After having recently discussed this with others, I feel the need to delve more into this subject, especially on this blog.Why is the Bible true?
Many think that people of faith lead a life that is completely unfounded and inconsistent with any facts, but that is not the case (though, I do believe that there are many Christians that do live their faith in complete disregard to facts and find themselves incapable of defending their faith). In fact, I believe that it is most of those that do not believe that the Bible is true that prove to be more ignorant (I don't mean this in a derogatory way, its just that people lack knowledge on this subject). What we are really talking about here is the reliability of the Bible.
This could be broken down into many arguments, but I would quickly like to highlight the prophecy that the Bible contains.
Before we talk about prophecy, I want to stress that this prophecy is not the type of foretelling that we here about from Nostradamus, who wrote extremely vague and who's writings could be used to say whatever one wanted it to. The prophecy of the Bible is very direct and specific. In fact, a prophecy by the book of Daniel prophecies the date of the Christ, precisely! It is so accurate, that some scholars refused to believe that it is prophetic and manipulate their theories on when they believe the document was written because of it.
Let's discuss the study that explains the chance of Christ fulfilling just eight of the prophecies.
Though Jesus fulfilled many more than just eight prophecies, there was a study done by M.I.T. which involved the chances that it would take for any man to fulfill eight of these prophecies. The results were expressed in the scientific notation of 1x10^18. Thats 1 times ten to the eighteenth power, or 10,000,000,000,000,000.
Maybe numbers don't mean that much to you, or maybe it's difficult for you to understand such a massive number. Well, fortunately, I have heard it expressed as this analogy:
Picture the state of Texas entirely filled with quarters stacked two feet high.
Imagine that one of these quarters were painted white and mixed throughout all the rest of the quarters. Now, if you were to be blindfolded and told to walk upon these stacked quarters, but were allowed to bend down and pick up just one, the chances that you would pick up that one quarter painted white is similar to the chances of Christ fulfilling JUST EIGHT prophecies.
In actuality though, he fulfilled much more than that. It seems as though this is highly overlooked.
Keep your heart open to this truth of God and continue to seek him out.
