Friday, May 17, 2013
Worship with Kari Jobe
Kari Jobe is absolutely my favorite worship singer. This song expresses how I feel about my Lord and Savior Jesus better than probably any other. Hope you enjoy this song and Kari's God breathed voice.
Friday, May 10, 2013
Examining the Bible: The proof of Archaeology
This is the last in my series of posts on examining the Bible. To see the other posts go to the tab at the top of this page " The Bible" and you can find them there. So far I've discussed that we know that the Bible is the living, inspired and infallible word of God due to many proof sources. I've discussed the proof of prophecy, the proof of science and in this post I will discuss the proof of archaeology.
Literally thousands of details in the Bible, including references to specific people, places and events have been proven accurate through modern archaeological excavations and study. Archaeological confirmations of the Biblical record have been almost innumerable in the last century. Sir William M Ramsay of Oxford University, one of the great archaeologists of the last century, started out as a staunch skeptic, doubting many of the details recorded in the New Testament. Specifically, he thought Luke was foolish in his storytelling because he named so many specific names, locations and dates. These specifics would be easy to check out and refute--assuming, as Ramsay did at the beginning, that they were not actually true. But over his thirty years of study, research, and excavation, Ramsay increasingly realized that Luke's writings in both the Gospel of Luke and the book of Acts were accurate records of the events and details they reported. He later summarized his findings in this way: "Luke is a historian of the first rank.....This author should be placed along with the very greatest of historians." 1 Also, renowned archaeologist Nelson Glueck, who once featured on the cover of Time magazine because of his extraordinary work, concluded, "No archaeological discovery has ever controverted a single biblical reference. Scores of archaeological findings have been made which confirm in clear outline or in exact detail historical statements in the Bible. And, by the same token, proper evaluation of Biblical descriptions has often led to amazing discoveries"2 No other "holy book" outside of the Bible has ever earned such overwhelming support and affirmation, or given us so many reasons to be confident in its integrity as we read.
The bottom line is this: The Bible is historically correct. No one has ever proved otherwise. The more we learn of history, the more the Bible is validated. Hundreds of statements in the Bible, which in times past have been held as untrue by enemies of the Bible, have recently been proven true by archaeologists. The more that archaeologists find from the past, the more the Bible is proven accurate historically.
No archaeological discovery has ever disproved a biblical reference. The Bible is trustworthy and historically reliable. Thank you for reading A Spirit Filled Life.
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1. Rudolf Bultman, et. al Kerygma and Myth, www.religiononline.org
2. Mark Mittelberg, Losing your Faith
Literally thousands of details in the Bible, including references to specific people, places and events have been proven accurate through modern archaeological excavations and study. Archaeological confirmations of the Biblical record have been almost innumerable in the last century. Sir William M Ramsay of Oxford University, one of the great archaeologists of the last century, started out as a staunch skeptic, doubting many of the details recorded in the New Testament. Specifically, he thought Luke was foolish in his storytelling because he named so many specific names, locations and dates. These specifics would be easy to check out and refute--assuming, as Ramsay did at the beginning, that they were not actually true. But over his thirty years of study, research, and excavation, Ramsay increasingly realized that Luke's writings in both the Gospel of Luke and the book of Acts were accurate records of the events and details they reported. He later summarized his findings in this way: "Luke is a historian of the first rank.....This author should be placed along with the very greatest of historians." 1 Also, renowned archaeologist Nelson Glueck, who once featured on the cover of Time magazine because of his extraordinary work, concluded, "No archaeological discovery has ever controverted a single biblical reference. Scores of archaeological findings have been made which confirm in clear outline or in exact detail historical statements in the Bible. And, by the same token, proper evaluation of Biblical descriptions has often led to amazing discoveries"2 No other "holy book" outside of the Bible has ever earned such overwhelming support and affirmation, or given us so many reasons to be confident in its integrity as we read.
The bottom line is this: The Bible is historically correct. No one has ever proved otherwise. The more we learn of history, the more the Bible is validated. Hundreds of statements in the Bible, which in times past have been held as untrue by enemies of the Bible, have recently been proven true by archaeologists. The more that archaeologists find from the past, the more the Bible is proven accurate historically.
No archaeological discovery has ever disproved a biblical reference. The Bible is trustworthy and historically reliable. Thank you for reading A Spirit Filled Life.
____________________________________
1. Rudolf Bultman, et. al Kerygma and Myth, www.religiononline.org
2. Mark Mittelberg, Losing your Faith
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