I'm a retired Physician's Assistant and Cardiovascular Ultrasonographer with special qualifications in Adult and Pediatric Cardiology. Since my retirement, I've resumed work on my Master's in History and plan to concentrate on the seeming conflict between the physical sciences and religion
A popular answer to the question “How did Jesus come to be known as the Messiah” is what I call the “Argument from Overwhelming Probability” which holds that, since Jesus of Nazareth “fulfilled” x number of “Bible prophecies,” Jesus of Nazareth must have been the Messiah. In this essay I will demonstrate why such claims are so absurd as to border on laughable. According to any number of Christian apologetic web sites such as RaptureReady.com and ChristianAnswers.net, among many others, Jesus of Nazareth is credited with being the fulfil...
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