Proving God Mathematically

What are the odds that Jesus is who said he is? Did you know that we can actually calculate that number?

Atheists and skeptics always say that believers are dumb and/or gullible and we just believe in myth and fairy tale. I’m willing to bet that these same people don’t know that scripture explicitly tells us to test everything. That is the way we should approach faith, we take in all the evidence and then draw the most logical conclusion. You see, after you understand, that all the evidence, and I mean ALL the evidence, points to God being real, then it’s hard not to laugh at the blatant ignorance that exudes from such a self-righteous judgment of these hard-hearted non-believers.

Let’s break down the numbers. You see, when we look at the story of Jesus and all the prophecies he fulfilled, and the odds of any man accomplishing these feats supernatural or otherwise, is literally a number so far beyond what we would think of as absolute statistical impossibility of a magnitude that for all intents and purposes is tantamount to infinity. Let me show you what I mean. Professor Peter J. Stoner – Chairman of the dept of mathematics and astronomy at Pasadena City College – calculates the odds of Jesus being who he said he was in his book Science Speaks. So Jesus fulfilled over 300 hundred prophecies. The odds of any one man fulfilling just 8 prophecies is 1 in 10 to the 17th power. That is a number that looks like this:

1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000. To put this in perspective, the odds of becoming president is 1 in 10 to the 7thpower. That was just 8 prophecies. As I said Jesus fulfilled over three hundred prophecies. Are you starting to understand how big of a number we are talking about. How impossible this all is? Another word for impossible, keep in mind, is supernatural.

The odds of fulfilling 48 prophecies is 1 in 10 to the 157th power. To put the magnititude of that number in perspective: The amount of atoms in the entire universe is somewhere between 10 to the 78th to 10 to the 82nd power. Or another way to put it is that the odds of fulfilling around 50 prophecies is a statistical impossibility at a rate nearly the exponential double of the amount of atoms in the whole universe. Do you understand yet how incredible this story is? Beyond all odds, against all calculatable reality, Jesus’ life proves his divinity with its sheer exactitude.

And more than just the prophecies fulfilled by Jesus, we can calculate the scientific predictions made throughout scripture as well. For that number we turn to astrophysicist Hugh Ross:

Okay, so I hope you’re now starting to see just how impossible the story of Jesus actually is, or a better way to put it – I hope you understand now just how supernatural Jesus actually is. He is not some divine prototype that has been used to dupe the masses, as non-believers would have you believe. No one man, let alone forty men over a period of 1500 years on three different continents could have fabricated the story of Christ. It is a mathematical impossibility. So to answer the original question: yes, Jesus is exactly who he says he is.