The claim that the Psalms are just poetry is going to be heartbreaking to anyone that cites them as prophecies about Jesus
That’s completely fine. The early Christians went to great lengths to try to say “this bit here was prophecy, and here’s how our guy fulfilled it”. But nobody was viewing those passages as prophecies before then. It was all marketing for a weird little offshoot of Judaism on the fringes of the Roman empire which happened to take off centuries later.
That’s what I said. It was hindsight bias turning things into prophecy and not “it’s all happening like the prophecies foretold.”. They were so desperate for prophecies they even made up ones that never existed, I’m looking at you Matthew 2:23.
But the commenter said that they had no value other than poetry. They are just the prayers of men. And in doing so they ignore the completely made up but very real world necessity of the Psalms to justify people’s belief. For without the believers’ ability to use them as prophecies, even if they weren’t intended as that, the majority of the case for JC as the Messiah vanishes.
That’s completely fine. The early Christians went to great lengths to try to say “this bit here was prophecy, and here’s how our guy fulfilled it”. But nobody was viewing those passages as prophecies before then. It was all marketing for a weird little offshoot of Judaism on the fringes of the Roman empire which happened to take off centuries later.
That’s what I said. It was hindsight bias turning things into prophecy and not “it’s all happening like the prophecies foretold.”. They were so desperate for prophecies they even made up ones that never existed, I’m looking at you Matthew 2:23.
But the commenter said that they had no value other than poetry. They are just the prayers of men. And in doing so they ignore the completely made up but very real world necessity of the Psalms to justify people’s belief. For without the believers’ ability to use them as prophecies, even if they weren’t intended as that, the majority of the case for JC as the Messiah vanishes.