Archaeological Evidence for the Bible

[TheAristocat]

So I came across this recently and wanted to share it:

Nazareth Inscription - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

What archaeological evidence have you found for the biblical account?

 

[Married_Richenbrachen]

What archaeological evidence have you found for the biblical account?

What about all those giants on that other thread?

 

[TheAristocat]

What about all those giants on that other thread?

Got a link?

 

[HeRoseFromTheDead]

Here's something that proves via photographic, scientific and other evidence that a prophecy of Zechariah has been fulfilled. > Deciphering Zechariah 14:5 | An indepth analysis of Zechariah 14:5. It also reveals the location of Azal (Zechariah 14:5), which has been hidden from the Christian world for many centuries.

 

[Married_Richenbrachen]

Got a link?

I found it at last!

http://christianchat.com/bible-discussion-forum/74777-nephilim-biblical-archaeology.html

Post 15 of this page, by someone called Rebel.

 

[nathan3]

here are some you can read about. its gets updated with new articles once in a while

Biblical archaeology | A lamp stand

 

[nathan3]

Here's something that proves via photographic, scientific and other evidence that a prophecy of Zechariah has been fulfilled. > Deciphering Zechariah 14:5 | An indepth analysis of Zechariah 14:5. It also reveals the location of Azal (Zechariah 14:5), which has been hidden from the Christian world for many centuries.

This is Zechariah 14:5. prophecy of Christ return. This has not been fulfilled yet. : / If anyone claims this has happened, they are trying to rob the Christian from what the Bible teaches.

 

[nathan3]

Not you HeRoseFromTheDead
personally, i dont think you knew , but that web site you posted to has something wrong if they are saying that has happened .

 

[TheAristocat]

I found it at last!

http://christianchat.com/bible-discussion-forum/74777-nephilim-biblical-archaeology.html

Post 15 of this page, by someone called Rebel.

Eh. I can see 8.5 ft or 9 ft, because those heights have been recorded in modern history. Maybe even a freakish chance of 13 ft. But 36 ft? It would be hard for me to believe the 13 ft unless there were corresponding bones on display in a respected museum.

 

[HeRoseFromTheDead]

Not you HeRoseFromTheDead
personally, i dont think you knew , but that web site you posted to has something wrong if they are saying that has happened .

Really? Why do you say that? Seems pretty convincing to me.

 

[Graybeard]

Discovery of The Ark of the Covenant

 

[Canchristiansgetalong]

I have learned in my life that evidence does not create faith or spiritual knowledge. Faith is a hope for things that are unseen, but are still true. When I read the scriptures I feel that they are true just as strongly as I feel the breeze on a hot summer day. I feel that God exists and Jesus Christ is our Savior. I feel that they love me and want me to be happy. I have come to the conclusion in my life that these very real feelings of love that push me to be better are even more dependable than what other men tell me. Especially in a world so full of illusion and half truths. Physical evidences of spiritual truths are often one or the other.

 

[Married_Richenbrachen]

Eh. I can see 8.5 ft or 9 ft, because those heights have been recorded in modern history. Maybe even a freakish chance of 13 ft. But 36 ft? It would be hard for me to believe the 13 ft unless there were corresponding bones on display in a respected museum.

I was so excited when I found the link that I forgot to post... I'm pretty sure some of the giant finds might have been faked! (Not necessarily on that photo, but in general about the net). That said, I'm fairly sure some of the finds are real, too. When I asked in the thread, some of the bones (perhaps conveniently) crumbled away when they were excavated.

There is also the account of the spies entering the promised land, when they complain that they are like grasshoppers to the people of the land. 6ft to 36ft is probably like a large grasshopper to modern day man... I dunno if I believe the 36 foot giant. But I don't believe it's impossible, either.

 

[Hizikyah]

The Exodus Revealed: Searching for the Red Sea Crossing - YouTube

Amazing documentary proving the real Red Sea Crossing and the real Mt Horeb (Sinai)

HalleluYAHWEH for leaving us this evidence!

 

[TheAristocat]

Here's a quote I found from another site while continuing to read about the Nazareth Inscription. I thought it was interesting, so I'll share:

The Roman practice of posting a titulus at an execution site was foreign to the Greek-speaking half of the Roman world, and there was no equivalent Greek word to translate the Latin word “titulus.” This can even be seen in all three of the synoptic Gospels in the New Testament, where the Greek words “aitia” [“legal charge”] and variants of the verb “grapho” [“write”] are used together to describe the titulus of Christ, see Matt.27:27, Mark 15:26, Luke 23:38. However, by the time that the Apostle John wrote his gospel, the Latin word “titulus” had become a loan word in the Greek language in the form “titlos.” John 19:19 uses the word “titlos” for the written charge placed over the head of Christ. The fact that the Nazareth Inscription uses the Greek word “onoma” or “name” and does not use the later Latin loan word “titlos” strongly suggests that the Nazareth Inscription was written sometime before the Apostle John wrote his Gospel in the late first century A.D.

I looked up titlos, and it does come from Latin. If three of the Gospels do not use it but the fourth (John) does, then I think this would be a good case for very early dates of the first three Gospels.

 

[Katy-follower]

This is Zechariah 14:5. prophecy of Christ return. This has not been fulfilled yet. : / If anyone claims this has happened, they are trying to rob the Christian from what the Bible teaches.

Reminds me of Hymenaeus and Philetus who showed signs of being full preterists. They were mentioned in 2 Timothy 2. Their message would spread like cancer.

No way was Zech 14:5 fulfilled in 70AD.

 

[HeRoseFromTheDead]

Reminds me of Hymenaeus and Philetus who showed signs of being full preterists. They were mentioned in 2 Timothy 2. Their message would spread like cancer.

No way was Zech 14:5 fulfilled in 70AD.

I don't think it was fulfilled in 70AD either. All evidence, though, strongly indicates it has been fulfilled. Possibly on the day Christ died.

 

[Married_Richenbrachen]

Really? Why do you say that? Seems pretty convincing to me.

So you hold that Jesus second coming has already happened? I thought Zechariah 14:5 was talking of Jesus' return (second coming).

 

[nathan3]

I don't think it was fulfilled in 70AD either. All evidence, though, strongly indicates it has been fulfilled. Possibly on the day Christ died.

If , time is taken to read the entire chapter , you get more information.


Zechariah 14:9 And the Lord shall be King over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and His name One."

This is talking of the Lord's Day _ Rev 1:10 , Rev 20: ). The Millennium ; that is what the entire chapter of Zechariah 14 is about. Some one not familiar with that would be looking in the wrong direction and wrong events..

It's Clear Christ has not returned to Rule all nations with a rod of Iron yet.

 

[HeRoseFromTheDead]

So you hold that Jesus second coming has already happened? I thought Zechariah 14:5 was talking of Jesus' return (second coming).

No, to your first question.

Regarding your second comment, that's what most of the Christian world thinks. Eh well, let me take that back. Most of the Christian world uses bibles in which Zechariah 14:5 says something like this.

The valley between the hills will be filled in, yes, it will be blocked as far as Jasol [Azal], it will be filled in as it was by the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Zechariah 14:5, New Jerusalem Bible​

That changes things quite a bit, doesn't it? This is the reading found in the Greek Septuagint (LXX). A tremendous amount of evidence proves that it is correct.

Most of the bibles in the western Christian world say something like this:

And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Zechariah 14:5, King James Version​

Eh well, let me take that back. It's really only the Protestant world that uses bibles that have this reading, which comes from the Masoretic Text (MT). Only two Protestant bibles that I know of, the New English Bible and the Concordant Literal Version, use the LXX reading. The two most popular bibles of the Roman Catholic Church, the New American Bible and the New Jerusalem Bible, both contain the LXX reading. The Jewish Publication Society, whose stated editorial policy is to favor the MT, has used the LXX version of this verse in bibles and publications since about 1985.

So basically, it's mostly Protestants who use bibles with a corrupted version of Zechariah 14:5.