Evidence the bible is true from historians: We ALL have no reason to fear archaeology. In fact it is this very science which has done more to authenticate our scriptures than any other. This is why so many eminent SECULAR archaeologists are standing resolutely behind the Biblical accounts. Listen to what they say (taken from McDowells Evidences 1972:65-67): G.E. Wright states,We shall probably never prove that Abram really existed...but what we can prove is that his life and times, as reflected in the stories about him, fit perfectly within the early second millennium, but imperfectly within any later period. Sir Frederic Kenyon mentions, The evidence of archaeology has been to re-establish the authority of the Old Testament, and likewise to augment its value by rendering it more intelligible through a fuller knowledge of its background and setting. William F. Albright (a renowned archaeologist) says, The excessive skepticism shown toward the Bible by important historical schools of the 18th and 19th centuries, certain phases which still appear periodically, has been progressively discredited. Discovery after discovery has established the accuracy of innumerable details, and has brought increased recognition to the value of the Bible as a source of history.Millar Burrows of Yale states, On the whole, archaeological work has unquestionably strengthened confidence in the reliability of the scriptural record. Joseph Free confirms that while thumbing through the book of Genesis, he mentally noted that each of the 50 chapters are either illuminated or confirmed by some archaeological discovery, and that this would be true for most of the remaining chapters of the Bible, both the Old Testament and the New Testament. Nelson Glueck (a Jewish Reformed scholar and archaeologist) probably gives us the greatest support for the historicity of the Bible when he states, To date no archaeological discovery has ever controverted a single, properly understood biblical statement.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 02:04:09 +0000
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