RE: Bible way to Heaven
October 10, 2015 at 2:11 pm
(This post was last modified: October 10, 2015 at 2:15 pm by Randys brother.)
(October 10, 2015 at 1:49 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote:(October 10, 2015 at 1:29 pm)Randys brother Wrote: Yes Archaeology backs up the Bible,I will have to disagree with you.
No, it doesn't.
No,
Here is Christian archaeology website, which debunks the claim (by Wood) that fundamentalists use to "show" that Jericho was a walled city at the time of the alleged conquest of Canaan by Joshua. It wasn't, and not even close. Wood's 1990 information was a good guess based on bad data (a bad calibration at the British Museum), and was debunked strongly in 1995.
http://www.biblicalchronologist.org/answ...ntwood.php
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Here is a lecture from the top Biblical Archaeologist in Israel, an expert on the Davidic Kingdom period, Dr. Israel Finkelstein (Professor of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University), the man who has the most to gain on earth from proving that there was a real Kingdom of David in history.
doesn't.
Below is one of the top Jewish Rabbis on the question of whether the Hebrews were even slaves in Egypt at all, and whether the Exodus could possibly have happened in the way described in the second book of the Bible. Again, if there is anyone who would benefit from the story being true, it would be these guys. I pointed out whom I am citing because I know if I cite atheists to you, you'll just ignore it. But seriously, the only people who are still saying the Bible stories are true history are fundamentalists who admit that they refuse to even consider the possibility that the authors of the Bible didn't know the true history, but were instead making up a legendary history by which they could help keep the Israelite/Judean people together after the conquests by Assyria and Babylon (when we think most of the Old Testament was put into its current form).
http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Judaism/...n.aspx?p=1
Again,Yes Archaeology backs up the Bible,I will have to disagree with you.
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I have found a site that can destroy his argument's.here.
Quote:Although Finkelstein is not as extreme as the minimalists, he is often guilty of using the same unwarranted skepticism when reading the Bible. In the interview with Shanks, he says that he believes that he is “in the center” (p. 48) and is “more critical” (in the sense of reading the Bible with a greater level of scrutiny and discernment, p. 51) without venturing into pure minimalism, but denies that the history of major biblical events occurred as they are presented in the pages of Scripture.
Finkelstein is highly critical of those who take the Bible at face value. He says, “I do think we are in a process of liberation from an antiquated reading of the Biblical text… [Some archaeologists] still interpret the Bible very literally…. We tend to give it a more sophisticated reading. This is not to say that the Bible has no history. It means that we need to look at the Biblical material more carefully, in a more sophisticated way (p. 58).