I hope that this information is helpful to you and is an encouragement to you as well. Do not let the lies of the secular overwhelm the truth of the sacred. Stand up and fight for the truth. Be loving and kind, but be strong and unyielding in your fight against sin and in your proclamation of the truth of Jesus. The Bible is a book of History he Bible describes places, people, and events in various degrees of detail. It is essentially an historical account of the people of God throughout thousands of years. many used to think that the Bible had numerous historical errors in it such as Lukes account of Lysanias being the tetrarch of Abiline in about 27 AD (Luke 3:1). For years scholars used this factual error to prove Luke was wrong because it was common knowledge that Lysanias was not a tetrarch, but the ruler of Chalcis about 50 years earlier than what Luke described. But, an archaeological inscription was found that said Lysanias was the tetrarch in Abila near Damascus at the time that Luke said. It turns out that there had been two people named Lysanias and Luke had accurately recorded the facts. Also, the walls of Jericho have been found, destroyed just as the Bible says. Many critics doubted that Nazareth ever existed, yet archaeologists have found a first-century synagogue inscription at Caesarea proving it existed. Finds have verified Herod the Great and his son Herod Antipas. The remains of the Apostle Peters house have been found at Capernaum. Bones with nail scars through the wrists and feet of people who had been crucified have been uncovered demonstrating the actuality of crucifixion. The High Priest Caiaphas bones have been discovered in an ossuary (a box used to store bones). There is, of course, a host of archaeological digs that corroborate biblical records such as Bethsaida, Bethany, Caesarea Philippi, Capernaum, Cyprus, Galatia, Philippi, Thessalonica, Berea, Athens, Corinth, Ephesus, Rome, etc. Wasnt the New Testament written hundreds of years after Christ? Though some say that the New Testament was written 100-300 years after Christ died, the truth is that it was written before the close of the first century by those who either knew Christ personally, had encountered him, or were under the direction of those who were His disciples.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 01:25:29 +0000