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I think you should have a talk with the Jewish people so that they can explain to you why Jesus Christ is not the Messiah. I hope you realise that the wrings of the OT were copied from their manuscripts and that they have vehemently denied for the last 2000 years that Jesus Christ was not, and is not the Messiah, nor could He be.

The lives of Jesus Christ, as described in the NT, are not found anywhere in the OT, that is,no book of the OT or chapter of any book deals specifically with a person who will come back to earth in the second coming.

The stories of the characters called Jesus Christ are not credible, Jesus Christ cannot be placed in history during the 1st century, nor can his followers, see all the writings of Flavius Joseph, 'Wars of the Jews', 'Antiquities of the Jews', The Life of Flavius Josephus, and'Against Apion' .

hatsoff

I have read more on the subject than most Christians, I'd imagine--which isn't saying much, incidentally. I have looked at a great many claims of prophetic fullfulment, both within the Bible and by other nutball authors (such as Nostr. or E. Cayce). They are notoriously ludicrous, or at best unimpressive. Finally, you seem to have been duped into believing a bunch of falsehoods. For example, never does the author of John refer to himself as the beloved disciple. And the Apostle Matthew did not write the Gospel of Matthew.

Again, please drop the instructional attitude. This is a place for you to learn, not teach. You obviously have a very poor understanding of these things--which is fine, because you're only fifteen. But if you keep pretending you're an expert instead of a dead-rank beginner, you're going to elicit a great deal of negative feedback.

Gamera

Goldenrod, I'm glad you find solace in the texts that claim Jesus fulfilled various OT prophesies. But what does that have to do with Christianity?

If you review the Christian scriptures, you won't find any incidences of Paul or Peter trying to convince anybody about the gospel by going through prophetic literature (except arguably Philip's encounter with the Ethiopian eunuch). So, what is the relevance of the prophesies? The gospel isn't an argument about prophesies being fulfilled. Near as I can tell Paul never mentions any and he did pretty well convincing people of the gospel.