Could you define what you mean by a ‘miracle’ and give us one verified and corroborated example of one. Just one please. Pick the best one you know of.
What is never answered is how is invisibility an act of love? Why are deaths random? Why are innocent animals dying and suffering daily? Why is a loving God so enthralled with death? Why was Satan allowed freewill in heaven and then left alone to rage?
Archaeology plays a nice role in defending history. If we "believed" what minimalists were saying before 1846, Judah never existed and David was a myth. Now we know that minimalism is often wrong. Minimalists don't seem to have taken very many logic courses because the argument from silence never works. Egypt has been a fantastic treasure trove of manuscripts because of no humidity, but I am still hoping that Palestine continues to yield artifacts. One of the greatest field trips I ever took in seminary was to the Chicago Oriental Institute to see thousands of artifacts and manuscripts under one roof, including Queen Esther's throne. Highly recommend that trip. You'll need a whole day for the various exhibits. Then go out for pizza.
@@WilbertLek You've come to a video about Christian archaeology and you're rather spitefully posting replies to almost every single comment you can find. I'm no brain scientist, but that's evidence of a deeply ingrained bias (and perhaps a whole host of other personality issues!) right there 🤣🤣🤣
terrible video work, not once did the camera show me what the speaker was displaying...good info in the speech but lacking the visual I would not watch again...actually stopped at 41 minutes
***** it's not just him it's other individual people who have rediscovered and confirmed many but not all of his caims. The one where he talked about ark of covenant was kinda odd but he was right on all the other finds soooooooo.....
***** Let's take them 1 at a time. I can say the Mount Sinai find was a definent yes and the lake below that came from the rock that moses split and all the finding's around there. The Noah's ark find is almost a definent yes I really can't see how that would be a no but that is one I am like probably butt I need to research about the actual test that were done and who were they done by. He found were Jesus was crusified.and the missing stone from the tomb below. The ark of the covenant is a HUE claim so I dunno it seems all good but only time will tell He found city of Sodom and GOmorah this is a yes but I think he just rediscovered alot of this you see people had known about these places for thousands of years they just kinda got forgotten in the last few hundred years and rediscovered. A lot of the finds were from different peoples stories that we still have today for instance Noah's ark I think was found around ww2 from an airplane that had saw the boat formation. I would say the most convincing for me was the MOUNT SINAI find that was in your face real. You can see all that stuff on google earth I can't believe someone didn't know that earlier because it is the only path the Hebrews could have taken out of Egypt and all the chariot's that were found and the poles marking the crossing of the red sea I think one was put in a museum by the Jewsl before they retreated from the muslims. People say Ron Wyatt was a bad person taking peoples money but I don't know any individual that got robbed, I mean maybe Ron didn't show proof of the ark of the covenant but you can guarantee it wasn't cause he was being lazy. He really worked his butt off over in the middle east finding all this stuff and he never got rich go talk to his family they are not rich. Another thing he testified many times about things in church and he balled his eyes out you can usually spot a fake. Right before he died he made a confession I don't know if you listened to it but he said he didn't lie about anything, you see it isn't just one thing that makes me trust his intention's it's everything. People alway's say people like Ron Wyatt is a scam artist for taking money but he didn't get that much look at the way he lived I mean come on people never question all these other archaeologist when they find something even when there proven wrong they don't get beat down and called names and they get hundreds of thousands of dollars sometimes millions.
+panda bear get on Google earth and look foe Egypt and Saudi Arabia now find newaba beach in Egypt now got straight east you will find mount jabal so then look for burnt mountain top all around that area all the way back to giza is the story of exodus there are tons pictures just read exodus and look in that area it's perfect.
the slides!!!!! soooo frustrating! we miss ALL of the fun! Having listened all through he seriously oversimplifies the sceptics view to make them seem totally unreasonable. Why would the Jewish scribes want to fake their own history? But, on the other hand, finding artefacts that verify the babylonian captivity does not mean that the crossing of the Red Sea was therefore strictly miraculous . Storytellers down the ages can soon turn a natural event into supernatural one long before anyone thought to write it down.
Its possible the camera they used could not see the slides & it would have just shown a blank screen depending on what kind of slides & the kind of lighting used.Typical slides when filmed with light only show a blank white screen. There ARE ways to make the slides show up though since I've seen it done but you probably have to special equipment, either special camera or special kind of slides or both. For a lecture like this, they really should invest in such equipment & show the slides!
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No document, regardless of how much it is respected, is assumed to be correct if there is uncertainty involved. Not even something like the Icelandic sagas are accepted as truth, and they have a far more reliable pedigree than the bible. Why should the bible just be assumed to be true??? This is what is messed up about some people’s Christian thinking.
faith is to believe in something that has no proof. people want proof if Jesus was alive or if he was risen...well those people will never get their answer . something to be proofed is called science .....those are 2 totally opposite things that never can come closer.
Do you not agree that it is important to verify if the claims of believers represent something that exists in reality, as opposed to something that exists in their heads?
54 possible to let go of the guilt after we leave so now I obviously I didn't understand really the guilt of what so that's exactly what I asked them and they said sure I'll explain the guilt maybe feelings of fear some of us experience after we leave even though in our hearts we know that it's wrong in terms of the organization it's teaching yes that's why we left yes bc we were ingraine for so long of how we were sinners now that we've left the threat of Armageddon was so ingrained in us since birth sometimes I feel it's very hard to loosen that grip and feel at peace with my choice so how can you reassure someone that their choice to leave the organization was correct and that these fears of being a sinner and Armageddon are irrational I don't know I think we're I think human beings are are a rational by by Nature I think I've spoke to you before it's this this sense of almost impending doom and I don't know if it's bc of you know kind of you know it's what sells Life After Leaving Jehovah's Witnesses | The Truth Hurts Podcast Ep.1 The Jehovah's Witness Matrix your own mind Harrison Cother bv14 john 18:37"You are a king, then!" said Pilate. Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me."
Historical accounts are plausible in themselves. But you can go down the wrong rabbit hole if you make certain assumptions. Even if the whole of Judaic History were factual, none of that would validate any of the supernatural claims explicitly stated in the Bible.
This man should be an apologist. Lol he is trying hard and doing everything he can to be intellectually honest. this is how Christians rationalize anything, with men like this who are honest... but not not truthful.
Finding the manuscript for Isaiah in the DSC doesn't verify *ANY* of the content since it's dated to 150 - 200 BC. All it does is show the later copies are accurate. .....a massive fail. lol
It’s similar with many other secular finds which no one doubts. Why those which support the Bible should be trashed? Just because they support the Bible?
Here's my question that no atheist or judeochristian has been able to answer. Passover has been a Jewish tradition for at least 2000 years. The song of the sea has to be 3000 years old minimum. It's basically a fight rally/diss song. It speaks of a tradition where Moses led the jews out of Egypt and buried the Pharoah. Why isn't there a rebuttal from egypt? Why has no Pharoah mentioned this tradition? Why haven't I heard of one papyrus saying "those Israelites, they are rubbing in their victory and we'll get them" or "those Israelites, what a bunch of liars." I mean, the lack of response could imply the tradition is true and it could imply the tradition is false. Hindu, Muslim, jew, Christian, atheists--we are some shit talking mofos. Yet, no one in Egypt clapped back. It's ancient times so word traveled slowly but the levant ans Egypt are neighbors. There was a Jewish temple in elphatine Island in Egypt. The Egyptians understood their own history. I personally think the tradition has some basis in fact. There were semite slaves in Egypt and I assume a lot left.
Did the camera operator set up everything and then duck out for the rest of the lecture? Oh! Unthinking people, do you not know that we, as well, would benefit from the visuals as much as did the attendees? All of you are feckless! This does not look good for the Bible Institute of Los Angeles.
Interesting but-yikes, this gentleman may want to get up to speed on many other Biblical discoveries, e.g., he seems to know nothing about the Red Sea crossing at Nuweiba beach on the Gulf of Aqaba. I suspect he’s just too influenced by the dim halls of secular Academia.
It is plausible to know a figure like Abraham Lincoln actually existed. But that has no bearing on 'Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Slayer,' as far as being something to take seriously Historically. Such is the Bible. Just think of Noah's Ark alone, you got an absurdity by definition.
Bloom doesn't get it. The miracles performed by the pagan gods and told of in the pagan literature totally outdo the biblical miracles. Why believe the one and not the other? There is history in the bible but it's found mostly between the lines. Egyptology and Palestinian archeology have reached a consensus: ancient Israel was never in Egypt so no Ten Plagues; no Exodus; no Wanderings and no Conquest. David and Solomon may have existed but if they did they ruled villages, not a kingdom. The bible authors sometimes used the names of real people and places but as propaganda props. According to the bible Abraham (~2,000 BCE) came from "Ur of the Chaldees." Who were the Chaldees? The Chaldeans. But they did not rise as a tribe until over 1,000 years after the time of the Abraham character and didn't control Ur until centuries later. It's only wise to consider biblical stories to be maybe true - maybe false until corroborated by outside evidence. The real attitude of minimalists isn't to prove the bible wrong but just to not assume it's all historical until proved. Miracle stories just detract from trustworthiness. That goes for the New Testament too. The N.T. contains many contradictions. True scholars believe neither account until evidence favors one or the other. Bloom's attitude seems to be "believe both." Just because a person from the bible is confirmed to exist doesn't mean the stories are true. Yes, there was an Abraham Lincoln. Does that make "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" historical? Only peripherally.
Absence of evidence does sometimes prove that things claimed to have happened actually didn't Depending on what where when . Typical American archaeologist ...I use the term archaeologist lightly .
@@WilbertLek I agree with you about absence of evidence , Especially when people claim or believe something happened somewhere. And if true would leave loads of evidence behind. But , it depends on what people claim happened. Likd if some man walked across a field and claimed a burning bush spoke to him, it's very unlikely that any evidence would exist. But something like Caesar saying 12000 men destroyed a settlement of a massive Celtic tribe and nothing is found No evidence of burning, no signs of attack, or signs of the settlement preparing for defence, nothing at all, no usual losses, snapped buckles, dropped coins etc , nothing, when 12000 men have stomped around and built camps Yet no archaeology exists, then absence of evidence is evidence that nothing happened , No matter what Caesar ( or whoever) wrote it, claimed .
I did not appreciate the article he wrote in "The Apologetics Study Bible." He equates modern circumcision to Jewish circumcision and gives outdated medical data on it's benefits. He may be an intelligent man, but not on this subject.
Satan is at work, don't you get it?people here are so carnal, they see everything with natural eyes. Everything that promoting saving souls, would encounter hindrances. I am talking from experience.