Mr. Guru

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> SHERMAN

> Did it "really go up" between the sentence on execution passing the court

> and the discussion with the warden? No.

> 

> Now try mine...what are the calculated odds of finding the following

> prophecies fulfilled by chance in one person:

<snip> 

JASON

I think you just put a noose around your neck by citing those examples
of 'prophecy,' but I'd like to add a 'prophecy' to your list.  You might
not recognize it, as it is found in the Apocrypha, but it's as good as
anything you posted.  Isn't this a remarkable bit of prophecy by an
uninspired writer?  What are the odds of someone accurately predicting
the following?



Wisdom of Solomon 2:12-24
[The evil men speak:]

[12] "Let us lie in wait for the righteous man,
because he is inconvenient to us and opposes our actions;
he reproaches us for sins against the law,
and accuses us of sins against our training.
[13] He professes to have knowledge of God,
and calls himself a child of the Lord.
[14] He became to us a reproof of our thoughts;
[15] the very sight of him is a burden to us,
because his manner of life is unlike that of others,
and his ways are strange.
[16] We are considered by him as something base,
and he avoids our ways as unclean;
he calls the last end of the righteous happy,
and boasts that God is his father.
[17] Let us see if his words are true,
and let us test what will happen at the end of his life;
[18] for if the righteous man is God's son, he will help him,
and will deliver him from the hand of his adversaries.
[19] Let us test him with insult and torture,
that we may find out how gentle he is,
and make trial of his forbearance.
[20] Let us condemn him to a shameful death,
for, according to what he says, he will be protected."

[21] Thus they reasoned, but they were led astray,
for their wickedness blinded them,
[22] and they did not know the secret purposes of God,
nor hope for the wages of holiness,
nor discern the prize for blameless souls;
[23] for God created man for incorruption,
and made him in the image of his own eternity,
[24] but through the devil's envy death entered the world,
and those who belong to his party experience it.

Regards,
Jason

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