RE: Why the Bible is true
May 11, 2011 at 2:57 pm
(This post was last modified: May 11, 2011 at 2:58 pm by Doubting Thomas.)
(May 11, 2011 at 12:24 pm)Godschild Wrote: Prove your statements.
Matthew 24, for starters. Jesus talks about all the bad things that will befall the earth at the end of the world, sun & moon darkened, etc, then says "This generation shall not pass from the earth until all these things come to pass." There are many other places in the gospels where he tells people that they shall not die until he returns.
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Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Jesus is not called Immanuel (or Emmanuel) anywhere in the New Testament. If he is, then please provide book, chapter, and verse.
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Michah 5:6, talking about a new leader of Israel, a.k.a., the messiah: And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
As far as I know, Jesus never led an army, nor did he defeat the Assyrians.
Zechariah 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
9:10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.
The gospels (especially Mt.21:4-5 and Jn.12:14-15) claim that Jesus fulfils the prophecy of Zech.9:9, but this is a military king with an earthly kingdom. Jesus was never a military leader, and he always said his kingdom was not of the earth.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
