Evidence of the Bible's Validity

[Esquilax]

Is anybody else sensing a severe case of overreach with this guy's argument, here? I mean, how esoteric and niche does he want to make this stuff? He's pointing at a prophecy where the only means of divining its true meaning is to cook up a bizarre and random numerical code based on a language that the original writers didn't have any knowledge of, pointing to a number of the beast that might not even have been the original one, and which can only be interpreted as literally the softest possible direction to the identity of the antichrist.

What is the point of concocting a prophecy if you're then going to turn around and be that oblique and vague in the execution of it? Who are you helping with that? How are you demonstrating god's divine anything by producing literally the least efficient prophecies you can, barring maybe "there's a guy, and he'll do a thing, and that thing will mean he's the other dude."

If this is an actual prophecy, if this turns out to be true, what it tells us more than anything is that the biblical authors were idiots, and the god that entrusted them with this task was an idiot, and that neither group should be trusted to tell us this stuff.