Comments on: Archaeologists Uncover First Temple Seal

By: Despeville

Despeville — Fri, 04 May 2012 23:42:00 +0000

There are over 1.7 million Arabs with Israeli citizenship almost 24% of population of the State of Israel…
Should they be deported as well?

By: msjallen

msjallen — Fri, 04 May 2012 22:44:21 +0000

Right, there has never been a civilization or a nation referred to as "Palestine" and the very notion of a "Palestinian Arab nation" having ancient attachments to the Holy Land going back to time immemorial is one of the biggest hoaxes ever perpetrated upon the world! There is not, nor has there ever been, a distinct "Palestinian" culture or language. Further, there has never been a Palestinian state governed BY Arab Palestinians in history, nor was there ever a serious Arab-Palestinian national movement until 1964… three years BEFORE the Arabs of "Palestine" lost the West Bank [Judea and Samaria] and Gaza as a result of the 1967 Six-Day War (which the Arabs started). Even the so-called leader of the "Palestinian" people, Yasser Arafat, was EGYPTIAN! In short, the so-called Arab "Palestinians" are a manufactured people…a people with no history and no authenticity… whose sole purpose for existence is to destroy the Jewish State!

By: Victor Barney

Victor Barney — Fri, 04 May 2012 22:06:25 +0000

As I said, i'll believe you when the two-witnesses in Revelations, chapter 11 appear, unless you're disagreeing with them too that is? Just saying…

By: Victor Barney

Victor Barney — Fri, 04 May 2012 22:03:46 +0000

I'll be convinced about what you say right when the two-witnesses appear. Watch!

By: Evermyrtle

Evermyrtle — Fri, 04 May 2012 21:50:02 +0000

Great informative post, Thanks.

By: Evermyrtle

Evermyrtle — Fri, 04 May 2012 21:48:25 +0000

Victor why do you believe this about us? Yo know you are relating to millions of us. Surely some of us must know the things that you know. If not, "Woe is us!"

By: myth buster

myth buster — Fri, 04 May 2012 21:18:53 +0000

On Pentecost the Holy Spirit translated the words of the Apostles into each man's native language, that each heard the Apostles in his own native language. Not one of the books of the New Testament was written in Hebrew.

By: Victor Barney

Victor Barney — Fri, 04 May 2012 20:28:29 +0000

I take it that none of you "believers" believe that "Hebrew," as written is the ONLY SET-APART SPIRITUAL LANGUAGE
(i.e., Zeph. 3:9, Acts 26:14, 1 Cor. 4:6), right? Just saying…

By: keyboardshark

keyboardshark — Fri, 04 May 2012 18:27:29 +0000

There has never been an archaeological discovery that has been proven to contradict the claims of the Bible. There are many that do corroborate biblical evidence, such as the following:

The Nuzi Tablets. The some 20,000 cuneiform clay tablets discovered at the ruins of Nuzi, east of the Tigris River and datable to c. 1500 BC, reveal institutions, practices, and customs remarkably congruent to those found in Genesis. These tablets include treaties, marriage arrangements, rules regarding inheritance, adoption, and the like.

The Existence of Hittites. Genesis 23 reports that Abraham buried Sarah in the Cave of Machpelah, which he purchased from Ephron the Hittite. Second Samuel 11 tells of David’s adultery with Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah the Hittite. A century ago the Hittites were unknown outside of the Old Testament, and critics claimed that they were a figment of biblical imagination.

In 1906, however, archaeologists digging east of Ankara, Turkey, discovered the ruins of Hattusas, the ancient Hittite capital at what is today called Boghazkoy, as well as its vast collection of Hittite historical records, which showed an empire flourishing in the mid-second millennium BC. This critical challenge, among many others, was immediately proved worthless — a pattern that would often be repeated in the decades to come.

Biblical Cities Attested Archaeologically. In addition to Jericho, places such as Haran, Hazor, Dan, Megiddo, Shechem, Samaria, Shiloh, Gezer, Gibeah, Beth Shemesh, Beth Shean, Beersheba, Lachish, and many other urban sites have been excavated, quite apart from such larger and obvious locations as Jerusalem or Babylon. Such geographical markers are extremely significant in demonstrating that fact, not fantasy, is intended in the Old Testament historical narratives; otherwise, the specificity regarding these urban sites would have been replaced by “Once upon a time” narratives with only hazy geographical parameters, if any.

The Cylinder of Cyrus the Great. Second Chronicles 36:23 and Ezra 1 report that Cyrus the Great of Persia, after conquering Babylon, permitted Jews in the Babylonian Captivity to return to their homeland. Isaiah had even prophesied this (Isa. 44:28). This tolerant policy of the founder of the Persian Empire is borne out by the discovery of a nine-inch clay cylinder found at Babylon from the time of its conquest, 539 BC, which reports Cyrus’s victory and his subsequent policy of permitting Babylonian captives to return to their homes and even rebuild their temples.

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