Comments on: Intellectual Honesty... honestly? http://conversationalatheist.com/2009/08/intellectual-honesty-honestly/ Atheists need to make more of an effort to be heard in their daily life. Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:51:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Marcia Frame http://conversationalatheist.com/2009/08/intellectual-honesty-honestly/comment-page-1/#comment-992 Marcia Frame Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:07:16 +0000 http://conversationalatheist.com/?p=1127#comment-992 The reason I said that you failed to demonstrate intellectual honesty, in looking at John MacArthur's discussion on the Jeremiah prophecy, is that you discuss a few points you think prove your point and ignore the full meaning of his article, i.e. the symbolism of this scripture. Read the sections on Ramah and Rachel. Ramah symbolized the place between northern and southern Israel where the deportations into captivity took place. Rachel symbolized the mothers of Israel, weeping for their children, first because they were taken into captivity and later when all the infants younger than two were killed by Herod. This is only one prophecy of hundreds about the Messiah. I suggested to you previously that you take a look at Josh McDowell's book, Evidence That Demands a Verdict. In fact, I will send you a copy if you so desire. In his book, McDowell looks at 61 prophecies about the Messiah, using statistics. If you look at only 8 prophecies, the statistical chance of one man fulfilling all 8 is 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000. Jesus fulfilled all of the prophecies. <div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('992','Marcia Frame'); return false;">Reply</a> | <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('992','Marcia Frame',' The reason I said that you failed to demonstrate intellectual honesty, in looking at John MacArthur's discussion on the Jeremiah prophecy, is that you discuss a few points you think prove your point and ignore the full meaning of his article, i.e. the symbolism of this scripture. Read the sections on Ramah and Rachel. Ramah symbolized the place between northern and southern Israel where the deportations into captivity took place. Rachel symbolized the mothers of Israel, weeping for their children, first because they were taken into captivity and later when all the infants younger than two were killed by Herod. This is only one prophecy of hundreds about the Messiah. \n I suggested to you previously that you take a look at Josh McDowell's book, Evidence That Demands a Verdict. In fact, I will send you a copy if you so desire. In his book, McDowell looks at 61 prophecies about the Messiah, using statistics. If you look at only 8 prophecies, the statistical chance of one man fulfilling all 8 is 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000. Jesus fulfilled all of the prophecies. '); return false;">Quote</a></div> The reason I said that you failed to demonstrate intellectual honesty, in looking at John MacArthur's discussion on the Jeremiah prophecy, is that you discuss a few points you think prove your point and ignore the full meaning of his article, i.e. the symbolism of this scripture. Read the sections on Ramah and Rachel. Ramah symbolized the place between northern and southern Israel where the deportations into captivity took place. Rachel symbolized the mothers of Israel, weeping for their children, first because they were taken into captivity and later when all the infants younger than two were killed by Herod. This is only one prophecy of hundreds about the Messiah.
I suggested to you previously that you take a look at Josh McDowell's book, Evidence That Demands a Verdict. In fact, I will send you a copy if you so desire. In his book, McDowell looks at 61 prophecies about the Messiah, using statistics. If you look at only 8 prophecies, the statistical chance of one man fulfilling all 8 is 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000. Jesus fulfilled all of the prophecies.
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