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How was it possible for the Old Testament prophet Isaiah to have predicted the virgin birth of Jesus (Isaiah 7:14) 700 years before it occurred?

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1. ...burn it, never gonna happen anyway.

2. In fiction, you can write any ending you want.

3. Do you mean how someone wrote forty years the life of this Jesus character who knew of this prophesy and twisted the life of Jesus to make it look like the prophesy became fufilled?

4. hi im Fireball!

female born again Methodist. Im an army veteran with 2 adult kids who are both married and Im on 2nd marriage. Hell is graves. Jesus slept. We will too. See Ecc 9th chapter...we will either rapture from life or sleep first in the grave if born again..we all make typos and some should get over it since we dont get paid for this. This life is full of pain and suffering but the next one can be paradise if we repent etc.

5. The bible predicts things in the bible. And that's it.

That's like saying that Harry Potter is true because one book predicts what will happen in the next.

It's hilarious to me that you're able to question anything and everything about evolution, but a glaringly obvious flaw like this just sneaks right past ya.

6. I do not have to explain because i do not believe in it

7. The bible is not a history book, it's a fairy tale.

8. Pretty much, yes.

But if you're willing to go to just a bit more trouble, read the new testament, and don't take any of their quotes for granted. Read it as you would if you were a prosecuting attorney verifying the statements of the accused. Check every reference in the OT. Read the context in which those quotes were lifted off. Unpleasant from your point of view, to say the least.

9. Home school right?

10. Because its prooven

Prophecies of A Coming Messiah
A man will be born of a virgin “Emmanuel” which means God with us. He will come from Galilee and have disciples – Isaiah 7:14, 8:16, 9:1.He will be a “Root of Jesse” (from the lineage of King David) and the Gentiles (Non-Jews) shall seek him – Isaiah 11:10

You will draw waters from the wells of salvation – Isaiah 12: 2
The woman at the well said unto him, I know that Messiah comes, which is called Christ: when he comes, he will tell us all things. Jesus said unto her, I that speak unto you am he – John 4

Who carves a tomb for himself in a rock? – Isaiah 22:16
And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock – Matthew 27

He will swallow up death forever – Isaiah 25:8
O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory? – 1st Corinthians

Your dead shall live together with my dead body and they shall rise – Isaiah 26:19
And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose - Matthew 27

The deaf shall hear and the blind shall see – Isaiah 29:18
The blind receive their sight, and the deaf hear – Matthew 11

The one who dwells between the angels. You are God – Isaiah 37
And they saw two angels in white where the body of Jesus had been. One on the left and one on the right – John 20. See Jesus and the Ark of the Covenant

The voice of one crying in the wilderness. Prepare the way of the Lord – Isaiah 40
John the Baptist. The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight – Matthew 3

I the Lord am the first and last. I am he – Isaiah 41
I am the Alpha and Omega. The first and the last – Revelation 22

Behold my servant. My Elect one. My spirit will be upon him – Isaiah 42
And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him – John 3

Besides me there is no saviour – Isaiah 43
If you do not believe that I am he you will die in your sins – John 5

See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands – Isaiah 49
The crucifixion would obviously put scars on the palms of Christ’s hands.

I gave my back to those who struck me, I did not hide my face from shame and spitting - Isaiah 50
Then they struck him on the head with a reed and spat on him - Mark 15

My salvation will be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished - Isaiah 51
Heaven and earth will pass away but my words will by no means pass away - Luke 21

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who proclaims salvation - Isaiah 52
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor - Luke 4

His visage was marred more than any man - Isaiah 52
"At this the multitude had great indignation; and when Pilate was come to Jerusalem, they came about his tribunal, and made a clamor at it. Now the Jews were so badly beaten, that many of them perished by the stripes they received, and many of them perished as trodden to death, by which means the multitude was astonished at the calamity of those that were slain, and held their peace." Josephus - The Wars of the Jews- Book 2 Chapter 9

He is despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities. The Lord has laid upon him the sins of us all - Isaiah 53

He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as sheep before it's shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth - Isaiah 53
Then Herod questioned Jesus with many words but he opened not his mouth - Luke 23

Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; when you make his soul an offering for sin - Isaiah 53
Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies; it produces much grain - John 12

He poured out his soul unto death and he was numbered with the transgressors - Isaiah 53
With him they also crucified two robbers - Mark 15

I will lay your stones with colorful gems, and lay your foundations with sapphires - Isaiah 54
And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald - Revelation 21

And nations who do not know you shall run to you - Isaiah 55
And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan - Luke 17

The Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. They shall bring gold and incense - Isaiah 60
And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh - Matthew 2

Why was the Messiah to be born in Bethlehem and not Jerusalem?

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11. Biblical prophecies debunked
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CH/CH110.html

12. 1. There are several mundane ways in which a prediction of the future can be fulfilled:

* Retrodiction. The "prophecy" can be written or modified after the events fulfilling it have already occurred.
* Vagueness. The prophecy can be worded in such a way that people can interpret any outcome as a fulfillment. Nostradomus's prophecies are all of this type. Vagueness works particularly well when people are religiously motivated to believe the prophecies.
* Inevitability. The prophecy can predict something that is almost sure to happen, such as the collapse of a city. Since nothing lasts forever, the city is sure to fall someday. If it has not, it can be said that according to prophecy, it will.
* Denial. One can claim that the fulfilling events occurred even if they have not. Or, more commonly, one can forget that the prophecy was ever made.
* Self-fulfillment. A person can act deliberately to satisfy a known prophecy.

There are no prophecies in the Bible that cannot easily fit into one or more of those categories.

2. In biblical times, prophecies were not simply predictions. They were warnings of what could or would happen if things did not change. They were meant to influence people's behavior. If the people heeded the prophecy, the events would not come to pass; Jonah 3 gives an example. A fulfilled prophecy was a failed prophecy, because it meant people did not heed the warning.

3. The Bible also contains failed prophecies, in the sense that things God said would happen did not. For example:
Joshua said that God would, without fail, drive out the Jebusites and Canaanites, among others (Josh. 3:9-10). But those tribes were not driven out (Josh. 15:63, 17:12-13).
Ezekiel said Egypt would be made an uninhabited wasteland for forty years (29:10-14), and Nebuchadrezzar would plunder it (29:19-20). Neither happened.

Also see:

http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/farrell_till/prophecy.html
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/proph/long.html

4. Other religions claim many fulfilled prophecies, too ( http://www.bci.org/prophecy-fulfilled/ ).

13. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah_7:14

Non-Christians don't see that verse from the Christian perspective.

14. When you also add that Daniel chapter 9 tells us when he would start his ministry and when he would die it makes a convincing argument. To reasonable people I mean

15. lmao. 1). there is no historical record for jesus--all writings about him are 40 to 50 years after the myths death--meaning there wasn't anyone that was writing from first person knowledge--no records of any sort of any of the miracles etc. It's relatively easy to write that a story fullfilled the propehcy of another story--thats sort of a gimee. Further--how do you explain the same propehcy of mithras and horace?

16. This is why we use the whole bible, hebrew and greek scriptures. By doing this people can see the prophecies that have been filled and those taking place today. We are told to keep alert and stay awake. The Great Tribulation is just around the corner.

17. Well, for one, it said that he would be named Immanuel...and he was named Jesus. So, the prophecy is wrong on that account...and the apologetic excuse is...well, nothing more than a poor excuse.

That said, it is HIGHLY likely that the life of Jesus was simply modeled after that passage by the later writers who wrote about his birth - after all, none of them were eye witnesses to his birth. (the earliest gospel is believed to have been written down at least 40+ years after Jesus' death, around 70AD.)

18. Yes good single point. The bible hold s
the answers to your question and belief,
Of the hundreds if prophecies we have in the bible and there are so many some stilldeny or have never been revealed Jesus Christ.
Some prophecies are very old like well over 3 thousand years old.
Some fgur the language change was only 4 hundreds years ago
That I domnot believe. The work to have the bbiblee available to all was a major task since recording keeping and paper does not alwys last nor was print in production available,..

19. Not true! Isaiah is talking about Israel - according to the Jews who actually wrote the damn thing. So, yeah, I dismiss your interpretation of the prophecy - now what are you going to do?

20. how is it possible that it was predicted the same year , day and month that the jews would go back to Israel

O i Know Da GOD!
he is perfect in every way ,there are things that the flesh can't do that only the spirit can .

Then, in 1948, the Nation of Israel was officially reinstated by the governments of the world. The Jews started returning in large numbers to their ancient homeland. Since then, the Jewish people have survived major conflicts, culminating in the reclaiming of Jerusalem after the Six-Day War in 1967. Over nearly two millennia without a homeland, the Nation of Israel never lost its national, cultural, or religious identity. It seems the Jewish people have returned to the land promised by God through Abraham.

21. not sure good question