(09-15-2024 01:05 PM)olliebaba Wrote: One HUGE reason I am a Christian and a believer of all that's in the Bible are the many prophecies that Jesus fulfilled. One has to be a very unbelieving type thinking person to see these prophecies and still NOT believe them.
The Bible does not lie. In it it tells us that any prophet who is wrong ONE time is a heretic and is to be stoned to death...(drastic actions, for sure) but I guess that was the Jewish way of snuffing out "fake news" which they had in those days too.
The biggest thing is that those prophecies had to be fulfilled in the days of Jesus and not in the modern world.
...and they were definitely fulfilled. Praise Jesus!
As I've said many times this is one of a couple of key things that separates Biblical Christianity from all other religions on earth. All other religions are based on 100% BLIND FAITH. You simply believe something because they say you should.
The Bible does not teach BLIND FAITH at all, its teaches the complete opposite. When you read the Gospels and the Apostles message its all SCRIPTURE, DEMONSTRABLE EVIDENCE AND FACTS. Read Peters first ever sermon in Acts 2 on the day of Pentecost, its ALL prophecy and how Jesus fulfilled the scripture.
Everything we see today can be quoted directly out of the OT prophets. Every detail of Jesus birth, life, ministry, death, burial and Resurrection were al laid out in the OT prophets in incredible detail.
And its goes beyond just Jesus, the fact the that Jews would reject Him as their Messiah, the fact that His church would instead be NON Jews from all across the earth, the fact that ROME would destroy the Jewish Temple and scatter the Jews across the world in the great diaspora and in the same generation as Jesus. ALL WRITTEN RIGHT THERE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT centuries ahead of time.
The fact that Israel would not exist for almost 2000 years, yet the Jews would endure, even in their sin, even scattered across the globe separated from God. And how the nation would be reborn in the land almost 2000 years later and THRIVE yet be surrounded on all sides by people calling for their total destruction. And the fact that they would STILL be rejecting Jesus as their Messiah even into the last days. All the OT prophets say they will not be right with God and accept Jesus until very late in the tribulation in their darkest and most desperate hour.
The amount of detail and specificity is just unfathomable. And yet its all right there in the OT, provable written down centuries before any of it came to pass thanks to the dead sea scrolls and other finds. Even the coming one world government, the mark of the beast, the coming one world monetary system, governments being able to track every person one earth and control all the buying and selling, all written in the Bible 2000 years ago.
If the Bible were a fake man made book, we would KNOW it was sitting here in 2024. Yet here we sit over 2 millennia later and ALL these things have come to pass in exact detail as written thousands of years ago.
This is what separates the Bible from all other religions on earth. This is how we know its not just a another book, it truly is the Word of God.
