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Does archaeology support the Bible as gospil truth?

https://www.whatchristianswanttoknow.com/does-archaeology-support-the-bible-a-look-at-the-evidence/

Posted - October 18, 2019

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  • 5391

    Not to this point, no.
     
    There is still no archeological evidence to support the Exodus; the Garden of Eden, the Flood of Noah, or any other foundational claims in the Book of Genesis. There is no evidence anyone has ever lived to the many hundreds of years claimed in the OT. Quite the opposite, in fact  


    There is no presentable ARCHEOLOGICAL evidence that Jesus existed, much less any evidence for divinity, nor even for the existence of a supernatural deity, archeological or otherwise. 

    The preponderance of the evidence, archeological, biological and anthropologic, in fact, greatly contradicts many, many claims in scripture; even revealing Judeo-Christian scripture as an extremely poor scientific source, that contradicts itself hundreds of times. 

    This post was edited by Don Barzini at October 26, 2019 5:41 AM MDT
      October 18, 2019 11:13 PM MDT
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  • 13071



    There is a lot more than this, but this is something you really cant ignore. They discovered this in 1994.
      October 26, 2019 5:41 AM MDT
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  • 5391

    I covered this already. There is no remaining direct, reliable sample of Christ’s blood or DNA to compare to. Never was. None was collected from him  

    If the Ark was found, where is it. Why has it not been studied. No one knows where the grail is, but we have to trust legends about a rag it was wiped off with, a thousand years ago.

    There is lots more, but this is sufficient to debunk all of this video. 

    This post was edited by Don Barzini at October 26, 2019 6:06 AM MDT
      October 26, 2019 6:03 AM MDT
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  • 13071
    I respectfully disagree.
      October 26, 2019 6:05 AM MDT
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  • 5391

    That’s fair. I wonder if you still hold that the earth is flat.  

    I tend to agree with the findings of the larger scientific community. It doesn’t have evidence to support many many claims of Biblical authors. History demonstrates with astonishing detail that Judeo-Christian scripture was derived and rewritten from many earlier legends, even pagan sources. 
    But we are all entitled to whatever methods that build our worldview. I do realize there is no prospect of convincing you otherwise. But I will still rail against what I recognize as demonstrably false or wicked teachings. 

     

    This post was edited by Don Barzini at October 26, 2019 9:50 AM MDT
      October 26, 2019 6:15 AM MDT
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  • 13071
    Actually, the Bible has 200+ verses mentioning the flat Earth.
      October 26, 2019 9:51 AM MDT
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  • 2706
    Many times in the past, the Bible has been vindicated by archaeology against skeptics. Critics once claimed that Assyrian king Sargon of Isaiah 20:1 never existed, only to have egg on their faces when his entire palace was unearthed. The Hittites were similarly dismissed by skeptics, but later their enormous capital city, Hattusa, was found, including buildings, artifacts, and writings. Also, you can read about the case of Babylonian king Belshazzar, which was thought to be a Bible error. Even the idea that domesticated camels were not available to Abraham has proved to be unfounded.

     Thousands of archaeological discoveries could be mentioned that help to confirm biblical truth claims. For example, just consider King Hezekiah. One can go to Jerusalem today and walk through the tunnel he built to bring water into the city, as recorded in 2 Kings 20:20. Multiple bullae (impressed clay pieces) containing his royal seal have been found. And his confrontation with Assyrian King Sennacherib 2 Kings 19 is confirmed by the Sennacherib Prism, in which this king boasts of trapping Hezekiah in Jerusalem “like a bird in a cage”. Note that he did not capture Jerusalem, because an angel decimated his army.

      Those who deny the existence of Jesus belong to a whole different category of a skeptic. That kind of outlandish hyper-skepticism would destroy all knowledge if it was applied consistently. Even a radical skeptic like Bart Ehrman doesn’t go that far; he has written a book arguing for a historical Jesus. The New Testament is a collection of ancient documents that provide various streams of independent testimony to Jesus. So even if we set aside, just for the sake of the argument, our knowledge that the Bible is God-breathed, those books still provide compelling evidence that Jesus was a real person. However, today it seems as though there are as many archaeologists trying to disprove the Bible as there are those proving it to be accurate. All that being said, the arguments for and against the validity of the Bible have been going on for many years. Arguments I rarely get involved in mainly because they can become almost as volatile as political arguments.
      October 25, 2019 9:06 PM MDT
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  • 5391

    One of the primary differences between knowledge and faith is that knowledge can be demonstrated by supporting evidence and repeatability. Faith is acceptance in the absence of evidence. Calling one the other is a misrepresentation of both  

    To say the Bible is “God-breathed” is a statement of faith and serves to prove a complete misunderstanding of the Bible‘s origins and the manner in which it reached its current form. Men wrote, demonstrably plagiarized, edited, retranslated, recopied, and selected each and every story into the canon, while dismissing many others. MEN decided what stories were put into the Bible, and what those stories say. More than once. 

    Very little of what is contained in scripture can be shown to have been written by anyone present at events they describe. One recent count demonstrated over 400 separate and distinct contradictions within the texts. The Bible is swollen with debunked claims of primitive desert tribesmen who just knew that the world is flat, stars can literally fall out of the solid dome of sky, a snake talked and disease was spread by demons. It espouses incest, rape, slavery, murder, genocide, abortion, cannibalism, spousal and child abuse, and intolerance of race, religion, nationality, sex and sexual orientation. 

    Seems we’ve learned a lot of other truths in the last two millennia. 

    All in all, hardly demonstrative of a work of an unerring, benevolent, omniscient Creator of a universe of a hundred billion galaxies. 

    This post was edited by Don Barzini at October 26, 2019 6:21 AM MDT
      October 25, 2019 9:38 PM MDT
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  • 13071
    Nice to see you again Don Barzini. ;))
      October 26, 2019 6:01 AM MDT
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  • 13071
    Did you watch this evidence of Jesus I just posted? This happened in 1995 and SHOULD have been international front page news. But the Corporate Media didnt think it was news worthy It seems. Lol
      October 26, 2019 6:03 AM MDT
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  • 13251
    gospil gospel
      October 25, 2019 9:10 PM MDT
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  • 13071
    Thank you Stu Spelling Bee. Lol Nice to see you still  on your toes. ;)))
      October 26, 2019 5:44 AM MDT
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  • 16199
    Some. Not all.
      October 25, 2019 10:46 PM MDT
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  • 13071
    There are tons of information to the contrary.

    https://answersingenesis.org/archaeology/

      October 26, 2019 6:00 AM MDT
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  • 16199
    There have been dozens of "findings of Noah's Ark". All have been hoaxes.
    That there was a catastrophic flood in the Near East in late prehistory is practically undeniable, all ancient texts from the area and even from as far away as India mention it. Only the name of the protagonist changes - Noah, Gilgamesh, Sargon etc. The account in Genesis was lifted from the Epic of Gilgamesh almost to the last detail - given that the Torah was set in its final form during the Babylonian captivity, a little syncretism was inevitable.
      October 26, 2019 9:02 PM MDT
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