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Did you know there is a way you could show that each of the New Testament books must have been written last? The evidence of the numerical design of the Greek text actually points to this absurd conclusion, unless...there is one mind inspiring all of the New Testament books! What are some of the evidences that might show us that there is one mind behind the scriptures? In Chapter Nine of The Bible Can Be Proven, I describe another phenomenon Russian scholar Ivan Panin found.* This involves the number of unique vocabulary words used by a given New Testament writer. There are words in the Gospel...
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Ivan Panin was a Russian scholar who was a master of literary criticism. In his early years he was a committed atheist but then became a Christian and soon began an amazing quest to which he devoted more than fifty years of research, uncovering many numerical patterns in the original language of the Scriptures. Ironically, he came from an atheistic country and saw when he came to the USA that many religious leaders were abandoning faith in the divine inspiration of the Bible.One of the patterns he found was in the genealogy in the first chapter of Matthew. To get an idea of what was found,...
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The Gospel of John is one of the deepest books of the whole Bible theologically. But does it report accurate history, or is it fiction, as is sometimes charged by skeptics? The Gospel of John is often portrayed by critics as being very theological with little concern for accurate history. But this view is totally against both the internal evidence of the text as well as the archaeological evidence. John mentions many historical details that would only be known by a personal witness, someone who was "on the spot." For example: John describes the Pool of Bethesda as having...
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The Exodus is perhaps one of the more difficult areas of Biblical archaeology, and some scholars are skeptical about its reality because finding confirming evidence for it has been very difficult. But it is a very important event in the history of Israel. Should we, and do we find evidence for the Exodus? If we look for Egyptian records we run into the problem that most of them were recorded on very perishable papyrus. As Egyptologist James Hoffmeier pointed out, most papyrus documents did not survive in the Egyptian Delta because it was too wet. * And the inscriptions on statues and temples...
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In the Book of Acts, Chapter 27, Luke gives a detailed account of Paul's journey on a Roman ship which wrecked off of the southeast coast of the Island of Malta in the Mediterranean Sea. He reports that they encountered a severe northeaster storm (v. 14) dropped four anchors(v.29) in 15 fathoms of water (v. 28), and eventually headed for a "bay with a beach" (the correct translation of v. 39, some versions erroneously have "a creek with a shore"). They eventually wrecked, running the ship aground, in an unfamiliar place (v. 39) where the "two seas meet" (v. 41), 14 days after they...
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You all have heard about the legendary great memory capacity of elephants. But we might ask ourselves, what does an elephant really have to remember? Your local zoo elephant certainly won't be called on to write down an account of what went on at the zoo 25 or 30 years ago. But how about the gospel writers? If the gospels were written down 25 to 30 years after the events, how do we know they are accurate history? Couldn't the writers have forgotten important details? And why did they wait so long to write them down? One of the main reasons we don't see written accounts immediately...
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When we read the four gospels, often we find that the words of Jesus are different across the gospels even when they are reporting the same event. How can this be, if the Bible is God's Word? Does divine inspiration mean that all the sayings of Jesus are reproduced by each author in exactly the same wording? As we look at the Synoptic Gospels ( Matthew, Mark, and Luke), we see that many times the words of Jesus are different for the same event or parable. First of all, in that time period the use of paraphrase, even for memorization of sayings, was considered acceptable in recounting...
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How sure can we be that the Bible is God's word? One way is to look at all the prophecies about Jesus. There are over 300 prophecies and allusions to Jesus Christ in the Old Testament. What if we took just four of them and figured out what the odds are that they could all be fulfilled by chance? The prophet Micah predicts that Jesus will be born in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2) So what would be the odds that a person born throughout history would be born in Bethlehem? Chuck Missler came up with one calculation by assuming the average population of the world of 2 billion and the average population...
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Some critics of the gospels today claim they are full of contradictions and so can't be trusted as real history. An example that is often brought up are the accounts of Peter's denial of Christ and the roosters crowing. All four gospels contain this account. In Matthew, Luke, and John, Jesus seems to be telling Peter that before the cock (rooster) crows once the next morning, Peter will deny Him three times, but in Mark, Jesus tells Peter that he will deny Him before the cock crows twice. So some say since the accounts disagree, they can't be trusted.But is this fair? First of all,...
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In ancient history, most cultures believed that the earth was flat, and if you went too far in a particular direction, off the edge you would fall! The ancient Bablylonians or Egyptians are said by some to have believed in a circular earth, but the earth shown in their diagrams was a circular, flat disk floating in the ocean. Until the time of Pythagoras, about 600 B.C. no one even suggested a spherical earth, and even then it was strictly an idea. It took until about the third century before the idea of a spherical earth really started to take hold, and many more centuries to provide...
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