Isaiah 53 Allusion

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The Bible is credited with being the word of God. It contains his prophecies, laws and the all important resurrection story of his son, Jesus. But how do we know that the Bible is truly the word of God? Is the Bible free of error, and does it only contain the truth of the Lord? It is common knowledge and practice to not question the origin and authenticity of the Bible as God’s inspired word. 2 Timothy 3:16 states, “All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.” The Bible is the Word of God and contains the words of God, however, it was written by those he chose to do so. The Bible does not explicitly say “I said” or “I will” in the pretense of God; the more common phrases found …show more content…

The reason is the Bible inerrantly records the lie. This story is just a single example of God’s interworking with humans, and throughout all of them it doesn’t make any mistakes in proving God’s will and truth and in human lies and deceptions. Jesus supported this statement when he said that scripture cannot be broken or fail, because it is the written form of the will of God. Since it cannot fail all the prophecies it puts forth must be fulfilled. Isaiah 53 is arguably the most well known prophesy, and it correlates very well to John chapters 18-19. Isaiah 53:3 and John 18:39-40 say respectively “He was despised and rejected by mankind…But it is your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at the time of the Passover. Do you want me to release ‘the king of the Jews’? They shouted back, “No, not him! Give us Barabbas!” Now Barabbas had taken part in an uprising.” Isaiah 53:5 and John 19:00 state “But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him…There they crucified him, and with him two others” Were this statement not stated by God himself, it would be very hard to attribute these to instances to coincidence alone, considering they took place more that 400 years

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