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What about dinosaurs? How do they fit in with Adam and Eve, and creation? Well, the word “dinosaur” is not in the Bible because that word, meaning “terrible lizard”, was not invented until about 1840. But there are creatures whose descriptions in the Bible match those of dinosaurs. Probably one of the best ones is the “behemoth”, described in the book of Job, chapter 40:15-24. It was a huge creature with “bones like bars of iron”, further described as follows: “his strength is in his loins” (legs and belly), he moves his “tail like a cedar tree”, and is large...
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How do we know we have the Word of God? One way is to see how God writes history in advance. Let’s look at the ancient kingdom of Edom. The kingdom of Edom was located southeast of the Dead Sea and was almost as large as the state of New Jersey.[1] The people of Edom were the descendants of Esau. Edom was a constant enemy of Israel, and six different prophets spoke against it, with some very detailed predictions. We will look at just a few of these: Jeremiah 49:18 reads: “No man shall abide there; neither shall a son of man dwell in it.” Isaiah 34:13-15 states: “And...
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As is acknowledged by biblical scholars across the board, there have been copying errors during the transmission of the New Testament. These errors resulted in many variants between the manuscripts. So the question is this: don’t some Bible scholars such as Dr. Bart Ehrman point out that the Bible contains hundreds of thousands of variant readings and that this means we have error-filled copies and nothing close to the originals? Dr. Bart Ehrman in his book Misquoting Jesus does indeed say the Bible has up to 400,000 variants and therefore we have more variants than there are words...
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Last time we looked into the skeptic's charge of a supposed scientific error in the Bible, namely that the rabbit "chews the cud" (Does the Bible contain a scientific error, saying that the rabbit "chews the cud?"?). Now let's look at the rest of Leviticus 11 to answer two more charges: does the Bible say that a bat is a bird, or does the Bible say insects have only four legs? What kind of biology is this? Well, as we mentioned last time, the Biblical descriptions must be understood in the purpose that the writers used them for, and not called errors if they don'f fit modern scientific taxonomy....
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, , In the New Testament, the apostle Peter is credited with the authorship of two letters, or epistles. Yet if you read many modern commentators on the Bible, they hold the view that Peter really didn't write the Second Letter of Peter attributed to him, but some other later author did. In essence, they charge that this second letter is a forgery. Why do they think this? They give three main reasons: 1. It was not quoted for a long time after it was supposedly written. The first quote is by church father Origen who lived in the late second-mid third century. 2. The style and vocabulary...
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Many people in their bible reading skip through the Book of Leviticus in the Old Testament, saying that all those laws are too tedious or boring. But all those laws and regulations from God have several purposes, among which are to protect the people of Israel from germs and diseases, as well as setting them apart from the idolatrous practices of surrounding nations. As I talk about in Chapter Two of The Bible Can Be Proven, which covers the subject of scientific and medical knowledge in the Bible that is ahead of it's time, there are regulations which protect against infection by germs...
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A former skeptic testifies about Bible Prophecy There is a prophecy in the Bible about Samaria, the capital city of the northern Hebrew kingdom of Israel when the Jews were split into two kingdoms. This prophecy is given in Micah 1:6, written in about 700 B.C.: “Therefore I will make Samaria as a heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.” What is predicted about Samaria? Samaria will become as a “heap of the field.” Vineyards will...
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The book of Ezra talks about the return of Israel to its homeland after being exiled to Babylon, and the subsequent rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem. Closely related to the book of Ezra is the book of Nehemiah, who came about 13 years after Ezra and led in the rebuilding of the Jerusalem city walls. The time of writing of this little book of Ezra covers the time of Ezra's return to Jerusalem bout 458 B.C.E. and is traditionally thought to have been completed around 400 B.C.E at the latest, with only a small amount of editing after Ezra's work. But some modern critics want to call it a late...
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We have seen in previous articles that the Bible does not condone the kind of slavery that existed either in the antebellum South in America, or in Egypt or any other oppressive regime. But we shall also see that the biblical texts, especially as we progress in time to the New Testament, not only do not condone oppressive slavery, but contain the seeds for the abolition of the institution of slavery altogether. Slavery in Roman times: Under the Roman empire slavery took somewhat of a step backwards, but still not quite like the American South. Some slaves in Rome were indeed considered...
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In part 1 of this series, we saw that the Bible does not condone the kind of slavery we normally think of, but deals with a much more humane version, especially within Israelite society. But instead of ripping slavery out of the society all at once, in the Old Testament Law God begins to undermine the firmly economically entrenched institution of slavery by stopping abuses and commanding fair, humane treatment of those who enter into the slavery system. But hold on, the skeptic says! There are some verses that, at first glance, seem to indicate approval of some unfair treatment of slaves....
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