kosta50 wrote:
“These are not coincidental discoveries or prophesies, boatbums. The NT was written so that it would appear the OT is a Christian prophesy, the way the Book of Mormon was written to “prove” that it is the third authentic scripture.”
So, I see that you know, grasp, understand, and can interpret the motives not only of FR posters of the 21st century A.D. but also writers of the first century A.D. What a marvel. I had no idea that agnosticism bestowed so many abilities. I am in awe of you, kosta50, simply in awe.
Don’t feel you have to respond. I’m sure you have far more important things to do, thoughts to think, motives to discern, judgments to render.
Ah, yes, not an unexpected response. Your problem, though, is that thousands of people were alive who were eyewitnesses to the events that happened and were still alive when the books were written and circulated. Many were not even followers or believers in Jesus as Messiah. The Roman rulers and soldiers, the Jewish religious leaders, for example. Funny how those 200-300+ OT prophesies were fulfilled so precisely it was almost as if someone had a book/scroll with a check list on it and checked each one off as the individual writers all wrote down their own memories of the events not to mention, there were several people doing the writing in different places and different times. I can just hear the goings on. "No, don't say he was born in Nazareth, he had to be born in Bethlehem. No, not THAT Bethlehem, the smaller one, you know, Ephrahtah not Zebulon." "You idiot! His mother's lineage had to come through King David's son Nathan, not Solomon. Solomon's lineage had that jerk Jechoniah in it and, remember, God said his lineage had a curse on it." "Hey, go tell those soldiers over there to NOT rip up the coat and share it! It has to be gambled over remember? In ONE piece, got it?"
Nah, I'm just not seeing the whole feasibility thing. I think it takes more work to believe it is like you think than to believe that things happened like they did, like they were foretold to happen. And, don't forget, many things foretold in the Bible were yet to happen and we are even today seeing some of them beng fulfilled. Don't think you were the first person to come up with this idea though. Nice try. :o)