How is the Bibles fulfillment of prophecies any different than that of other sacred books or of famous psychics today?
Because while the Bible contains hundreds of specific prophecies which have come true, none of the other sacred books do, and psychics and predictors today are notoriously inaccurate. Of the 26 other books purporting to be Scripture/sacred literature or having adherents making that claim, the issue of specific predictive prophecy is glaringly absent. It’s not found in the writings of Buddha, Lao-tzu or Confucius. In the Koran we have Mohammed making the prophecy that he would return to Mecca, which is, of course, a self-fulfilling prophecy. Also no founder of any cult in this country can rightly identify any ancient text specifically foretelling his appearance. In the entire gamut of Greek and Latin literature, though they use the words prophet and prophecy, we can find no specific prediction of a great historic event to come in the distant future, nor any of a Savior to arise in the human race. One time the National Enquirer took the top ten seers or modern day prophets and had them p