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    Junior Member pauldonohue@ymailecom's Avatar
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    Christians keep saying loads of prophecies came true, what prophecies?

    A Christian posted this:

    "The Mathematical Odds of Jesus Fulfilling Prophecy

    "The following probabilities are taken from Peter Stoner in Science Speaks (Moody Press, 1963) to show that coincidence is ruled out by the science of probability. Stoner says that by using the modern science of probability in reference to eight prophecies, ‘we find that the chance that any man might have lived down to the present time and fulfilled all eight prophecies is 1 in 1017." That would be 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000. In order to help us comprehend this staggering probability, Stoner illustrates it by supposing that "we take 1017 silver dollars and lay them on the face of Texas. They will cover all of the state two feet deep. Now mark one of these silver dollars and stir the whole mass thoroughly, all over the state. Blindfold a man and tell him that he can travel as far as he wishes, but he must pick up one silver dollar and say that this is the right one. What chance would he have of getting the right one? Just the same chance that the prophets would have had of writing these eight prophecies and having them all come true in any one man."
    Stoner considers 48 prophecies and says, "we find the chance that any one man fulfilled all 48 prophecies to be 1 in 10157, or 1 in 10,00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,... 000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,... 000,000,000."

    The estimated number of electrons in the universe is around 1079


    Does it make sense to anyone?
    give examples of proven prophecies

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    The minister at my parents church told me I was going to get if I didn't change my ways and he gave it to me all right, a couple of times that evening! Dang angry guilt sex, was it ever good too!

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    Yes. And Christ fulfilled over 300.

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    I wonder whats the odds of people making up and editing the 'old' prophecies and the details of jesus's life after jesus's death...

    Seeing how there is still very little objective proof that jesus even existed I don't care how many 0s they put in their probability calculations.

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    prophecies. lets see
    The four beast of Daniel, predicted the Medes and the Persians would be the next ruler Darius the Mede and Cyrus the Persian followed by Alexander the Great of Greece the The Roman Empire. The Birth Of Jesus
    The Famine in Pharoah dreams The Flood of Noah; Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. and many more to come

    i see u gave probabilities of a man predicting prophecies. I don't doubt that but we have to remember one thing God is Not a man


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