The odds of one man fulfilling forty-eight prophecies is 1 chance in 10,157 (a statistical impossibility). Jesus fulfilled over three hundred prophecies. Case closed. 1,819 Views11 Reposts 60 Likes 7 Bookmarks
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First, prove that Jesus actually did those “300 prophecies”. Retroactively (as in, a prophecy that suddenly always existed after Jesus died) doesn’t count. Secondly, accurately list at least 50 of those supposed “prophecies”. After that, we’ll talk further.
1. How do you arrive at that probability?
PS:high probablity for forty-eight independent events (that is, the unfounded assumption all stochastic arguments at big scary number rely on) - that would give each prophecy a chance of slightly more than 89.25 % .
“The odds of one man fulfilling forty-eight prophecies is 1 chance in 10,157 (a statistical impossibility).
Also, SOME Of the prophecies of the messiah were not fulfilled. Instead, some scripture like a dietary rule not to break the bones of the feast roast were turned into prophecies in later editions. “Look, look, no bones were broken in his crucifixion, God be PRAISED!”
Now fundies are trying to prove that Jesus was God Incarnate through ... statistics.
I guess they've exhausted history, theology, and war, so they're going to try math. And when that fails, what comes next? Interpretive dance?
Via temples, stelae etc ordered to be built, also possessions owned by such, we’re 99.99% certain that Ramses II existed.
I guess a DNA-analysable body just puts the ol’ .01% tin lid on things.
Your use of statistics would make inventor of the Pie Chart Florence Nightingale weep: with laughter. Ramses II is laughing at you too: and he’s dead.
At least there’s an actual person doing so from the ancient Egyptian afterlife at that which doesn’t have a single scrap of evidence to prove its existence.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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