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Originally posted by OneGodJesus
Saint, I told you that these folks would need concrete proof. An experience is what they need. It seems man (and woman) need to shown signs and wonders. What better way than a visit from an eternal? I know, it is a really painful lesson, but think about it. And pray I suppose too...lol. We have a whole generation of doubters the divine nature of God and believers in themselves and their "gods" even as Elijah dealt with the worshipers og Baal.
Originally posted by madnessinmysoul
okay, so let's just treat me as a doubter, while just not addressing some serious scriptural problems. you don't even acknowledge my evidence, i don't need a sign of wonder, i need someone to explain how a document with as many flaws as the bible is the word of god.
Originally posted by OneGodJesus
Saint, I told you that these folks would need concrete proof. An experience is what they need. It seems man (and woman) need to shown signs and wonders. What better way than a visit from an eternal? I know, it is a really painful lesson, but think about it. And pray I suppose too...lol. We have a whole generation of doubters the divine nature of God and believers in themselves and their "gods" even as Elijah dealt with the worshipers og Baal.
Originally posted by madnessinmysoul
Originally posted by OneGodJesus
Saint, I told you that these folks would need concrete proof. An experience is what they need. It seems man (and woman) need to shown signs and wonders. What better way than a visit from an eternal? I know, it is a really painful lesson, but think about it. And pray I suppose too...lol. We have a whole generation of doubters the divine nature of God and believers in themselves and their "gods" even as Elijah dealt with the worshipers og Baal.
okay, so let's just treat me as a doubter, while just not addressing some serious scriptural problems. you don't even acknowledge my evidence, i don't need a sign of wonder, i need someone to explain how a document with as many flaws as the bible is the word of god.
Originally posted by OneGodJesus
I would pose this question to you. What other document in human history is as complete in its text from an archeological standpoint as the bible?
Originally posted by OneGodJesus
I would pose this question to you. What other document in human history is as complete in its text from an archeological standpoint as the bible? If you look to even Shakespeare, not all of the documents he wrote are complete, yet people quote him in a class around the world every day.
Originally posted by OneGodJesus
Documents written on clay tablets from around 2300 B.C. demonstrate that personal and place names in the Patriarchal accounts are genuine.
Originally posted by OneGodJesus
The Hittites were once thought to be a Biblical legend, until their capital and records were discovered at Bogazkoy, Turkey.
Originally posted by OneGodJesus
Many thought the Biblical references to Solomon's wealth were greatly exaggerated. Recovered records from the past show that wealth in antiquity was concentrated with the king and Solomon's prosperity was entirely feasible.
Originally posted by OneGodJesus
Fall of Nineveh as predicted by the prophets Nahum and Zephaniah (2:13-15), recorded on the Tablet of Nabopolasar.
Originally posted by OneGodJesus
The existence of Jesus Christ as recorded by Josephus, Suetonius, Thallus, Pliny the Younger, the Talmud, and Lucian.
Originally posted by OneGodJesus
That is a lot to chew on. So chew away.
Originally posted by Tassadar
People can't stand the Christian worldview because it makes perfect sense, but it require brokeness, the elmination of pride.
Most people just aren't willing to cast down their pride and take that step of faith and say, "God, I need you".
Originally posted by junglejake
The Bible is different than any other historical work ever discovered and ever to be discovered. You see, while historical texts are considered true after a few elements that can be checked turn out to be true, the Bible has to go the opposite way. It's the one exception to the historical text rule, in that everything in the Bible is false until you can prove it to be true.
Why? You get to decide that.
Originally posted by madnessinmysoul
we have historical proof that a judean by the name of jesus was crucified,
Originally posted by spamandham
Originally posted by OneGodJesus
Documents written on clay tablets from around 2300 B.C. demonstrate that personal and place names in the Patriarchal accounts are genuine.
Big whoop. I could write down a bunch of names and places from the past 1000 years and get it right too.
Originally posted by OneGodJesus
The Hittites were once thought to be a Biblical legend, until their capital and records were discovered at Bogazkoy, Turkey.
The books are genuinely old. No-one is arguing against that.
Originally posted by OneGodJesus
Many thought the Biblical references to Solomon's wealth were greatly exaggerated. Recovered records from the past show that wealth in antiquity was concentrated with the king and Solomon's prosperity was entirely feasible.
Now it's entered the domain of wild speculation. We do have archaeological evidence regarding Solomon, and the reports of his wealth were greatly exagerated in the Bible. He was a minor king. [Finkelstein and Silberman, The Bible Unearthed]
Originally posted by OneGodJesus
Fall of Nineveh as predicted by the prophets Nahum and Zephaniah (2:13-15), recorded on the Tablet of Nabopolasar.
This of course starts by concluding that such a fall was written of before it happened, yet we know the OT was penned in the 7th century BCE.
Originally posted by OneGodJesus
The existence of Jesus Christ as recorded by Josephus, Suetonius, Thallus, Pliny the Younger, the Talmud, and Lucian.
None of these were contemporaries, and even Christian scholars admit Josephus' record was tampered with in the lone paragraph regarding Jesus.
Originally posted by OneGodJesus
That is a lot to chew on. So chew away.
Unforunately, much of it's crap as I just demonstrated.
If you want to know about real Biblical archaeology and not just selections intermixed with speculation and specious argument, read Finkelstein and Silberman, "The Bible Unearthed"
Originally posted by OneGodJesus
So you have one book and you think it is almightly in its assessment of biblical archeology? That is pretty lame. Try again.
Originally posted by OneGodJesus
That was the weakest arguement I have yet to read in this forum...
So you have one book and you think it is almightly in its assessment of biblical archeology? That is pretty lame. Try again.
Originally posted by OneGodJesus
Why can the Bible be so despised and every exhaustive attempt be made to discredit it .... . . . . . . . . . follow the teachings of peace?