The project
About
We are building a fair, sourced database of Old Testament passages that Christians claim were fulfilled by Jesus.
What we are doing
Christian lists commonly contain hundreds of “fulfilled prophecies.” But those lists mix direct predictions, patterns noticed in retrospect, quotations applied in a new setting, and sometimes errors about what a passage says. We separate those claims and examine each one on its own terms.
Our aim is not to prove or disprove Christianity. It is narrower: to ask whether a particular Old Testament text predicts the event that Christians say it does.
How we work
For every claim, we identify its source, quote the Old Testament passage, and present the strongest responsible Christian argument we can find. We then make one focused critical case, paying attention to the passage’s language, historical and literary setting, and use in the New Testament.
Each draft is checked against its sources and passed to a separate language model whose job is to challenge the reasoning and find omissions or unfair shortcuts. The final entry links its sources so readers can check our work. Biblical quotations currently use the public-domain Berean Standard Bible.
Useful terms
Prediction is a statement that points in advance to an identifiable future person or event. Fulfilment is the claimed correspondence between that prediction and a later event.
Typology connects an earlier person, institution, or event with a later one as part of a theological pattern. A type may be meaningful without being a verbal prediction.
Canonical rereading interprets an earlier passage in light of later biblical texts. That can be coherent within Christian theology while going beyond what the earlier passage communicated in its original setting.
Our verdict categories
Source claim incorrect
The popular claim misstates what its cited text actually says.
Retrospective rereading
The connection depends on reading a later Christian conclusion back into an earlier text.
Plausible typology, not prediction
The comparison can work as a theological pattern, but the earlier text does not make a prediction.
Insufficiently specific
The wording is too broad to identify Jesus or the claimed event in advance.
These labels classify our conclusion, not the sincerity or intelligence of the people who hold the view. Where the evidence is mixed, the entry should say so.