IMAGINE EVIDENCE FOR FAITH
By Ada Brownell
By Ada Brownell
It is not difficult to believe in God. Archaeology has found
evidence to support much of the Bible’s historical
information. Cities mentioned in the Bible have been discovered. According to the Biblical Archaeology Society, on July 18, 2013, the
Israel Antiquities Authority reported in a news release: King David’s Palace
was uncovered in the Judean Shephelah.
The Pool of Siloam where Jesus healed a blind man
was discovered after excavations in the Jerusalem. From reports, another pool
was thought to be the Pool of Siloam, but when this one about the size of two
football fields was discovered along with a series of steps leading down to the
pool. The pool was uncovered by a Jerusalem utility crew. Work was halted and
archaeologists took over.
The pool is at the end of an amazing aqueduct discovered
in 1838 by American biblical scholar Edward Robinson. The tunnel was far more
spectacular than anyone imagined, hewn out of solid rock and 1,750 feet long.
Skeptics claim the tunnel must have been created more recently than 1,700 years
ago, but analysis of the ancient writing found in the tunnel, carbon 14 dating
of the plant life disrupted by the tunnel, and uranium-thorium dating of
stalactites and stalagmites that grew after completing of the tunnel, support a
date of around 700 BC, the date given in the Bible.
Why did Hezekiah build the canal?
At about that time, the Assyrian Army led by King
Sennacherib conquered nearly every prominent town in the southern kingdom of
Judah. Israel lay in ruins. Sennacherib’s strategy was to cut off all food and
water outside the fortified city walls, then when the people inside were near
death from thirst and starvation, begin the siege.
When King Hezekiah heard what was
happening around Jerusalem, he sought the Lord, and built a tunnel, a canal,
from the springs outside the city through solid rock to bring water under the
wall and to the people. You can read about it in 2 Kings 18-20 and 2 Chronicles
32.
There is much more archaeological evidence to
support the Bible. Ancient writings also
have been found that verify people mentioned in scripture lived at the time
described.
Archaeologists have found so much evidence for
the Bible accuracy it takes books to tell it.
Fulfilled prophecies
also show the Bible is something on which we can depend. The Jews returning
from being scattered over the earth after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD
and Israel becoming a nation in 1948 fulfill Ezekiel’s prophecy concerning the
valley of dry bones. You may remember the song about the “dry bones” connecting.
Fervent study of
scripture reveals many fulfilled prophecies.
IMAGINE EARTH THE WAY GOD MADE IT
Anyone who will look with an open
mind will see that creation is “programmed” the way God designed it. Species
reproduce only after their kind. The body returns to dust—from which the Bible
says it came.
If we look at creation,
there is too much perfection to be attributed to chance.
It is with awe toward the
Creator that we see not one but two kinds of humans, animals,
insects, reptiles, birds, and fish—which keep reproducing to populate Earth.
Doesn’t it take too much faith to believe two kinds evolved so perfectly so as
to join together and have the capacity to create others just like them?
Any part of the human
body or any other part of creation defies explanation outside of the design of
Almighty God.
More evidence for faith surrounds us. The
power of God at work in the lives of men and women today is a great testimony.
First, a personal relationship with God is the only thing that really satisfies
the soul of man. Even if we have access to everything the world has to offer,
if we don’t know God, we have emptiness.
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