The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel
Week 10: Part Two, Chapter 9 — The Profile Evidence
Read Part Two, Chapter 9 of The Case for Christ. Key interview: Dr. Louis Lapides, Jewish believer in Jesus, and the evidence of fulfilled Old Testament prophecy.
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If Jesus is who he claimed to be, we would expect the ancient Hebrew Scriptures to have anticipated his coming. This week, Strobel examines the extraordinary evidence of Old Testament prophecy fulfilled in Jesus' life.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Dr. Louis Lapides, a Jewish man who came to faith in Jesus, walks Strobel through the major Old Testament prophecies that he believes point to Jesus as the Messiah. Which prophecies did you find most striking, and why?
2.Lapides mentions that the odds of one person fulfilling even a handful of specific Old Testament prophecies by chance are astronomically small. While Strobel doesn't get into detailed probability calculations, what is the intuitive force of this argument?
3.Strobel raises the common objection that Jesus might have deliberately arranged events in his life to fulfill known prophecies — for example, riding into Jerusalem on a donkey. Lapides responds by pointing to prophecies Jesus could not have staged. What examples does he give?
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