Paul's Shipwreck Proves That Acts is Real History 

We should retitle it to "Book of Facts".

I live in Malta! 2 months ago we celebrated The Feast of Saint Paul's Shipwreck! Its a very fun and joyous festival! So much confetti and parades happening! Thank you for the informing video, and thank you, Saint Paul, for converting the island!

I became a believer in Christ as a young Navy man out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, returning to Pearl Harbor from Yokosuka, Japan in 1975. I have always read the Acts account of Paul's journey as a gripping, harrowing tale of men against the unforgiving sea. And I sailed on modern steam-driven steel-hulled warships. Paul's shipwreck on Malta rings true to me, to my core as a sailor!

Skeptics : ahoyyyy mateysss, move ye goal postsss bacckkkk

As a history buff, this type of evidence makes me excited

Paul fighting a Sharknado gives me chills. It is actually a biblical tier event.

As a Christian and a history buff, I am so looking forward to this series!

For 40 years, I have been studying Biblical apologetics as a layman, and your videos have me very captivated, so much so, for example, that I was very disappointed when I suddenly realized that this video was ending! Whoa! I was enjoying it so much that I really felt bummed! That's okay, as long as I know there's more to come. (By the way, I don't know why I hadn't thought of it, but I intend to share your channel with my children, who also love God's Word. All 13 children, 6 children-in-law, and 13 young grandchildren! )

Honestly Im always impressed how people have been able to navigate the sea anytime before the advancements of like the last century, let alone for thousands of years ! Props to Paul for surviving 👍

My husband got me onto your "undesigned coincidences" videos, and I've loved them! I'm excited to learn how history supports the Bible!

Just hearing you say "Ahoy" makes me believe that you need to pursue an apologetic pirate music career. For reasons... 👀

Oh, new playlist. Hello, Testify! :)

Thank you so Much, I pray that At some point, Atheists realize that if bible errors are good enough to Disprove the Bible, Bible accuracy should also be good enough to prove it, I doubt it will Happen, but There is hope

YESSS I love your content, excited to see a new series coming!

Dude love your videos man keep it coming I’m an agnostic Christian but I love the way you defend the Bible and Christ and Paul ❤🙏🏽

I love your style! Casual and fun, yet detailed and analytical enough to draw strong conclusions.

I know theres also arguments that the actual island Paul landed on was Melita near Croatia, since the naval travel eould also work out to reaxh there, and that island has poisonous snakes likr described in Acts (something I've seen some skeptics say is that Malta doesn't have poisonous snakes). Either way, great video!

Just discovered this channel, love this content man!

This was a really episode! Can't wait to see more 'juicy nuggets' like this one

Great nuggets of evidence. Excellent video. Thank you for it. God bless.

Hey I really appreciate the formatting. The wojak meme stuff can be relatable to gen z and those in the memes. God bless u.

looking forward to this!!

Bring it on! This is fascinating stuff!

Never seen your videos before. Love this! Subscribing

In future videos could you list major sources in the description? I wanted to find James Smiths book a few days later and had to skim through to remember his name. Thanks.for the hard work

I would love if you had a second channel in which you deep dove into these sources -- bible geography!

Aaaaay new series!

Thank for doing the research and presenting it here.

Great video! I was curious if you know about Bob Cornuke's documentary on Paul's shipwreck? He presents some pretty cool evidence for finding the anchors of the the ship which Luke mentions being cut free.

I was blessed enough to visit St Thomas Bay where the ship crashed. It was incredible reading these verses and being able to see where they recovered the anchors, the reef, the sand, and all the other details mentioned

Videos like this strengthen my faith.

You read about Luke's shipwreck description in Acts and it rings true. Luke is describing exactly what mariners do when in extremis, and helplessly being driven ashore, especially in the days of sail. He relates that the usual celestial signs are absent. Stars guided ships. Without them you can only rely on dead reckoning. After the length of time related without seeing the stars, the mariners likely had very little clues as where exactly they were. They would have, at best, relied on educated guesses judging by current, wave action and wind direction. The ship eventually was driven into the mouth of a creek emptying into the sea. A ship wedged like this, bow first, would present the stern to the surf and the ship, held fast, would be battered to pieces by the waves astern, exactly as Luke describes. I am not a mariner, but I spent most of my life as a maritime photographer, studying ship design, the behavior of ships underway, anchor usage in emergencies like loss of power due to engine failure or wind driven storms so fierce that the sails were shortened or fully furled against the yards so they wouldn't be torn apart. The sailors would have also shortened sail so the winds wouldn't drive the ship's bow so deep into the wave troughs that it could likely "pitchpole" or have it's stern be raised so high that the ship flips forward and over like a pole vaulter's pole when it's driven into the soil. Just as bad would be an event where the ship pivots on a wave and the wind hits the sails with such force, the ship lays on its side and rolls over. Luke's account is no less historically correct and fascinating than if you were reading about the adventures aboard the merchant sailing brig "Alert" in Dana's true accounts in "Three Years Before the Mast" The first time I read Luke's biblical shipwreck account, I was flabbergasted at the accuracy in his telling of the shipwreck and the mariner's actions preceeding the wreck. And consider Paul. He was a man of many adventures and had faith in the Lord, knowing God would get them through disaster. He stayed calm, had a plan, and gave instructions to the crew like making sure they were fully fed and well hydrated because no one was sure where they would end up or if there would be enough food to keep them alive. Thank you for bringing your excellent video to youtube. You totally nailed it!

Thank you

Love it!

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Thanks! 👍🏻

Hemer's book is nutty. Glad it's being covered.

Love the stl reference

Atheist finds a stone under a rock that dates from the first century: "SUCH HISTORY!" Atheist reads a book that can trace its roots, unchanged by every account, all the way to the first century: "Ridiculous!"

I don't know why but I was expecting you to present a shipwreck recorded in a different historical source that correlates to this particular shipwreck.

You found the passenger list? Fancy that! Oh, you found ships sank in the Med. Not quite as impressive, especially in the 1st century. The author knew about shipping and that's about all you can say.

You should write a book on these things

Hey man, what bible translation do you use for your videos? I really like, i wouldn't mind getting one.

That was too cool

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The shortest and probably the cheapest way to get to Italy was through Corinth and hence Nicopolis which city Paul actually mentions in his letters. The sea voyage via Crete was hazardous. Acts at this point most probably passes over into fiction.

I don’t get how finding Cauda was like such a rare chance but finding Malta which is much farther from nearby land wasn’t. Does someone know the depths of this?

the book of acts is a historical document of historical events, why would anyone be surprised if it's historical?

Acts 27 29 "Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day. "They have found the four anchors of the ship that were cast off to lighten the ship during the storm.

Glad to see your having fun with these! Your the scourge of redditers everywhere 😂

No amount of evidence will convince those who simply want to be their own "God." Sadly... but amazing job, hopefully some agnostics see this! :)

Are you a trinitarian? I’m a oneness Pentecostal, but I’m really questioning the oneness doctrine, I still believe in Jesus only name baptism, but idk. I would like not for you to convince me, but to give me more evidence and explanations to evaluate which path I should take, God Bless.

Hey man, sorry this if off topic for the video , but recently I have been struggling with how bible scholars who once were Christian after learning about the Bible completely lose their faith such as Dr. Kipp. Dr. Josh Brown I believe his name is, and Dr Bart and so on and so on, how do you respond or reconcile with that? It’s been hard for me. After analyzing and reading the book, shouldn’t it strengthen your faith?

I've read the Oddysey. They sail, but they don't talk about it as much.

No one talking about how bummed out Paul and the gang must've been getting shipwrecked.

5:42 I’m sorry did you just say “chalasantes?” Oof that hurts my ears. It would be khalasantes (an aspirated or fricative K sound). The Greeks (and Hebrew) don’t have a “chuh” sound.

5:28 *Yarr* I know the seas 🤣

The favorite atheist argument these days is that: "Even comic books mention New York for Spiderman to be in, so therefore when the Bible mentions real places and figures it could easily just be made to look like fictional things blending in reality, when actually, nothing happened in the Bible that is true." If that's the case, then it really speaks levels of their understanding of what's real and what isn't. But if we have to accept their flawed reasoning, then obviously the only way to prove reality as described in any book to exist, is to see what the book says of events in that time to learn of it is accurate to history. Another way is to actually look at what stands out as pointing to be true. Do you see a spiderman cult going around trying to explain that spiderman is real because based on a comic book it therefore has to be true? We dont see people like that because it's stupid to waste time and resources of your life to convince people of something that doesnt offer anything more than, "this is real". Christianity doesnt go around telling people Christ is real, actually to say that Jesus has eternal life, so if you want to enter heaven you believe in His sacrifice. There's a huge difference in this that athiests cannt fathom. They're so caught up in their own mind to not work out their flaws.

They call themselves skeptics, but they behave like foil helmets.

The Bible isn’t stories…it’s Records.

@0:15 They might to think once.

7:09 Felix was the prisoner; Jesus was with them; authenticity in the binding of the ship with (girdling) ropes; presume grain thrown overboard because absorbing sea-water gotten into the hold…

@Testify Acts 21:17 - 26 ......What is going on here ??? are you up to the challenge? are there Some real double standards going on here? Or what?

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Love the addition of NPCs

Everyone is talking about today's eclipse. We were cautioned not to stare directly at without special glasses. My mind went back to Thales of Miletus who in 585 BC predicted an eclipse. But while that was quite something there is on record an even greater prediction in the Old Testament. In Amos 8:9 where the prophet predicted the darkness that covered the earth when Christ hung on the cross. It reads, "And in that day declares the Lord God I will make the sun go down at noon and will darken the earth in the daytime." Now read "At noon, darkness fell across the whole land until three o’clock." [Mark 15:33] That eclipses our eclipse doesn't it? And look, leading secular historians around at that time admitted to what happened when Jesus died and the sun as it were, left the sky. Isaac Watts Well might the sun in darkness hide And shut his glories in, When Christ, the mighty Maker died For man the creature’s sin.

There is some indication that the island in question is not Malta but Mljet (Croatian island). Look into that theory

3:35 no pun intended

*Quoting scriptural psychobabble confers neither fact, wisdom nor authority, only tribal ignorance.* People wrote fictional stories, folklore, and plagiaristic works thousands of years ago, just as they do today- why is this fact so hard for believers like you to comprehend?

Bear with me….says Elisha😂😂😂😂

Cilicia, not "Cicilia"

Wonderful. I pray these videos will lead people to examine the life of Jesus themselves and come to seek a relationship with God. Christ is the only true fulfillment for your life and salvation for your soul! Jesus loves you all, take care of yourself for me, have a wonderful night

lol that thumbnail is smth

No matter what ive been thru jesus is always real. Facts. Amen and amen. And for those who say paul was a fake apostle, what about James 4:7 “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” ????? This works in real life. So, fake that 😊

ya need a little more bible verses

The Bible is a collection of historical documents.

What a splendid false dilemma! Perfectly neglecting the correct option that historical research confirms some aspects of some stories, disproves others and is undecided about some more.

It's not that skeptics doubt so much the historicity of Paul's travels but rather Paul's message that Jesus of Nazareth is the divine son of the one true god.

Interesting theory I think you should do a video on. The Romans changed the way the Bible tells us about Pilate to make it easier to convert the Roman people to Christianity. (Instead of making him a bad guy like Caiaphas) in a nutshell basically blaming the Romans for changing the Bible and cause “antisemitic” views of the Jews since around the 1st Century. Do I believe this no, but however it is an interesting video idea.

Awesome, Luke was really on a boat, or knew a person who was. Who is seriously making this an issue? What I want to know is the real evidence for the miraculous stuff in the Bible, beyond just "this guy told possible tales with historically accurate details, therefore we can trust him completely on everything else" type of stuff. 99 truths don't make one lie true.

Does any amount of historical verification make Jesus’s claim to divinity or his resurrection true? I’m getting Spider-Man fallacy vibes. I’m not saying they’re not true, but even if EVERY detail could be confirmed save those two, it wouldn’t demonstrate the truth of those two claims. I’m not sure what the goal of any of this stuff is. Is it for believers in doubt? A non-believer, who doesn’t believe simply because they’re not convinced, won’t find any of this compelling. As someone who feels the psychological compulsion to believe but can’t reconcile faith and reason, I feel like I live in a space where no one is able to effectively reach me.

A Northeaster is a storm that moves up from the South West and moves to the NORTH EAST. The winds in the location you show would be a Southwester.

A lot of people believe he existed, and that Acts is history, but they also teach Paul is a false apostle.

great satire man

Paul's shipwreck story reminds me of another really similar story. What could it be...? 🤔🤔🤔 hmmm... Oh yeah! The story of Odysseus being shipwrecked! I wonder which story came first or really happened in history... hmmm... 🤔🤔🤔

Ok, so some parts of Acts could have been historical, skeptics may grant that point. But it was normal for ancient writers to blend history and legend on their stories. See for example, Herodotus Histories, which report on the Greco-Persian wars and are considered part of the history gerne, but nevertheless contain several mythical and legendary claims, such as the supernatural rescue of Delphi from a Persian attack.

I’m not a Christian, however I often get a laugh from those who phoo phoo the Bible as an historic document. Do I believe a series of plagues hit Egypt and from that Semitic people living in the north fled for Palestine You can believe God sent the plagues ( you) or it was a natural event (me) but either way Exodus reads like history. We can say the same thing about the synoptic gospels, believe or not they should be taken as historic documents The Bible needs to be treated in the same way as any historic document from classical time

My problem here is that getting details right is not a sign that something isn’t historical fiction; it just means that the author did a good job. If I were writing a shipwreck scene in a historical novel, I might take details from an actual account and then insert my hero into the story. It seems very plausible that the author of Acts could have done the same with his hero. He knew Paul was supposed to have been in a shipwreck, so he could have taken details from an account of a real survivor and used them to craft a believable tale.

I guess that also makes the cyclopses a fact since the odissey is history because shipwrecks and travels in the mediterranean existed.

You really don't realize why the title isn't true? It does not -by any means whatsoever- automatically guarantee that the writers didn't take real life events and added symbolic aspects to convey a deeper concealed (occulted) meaning. It's almost common sense but it's not at the same time, so I get why people jump the gun with assumptions. We have to separate what we want from what we know.

Jesus is God's Son. Jesus is Lord. Jesus was crucified and died for the sins of the world. Jesus's blood was shed for the forgiveness of sins. Jesus was buried for three days. Jesus was raised from the dead by God.

Is this a serious channel?

And Jonah's adventures prove that whales are fish! so the bible proves a lot of wrong things it even thinks Pi is 3, Shame but there were only bronze age schools available to god at the time.

The things that religious folks think of as evidence always amuses me. That Saul was aboard a ship that was wrecked is plausible but that does not at all prove that the rest of the book of Acts is accurate. I have been pointing out this sort of thing for years about the bible in general. There are parts that contain true history but that hardly means that the whole thing is true.

You have to jump around because a timeline would expose your lies and misinformation

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