*Alward: Prophecy and Prayer

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On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 11:55:36PM -0500, JAlw@aol.com wrote:

> I think many Christians don't fully accept the "certainty" of prophecy-

> fulfillment until they imagine they've caused a miracle to happen

> through prayer to the prophesied Jesus.  Tentative belief in the

> prophecies gives one the courage to dare to imagine that their prayers

> can cause miracles, and then to imagine that they actually occurred;

> this serves to make the belief in the prophecies more certain,

> irrespective of the mathematics Epler has in mind.


So do they recognize that no argument based on "mere" prophecy will provide
the ironclad case that they claim it does?

Besides, don't fault me for bringing in mathematics, I'm sure it's not just
McDowell who argues that since their are X prophecies about Jesus, that the
odds are 1 in 10 to the Y that Jesus fulfilled them by chance  ... 

Just what is it that these Christians believe the prophecy proves?  That's
really what I'm trying to get at.

Jeff
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