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Archeology supports the bible

pinqy said:
So we're in agreement: just because archeology supports some non-supernatural elements of a story does not provide evidence that the story is true.
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Actually, by your own example - The Trojan War - as you said archeology supported some non-supernatural elements,
it did therefore provide evidence that the story is true! The archeological find, from what little I've read, actually revised what they've previously thought about Troy.

What archeology couldn't provide is the evidence for the supernatural element.
Thus, that's where faith comes in.

Of course, you must understand the excitement Christians feel over the numerous archeological discoveries that support not one, but various narratives in the Bible.
Like the Mari and Nuzi Tablets as an example, revealed more insight to the culture of the time, thus some Biblical verses are better understood.
 
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Lots of photos on this one. Go to the site.

The Walls of Jericho


When one hears the name “Jericho” one naturally thinks of Israelites marching, trumpets sounding and walls falling. It is a wonderful story of faith and victory that we enjoy reading and telling in Sunday School class, but did it really happen? The skeptic would say no, it is merely a folk tale to explain the ruins at Jericho. The reason for this negative outlook is the excavation carried out at the site in the 1950s under the direction of British archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon.

According to Kenyon’s dating, there was no city for the Israelites to conquer at the end of the 15th century BC, the Biblical date for the event. The Jericho of Joshua’s time could not be found-it was lost! Through our research, however, we have found the lost city of Jericho, the Jericho attacked by the Israelites.


Fortifications of Jericho
Before the Israelites entered the promised land Moses told them, “You are now about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities that have walls up to the sky” (Dt 9:1).
The meticulous work of Kenyon showed that Jericho was indeed heavily fortified and that it had been burned by fire. Unfortunately, she misdated her finds, resulting in what seemed to be a discrepancy between the discoveries of archaeology and the Bible. She concluded that the Bronze Age city of Jericho was destroyed about 1550 BC by the Egyptians. An in-depth analysis of the evidence, however, reveals that the destruction took place at the end of the 15th century BC (end of the Late Bronze I period), exactly when the Bible says the Conquest occurred (Wood 1990).

The mound, or “tell,” of Jericho was surrounded by a great earthen rampart, or embankment, with a stone retaining wall at its base. The retaining wall was some 12–15 ft high. On top of that was a mudbrick wall 6 ft thick and about 20–26 ft high (Sellin and Watzinger 1973: 58). At the crest of the embankment was a similar mudbrick wall whose base was roughly 46 ft above the ground level outside the retaining wall. This is what loomed high above the Israelites as they marched around the city each day for seven days. Humanly speaking, it was impossible for the Israelites to penetrate the impregnable bastion of Jericho.



The Fallen Walls
The citizens of Jericho were well prepared for a siege. A copious spring which provided water for ancient, as well as modern, Jericho lay inside the city walls. At the time of the attack, the harvest had just been taken in (Jos 3:15), so the citizens had an abundant supply of food. This has been borne out by many large jars full of grain found in the Canaanite homes by John Garstang in his excavation in the 1930s and also by Kenyon. With a plentiful food supply and ample water, the inhabitants of Jericho could have held out for several years.

After the seventh trip around the city on the seventh day, Scripture tells us that the wall “fell flat” (Jos 6:20). A more accurate rendering of the Hebrew word here would be “fell beneath itself.” Is there evidence for such an event at Jericho? It turns out that there is ample evidence that the mudbrick city wall collapsed and was deposited at the base of the stone retaining wall at the time the city met its end.

Kenyon’s work was the most detailed. On the west side of the tell, at the base of the retaining, or revetment, wall, she found,

fallen red bricks piling nearly to the top of the revetment. These probably came from the wall on the summit of the bank [and/or]…the brickwork above the revetment (Kenyon 1981: 110).

In other words, she found a heap of bricks from the fallen city walls! The renewed Italian-Palestinian excavations found exactly the same thing at the southern end of the mound in 1997.

The Walls of Jericho
 
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Still on Jericho....


Rahab
According to the Bible, Rahab’s house was incorporated into the fortification system (Jos 2:15). If the walls fell, how was her house spared? As you recall, the spies had instructed Rahab to bring her family into her house and they would be rescued. When the Israelites stormed the city, Rahab and her family were saved as promised (Jos 6:17, 22–23). At the north end of the tell of Jericho, archaeologists made some astounding discoveries that seem to relate to Rahab.

The German excavation of 1907-1909 found that on the north a short stretch of the lower city wall did not fall as everywhere else. A portion of that mudbrick wall was still standing to a height of 8 ft (Sellin and Watzinger 1973: 58). What is more, there were houses built against the wall! It is quite possible that this is where Rahab’s house was located. Since the city wall formed the back wall of the houses, the spies could have readily escaped. From this location on the north side of the city, it was only a short distance to the hills of the Judean wilderness where the spies hid for three days (Jos 2:16, 22). Real estate values must have been low here, since the houses were positioned on the embankment between the upper and lower city walls. Not the best place to live in time of war! This area was no doubt the overflow from the upper city and the poor part of town, perhaps even a slum district.

After the city walls fell, how could the Israelites surmount the 12–15 foot high retaining wall at the base of the tell? Excavations have shown that the bricks from the collapsed walls fell in such a way as to form a ramp against the retaining wall. The Israelites could merely climb up over the pile of rubble, up the embankment, and enter the city. The Bible is very precise in its description of how the Israelites entered the city: “The people went up into the city, every man straight before him” (Jos 6:20, KJV). The Israelites had to go up, and that is what archaeology has revealed. They had to go from ground level at the base of the tell to the top of the rampart in order to enter the city.

The Walls of Jericho
 
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Destruction by Fire
The Israelites “burned the whole city and everything in it” (Jos 6: 24). Once again, the discoveries of archaeology have verified the truth of this record. A portion of the city destroyed by the Israelites was excavated on the east side of the tell. Wherever the archaeologists reached this level they found a layer of burned ash and debris about 3 ft thick. Kenyon described the massive devastation:

The destruction was complete. Walls and floors were blackened or reddened by fire, and every room was filled with fallen bricks, timbers, and household utensils; in most rooms the fallen debris was heavily burnt, but the collapse of the walls of the eastern rooms seems to have taken place before they were affected by the fire (Kenyon 1981: 370).


Both Garstang and Kenyon found many storage jars full of grain that had been caught in the fiery destruction. This is a unique find in the annals of archaeology. Grain was valuable, not only as a source of food, but also as a commodity which could be bartered. Under normal circumstances, valuables such as grain would have been plundered by the conquerors. Why was the grain left to be burned at Jericho? The Bible provides the answer.

Joshua commanded the Israelites:

The city and all that is in it are to be devoted to the Lord. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid the spies we sent. But keep away from the devoted things, so that you will not bring about your own destruction by taking any of them. Otherwise you will make the camp of Israel liable to destruction and bring trouble on it. All the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron are sacred to the Lord and must go into His treasury (Jos 6:17–19).


The grain left at Jericho and found by archaeologists in modern times gives graphic testimony to the obedience of the Israelites nearly three and a half millennia ago. Only Achan disobeyed, leading to the debacle at Ai described in Joshua 7.

Such a large quantity of grain left untouched gives silent testimony to the truth of yet another aspect of the Biblical account. A heavily fortified city with an abundant supply of food and water would normally take many months, even years, to subdue. The Bible says that Jericho fell after only seven days. The jars found in the ruins of Jericho were full, showing that the siege was short since the people inside the walls consumed very little of the grain.


The Walls of Jericho
 
the ancient Jericho

 
Eric Walberg on the misuse of Biblical archaeology:

". . . it is now clear to the most respected Christian, Jewish, Muslim and/or secular archaeologists that this supposedly scholarly, rigorous and objective discipline, with its methodology of taking biblical passages and digging and poking away in likely places, looking for proof of what they say, has been a big failure, if not a hoax. While the financial benefits of tying the Bible to archaeology have increased, historical and intellectual benefits have just as rapidly diminished.

"To go a step further and assume that this bogus history is the ‘real’ history of mankind, with the history of the thousands of other peoples taking a back seat, is just not on ... Never was there an ethnically coherent Israel, and according to Thomson, neither Jerusalem nor Judah ever shared an identity with Israel before the rule of the Hasmoneans in the Hellenistic period of the 3rd-1st cc BC, coincidentally, when the legends were first written down. Ironically, the Samaritans, scorned by Ezra's (and today's) Jews, are the most likely Semitic ancestors of the historical Israel.

"With the eclipse of the Socratic worldview and of myth as central to society, and the ascendancy of Judaism after the reformation, the myth of ‘returning to the promised land’ took on a new concrete meaning. The actual prospect by a wealthy cosmopolitican Jewish elite of engineering a physical takeover of Palestine and populating it with Jews became an Aristotelian reality. Today, with Rome (the Catholic Church) now in disarray, a rebuilt Third Temple could become the chief shrine, not only for Jews but for Christians too, the icing on the Zionist victory cake, confirming irrevocably the cultural shift in the Western world as a whole from Hellenism to Hebraism, as argued by SGF Brandon in The Fall of Jerusalem and the Christian Church (1951)...

"The Zionists reconvened the ancient Jewish supreme court, the Sanhedrin (which condemned Jesus), in 2005 for the first time since 425 AD, and have been plotting virtually since the creation of Israel to blow up the Al-Aqsa Mosque and rebuild a replica of Solomon's temple there. Just recently, Israeli archaeologists ‘found’ remains of a temple under the mosque, yet another astounding victory for this bogus science."

The Bible and Middle East History » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

And:

"The Ark of the Covenant. The Garden of Eden. Sodom and Gomorrah. The Exodus. The Lost Tomb of Jesus. All have been "found" in the last 10 years, including one within the past six months. The discoverers: a former SWAT team member; an investigator of ghosts, telepathy, and parapsychology; a filmmaker who calls himself "The Naked Archeologist"; and others, none of whom has any professional training in archeology.

"We are living in a time of exciting discoveries in biblical archeology. We are also living in a time of widespread biblical fraud, dubious science, and crackpot theorizing. Some of the highest-profile discoveries of the past several years are shadowed by accusations of forgery, such as the James Ossuary, which may or may not be the burial box of Jesus' brother, as well as other supposed Bible-era findings such as the Jehoash Tablet and a small ivory pomegranate said to be from the time of Solomon. Every year "scientific" expeditions embark to look for Noah's Ark, raising untold amounts of money from gullible believers who eagerly listen to tales spun by sincere amateurs or rapacious con men; it is not always easy to tell the two apart."

Raiders of the faux ark - The Boston Globe
 
Logicman said:
Archaeological Evidence for the Exodus

IBSS - Biblical Archaeology - Evidence of the Exodus from Egypt
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"The discoveries made by the “new archaeology” discredited a great exodus in the 13th century BC. Moses could not have led the Hebrews out of Egypt into the Promised Land, for the good reason that the latter was Egyptian territory at the time. And there is no trace of either a slave revolt against the pharaonic empire or of a sudden conquest of Canaan by outsiders."

Israel deliberately forgets its history - Le Monde diplomatique - English edition
 
Logicman said:
But recent discoveries and research by Hebrew University archaeologist, Dr. Eilat Mazar, the granddaughter of the renowned archaeologist, the late Prof. Benjamin Mazar, has unveiled convincing evidence that pinpoints the exact location of this most important biblical structure.
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"... most Israeli archaeologists have always been the loyal foot-soldiers of the official propaganda. Since the emergence of modern Zionism, they have been engaged in a desperate endeavor to ‘find’ archaeological evidence for the historical truth of the stories of the Old Testament. Until now, they have gone empty-handed: there exists no archaeological proof for the exodus from Egypt, the conquest of Canaan and the kingdoms of Saul, David and Solomon. But in their eagerness to prove the unprovable (because in the opinion of the vast majority of archaeologists and historians outside Israel - and also some in Israel - the Old Testament stories are but sacred myths), the archaeologists have destroyed many strata of other periods."

The Method in the Madness » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
 
shanners said:
Eric Walberg on the misuse of Biblical archaeology:

". . . it is now clear to the most respected Christian, Jewish, Muslim and/or secular archaeologists that this supposedly scholarly, rigorous and objective discipline, with its methodology of taking biblical passages and digging and poking away in likely places, looking for proof of what they say, has been a big failure, if not a hoax. While the financial benefits of tying the Bible to archaeology have increased, historical and intellectual benefits have just as rapidly diminished.

"To go a step further and assume that this bogus history is the ‘real’ history of mankind, with the history of the thousands of other peoples taking a back seat, is just not on ... Never was there an ethnically coherent Israel, and according to Thomson, neither Jerusalem nor Judah ever shared an identity with Israel before the rule of the Hasmoneans in the Hellenistic period of the 3rd-1st cc BC, coincidentally, when the legends were first written down. Ironically, the Samaritans, scorned by Ezra's (and today's) Jews, are the most likely Semitic ancestors of the historical Israel.

"With the eclipse of the Socratic worldview and of myth as central to society, and the ascendancy of Judaism after the reformation, the myth of ‘returning to the promised land’ took on a new concrete meaning. The actual prospect by a wealthy cosmopolitican Jewish elite of engineering a physical takeover of Palestine and populating it with Jews became an Aristotelian reality. Today, with Rome (the Catholic Church) now in disarray, a rebuilt Third Temple could become the chief shrine, not only for Jews but for Christians too, the icing on the Zionist victory cake, confirming irrevocably the cultural shift in the Western world as a whole from Hellenism to Hebraism, as argued by SGF Brandon in The Fall of Jerusalem and the Christian Church (1951)...

"The Zionists reconvened the ancient Jewish supreme court, the Sanhedrin (which condemned Jesus), in 2005 for the first time since 425 AD, and have been plotting virtually since the creation of Israel to blow up the Al-Aqsa Mosque and rebuild a replica of Solomon's temple there. Just recently, Israeli archaeologists ‘found’ remains of a temple under the mosque, yet another astounding victory for this bogus science."

The Bible and Middle East History » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

And:

"The Ark of the Covenant. The Garden of Eden. Sodom and Gomorrah. The Exodus. The Lost Tomb of Jesus. All have been "found" in the last 10 years, including one within the past six months. The discoverers: a former SWAT team member; an investigator of ghosts, telepathy, and parapsychology; a filmmaker who calls himself "The Naked Archeologist"; and others, none of whom has any professional training in archeology.

"We are living in a time of exciting discoveries in biblical archeology. We are also living in a time of widespread biblical fraud, dubious science, and crackpot theorizing. Some of the highest-profile discoveries of the past several years are shadowed by accusations of forgery, such as the James Ossuary, which may or may not be the burial box of Jesus' brother, as well as other supposed Bible-era findings such as the Jehoash Tablet and a small ivory pomegranate said to be from the time of Solomon. Every year "scientific" expeditions embark to look for Noah's Ark, raising untold amounts of money from gullible believers who eagerly listen to tales spun by sincere amateurs or rapacious con men; it is not always easy to tell the two apart."

Raiders of the faux ark - The Boston Globe
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Of course there would be those that would be frauds. Just because there are fraudulent claims does not negate the fact that there are also genuine Biblical discoveries.
How many frauds and hoaxes had been committed to support evolution? If you'll apply the same rationale you're applying on this thread, what then, do you conclude about evolution based on those hoaxes?


Focus on the real issue before you.

If you've got anything to refute the posted archeological discoveries given on this thread - then let's hear them.
 
shanners said:
Eric Walberg on the misuse of Biblical archaeology:

". . . it is now clear to the most respected Christian, Jewish, Muslim and/or secular archaeologists that this supposedly scholarly, rigorous and objective discipline, with its methodology of taking biblical passages and digging and poking away in likely places, looking for proof of what they say, has been a big failure, if not a hoax. While the financial benefits of tying the Bible to archaeology have increased, historical and intellectual benefits have just as rapidly diminished.

"To go a step further and assume that this bogus history is the ‘real’ history of mankind, with the history of the thousands of other peoples taking a back seat, is just not on ... Never was there an ethnically coherent Israel, and according to Thomson, neither Jerusalem nor Judah ever shared an identity with Israel before the rule of the Hasmoneans in the Hellenistic period of the 3rd-1st cc BC, coincidentally, when the legends were first written down. Ironically, the Samaritans, scorned by Ezra's (and today's) Jews, are the most likely Semitic ancestors of the historical Israel.

"With the eclipse of the Socratic worldview and of myth as central to society, and the ascendancy of Judaism after the reformation, the myth of ‘returning to the promised land’ took on a new concrete meaning. The actual prospect by a wealthy cosmopolitican Jewish elite of engineering a physical takeover of Palestine and populating it with Jews became an Aristotelian reality. Today, with Rome (the Catholic Church) now in disarray, a rebuilt Third Temple could become the chief shrine, not only for Jews but for Christians too, the icing on the Zionist victory cake, confirming irrevocably the cultural shift in the Western world as a whole from Hellenism to Hebraism, as argued by SGF Brandon in The Fall of Jerusalem and the Christian Church (1951)...

"The Zionists reconvened the ancient Jewish supreme court, the Sanhedrin (which condemned Jesus), in 2005 for the first time since 425 AD, and have been plotting virtually since the creation of Israel to blow up the Al-Aqsa Mosque and rebuild a replica of Solomon's temple there. Just recently, Israeli archaeologists ‘found’ remains of a temple under the mosque, yet another astounding victory for this bogus science."

The Bible and Middle East History » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
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I checked out that link. What started out as an attempt at objectivity eventually dissolved into an anti-God rant! :lamo

Who is Eric Wahlberg?
 
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shanners said:
"The discoveries made by the “new archaeology” discredited a great exodus in the 13th century BC. Moses could not have led the Hebrews out of Egypt into the Promised Land, for the good reason that the latter was Egyptian territory at the time. And there is no trace of either a slave revolt against the pharaonic empire or of a sudden conquest of Canaan by outsiders."

Israel deliberately forgets its history - Le Monde diplomatique - English edition
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I'll stand by the link I provided for the evidence of the Exodus.

IBSS - Biblical Archaeology - Evidence of the Exodus from Egypt

As for the Canaan conquest , there is archaeological evidence for it:

Extra-Biblical Evidence for the Conquest

https://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=13&article=593

And there's other articles on this also.
 
shanners said:
"... most Israeli archaeologists have always been the loyal foot-soldiers of the official propaganda. Since the emergence of modern Zionism, they have been engaged in a desperate endeavor to ‘find’ archaeological evidence for the historical truth of the stories of the Old Testament. Until now, they have gone empty-handed: there exists no archaeological proof for the exodus from Egypt, the conquest of Canaan and the kingdoms of Saul, David and Solomon. But in their eagerness to prove the unprovable (because in the opinion of the vast majority of archaeologists and historians outside Israel - and also some in Israel - the Old Testament stories are but sacred myths), the archaeologists have destroyed many strata of other periods."

The Method in the Madness » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
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Hate to spoil your dated claims but there is archaeological evidence for what you mention.

http://www.debatepolitics.com/relig...cheology-supports-bible-7.html#post1062723091

There's also evidence for Solomon and King David, etc. (i.e. the Tel Dan tablets, the discovery of what's believed to be King David's Palace, and other finds).

http://righterreport.com/2007/08/05/in-search-of-king-david/

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/davidjer.html
 
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tosca1 said:
I checked out that link. What started out as an attempt at objectivity eventually dissolved into an anti-God rant! :lamo
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Wait a sec. Didn't you start a similar thread some months ago?

Who is Eric Wahlberg?
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Canadian Eric Walberg is known worldwide as a journalist specializing in the Middle East, Central Asia and Russia. A graduate of University of Toronto and Cambridge in economics, he has been writing on East-West relations since the 1980s. He has lived in both the Soviet Union and Russia, and then Uzbekistan, as a UN adviser, writer, translator and lecturer. Presently a writer for the foremost Cairo newspaper, Al Ahram, he is also a regular contributor to Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Global Research, Al-Jazeerah and Turkish Weekly, and is a commentator on Voice of the Cape radio.

Welcome to Eric Walberg.com
 
shanners said:
Canadian Eric Walberg is known worldwide as a journalist specializing in the Middle East, Central Asia and Russia. A graduate of University of Toronto and Cambridge in economics, he has been writing on East-West relations since the 1980s. He has lived in both the Soviet Union and Russia, and then Uzbekistan, as a UN adviser, writer, translator and lecturer. Presently a writer for the foremost Cairo newspaper, Al Ahram, he is also a regular contributor to Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Global Research, Al-Jazeerah and Turkish Weekly, and is a commentator on Voice of the Cape radio.

Welcome to Eric Walberg.com
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Of course, you can't expect us to take his word as truth, right?
He's just another journalist among many - when he wrote this article - who has a bias against religion. He couldn't keep his political views out of it.

It's an opinion piece.



And if there is any doubt left at this point that the Bible is the "gospel truth", to be taken literally, consider one of many such "instructions" from Yahweh to his "chosen people":


When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, for they will turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods, and the Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you. In the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them. (Deuteronomy 7 and 20).

Is this the God of mercy and compassion that Bishop Tutu referred to in his appeal in Boston? Or is this the template of an ideological monster dreamed up by a scribe sitting in the Alexandrian Library, and eagerly adopted by bigoted fanatics applying it verbatim to the land of Palestine today?


ERIC WALBERG writes for Al-Ahram Weekly in Cairo.
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The Bible and Middle East History » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
 
Yes, the vast evidence that utterly proves the world flood......

The vast deposits of all the world's soil and subsoil left around the place where the thousand miles per hour flood waters left the land and entered the sea...

The massive re-shaping of every river valley in the world.....

The slow build up of snow and ice in Antarctica from the date of the flood leaving no trace of any ice from before the flood.....

Oh, yeah sorry the evidence is the opposite, sad that as it disproves the Bible.....
 
Tim the plumber said:
Yes, the vast evidence that utterly proves the world flood......

The vast deposits of all the world's soil and subsoil left around the place where the thousand miles per hour flood waters left the land and entered the sea...

The massive re-shaping of every river valley in the world.....

The slow build up of snow and ice in Antarctica from the date of the flood leaving no trace of any ice from before the flood.....

Oh, yeah sorry the evidence is the opposite, sad that as it disproves the Bible.....
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Will you explain exactly what you're saying?
 
tosca1 said:
Will you explain exactly what you're saying?
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I thought it was very clear;

The archeological evidence clearly demonstrates that there has never been a world flood, that human civilisation is 13,000 or so years old, that human activity in hunter gatherer societies have been leaving stuff behind for 40,000 or so years etc.....

That the Bible talks rubbish.
 
Tim the plumber said:
I thought it was very clear;

The archeological evidence clearly demonstrates that there has never been a world flood, that human civilisation is 13,000 or so years old, that human activity in hunter gatherer societies have been leaving stuff behind for 40,000 or so years etc.....

That the Bible talks rubbish.
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Scholars know that not everything is taken literally from the Bible. A lot of Christians don't see those as incompatible with the Bible.

 
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Tim the plumber said:
I thought it was very clear;

The archeological evidence clearly demonstrates that there has never been a world flood, that human civilisation is 13,000 or so years old, that human activity in hunter gatherer societies have been leaving stuff behind for 40,000 or so years etc.....

That the Bible talks rubbish.
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Refute what's been posted as archeological evidences in this thread.
 
tosca1 said:
Refute what's been posted as archeological evidences in this thread.
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No. There is obviously clear evidence for lots of the detail of the Bible.

So what? Where is the evidence for the divine?

Just because some of a story is true does not make all of it true.
 
Tim the plumber said:

No. There is obviously clear evidence for lots of the detail of the Bible.
So what? Where is the evidence for the divine?
Just because some of a story is true does not make all of it true.
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If you're expecting proof of God from archeology, you'll be disappointed. For centuries everyone believed Homer's Illiad was pure fiction until they discovered Troy, thus it gave evidence that Illiad is not pure fiction. The evidences of non-fiction from the narratives of the Illiad is quite scant when compared to the Bible. Does this prove God? Of course not.

Evidence is the fact(s) used to support claims of truth. Archeology is just one area that offers evidence(s) for God.

You're looking at just one picture: archeology.
There's also another evidence from what we'd call "natural revelation" which means, the natural revelation of God in nature. Some refer to this as the Designer.
Another evidence is provided by Philosophy. There's metaphysics, mathematical probabilities, ephistomology, ..... and lots of other "ologies" that I know nothing about. :lol:

It takes a good argument (ie evidences) to convince a reasonable man, it takes a proof to convince an unreasonable man.


This thread is meant to show the archeological evidences that shows the historicity of the Bible - as shown by the listed archeological discoveries.
The ones already discovered! Tackle them. Refute them.

If you wish to debate the proof of God - then you have to create a separate thread for that.
 
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This thread is meant to show the archeological evidences that shows the historicity of the Bible - as shown by the listed archeological discoveries.
The ones already discovered! Tackle them. Refute them.
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Of course the places etc mentioned in the Bible mostly exist. Of course it was an important book back then. Of course there is archeological evidence for them.

There is also archeological evidence that proves that lots of the most important events in the Bible never happened. They prove the Bible has lots of wrong bits in it.
 
Tim the plumber said:
Of course the places etc mentioned in the Bible mostly exist. Of course it was an important book back then. Of course there is archeological evidence for them.

There is also archeological evidence that proves that lots of the most important events in the Bible never happened. They prove the Bible has lots of wrong bits in it.
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Don't bring up earth's age, or the great floods of Noah, or dinosaurs with men again. You better check up on that video I gave.

What "wrong bits" do you mean? Don't just give a broad statement. Be specific.
 
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