RE: historical merits of the bible?
June 30, 2014 at 8:12 am
(This post was last modified: June 30, 2014 at 8:15 am by Mr Greene.)
Quick overview of the archaeology related to the bible;
There is a king of the northern kingdom who gets a single line in the OT, there is a Persian stele also describing a treaty with this king.
Beyond that the archaeology actually directly contradicts the biblical claims, most tellingly the claim that there were 1 or 2 monotheistic kingdoms in Isreal with a single temple at Jerusalem. If this were the case you wouldn't expect to find uninterrupted polytheistic temples and shrines right the way through till the Macedonian conquest around 450BCE. At this point the temples and shrines are all desecrated and burnt (carbon dated on the charcoal)
This coincides with the "return from Babylon" in the OT timeline.
As such it would appear that history was specifically rewritten to confer legitimacy onto the incoming theocracy.
Thus the prophesies can be dismissed as fake as they occur prior to this point.
There is a king of the northern kingdom who gets a single line in the OT, there is a Persian stele also describing a treaty with this king.
Beyond that the archaeology actually directly contradicts the biblical claims, most tellingly the claim that there were 1 or 2 monotheistic kingdoms in Isreal with a single temple at Jerusalem. If this were the case you wouldn't expect to find uninterrupted polytheistic temples and shrines right the way through till the Macedonian conquest around 450BCE. At this point the temples and shrines are all desecrated and burnt (carbon dated on the charcoal)
This coincides with the "return from Babylon" in the OT timeline.
As such it would appear that history was specifically rewritten to confer legitimacy onto the incoming theocracy.
Thus the prophesies can be dismissed as fake as they occur prior to this point.
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