Quote from trainr:
Other prophetical fulfillments:
Sent to the gentiles (unclean to the jews)
Resurrection
Betrayed by a friend
Sold for 30 pieces of silver
Hands and feet pierced
Crucified with thieves
Garments parted and lots cast
Bones not broken (Romans always broke the legs of the crucified to get them to die faster)
Side pierced
All predicted more than 300 years before the event which would have been difficult to fulfill purposely.
Very, very tiny tip of the iceberg of evidences.
many of these are what are know as the isaiah prophecies. these prophecies have been debunked by modern scholars and by jewish experts who should know because the old testament is a Jewish document. modern scholars have determined that the isaiah prophecies were about the nation of israel not about jesus.
http://www.truthseeker.com/truth-seeker/1993archive/120_2/ts202g.html
Prophecy is a muddy science, and Bible prophecy muddier than most. Take those Old Testament prophecies. Evangelists never tire of telling us that hundreds were fulfilled in the life of Jesus, far too many to be called coincidence. But how many of these are real, and how many are prophetia ex eventuÃprophecies constructed after the fact, products of careful selection and interpretation?
To get an idea, let's look at the most famous, the prophecy of the child Immanuel as presented in the Gospel of Matthew (Matt. 1:22- 23):
"Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us." (KJV)
Most good Christians take this at face value, assured that the prophet Isaiah did indeed describe Jesus's miraculous conception and birth seven hundred years before. But did he?
Authorities are nearly unanimous. The answer is no.
What did Isaiah really say? Turning to Isa. 7:14 (Masoretic text), we find his precise words:
"Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, (the ha'almah) shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel."
The Matthew interpretation of Isaiah has several problems, the largest hanging on the Hebrew word 'almah. Writing in Greek, the gospel author turned 'almah into parthenos, a word usually (but not always) meaning "virgin". In fact he had a precedent for this; the Septuagint, a translation of the Old Testament used by Greek- speaking Jews of the day, did indeed use parthenos in the Isaiah passage. But the Septuagint was for the most part a notoriously sloppy translation, and its version of Isaiah was more error- ridden than the rest. By the Middle Ages the Jews had abandoned the Septuagint, and other Greek translations, by Aquila, Theodotion, Lucien and others, did not use the word parthenos. (The Septuagint, affectionately known as the LXX, is still favored by Eastern Orthodox churches.)
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http://www.infidels.org/library/magazines/tsr/1999/5/995isai.html
The Failure of Isaiah's Prophetic Rantings
Farrell Till
Biblical inerrantists never seem to tire of looking for vindication of the Bible in prophecy fulfillments. No skeptic discussing the Bible with a biblicist can question its divine origin for very long without hearing the biblicist say, "Well, what about all of the prophecy fulfillments?"
The best way to answer this question is with a question of your own: "What prophecy fulfillments?" This alone may be enough to stop the biblicist in his tracks, because he may well be a typical Christian who is uninformed in the Bible and is simply repeating something he has heard but doesn't know enough about to discuss intelligently. If, however, the biblicist is someone who does have specific prophecy fulfillment claims in mind, they can usually be rebutted by just analyzing the alleged prophecy in context to point out parts of the prophecy that seem to be missing in the fulfillment event. Such missing parts can almost always be identified. I have discussed in past articles this approach to debating prophecy-fulfillment claims, so I won't rehash it here.
Another effective method to use in such discussions is to turn the tables on the biblicist and ask him, "Well, what about all of the prophecy failures?" To do this, of course, one would have to be familiar with specific examples of prophecy failures. Several of these have been discussed in past articles, the most frequently mentioned one being Ezekiel's prophecy against Tyre. A simple way to make this prophecy failure more problematic for the biblicist is to compare it to Isaiah's prophecy against Tyre and focus on the inconsistencies in the two. We have seen in prior discussions of Ezekiel's prophecy that he predicted that Tyre would be destroyed and never rebuilt (26:14,21; 27:36,19), but in his many tirades against the nations around Israel, Isaiah uttered a prophecy against Tyre that predicted a destruction that wasn't quite as harsh as Ezekiel's. In 23:1, he said, "The burden of Tyre. Howl you ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Kittim it is revealed to them." The prophecy continued in typical fashion through the chapter, predicting waste and devastation, but beginning in verse 13, Isaiah clearly said that the destruction of Tyre would be only temporary, not permanent: (more)
