Proof The Bible Is True

Did Jesus really fulfill Bible prophecies as Christians claim? What evidence is there to support this theory? Jesus did indeed fulfill prophecies made several hundred years before His birth, death and resurrection. The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls (copies of most Old Testament books) should further confirm to skeptics the prophecies contained in them were made long before the earthly ministry of Jesus. "One of the scrolls in the Dead Sea Caves was a complete MS of the Hebrew text of Isaiah. It is dated by paleographers around 125 BC"---from "The New Evidence That Demands A Verdict." by Josh McDowell. That means this scroll was written more than 100 years before Christ was born and it contains multiple prophecies about His Messiahship, death and resurrection. Of course the original books in the Old Testament were written several hundred years prior to the formation of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Even secular writers alive close to the earthly ministry of Jesus confirm: "He was a Jewish teacher; many people believed that He performed healings and exorcisms; He was rejected by Jewish leaders; He was crucified under the reign of Tiberius; despite His shameful death, His followers, who believed that He was still alive, spread beyond Palestine so that there were multitiudes of them in Rome by 64 AD; all kinds of people from the cities and countryside--men and women, slave and free--worshipped Him as God by the beginning of the second century." This is according to Edwin Yamauchi ...