Holy Hormones Bible Study: Teaching — If your book isn’t a buzz, it’s not the Bible.

ASK NAPOLEON IF THE BIBLE IS HISTORICALLY RELIABLE

Bien sûr, mon ami

One of the many attempts to discredit the Bible is to claim that it is a myth conspired by men and is a failure historically.

Evidence is presented here that disputes that claim.

However, the first law of evidence must be remembered, “Evidence is not proof. It depends on the baggage that the assessor carries to the table.” I’m a Theist. I look out the window and see abundant evidence of exquisite design. The Atheist standing one side of me sees an accident. The Apatheist standing the other side doesn’t care.

The length of these presentations (20 and 53 minutes) stretches what I’m told is the limited attention span of Medium readers. But I’m not interested in followers. I’m interested for those hungry for God. If you can’t understand that comment, move on. You won’t believe the evidence, anyway.

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. William Blake

You must judge for yourself whether it is the Truth.

Veracity of the Old Testament

The person we have most to thank for this is Napoleon Bonaparte. When he was marauding through the Middle East he had a special team cataloguing the statues and other treasures he was stealing. This was the beginning of Archaeology, which is surprisingly only about two centuries old. Compare this to the King James Bible which was printed two centuries before that.

This link is to a 20 minute talk, Can The Old Testament Be Trusted Historically, given by Dr Peter J Williams, Principal at Tyndale House, England. It is recommended strongly that you view it.

He discusses a page in an original copy of the King James Bible. It describes events in 2 Kings 18, printed two centuries before Napoleon. When you read it you will find that certain Biblical claims are made:-

• Sennacherib, king of Assyria, invaded Judea.
• Hezekiah was king of Judea.
• All fortified cities of Judea were captured except Jerusalem.
• Sennacherib demanded a tribute of 300 silver talents and 30 gold talents from Hezekiah.
• Hezekiah gave all the silver in the King’s House and the Temple.
• Jerusalem survived.

Preceding the advent of Archaeology, the information in the Bible had to be handed down from generation to generation in manually transcribed manuscripts from the time of Hezekiah to Elizabethan (± a few years) times.

Sennacherib’s own account, chiselled into a prism displayed in the British Museum, parallels the Bible very well. He mentions 30 talents of gold and 800 talents of silver from Hezekiah. Note the tribute demanded of silver was 300 talents and Hezekiah gave ALL the silver, which would have equalled or exceeded the demand or there would have been trouble for Hezekiah. Note, also, that the gold tribute matched. There is also much more evidence from the Assyrian side which matches the Biblical accounts. So, a long series of manually transcribed documents by the Jews matches extremely well the single reference chiselled in stone by their enemy. You should watch the presentation and decide for yourself. I know what I have decided.

Veracity of the New Testament

This link is to a 53 minute talk on the specific information recorded in the New Testament, New Evidences the Gospels were Based on Eyewitness Accounts, by the same Dr Peter J Williams.

It contains the detail that brings scripture alive for me at the cost of making me a boring person. It is so dense with information that no effort has been attempted to summarise.

Perhaps you think it is a Deity that is behind the intricate patterns of names laced through the Gospels. Or perhaps you think that is a ludicrous suggestion.

Sir Thomas More, of Henry VIII fame, is reported to have written, “God made the angels to show Him splendour, as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But Man He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of his mind.”

A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God. If God doesn’t stretch your mind, nothing will. You might as well study Philosophy.

The forgoing evidence has not been presented to convince any reader but to allow a personal decision to be made. There is much more to know about this subject. Perhaps you’ll pay another visit, sometime. If you have seen something you like, I encourage plagiarism. So, always check everything I say first, then please re-cycle, re-brand, re-structure, re-issue, re-label, or re-gurgitate in any manner you please. No need to acknowledge me because the Holy Spirit Who holds the Intellectual Rights.

All Glory to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

(We all have a plank in our eye. It’s bigger than we think.)

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