There's
been some chatter on the internet lately. Both Time and CNN carried
the story. Apparently the Bible can't be trusted because, according
to the writer, Abraham had Camels before it is believed that people
had tamed Camels. So there!
The
solution to why the Bible says what it does, again according to the
writer, is that these accounts were written 100's of years after the
events in question.
Well,
until God opens our spiritual eyes, we can't believe or understand
what the Bible says to us so . . .
Regardless,
these doubters run into a bit of a problem (they can't see it, but
the problem is there nevertheless) when it comes to prophecy of
Jesus. By the time these prophecies came true, the Old Testament had
already been translated into Greek. They were not written hundreds of
years after the fact. So . . .
What
is the probability of the Old Testament prophecies about the Messiah
being fulfilled? Contained
in the Old Testament, there are more than 300 specific prophecies
alone that concerned Jesus, the promised coming Messiah. These were
written from 450 to more than 2,000 years before his birth. It's been
mathematically calculated that the probability of just 8 of the more
than 300 prophecies being fulfilled by chance is 1^1017. Anything
greater than 1^50 is generally considered to be beyond natural
possibility.
Science
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