"David Mooney" <dmooney@atmc.net> wrote in message
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"David Mooney" <dmooney@atmc.net> wrote in message
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I sent my "Lee Strobel" post here just for laughs guys. I don't believe
his mathematics at all. After all, if the odds that Jesus fulfilled just
48 of those prophecies is as high as Strobel claimed it was then why are
atheists and skeptics considered unreasonable to doubt it happened?


What is more likely? Let's say that the odds that the NT writers claimed
prophecy fulfillments that were fabricated or misunderstood is one in
100 billion then it would still be much more likely (much much much
more likely) that Jesus fulfilled all those prophecies.

I sent my "Lee Strobel" post here just for laughs guys. I don't believe
his
mathematics at all. After all, if the odds that Jesus fulfilled just 48
of
those prophecies is as high as Strobel claimed it was then why are
atheists
and skeptics considered unreasonable to doubt it happened?

So stupid you had to post it twice, eh?
--
Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
BAAWA Knight!
#1557

"Elroy Willis" <elroywillis@swbell.net> wrote in message
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David Mooney <dmooney@atmc.net> wrote in alt.atheism

I sent my "Lee Strobel" post here just for laughs guys. I don't believe
his
mathematics at all. After all, if the odds that Jesus fulfilled just 48
of
those prophecies is as high as Strobel claimed it was then why are
atheists
and skeptics considered unreasonable to doubt it happened?

What is more likely? Let's say that the odds that the NT writers claimed
prophecy fulfillments that were fabricated or misunderstood is one in 100
billion then it would still be much more likely (much much much more
likely) that Jesus fulfilled all those prophecies.

Are you preaching "for" or "against" Jesus here? I can't tell.

--
Elroy Willis
www.elroysemporium.com

Hi Elroy,

If the chances of a single person fulfilling just 48 of the some 300
prophecies of the Messiah in the OT is one chance in a trillion, trillion,
trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion,
trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, (that is a 1 with 157 zeroes
following it) then why are skeptics and atheists considered unreasonable to
doubt Jesus really did it? Isn't it far more likely that the so-called
prophecy fulfillments claimed by Christians are made up, misinterpreted,
used out of context, and so on? If the chances that the prophecy fulfillment
claims were made up by the Christians was one chance in 100 billion (1 with
9 zeroes after it) isn't it therefore still far more likely that Jesus did
NOT fulfill those tremendous odds that Strobel claims? Why are we skeptics
considered unreasonable to doubt it happened if the odds of it happening
were as high as he claims?

I am a skeptic.