Amazing Odds

Here's an interesting thing...

A number of years ago, Peter W. Stoner and Robert C. Newman wrote a book entitled Science Speaks. The book was based on the science of probability and vouched for by the American Scientific Affiliation. It set out the odds of any one man in all of history fulfilling even only eight of the 60 major prophecies (and 270 ramifications) fulfilled by the life of Christ.

The probability that Jesus of Nazareth could have fulfilled even eight such prophecies would be only 1 in 1017. That's 1 in 100, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000.

Stoner claims that that many silver dollars would be enough to cover the face of the entire state of Texas two feet deep. Now I've been to Texas. I've driven for days to get across Texas. Texas is a very big state. Who in his right mind would suppose that a blindfolded man, heading out of Dallas by foot in any direction, would be able, on his very first attempt, to pick up one specifically marked silver dollar out of 100, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000?

-SOURCE: What are the odds surrounding Jesus Christ? Who was this child really?
@ christiananswers.net

To further expand this concept, there is more about these Prophecies here:

Messianic Prophecies
christiananswers.net

Fulfilled Messianic Prophecies
www.biblicist.org

And here’s an interesting short thing to watch about this:
The Probability Of Just Eight Prophecies Being Fulfilled In The Person Of Jesus Christ
www.tangle.com

Now, here is one of my favourite fulfilled prophecies about our Passover Lamb that is so very fitting to think on this time of year...and as always, it's best to open the Bible to these chapters and read these in context.

It is to be eaten in a single house; you are not to bring forth any of the flesh outside of the house, nor are you to break any bone of it. Exodus 12: 46

They shall leave none of it until morning, nor break a bone of it; according to all the statute of the Passover they shall observe it. Numbers 9:12

He keeps all his bones, Not one of them is broken. Psalm 34:20

32So the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who was crucified with Him;

33but coming to Jesus, when they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs. (...)

36For these things came to pass to fulfill the Scripture, " NOT A BONE OF HIM SHALL BE BROKEN." John 19:32-36

Now what are the odds that someone could fulfill what happened to them after they died? Only God could do that. Pretty amazing, isn't it?

*Related reading:

Messiah in Prophecy
www.whoisthemessiah.org