MESSIANIC RESPONSE: According to mathematician Professor Peter Stoner, the prophecies Yeshua fulfilled are"dead-on" accurate and that the probability of at least 48 OT prophecies about Yeshua being fulfilled in one person is the incredible number of 10^157 power!
Quote from Stoner:
For
example, what's the likelihood of a person predicting today the exact city in which
the birth of a future leader would take place, well into the 21st century? This
is indeed what the prophet Micah did 700 years before the Messiah. Further,
what is the likelihood of predicting the precise manner of death that a new,
unknown religious leader would experience, a thousand years from now - a manner
of death presently unknown, and to remain unknown for hundreds of years? Yet,
this is what David did in 1000 B.C.
Again,
what is the likelihood of predicting the specific date of the appearance of
some great future leader, hundreds of years in advance? This is what Daniel
did, 530 years before Christ.
If
one were to conceive 50 specific prophecies about a person in the future, whom
one would never meet, just what's the likelihood that this person will fulfill
all 50 of the predictions? How much less would this likelihood be if 25 of
these predictions were about what other people would do to him, and were
completely beyond his control?
For
example, how does someone "arrange" to be born in a specific family?
How
does one "arrange" to be born in a specified city, in which their
parents don't actually live? How does one "arrange" their own death -
and specifically by crucifixion, with two others, and then "arrange"
to have their executioners gamble for His clothing (John 16:19; Psalms 22:18)?
How does one "arrange" to be betrayed in advance? How does one
"arrange" to have the executioners carry out the regular practice of
breaking the legs of the two victims on either side, but not their own?
Finally, how does one "arrange" to be YHWH-Come-in-the-Flesh? How
does one escape from a grave and appear to people after having died a horrible
death?
Indeed,
it may be possible for someone to fake one or two of the Messianic prophecies,
but it would be impossible for any one person to arrange and fulfill all
of these prophecies.
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