Christ & Prophecy

ODDS OF YOU.

1 in 2 eat out somewhere this week

Chance of dying from heart disease: 1 in 3

Chance of having a stroke: 1 in 6

Chance of getting arthritis: 1 in 7

1 in 10 Americans read the Bible daily

1 in 24 Americans has membership in the National Geographic

Odds of being killed in accident: 77 to 1

Odds of being murdered: 18,000 to 1

Odds of getting away with murder: 2 to 1

Odds that marriage will survive for 15 years: 1.3 to 1

Odds of bowling a 300 game: 11,500 to 1

Odds of getting a hole in one: 5,000 to 1

Odds of lightning strike 1 in 250 million,

Odds of becoming president: 10,000,000 to 1

Odds of winning the California lottery: 13,000,000 to 1

Chance of dying from parts falling off an airplane: 1 in 10,000,000

You had a one in twenty million chance of being born

CHRIST

- That He would be born of a women - Ge. 3:15

          Be of the Line of Ab. - Ge 12:3

          Be of the tribe of Judah - Ge 49:10

          Be of the House of David - 2 Sa. 7:12-13

          Be born of a Virgin - Is 7:14

          Be born in Bethlehem - Mic 5:2

          Be called a Nazarene - Is 11:1

          Heal many - Is 53:4

          Speak in parables - Is 6:9

          betrayed for 30 - Zec 11:12-13

          forsaken by disciples - Zec 13:7

            whipped & spat upon - Is 50:6

crucified between 2 thieves - Is 53:12

Christ fulfilling even only eight of the 60 major prophecies would be only 1 in 1017. That's 1 in 100, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000.

A number of years ago, Peter W. Stoner and Robert C. Newman wrote a book entitled Science Speaks. The book was based on the science of probability and vouched for by the American Scientific Affiliation. It set out the odds of any one man in all of history fulfilling even only eight of the 60 major prophecies (and 270 ramifications) fulfilled by the life of Christ.

The probability that Jesus of Nazareth could have fulfilled even eight such prophecies would be only 1 in 1017. That's 1 in 100, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000.

Stoner claims that that many silver dollars would be enough to cover the face of the entire state of Texas two feet deep. Now I've been to Texas. I've driven for days to get across Texas. Texas is a very big state. Who in his right mind would suppose that a blindfolded man, heading out of Dallas by foot in any direction, would be able, on his very first attempt, to pick up one specifically marked silver dollar out of 100, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000?