Biblical
Archaeology In The World Today
Mat S. Hames
Why Christianity?
You Christians are nothing
but a bunch of fakes. Why should
I believe it? You have no
proof. Your just basing your life
around something that was
written by a bunch of men over
2000 years ago."
That is what I heard from a
person a few days ago. And I
can tell you; this person is
saddeningly wrong. Jesus does
work miracles, the Bible was
written by God THROUGH man, and
most of all: Yes, we do have
proof.
`Now,' you say, `he's
going to go into all that
religious love garbage.' Well,
in case you were saying
that, you're wrong. I could sit here
for hours telling you about
the love that I have found in God,
but I will try a diffrent
approach. If you are a non-beliver,
let me tell you that there
is all the proof in the World;
Archaeologically.
Take for instance, Sodom and
Gommorah; Biblical
Cities in the Book of
Genesis that were destroyed by their own lack
of love, and God. They had
fallen away from God, much like the world
today, and were struck down
by His wrath. Well, about 3 years ago,
the remnents of two cities
south of the Dead Sea were discovered: with
traces of destruction by a
terrible fire.
Only about a year ago, the
Dead Sea scrolls with parts of Isaiah
on it, were discovered in a
small cave in the same general area.
(Isaiah is an Old Testiment
book of Prophecy.) The first actual
victim of crucifixion on the
cross ever found was in 1968, proving
that crucifixion, like that
of Jesus, was actually used back then.
The Biblical cities of Zoan,
otherwise known as Tanis, was discovered
in Lower Egypt in 1948.
The tomb of the fabled queen
of Sheba also in the Old Testiment was
found recently in Addis
Ababa. Literally hundreds of biblical ruins
have been discovered in
Jeruselum, while clearing away areas for
construction. The massive
Altar of Joshua has been found on the
northeastern face of Mt.
Ebal in Jeruselum.
Other Archaeological
Discoveries in The Holy Land:
Pre-flood writings found in
the ruins of Ur. Accad, one of Nimrod'
s cities mentioned in Gen 10:10,
also called Sippar.
" Temptation Seal"
was found near Babylon, portraying in pictures
exactley what Genesis says
in words. It shows a tree, on one side
a man, the other side a
woman plucking fruit, and behind the woman
a serpant.
Flood proof.. has been found
all over ancient Mesopotamia.. soil
deposits from the far north
have been brought to the south. Two
layers of soil are evident,
proving that there was at one time a
great flood.
Tower of Babel.. two sites
have been found, each one with inscriptions
telling the story of Babel,
have been found in the Babylon region.
Shisak's invasion of Judah.
Shisak's own record of this invasion was
found carved into a wall at
the temple of Karnak.
Babylon.. the ancient and
once splendid city was uncovered in
Southern Iraq.
... the list is endless. So,
you can see why we, as Christians,
do have proof of the Bible.
But, more important to us than this
proof is the proof in our
hearts one of us gets when he or she
accepts Jesus as their Lord
and Savior.
So there is fact along with
the "Folklore" and there is "
Logical" proof that
these events did happen, for those of
you who desire such proof.
God, contrary to popular belief, IS
real, He is alive, and one
day, maybe tomorrow, or maybe 75
years from now, you'll look
Him right in the face.
FROM LU-ACH YESHUA BBS
