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To: #3Fan
What prophesies have they gotten right?

I hate to stick up for fireworshipers, not being one myself, but they have to have gotten more prophesies right, through shear chance, than Jesus did. As one of many examples (and I'd be happy to list them), Jesus claimed "Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was priced, whom certain of the children of Israel did price; and they gave them for the potter's field as the Lord appointed me" (Matt. 27:9-10), when in reality Jeremiah said nothing even remotely similar to that. One would hope that The Son of Man might be capable of getting his biblical references right, wouldn't you? As I see it, there are two possible explanations: either Jesus deliberately lied and hoped no one would notice, or the divinely-inspired Matthew completely misquoted him.

268 posted on 10/13/2002 12:00:15 PM PDT by andy_card
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To: andy_card
I hate to stick up for fireworshipers, not being one myself, but they have to have gotten more prophesies right, through shear chance, than Jesus did. As one of many examples (and I'd be happy to list them), Jesus claimed "Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was priced, whom certain of the children of Israel did price; and they gave them for the potter's field as the Lord appointed me" (Matt. 27:9-10), when in reality Jeremiah said nothing even remotely similar to that. One would hope that The Son of Man might be capable of getting his biblical references right, wouldn't you? As I see it, there are two possible explanations: either Jesus deliberately lied and hoped no one would notice, or the divinely-inspired Matthew completely misquoted him.

It's the story of the girdle. The ill-gotten gains of Judas was to Judas as the girdle was to the man that hid it at the Euphrates. It became worthless to him and that's why Judas threw the money into the temple. Here's the culmination of that story:

Jer 13:10 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.

Maybe you oughta stick to arguing about simple things like circles and spheres.

271 posted on 10/13/2002 1:50:23 PM PDT by #3Fan
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