2. B) IT SHOWS US THE EARTH IS
I. THE BIBLE IS SCIENTIFIC
HANGING IN OUTER SPACE
A) IT SHOWS US THE EARTH IS
Job 26:7 (2000 B.C.)
ROUND
Isa 40:22 (740-680 B.C.)
Majority of ancient traditions and
Most ancient civilizations believed
legends would speak of the earth as
that the world is flat. Their mariners
being supported by huge pillars or
would not venture too far out into the
on the back of some giant tortoise.
oceans fearing that they would go
over the “edge” into some unknown, When these moved, then you will
have earthquakes.
Fearsome, watery abyss.
3. C) IT SHOWS US THERE ARE
UNDERSEA CURRENT
Psalm 8:8 (1410-430 B.C.)
In 1885, Matthew Maury, a Us
Navy officer, after reading Ps. 8:8
set off to find these curious
“paths of the seas.” He eventually
discovered these oceanic currents
and came to be known as the
“pathfinder of the seas.”
D) IT SHOWS US THE UNIVERSE IS
RUNNING DOWN(THE SECOND LAW OF
THERMODYNAMICS)
Ps. 102:25-26 ( 1410-430 B.C. )
The sun and all the stars in the Universe
are burning themselves out and the
process is irreversible. The Universe,
like a wound-up clock, is running down
today. But the question: who raised the
energy level so high to make
photosynthesis possible thus making life
possible.
4. E) IT SHOWS US THE EXISTENCE
OF DAY AND NIGHT(Lk. 17:3034)
(58-63 A.D.)
The Bible predicted that when the
Lord Jesus Christ comes again, it
would be day in certain parts and
night in the other parts.
F)
IT SHOW US THE HYDROLOGIC
CYCLE OF WATER: Ecc. 1:7 (950 B.C.)
The process of evaporation and
condensation of water were only
discovered by Galileo in 1630.
5. G) IT SHOWS US THE REALITY OF
ADAM AND EVE(Gen. 1:27-28)
(1450 B.C.)
Mitochondrial DNA is inherited always
from the mother. A researcher, Rebecca
Cann, studied the mitochondrial DNA of
the placenta of babies from 147 women
from Africa, America, Europe and the
Middle East and Asia. All the babies’ DNA
could be traced to one woman.
(Newsweek, Jan. 11, 1998)
H) THE BIBLE AND ARCHEOLOGY
AGREE
Seashells and fossils of fish were
found in mountains which is an
evidence of the flood during
Noah’s time
6. 1) But now proof of the Great Flood
can be found in the preserved vessel
of Noah, who's story is told
in Genesis, chapters 6 through 9.
I use the word "preserved"
cautiously. The vessel is so ancient
that it is now a fossil. That's right,
the ark has turned into petrified
wood. An earthquake in 1978
caused much of the earth that
covered it to fall away and expose
the noticeably man-made structure
of the gigantic rock formation (see
figure 1, below). Made from gopher
wood (likely cypress-pine) and
covered with pitch (tar) per biblical
instructions, the Ark has withstood
eons of time, and within its lower
chambers are deeply buried secrets.
7. The unmistakable shape of a large
vessel is evident in this picture. First
observed by the West in aerial shots
of the Ararat Mountain Range in 1959
and featured in a small article in LIFE
magazine in 1960. The object went
largely unnoticed after earlier
expeditions concluded it was a
natural rock formation. The object is
the exact dimensions of the Ark given
in Genesis chapter 6 verse 15: the
length 300 cubits (the Egyptian cubit
is exactly 20.6 inches) or 515 feet by
50 cubits (86 ft) wide and 30 cubits
(51.5 ft) high. The person responsible
for relating the accounts of Noah was
Moses (who is credited with the first
5 books of the Old Testament). Moses
was schooled in the courts of Egypt
and would have used the Egyptian
"Royal Cubit" for his measurements.
8. 2)There are hundreds of relics
discovered by archeologists which
existence coincides with Bible
history
According to Nelson Glueck, a
respected Jewish archeologist
claims: “It may be stated that no
archeological discovery has ever
contradicted a biblical reference.” A dedicated archeologist, Dr. Eliat Mazar,
world authority on
The liberals made wild claims
Jerusalem’s past, has taken King David out
against the Bible a hundred years of the pages of the Bible and put
ago but now they are silent. This him back into living history. Mazar’s latest
excavation in the City of David, in the
is not true of other religions. The southern shadow of the Temple Mount, has
Mormon claim for inspiration of shaken up the archaeological world. For
lying undisturbed for over 3,000 years is
the Book of Mormon has been
a massive building which Mazar believes is
condemned by the Smithsonian King David’s palace and now most recently
Institute because of the fallacies has discovered ancient fortifications from the
time of King Solomon.
by archeology.
9. Recent archeological investigations have
demolished the position of those who
rejected the biblical account of Israel's
kings such as King David. In 1993,
archeologists digging at Tel Dan in the
Galilee in northern Israel found a fragment
of a stone inscription that clearly refers to
the "house of David"ÿand identifies David
as the "king of Israel." This is the first
inscription outside the Bible that confirms
the Bible's statement that David was the
king of Israel in the ninth century before
Christ. Many Bible critics who had rejected
King David as a myth were upset to
discover their position could no longer be
defended. Some critics suggested that the
fragment was a "fake." The following
summer, two additional fragments of the
original inscription were found that
provided scholars with the whole
inscription, confirming that it referred to
David as king of Israel.
Furthermore, another scholar, Andre
Lemaire from the College de France,
discovered another ninth century B.C.
stone inscription created by King
Mesha of Moab that also referred to
"the House of David." These incredible
inscriptions, recorded a century after
David's death, confirm that David was
king of Israel at the time the Bible
stated and that he established a
dynasty, the "House of David"ÿas the
Scriptures said.
10. • Archaeology makes a
believer
• The abundance of archaeological
evidence in support of the Bible
can strengthen faith, and in some
cases it has greatly contributed to
giving birth to belief where none
existed before.
• An example of physical evidence
building one's faith is the life of
Englishman William M. Ramsay
(1851-1939). Born in the lap of
luxury, Ramsay was dutifully raised
as a nonbeliever by his atheist
parents. He graduated from Oxford
University with a doctorate in
philosophy and became a professor
at the University of Aberdeen.
Determined to undermine the
historical accuracy of the Bible,
he studied archaeology with
the aim of disproving the
biblical account. Once ready
with the necessary scientific
tools and learning, he traveled
to Palestine and focused on
the book of Acts, which he
fully expected to refute as
nothing more than myth.
After a quarter-century of
work, Ramsay was awestruck
by the accuracy of the book of
Acts. In his quest to refute the
Bible, Ramsay discovered many
facts which confirmed its
accuracy.
11. He had to concede that Luke's account
of the events and setting recorded in
the narrative were exact even in the
smallest detail. Far from attacking the
biblical account, Ramsay produced a
book, St. Paul, the Traveller and
Roman Citizen , which supported it.
Eventually, William Ramsay shook the
intellectual world by writing that he
had converted to Christianity.
Ironically, this man who set out to
refute the Bible, found himself
accepting the Bible as God's Word
because of his explorations and
discoveries. For his contribution to
biblical knowledge with his many
books, he was knighted also.
