The DaVinci Myth vs. The Gospel Truth - Online Christian Library

THE GOSPEL TRUTH
thing which the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has
spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid
of him.”
God alone knows the future, “which turns on many
slippery and very tricky ball-bearings” as one historian
said. God alone can prophesy the future.
The Scriptures are unique in that in the Old
Testament alone, there are over 2,000 prophecies that
have already come to pass. You will look in vain for anything
like this in the world. If we consider all the other
religions of the world, there are twenty-six books which
the followers of these religions claim to be divinely
inspired—the books themselves make no such claim—
and the books contain no specific prophecies.
Of the more than 2,000 prophecies found in the
Bible, 333 deal with the coming of the Messiah. There is
no other individual in the history of mankind whose
entire life has been so prophetically and predictively
detailed.
Frederich Meldau points out that as few as five
simple points of identification can single out any
individual from all of the 6 billion other people that live
on this planet, and yet with Christ we have 333 points of
identification. For example, suppose your name is Lester
B. Smith, and somewhere in the world an envelope with
that name and the address 4143 Madison Avenue,
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. is mailed. It doesn’t matter in
what country that letter is mailed, it will ultimately
come to you, because it has the five key points of
identification: the country, the state, the city, the street,
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