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In Christian apologetics, the argument from undesigned coincidences aims to support the historical reliability of the Bible.So named by J.J. Blunt, based on previous work by William Paley, [1] [2] an undesigned coincidence is said to have occurred when an account of one event in the Bible omits a piece or pieces of information which is filled in, seemingly coincidentally, by a different ...
In his chief book, Undesigned Coincidences in the Writings both of the Old and New Testaments (1833; fuller edition, 1847), he coined the term undesigned coincidences. Some of his writings, among them the History of the Christian Church during the First Three Centuries and the lectures On the Right Use of the Early Fathers , were published ...
John James Blunt, in his Undesigned Coincidences in the Writings both of the Old and New Testaments (1882), suggested that "the place had been deserted by the Levites, in the general exodus to Judah, [so] that the Philistines availed themselves of the opportunity to seize and fortify it". [3]
(Job, Ecclesiastes, Malachi; Corinthians I and Revelation) in the Critical and Explanatory Pocket Bible, 1863–4. Studies in the CL. Psalms, 1877; 2nd edit. 1885, an application of the argument from "undesigned coincidences". The Englishman's Critical and Expository Bible Cyclopædia, originally issued in parts, in volume form, 1878. It ...
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William Paley (July 1743 – 25 May 1805) was an English Anglican clergyman, Christian apologist, philosopher, and utilitarian.He is best known for his natural theology exposition of the teleological argument for the existence of God in his work Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, which made use of the watchmaker analogy.
1831 – John James Blunt, The veracity of the historical books of the Old Testament: from the conclusion of the Pentateuch, to the opening of the prophets, argued from the undesigned coincidences to be found in them, when compared in their several parts: being a continuation of the argument for the veracity of the five books of Moses
Some quite famous coincidences weren’t even mentioned in this list. For example, the one about the writer Mark Twain and the comet. He was born on November 30, 1835, when Halley’s comet came ...