THE BIBLE: God’s Word or Man’s?

[Alter2Ego]

An ex post facto "prophecy" is called "history."

Only when you get it right.

ALTER2EGO -to- PADRAIC:
Bible critics for years attempted to cast doubt on Bible prophesies by claiming they were written post-event (after the event occurred). The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls effectively silenced those who had been insisting for years that Bible prophesies were written AFTER their fulfillment. Certain parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls have been dated as far back as the 5th century B.C.E. or 500 years before Christ appeared on earth. Those scrolls contain fragments of all but one of the books of the Old Testament.

The Old Testament we use today is translated from what's called the Masoretic Text. The Masorites were Jewish scholars who between AD 500 and 950 gave the Old Testament the form we use today. The Dead Sea Scrolls have been dated to at least 1,000 years OLDER THAN the Masoretic Text.

Many Old Testament critics fully expected to find a multitude of errors and changes in the Dead Sea Scrolls to bolster their accusations that parts of the Old Testament were written late and made to appear as if they had been written before the fulfilled prophecies. The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls made these critics look like complete fools, because the Dead Sea Scrolls accurately reflect what is in modern-day Bibles and confirm that the Masoretic Text is accurate. In other words, the contents of the scriptures had not been changed. To make a long story short, the prophesied events occurred AFTER they had been prophesied about in the Bible.