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For the second time, Proof for God?

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The Bible claims that it is the inspired and accurate Word of God. Therefore, it is vital that we compare the Scriptural records against the archeological discoveries uncovered at actual sites where many of the thrilling events of the Bible actually occurred. The results of these detailed investigations are available for anyone to examine. The archeological record provides overwhelming confirmation of thousands of detailed statements and facts recorded in the sacred Scriptures. Scholars have not found one single confirmed archeological discovery that absolutely disproves a statement of the Scriptures. To the contrary, as the evidence in The Signature of God reveals, the scholars have discovered literally hundreds of objects, inscriptions, and sites that confirm the accuracy of biblical statements in even unimportant areas. The most important thing for believers in God is that these archeological proofs of scriptural accuracy confirm the accuracy, the inspiration, and the authority of the Word of God. No one should expect that archeology will be able to provide detailed proof of such personal events like the sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham. By their nature, it is unlikely that such events in the lives of private individuals would ever leave any archeological evidence. Most personal events recorded in the Bible would never have left evidence that could be discovered thousands of years later. However, whenever the Bible dealt with the rise and fall of kingdoms, cities, buildings, etc., the spade of the archeologist has been able to discover wonderful confirmation of the truth of Holy Scripture.

Only fifty years ago many disbelieving scholars totally rejected the historical accuracy of the Bible because they claimed that the Scriptures talked about numerous kings and individuals that could not be confirmed from any other historical or archeological records. Recent discoveries, however, have shown that they should not have abandoned their faith in the Word of God so easily. If they had only trusted in the truthfulness of the Bible or waited a little longer they would have been rewarded with the recent archeological discoveries that confirm many biblical details, events, and personalities.

Recent archeological investigations have demolished the position of those who rejected the biblical account of Israel's kings such as King David. In 1993, archeologists digging at Tel Dan in the Galilee in northern Israel found a fragment of a stone inscription that clearly refers to the "house of David"ÿand identifies David as the "king of Israel." This is the first inscription outside the Bible that confirms the Bible's statement that David was the king of Israel in the ninth century before Christ. Many Bible critics who had rejected King David as a myth were upset to discover their position could no longer be defended. Some critics suggested that the fragment was a "fake." The following summer, two additional fragments of the original inscription were found that provided scholars with the whole inscription, confirming that it referred to David as king of Israel.

The Walls of Jericho

During excavations of Jericho between 1930 and 1936, Professor John Garstang found one of the most incredible confirmations of the biblical record about the conquest of the Promised Land. The results were so amazing that he took the precaution of preparing a written declaration of the archeological discovery, signed by himself and two other members of his team. "As to the main fact, then, there remains no doubt: the walls fell outwards so completely that the attackers would be able to clamber up and over their ruins into the city." This fact is important because the evidence from all other archeological digs around ancient cities in the Middle East reveal that walls of cities always fall inwards as invading armies push their way into a city. However, in the account in Joshua 6:20, we read, "the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city every man straight ahead, and they took the city."

Dr. Millar Burrows, a professor at Yale University, studied the evidence that indicates the historicity of Abraham and the other patriarchs of Israel as recorded in Genesis. "Everything indicates that here we have an historical individual. As noted above, he is not mentioned in any known archaeological source, but his name appears in Babylonia as a personal name in the very period to which he belongs" (Millar Burrows, What Mean These Stones?, [New York: Meridian Books, 1956], pp. 258-259). Burrows wrote about the underlying reason most scholars reject the authority of the Bible, "The excessive skepticism of many liberal theologians stems not from a careful evaluation of the available data, but from an enormous predisposition against the supernatural. . . . On the whole, however, archaeological work has unquestionably strengthened confidence in the reliability of the scriptural record."

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  1. Nice, This is a lot of evidence. I wounder if the Evolutionist are going to read this. Your not going to get a star from them so i'll give you one.  


  2. talking about God ..no matter what you are saying .. is just a TALK

    is that what you call .. a proof for God ?!!!!     :-)

    even aliens and bigfoot have better proof for their existence !


  3. jeezest crist lol did you type enough lol any way who knows iam agnostic. not saying there isent but i have yet to see proof or a religion that hasent commited a genicide of some kind...well i dont think the jews have but there good people they say all gods are equil and dont try to belittle people

  4. For the nth time, even were there a strong coincidence between the stories in the bible and the findings of archeology, it would only show that an event occurred which provide the basis for the story.  In no way does it provide verification for any of the supernatural elements of the text.


  5. I didn't read any of that, btw. All of the people you talk about in your description are just that-PEOPLE. Humans aren't perfect, so how can they prove anything?

    and you want evidence for GOD? Hmm...let me think...how about the WORLD?????????

  6. Once I saw "proof of God" I stopped reading.  I don't read anything that suggests "proof of God", only weiners do that!

    I'm Atheist!

  7. just want to say nice.  

  8. to long didnt read

  9. The only person that can "prove it" is you for yourself, no one can prove or disprove that fact that he exists, and no one has, i believe in him but i can not prove he is real, but you can not prove he is not

  10. So many people in the world try to prove God wrong. His truth will be revealed to those who believe onto him.

  11. Where did William Ramsay travel to ?

  12. The bible is historical fiction. There maybe some real places mentioned and some real people but over all its still fiction.

    There is evidence of the Trojan war as well as countless other people and places mentioned in Greek mythology but does that make Zeus real? No it doesn't. It just means that some facts were incorporated in o the stories.

  13. There is insufficient empirical evidence to support the hypothesis of a god and/or gods.  

  14. Amazingly, scientists have proved that London was in 1800's just as is described in the book of Peter Pan, then Peter Pan must be real.

  15. hahahaa, i belive in god :)

    but im not reading that.

  16. I don't even know what your question is.

    I don't need proof that God does or doesn't exist. I live on the faith that he does. It's really quite simple. You believe or you don't.  

  17. we are proof and many prophecies are coming true and more will.

  18. So if Huckleberry Finn mentions the Mississippi River, and such a river does indeed exists, shall we believe Huck Finn to be the absolute truth instead of the fiction that it is?

    I think not.  Your argument is flawed.

  19. the human eye is the only proof necessary, evolution can't explain it, only religion can.  

  20. thank you for your scholared and well thought out presentation of proof, but I do not require it to believe.

  21. Way too much copy and paste. Look out for the plagiarism police. Proof that Jericho existed, not proof of God stopping the world in it's tracks. No proof of God.

    Added note of history.

    Did you know Jericho has the longest history of being inhabited by humans as a city?

  22. religion is based on trust and gut instinct. thats the only proof there is, until the rapture anyway.  

  23. Faith

  24. Rambling.

  25. and the question is ?

    ok to be honest

    no matter how much proof there is of any biblical characters

    it is not proof of God

  26. The fact of you being here is proof of God.

  27. Even with a sense of fair play and mutual respect, I'm not reading all that.  It's too late.

  28. You tell 'em!

  29. Don't get me wrong but i'm atheist it doesn't mean that i am evil. I respect people's choices, everyone must decide for themselves which religion to choose or to choose it at all. I read a lot about many bad things christian priests did, too much violence for "infidels" that's why I don't accept it, islam is a total mess. I believe all religions were devised to control huge masses of people which couldn't be controlled otherwise.

    Sorry if i offended somebody, peace to you all.

  30. god is real i need know proof and for those who don't answer me this how was everything the univeres us the planet your beliveing that everything magicly apeared come on but if you dont thats your opion and i respect that freedom of choice

  31. im agnostic, and i would hope there is a god,

    but no way am i gonna read all that.

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