The Unholy Truth

The Unholy Truth

Luke’s Mess of Fulfilled Prophecies That Weren’t

How Luke twisted old scriptures into “prophecies” about Jesus that no Jew would have recognized

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Aug 29, 2025
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An illustration of torn Hebrew scrolls being cut into puzzle pieces and forced into the Gospel of Luke, while a rabbi laughs and a manger scene appears in the background.
Luke’s patchwork gospel — cutting and pasting Hebrew scriptures into a story they were never meant to tell.

The story goes that Jesus fulfilled countless prophecies in the Hebrew Bible, yet Jews didn’t believe him and eventually had him killed for blasphemy. But take a closer look and you’ll see it’s not prophecy being fulfilled — it’s prophecy being con…

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