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As for Jesus himself, the Old Testament already warned us :
Using the same methods as the Christian apologists, we can easily discover that the OT actually warns against following Jesus and brands him as a false prophet. Check out the verses below, and notice how well they fit the circumstances of Jesus's life and actions, as recorded in the New Testament:
"I am the LORD [Yahweh], and besides me there is no saviour." (Isaiah 43:11)
"They have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols [i.e., crucifixes] and keep on praying to a god that cannot save." (Isaiah 45:20)
"Write this man down as childless, a man who shall not succeed in his days; for none of his offspring shall succeed in sitting on the throne of David, and ruling again in Judah." (Jeremiah 22:30)
"The men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head. Have you not brought this upon yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when he led you in the way?" (Jeremiah 2:16-17) [In Matthew 27:29-30 Jesus was beaten about the head while wearing the crown of thorns.]
"But what is left over from the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire." (Leviticus 7:17) [i.e., Jesus did not rise from the dead on the third day, but was sent to burn in hell.]
"You are cast out, away from your sepulchre, like a loathed untimely birth, clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit." (Isaiah 14:18-19) [Explains the empty tomb, and getting pierced in the side.]
"God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent." (Numbers 23:19) [Jesus mostly referred to himself as the "son of man."]
"Who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass, and have forgotten the LORD, your maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth?" (Isaiah 51:12-13)
"A deluded mind has led him astray." (Isaiah 44:20) [Recall Mark 3:21, where even in Jesus's hometown people were saying, "He is beside himself."]
