Is there a list of all fulfilled prophecies in Jesus?

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Yes, I understand that Judaism does not depend on a historical fact and person the same way as Christianity does. Is there anything in the Tanakh (Law, Writings or Prophets) that is more factual than a fictional novel — or is it all a tall tale with some kind of historical figure behind it?
 
The Gospel of Matthew is all about showing how the prophecies are fulfilled in Jesus. I’d start with that Gospel specifically
 
I’ve been thinking about that question for a while. I’m not sure. Do you always answer questions with questions? 🙂 Classic.
 
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Being into computers, I ran a quick search for verse references:
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Site       ref       /2 for (dumb counting method),  prophecy and fulfillment.
Wikipedia: 104       52
newadvent: 114       57
archive CA: 96
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Your computer did not access this site. It links to more than 360. Plus link to another handful from the book of wisdom.

Bible Teaches Jesus is God

And prophecies fulfilled by Jesus Christ


But sharing a list is only going to count as one argument in a person’s mind. Probly better to share 1 or 2 at a time

I like sharing the ones from the book of wisdom because now you got Another additional argument about the Canon of The Bible
John
 
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How they got the odds for each prophecy is sadly unclear.
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Their numbers appear to be simply made up, but its worse than that.

Some of the prophecies they list are ones that Jesus seems to have deliberately fulfilled - so the chance of that happening is 1 in 1.

For others, you have to interpret the OT “prophecy” to mean what (some) Christians believe it means, and then interpret the Gospel as fulfilling that “prophecy” - so that two acts of faith-based interpretation are required to get to the result. That does not (necessarily) mean its not valid for a Christian to look at that passage as a prophecy fulfilled in Jesus, but it does mean that no statistical analysis really means anything (and also that it is not at all compelling to non-Christians, or even many Christians).
 
Catholic teaching on OT prophecies and their fulfillment in the NT is a bit more complex than that. It’s not just a mechanical exercise in clipping a certain number of verses from the OT and listing them in the left-hand column under the heading “Prophecies,” and then matching them up, one for one, with an equal number of verses clipped from the NT and arranged in the right-hand column under the heading “Fulfillment.”

Take a look at this:

Christian faith recognises the fulfilment, in Christ, of the Scriptures and the hopes of Israel, but it does not understand this fulfilment as a literal one. Such a conception would be reductionist…Jesus is not confined to playing an already fixed role — that of Messiah — but he confers, on the notions of Messiah and salvation, a fullness which could not have been imagined in advance; he fills them with a new reality; one can even speak in this connection of a “new creation”. It would be wrong to consider the prophecies of the Old Testament as some kind of photographic anticipations of future events. All the texts, including those which later were read as messianic prophecies, already had an immediate import and meaning for their contemporaries before attaining a fuller meaning for future hearers. The messiahship of Jesus has a meaning that is new and original.

That is a brief excerpt from a Church document titled The Jewish People and their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible. It was published in 2001 by the Pontifical Biblical Commission, over the signature of the Commission’s president, the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. You can read the whole thing here:

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/c...on_cfaith_doc_20020212_popolo-ebraico_en.html
 
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