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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  I mean I believe in God, intuitively, and I feel drawn to a Christian church.  But being a Christian requires believing written stories about someone from 2000 years ago.  How to get there, is my question.[/quote]

Read Isaiah. Add Daniel if you can. You will see how it all was foretold exactly as it happened. Where he would be from, etc. [/quote]

Isaiah and Daniel are stories, not factual accounts.  And it's pretty easy to write a sequel when the back story is already written.[/quote]

Absolutely not true. If you knew anything at all about history and/or archeology, you'd know that [b]Isaiah and Daniel were written long before the New Testament time period[/b].[/quote]

Yes, that is accurate history and archeology --  that's why it was so easy for people to write the Jesus stories later.  They already knew just what "signs" to refer to, that would show that things were happening according to what had been prophesied.  [/quote]
The book of Daniel foretells with stunning accuracy the rise and fall of nation states hundreds of years before those things happen. It's so accurate, that [b]some scholars have claimed that it can't possibly be written when it is claimed to have been written.[/b] It seems odd that it would be so accurate about some things that can provably be said to have occurred, but then just make up some things as stories. To dismiss the book of Daniel is merely full of stories is to not seriously take it into account, and to wallow in willful ignorance.

Or, you can see God's handiwork in foretelling some things that He then authenticated so that you would take a foretelling of Christ seriously well, because your soul depends on it.[/quote]

"Some Scholars" may not be so smart or maybe some pastor is telling stories about "some scholars" to try to convince people how true the Bible really is without referencing real scholars --  who have known for a long time that the Bible is  an ancient book of stories.

Why does "foretelling" make Christ so special anyhow?  You'd think walking on water, healing the sick, turning water into wine and rising from the dead would be enough to convince a lot of people  - at least in the old pre-scientific days when people took magic more seriously.[/quote]

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