days, we arrive at: March 30, 33 AD (Gregorian year)
•What happened that day is recorded in Luke 19:28-40:
Luk 19:28
And saying these things, He went in front, going up to Jerusalem. ...
Luk 19:37
And when He had come near, even now at the descent of the Mount of Olives, all the multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen, saying, Blessed is the King coming in the name of the Lord! Peace in Heaven and glory in the highest!
--- The Messiah had not been reveal until that moment !
Luk 19:39
"And some of the Pharisees from the crowd said to Him, Teacher, rebuke your disciples. And He answered and said to them, I tell you that if these should be silent, the stones would cry out. "
"After the sixty-two "sevens", the Anointed One will be cut off (i.e., die) and will have nothing. The people of the ruler (Roman) who will come will destroy the city (Jerusalem) and the sanctuary (temple). "
Jerusalem and the (second) temple were destroyed in 70 AD
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•In "Science Speaks" by Peter Stoner the probabilities of a man fulfilling eight of the prophecies is estimated to be 1 in 10 to the 17th power which is 100,000,000,000,000,000.
•The Old Testament contains over 300 references to the Messiah that were fulfilled in Jesus - the odds of this happening is not worth mentioning.
--------------------------
Common skeptical arguments,
"The gospels on the life of Jesus were altered to make Jesus fulfill the prophecies."
Most disciples died a violent death because they preach a gospel that the Jewish authority did not like - it does not make any sense for the disciples to fabricate a fall gospel and then willingly allow themselves to be executed for a lie that they invented themselves.
"Jesus knew about the predictions in the Old Testament and deliberately maneuvered His life in a way to fulfill the prophecies.
That can be done, but only in regard to some prophecies. Jesus cannot control the fact that the Sanhedrin offering Judas 30 pieces of silver. Jesus cannot control the timing of his birth precisely at the time of Daniel's prophecy. There is a lot more Jesus can't do than can.
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