The New Testament Authors claim that the Old Testament Messianic Prophecies point to

[tradeunionsupporter]

The New Testament Authors claim that the Old Testament Messianic Prophecies point to Jesus Christ why would they lie ? Did the Church write the New Testament ? Did they rewrite it ?

[Invincible Summer]

1) I don't really understand your question. Are you asking if the authors of the New Testament lied about the prophecies found in the Old Testament?
2) Why do you think they would lie?
3) Does it really matter?

[Mahatma Gandhi]

The New Testament Authors claim that the Old Testament Messianic Prophecies point to Jesus Christ why would they lie ? Did the Church write the New Testament ? Did they rewrite it ?

The NT authors had no reason to lie: there was simply no profit of any kind, material or otherwise. Unless Jesus really was the Son of God, they wouldn't have gone through so much trouble - trouble which finally ended in their deaths.

[Dave B]

There are several examples of old testament prophecies being fulfilled in the gospel stories.


A controversial one is the genealogy of Jesus in Luke and Matthew.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogy_of_Jesus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogy_of_Jesus)


And another example might be the Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a Donkey Matthew 21, which pans back to Zechariah 9.9



For the sake of argument; if that was true it was probably a deliberate provocative act to wind up the ‘Jewish’ priests etc as opposed to an ‘accidental’ turn of events.


This kind of thing would probably help in recruiting ‘jewish’ converts.


It may have also impressed the ‘gentiles’ as the general neo platonic ideas of the time; was that ‘new religions’ required form and historical precedents to be creditable.


And super human entities like Gods wouldn’t just suddenly appear and make themselves known after having sat out of divine intervention for the rest of pre history.


In the attack on Christianity by Celsum, found quoted in the rebuttal by Origen circa 250 AD, Celsum mocks Christainity with this convincing line of argument.


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