thread: 2006-09-08 : Salvation, damnation, justification, a la Sydney
On 2006-09-18, NinJ wrote:
I don't know if I'm feeding a troll or not here, but it honks me off when people try to take my religion for their own purposes.
The Dead Sea Scrolls. It's a copy of the Old Testament that dates back to the 1st or 2nd century BC. Jesus was born around 0 CE, give or take a few years. Why does that matter? Because in the scrolls there are prophecies concerning the coming Messiah, which Jesus fulfills to the letter, at least 100 years after the scrolls were written.
Those scrolls also contain the stories about Moses and the great kings of Israel, and the not so great kings of Israel, and the history of the Hebrew nation. So if something is true about what hasn't happened yet, why wouldn't it also be true about what has already happened?
OK, Christians love to bandy this about. There's a big theological hole, though: unless the dead are walking around right now, Jesus wasn't the messiah. There's no mention except in Christian texts about the Messiah coming once, kicking the bucket, and then coming again. It seems kind of anticlimactic to me, really.
So: prophecy that has not come true: evidence for the veracity of the prophetic document?
You be the judge.
