Though there are admittedly a number of claimed prophecies in the Old Testament’s “Law & prophets” that supposedly foretell and even announce Jesus as one who becomes the embodiment of the long longed-for Messiah – “a prophet like [Moses]” (see Deuteronomy 18:151) who was summoned “to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up […]
As an additional point of intrigue, Isaiah 35:5-6 in truth seemingly predicted that the Messiah would perform healing miracles upon his arrival (specifically, returning sight to the blind, granting hearing to the deaf, providing mobility to the lame, and giving speech to the mute1). Full disclosure also bears noting that Jesus does in fact seem […]
While many cite Jesus’ crucifixion and supposed resurrection as proof that he was the Davidian Messiah, the verses seemingly prophesying the same were well known at the time, and thus actually prove far more convincingly that Jesus purposefully orchestrated the entire event – that he enlisted the help of a small-yet-dedicated cadre of accomplices to […]
In closing, while there are many additional references Jesus makes to “the prophets” in the Gospels (references that just as clearly illustrate his ministry’s primary goal of expanding the Jewish people’s adherence to the edicts of the Old Testament scriptures)1, the case has been soundly made that Jesus did not blindly support the texts of […]
While it is true that Matthew 5:17-18 seems to refer to the written “Law and prophets” of the Hebrew Bible of the day, it bears noting that Jewish culture at the time gave almost equal honor to the oral commentaries on the Law (made by Jewish rabbinical leaders at the time, and later written down […]
In summation, while many Christians still use the words of Matthew 5:17-181 to justify their use of Old Testament scriptures to support many of their anti-Christian opinions2, this treatise has now confirmed without doubt that such a practice is not biblically valid. For, as the previous 126 pages have clearly & somewhat exhaustively shown, Jesus […]
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