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=== Historicity of Jesus ===
=== Historicity of Jesus ===
: ''Main Article: [[Historicity of Jesus]]''
: ''Main Article: [[Historicity of Jesus]]''
[[Jesus Christ]] is the Best-attested Figure in all of human history. If any part of His life did not take place as stated, then the Bible is false. No one has yet shown that the Bible misrepresenta any part of Jesus' story.
[[Jesus Christ]] is the Best-attested Figure in all of human history. If any part of His life did not take place as stated, then the Bible is false. No one has yet shown that the Bible misrepresents any part of Jesus' story.
More to the point, Prof. Peter Stoner at Westmont College once calculated the probability that any one man could, by sheer coincidence, fulfill forty-eight of the more than 400 prophecies about Jesus Christ, written centuries earlier. The probability turns out to be 10<sup>-157</sup>. That's a 1 followed by 157 zeroes. That's one in ten thousand quinquagintillion, according to the American system of large numbers--higher than the ''square'' of the estimated total number of [[electron]]s in the [[universe]].
More to the point, Prof. Peter Stoner at Westmont College once calculated the probability that any one man could, by sheer coincidence, fulfill forty-eight of the more than 400 prophecies about Jesus Christ, written centuries earlier. The probability turns out to be 10<sup>-157</sup>. That's a 1 followed by 157 zeroes. That's one in ten thousand quinquagintillion, according to the American system of large numbers--higher than the ''square'' of the estimated total number of [[electron]]s in the [[universe]].