It's Just a Book of Fairy Tales...or is it?

Isaiah 14:24 (ESV) — 24 The Lord of hosts has sworn: “As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand,

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The Bible is often written off as just another book. It's often discounted because men wrote it, and men are just as prone to error then as they are now. And it wasn't even scholarly people that wrote the book! You have fishermen, tent makers, shepherds, tax collectors, men that lived apart from society in caves and deserts, etc. So if this rag-tag group of outcasts writes something, why do people give it so much weight/value?

Read what I'm going to write below and tell me who this is talking about. 

• “Those who hate me without cause are more numerous than the hairs of my head” (Ps 69:4).

• “The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers conspire together against the Lord and His Anointed One” (Ps 2:2).

• “Even my friend in whom I trusted, one who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me” (Ps 41:9).

• “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered” (Zch 13:7).

• “Then I said to them, ‘If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.’ So they weighed my wages, 30 pieces of silver. ‘Throw it to the potter,’ the Lord said to me—this magnificent price I was valued by them. So I took the 30 pieces of silver and threw it into the house of the Lord, to the potter” (Zch 11:12–13).

• “They are striking the judge of Israel on the cheek with a rod” (Mc 5:1).

• “I gave My back to those who beat Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spitting” (Is 50:6).

• “They pierced my hands and my feet” (Ps 22:16).

• “My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?” (Ps 22:1).

• “Everyone who sees me mocks me; they sneer and shake their heads: ‘He relies on the Lord; let Him rescue him; let the Lord deliver him, since He takes pleasure in him’ ” (Ps 22:7–8).

• “They gave me gall for my food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink” (Ps 69:21).

• “I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed; my heart is like wax, melting within me” (Ps 22:14).

• “Yet He Himself bore our sicknesses, and He carried our pains; but we in turn regarded Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted” (Is 53:4).

• “He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughter and like a sheep silent before her shearers, He did not open His mouth” (Is 53:7).

• “They divided my garments among themselves, and they cast lots for my clothing” (Ps 22:18).

• “He submitted Himself to death” (Is 53:12).

• “He bore the sin of many and interceded for the rebels” (Is 53:12).

• “You may not break any of its bones” (Ex 12:46).

• “He protects all his bones; not one of them is broken” (Ps 34:20).

• “They will look at Me whom they pierced” (Zch 12:10).

• “They made His grave with the wicked, and with a rich man at His death, although He had done no violence and had not spoken deceitfully” (Is 53:9).

• “For You will not abandon me to Sheol; You will not allow Your Faithful One to see the Pit” (Ps 16:10).

• “You ascended to the heights, taking away captives; You received gifts from people, even from the rebellious, so that the Lord God might live there” (Ps 68:18).

• “The Lord declared to my Lord: ‘Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies Your footstool’ ” (Ps 110:1).

Who do you think this is referring to?

All of these scriptures are taken from the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible. This was all completed some 400 years before Jesus was born. This is a widely accepted fact, in fact these were all translated from Hebrew into Greek in Alexandria roughly 150 years before Jesus' birth.

These writings, these predictions are SO specific that they leave no room for error.

No other religious literature has prophecies so distinct, so specific that have been fulfilled in the way that Christ has fulfilled the Hebrew Bible.

Christianity is not just another religion, Jesus is not just another prophet, the Bible is not just another book.

1 John 5:11–12 (NLT) — 11 And this is what God has testified: He has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have God’s Son does not have life.