Half-Life

Fulfilled Prophecy Tenakh/Hebrew Scripture New Testament
His pre-existence Micah 5:2 John 1:1, 14
Born of the seed of a woman Genesis 3:15 Matthew 1:18
Of the seed of Abraham Genesis 12:3 Matthew 1:1-16
All nations blessed by Abraham's seed Genesis 12:3 Matthew 8:5, 10
God would provide Himself a Lamb as an offering Genesis 22:8 John 1:29

There's just a few.

http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/messiah.htm

Gooch's dad

You have to be kidding. Do you even know what circular logic is?

Sarpedon

Aren't we all?

So are lots of people

Viti

Half-life, perhaps you can complete one discussion before moving on to others. You have started quite a few threads recently, and aren't doing a very good job of supporting your views.

Half-Life

Explain this away.

D. Various religions have their "Holy Books" which are reported "revelations" coming through various means, e.g. dreams. But the origin of the Bible is quite different. It is rooted and grounded in history. It came from the experience of a specific people (the Jews, an ancient people who are still with us today), in identifiable places, at particular times. The archaeological record has only confirmed that the places and names found in the Bible are accurate--and has never disproven it. The Bible is not a "Holy Book" in the sense of esoteric philosophy like all other "religious" books. It is holy in the sense that it is God's word spoken through His people.

The Bible does not contain the characteristic untruths of other religious books. In Job, one of the oldest books of the Bible (written in about 3500 B.C.), Job wrote, "He [God] hangeth the earth upon nothing". Back then, people believed the earth was on the back of turtles and elephants and all kinds of strange things--you will find no such ridiculous statements in the Bible. The only way Job could say that the earth was suspended in air is by the Holy Spirit of God revealing it to him.

The Bible is not a scientific book, but when it speaks about "scientific" matters, it is always correct. The Bible says that "the life of the flesh is in the blood". This is one of the most medically accurate statements that can be made. The blood carries all kinds of antibodies, nutrients, etc. George Washington died because the doctors (I'm sure they were the best at the time) bled him to death thinking that bleeding would help his condition--they took a quart of blood at the last bleeding. They drained his life out of him--"the life of the flesh is in the blood". Science was wrong.

When a man severed his hand in 1988, doctors could not reattach it immediately because of his internal injuries. So what did they do? They attached his hand to blood vessels in his abdomen to keep it alive and reattached it to the man's wrist two months later. The blood flow kept that hand alive--the life of the flesh is in the blood. The Bible told us this important fact over 5,000 years ago and science has only recently agreed. Does that mean that the Bible was wrong when scientists said bleeding was the answer? No. Science simply had not caught up yet.

You don't find truths like this in the various religious books but rather myth, superstition, and human wisdom. How could the psalmist write about the method of Christ's death a thousand years before Jesus came down to this earth? Crucifixion wasn't even a method of death in Israel when Psalm 22 was written. This a shallow treatise here, but a small taste of this awesome book. If we can trust the Bible for these amazing insights, can we afford to not believe it when it comes to life and death and heaven and hell?

Concerning manuscript evidence for the Bible, there is more evidence for the Bible than ANY other ancient manuscript--including the ones we use to assemble our history books--

* - Aristotle - 5 copies available for comparison
* - Homer - 643 copies available for comparison
* - Plato - 7 copies available for comparison
* - The Bible - 30,000 copies available for comparison (includes 5000+ Greek copies and another 25,000 written in other languages). This wealth of evidence is simply staggering.

Very interesting isn't it?

http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/religio.htm

Julian

Half-life,
you are guilty of committing a large variety of logical fallacies. There is no point in refuting the points in your post.

Please start here: http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/ and then refute your own post.

Julian

NZSkep

http://users.rcn.com/rostmd/winace/napoleon_messiah.htm

bible prophecies indicating napoleon is the messiah.

Reanimator

Given the bellicose nature of biblical man, did they really need a book to tell them that "blood=life"? You are being very very naieve in believing that until the advent of modern medicine man had no knowledge of the importance of not bleeding to death.

It is also worthy to mention that each of those 30,000 bibles is different from every other one, especially if it is any sort of modern translation. Have fun reconciling the errors of 30,000 bibles!

Iskander

We are told that God became human and died in order to save the whole of mankind and presumably any other beings created in his image (Imago Dei) living somewhere in the Universe

Why God-Incarnate requires an identity card with an approval stamp from the Prophecies Commission of a human nation?

gregor

Half-life appears to be a spokesperson for Metacrock. Enough said?