Existence of Israel is fulfillment of Biblical prophesies

[Caecilian]

---

If you want evidence that the Bible is true all you have to do is look at a map of the Middle East. There you will see a country called Israel, which has come back into existence after an absence of more than 1800 years.

If you study the Bible you will find that God warned the Jews that if they sinned they would be scattered among the nations. This happened after they rejected Jesus as being the Messiah God had promised. But even while they were wanderers without a home of their own God still protected them from being destroyed or assimilated into the nations where they lived and enabled them to preserve their language and culture. He did this because he had also promised to regather them to their own land at the end of the age. This began to happen when the nation of Israel was established.

You can find out more of what the Bible says about their present return here:

http://www.arielm.org/dcs/pdf/mbs189m.pdf

If you want to learn more details about the history of the Jews I recommend that you read God, Jews, and History by Max I. Dimont

---

On the other hand, if you want evidence that the bible is false, you could check out the writings of your namesake- Theophilus, the second-century christian bishop of Antioch (at the time the third largest city in the Roman Empire, so no backwater). Writings and other info available here.

Whats interesting about theophilus is that he gives a defence of christianity against paganism, complete with a potted history of the world, without mentioning jesus once. His explanation for the derivation of the word 'christian' is as follows:

And about your laughing at me and calling me "Christian," you know not what you are saying. First, because that which is anointed is sweet and serviceable, and far from contemptible. For what ship can be serviceable and seaworthy, unless it be first caulked [anointed]? Or what castle or house is beautiful and serviceable when it has not been anointed? And what man, when he enters into this life or into the gymnasium, is not anointed with oil? And what work has either ornament or beauty unless it be anointed and burnished? Then the air and all that is under heaven is in a certain sort anointed by light and spirit; and are you unwilling to be anointed with the oil of God? Wherefore we are called Christians on this account, because we are anointed with the oil of God.

Book 1 ch 12 of the Letter to Autolycus

Theophilus was clearly very well acquainted with the OT, but equally clearly had never even heard of jesus. Why not? Perhaps because jesus never actually existed- he was a literary device for re-telling the accumulated religious and moral sayings of the Hebrew people.

The bible is a collection of myths. Wake up and look at the facts.