The Bible is real! (Online Forum Post)

The Bible was inspired by God. The Bible has checks in it that prove it's a book outside of time, supernaturally inspired. Abraham probably wasn't aware at the time that his sacrifice of Isaac was to be a picture of God the Father offering his son. The Israelites leaving Egypt didn't know that their passover, killing an innocent lamb for their protection was a picture of Christ's atoning sacrifice that covers their sins and spares them from death. Nor did they probably realize that the bronze snake lifted up in the wilderness, where whoever looked at it in faith would be saved from death was also a picture of us being saved from death by our faith in Jesus' sacrifice on the cross. No one at the time of Daniel probably realized that he being an innocent man, betrayed, unjustly executed, sealed in his tomb, and raised alive because he was "innocent in God's sight", was to be a picture of Jesus' execution and resurrection. We know they didn't realize it because the Jews still deny it. But obviously those things happened and were written down and disseminated before Jesus' life, death, and resurrection. No one went in after the fact and changed those stories to fit Jesus' life. And I only gave you a sampling. How can all those poignant moments in the Old Testament coincidentally refer to what actually happened to Jesus? God has been directing time and history to prove to those looking after the fact that he knew what was going on all along.

No doubt Jesus explained all these things to his disciples when he said "And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself." Luke 24:27. You see Jesus was well aware that the OT was about him, painting a picture of him.

You see God's got it all figured out. He knew he had to include such things because people wouldn't otherwise believe. He proved that he knew "the end from the beginning". But now that you see the Bible can predict things no human could have known, you should give Jesus another look.

Perhaps you are offended by Christianity because of Christians or what you think they stand for. But it's time to break away from stereotypes and media fabrications and get to know Jesus for who he really is.


In response to Shane- so you're saying that the story of Abraham was added in later to fit the story of Jesus? Was it really added in later? You're going to have to investigate. Just ask any Jewish person.

Hey Todd, so you're saying the story of Jesus was made up to fit Old Testament stories that no Jewish person ever believed were prophetic? Then why wasn't that foreshadowing taught by early Christians? Jesus died on a cross so that he could hopefully possibly one day make people think that OT stories about innocents dying for salvation could be alluded to him if his disciples could make up that he rose from the dead and tell Jewish people that Abraham, the passover, and the prophets were trying to say he would rise from the dead, so that they could....
live lavishly? Remember, all the disciples save one were martyred. They wouldn't do that for something they knew was a "lie". They couldn't have been in on the "lie". So if Jesus was the one deceiving them, how could he do that from hanging on the cross?
Was it made up centuries later? Then how did the faith proliferate? Investigate.
I tell you the truth, Jesus really did live, was prophesied by the prophets long before people knew what a cross was, he died on the cross and he rose again. His followers disseminated the truth at the cost of their lives. Jesus is alive today and is coming back as he promised (and again, there are OT proofs).
My faith in God is an extension of logic. God is logical. I have great reasons to believe in God, unencumbered by human pressure or loyalties, and so do you. If everyone really sought God, looked at the proof of God and the Bible earnestly and humbly, thinking critically, and not married to their biases, they would see that he is true and real.
He is giving you a choice, ignore him, reject God as foolish and go your way, or check him out, believe, and be saved from eternity without God (which is really all hell is. Flames aren't really the problem. Being without God is the real scary part, but that's too abstract for most people). No one forced the Israelites to look at the snake on the pole and no one is forcing you to look to Jesus for salvation. Then again, the Israelites knew they had a problem.