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

THE DA VINCI MYTH VS THE GOSPEL TRUTH
world being covered with white tile that was
one-and-a-half inches square—every bit of dry
land on the planet—with the bottom of just
one tile painted red.
Then I pictured a person being allowed
to wander for a lifetime around all seven
continents. He would be permitted to bend
down only one time and pick up a single piece
of tile. What are the odds it would be the one
tile whose reverse side was painted red? The
odds would be the same as just eight of the Old
Testament prophecies coming true in any one
person throughout history. 106
If that didn’t boggle Strobel’s mind enough, Stoner
demonstrated that the chances of any one fulfilling 48
prophecies were 10 157 . 107 Strobel realized the incredible
implications of that as well. It would be like finding “a
single predetermined atom among all the atoms in a trillion
trillion trillion trillion billion universes the size of
our universe.” 108 Lee Strobel finally did the intellectually
honest thing—he recognized Jesus as the Messiah. He
has now written such classics as The Case for Christ and
The Case for Faith.
That Jesus of Nazareth fulfilled the messianic
prophecies provides compelling evidence for the divine
inspiration of the Holy Scriptures. The other 1,700 or so
prophecies of the Old Testament deal mostly with the
cities and nations that were in or near the land of Israel.
Their future is outlined in those prophecies. The major
emphasis of Scripture itself is on those thousands of spe-
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