What do you think about fulfilled Bible prophecies?

Answer 1

The answer to the question asked ( "What do you think about fulfilled Bible prophecies?") depends on each person's individual point of view. The odds of fulfilled prophecies occurring by random chance is beyond all the laws of probability.

"I am a mathematician - I had two majors in college, Math and Physics. I understand probabilities. This is where ...the prophesies in The Bible (there's like 8000+ of them) that have either come true or are yet to come true ... and talks about the astronomical mathematical probabilities of even just a few things coming true, not the thousands that have. Just as an example. Between 250 and 500 years before Jesus was born there were approximately three hundred specific prophecies relating just to his birth, his life, his miracles, his death, and his resurrection. Let's just take eight things:

1. Place of birth

2. Time of birth

3. Manner of birth

4. Betrayal.

5. Manner of death

6. People's reactions

7. Piercing and

8. Burial

...these [are] eight specific prophecies that people are in total agreement with. The chance that any one man might have lived down to the present time and fulfilled all eight prophecies is one in ten to the 17th power or 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000.

To put that in better perspective. If you take the state of Texas and put it two feet deep in silver dollars and try to find just one coin out of all of those you would have the probability of just eight of these three hundred prophecies coming true. ... The probability of all 300 of them coming true; which they did, is beyond mathematical comprehension.

... 48 prophecies with the chance that any one man could fulfill all forty eight as being one in ten to the one hundred and fifty seventh power - also an unimagineable number - yet all 300 prophecies came true.

If we expand that into the thousands of prophecies that have come true in the Bible; it starts to paint a picture that the bible was truly penned by the holy spirit and even though the ink was put down by the hands of men, it was truly God's words being penned. Want some specifics on these prophecies? You are probably asking yourself "How do eight prophecies" yield a probability of 10 to the 17th power?

If I predict correctly all four digits in a four-digit lottery, the likelihood of that occurring by chance is one in 10,000 because for each digit, the probability is one in ten x ten x ten x ten = 10,000. If I predict another four digits correctly, the likelihood of this event occurring by chance is one in 100,000,000, ten thousand times ten thousand. If I predict correctly another four digits, the probability of this occurring by chance is one in 1,000,000,000,000; ten thousand times ten thousand times ten thousand.

The correct prediction of a four-digit lottery three times in a row is extremely unlikely to occur by chance. The correct prediction of an 8 digit lottery in the same manner is beyond comprehension. It is more likely to have happened by design. This could happen if I control the process of selecting the winning numbers. This could happen if I have knowledge of the future (prescience). Where has this ability come from? One explanation is that it is from an omniscient intelligence.

Predicting one specific historical event in the future is possible by guessing. Predicting many specific historical events in the future is very unlikely by guesswork. Predicting a series of specific historical events in a specific order is even more unlikely by guesswork. Predicting just eight historical events relating to just one person in the sequence they occurred during the time frame they occurred is simply beyond the concept of any probability...."

Fulfilled Bible prophecies prove GOD exists, but this is not an issue of mathematics. This is an issue of faith. If you don't want to believe you won't regardless of the evidence.

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We're seeing Bible prophecy fulfilled on TV every day! The literal "destruction of Babylon" is Iraq (Revelation Ch 14, 16-18). "Mystery Babylon" is the United States. "Armageddon" is in Syria (Rev 16:16).

The Christ has returned and produced the "book/scroll sealed with 7 seals"/'beyond Einstein theories' (Google that). The 74-page booklet is entitled There Are No Coincidences - there is synchronism, design and alignment (google that).

Answer 2

It is very difficult to identify unambiguous biblical prophecies that have actually been fulfilled. Those put forward as prophecies are usually taken out of context and/or interpreted in ways that the original author clearly did not intend. In other cases, there is some evidence that the description of later events has been coloured by a knowledge of the biblical text, in order to produce an apparent prophecy, or at least prefigurement, of the later event.

If biblical prophecies can be found that have indeed been fulfilled, I would regard this in the same way as I regard Josephus' prophecy that Vespasian would become emperor of Rome. When Josephus was captured by the Romans and taken before the commanding general, Vespasian, he told Vespasian that a bright star that had appeared in the sky was proof that Vespasian was the long-awaited Messiah of the Jews. He went on to prophecy that Vespasian would become emperor. This prophecy not only saved Josephus' life, but was fulfilled soon afterwards. No one claims that Josephus' was divinely inspired, but it is one of the best-attested examples of a fulfilled prophecy.