Apologetics –

Proving that

the Bible is

authoritative.

Apologetics

(from Greek

ἀπολογία,

"speaking in

defense")

1Pe 3:15 but sanctify the Lord

God in your hearts, and be

ready always to give an

answer (apologia) to everyone

who asks you a reason of the

hope in you, with meekness

and fear …

1Jn 4:1 Beloved, do not

believe every spirit, but test

the spirits, whether they are

from God; for many false

prophets have gone forth

into the world.

1Th 5:21 Prove

all things; hold

fast that which is

good.

2Ti 3:16 All Scripture is God-

breathed, and is profitable for

doctrine, for reproof, for

correction, for instruction in

righteousness,

Signs and wonders

confirmed the word ( Mark

16 v 20). In the same way,

we also have signs and

wonders we can show

people to confirm God’s

word.

Job 26:7 He stretches out the north over the

empty place, and He hung the earth on nothing.

Isa 40:22 It is He who sits on the circle of the

earth, and its people are like grasshoppers; who

stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and

spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;

More than 350 years after the Roman Catholic Church

condemned Galileo, Pope John Paul II is poised to rectify one

of the Church's most infamous wrongs -- the persecution of

the Italian astronomer and physicist for proving the Earth

moves around the Sun.

With a formal statement at the Pontifical Academy of

Sciences on Saturday, Vatican officials said the Pope will

formally close a 13-year investigation into the Church's

condemnation of Galileo in 1633. The condemnation, which

forced the astronomer and physicist to recant his discoveries,

led to Galileo's house arrest for eight years before his death in

1642 at the age of 77.

At the time of his condemnation, Galileo had won

fame and the patronage of leading Italian powers like

the Medicis and Barberinis for discoveries he had

made with the astronomical telescope he had built.

But when his observations led him to proof of the

Copernican theory of the solar system, in which the

sun and not the earth is the center, and which the

Church regarded as heresy, Galileo was summoned

to Rome by the Inquisition.

By the end of his trial, Galileo was forced to recant

his own scientific findings as "abjured, cursed and

detested," a renunciation that caused him great

personal anguish but which saved him from being

burned at the stake.

Ecc 1:7 All the rivers

run into the sea; yet

the sea is not full; to

the place from where

the rivers come, there

they return again.

Amo 5:8 seek Him who created

the Pleiades and Orion, and who

turned the deep darkness into the

morning and He darkened the

day into night. Seek Him who

calls for the waters of the sea,

and pours them out on the face of

the earth; Yahweh is His name;

In ancient times, it was widely

thought that the land mass

floated on a body of water, and

that most of the water in rivers

has its origin under the earth.

Examples of this belief can be

found in the works of Homer

(circa 800 BCE).

The first published thinker to assert that

rainfall alone was sufficient for the

maintenance of rivers was Bernard

Palissy (1580 CE), who is often credited as

the "discoverer" of the modern theory of the

water cycle.

Palissy's theories were not tested scientifically

until 1674, in a study commonly attributed

to Pierre Perrault. Even then, these beliefs

were not accepted in mainstream science until

the early nineteenth century.

What year is it –

2018?

BC and AD

BCE / CE

Dan 7:25 And he shall speak

great words against the most

High, and shall wear out the

saints of the most High, and think

to change times and laws: and

they shall be given into his hand

until a time and times and the

dividing of time.

Job 28:26 When he made a

decree for the rain, and a way for

the lightning of the thunder:

Psa 135:7 He causes the vapors

to rise from the end of the earth;

He makes lightnings for the rain;

Job 38:22

Have you entered

into the treasures

of the snow?

Each snowflake falls and floats

through clouds with different

temperatures and moisture levels,

which shapes each snowflake in

a unique way. Even though

two snowflakes may form in the

same cloud, their different journeys

to the ground will affect their shape

and size, giving each snowflake its

own unique identity.

So how many stars were known prior to

the invention of the telescope?

The standard star catalogue in the

Middle Ages was the one published by

Ptolemy in the 2nd century which in turn

was based on Hipparchus' work.

Ptolemy's Almagest contains 1022 stars.

In the Arab world, Ptolemy's work was

updated by Al-Ṣūfī, who published

his Book of the Fixed Stars in 964.

The first real improvement, particularly in

positional accuracy, was made by Tycho

Brahe, who completed his ”thousand-

star” catalogue in 1598. His catalogue

contains 965 stars. Finally, Johannes

Hevelius published the last major

catalogue based on naked eye

observations in 1687, the Catalogus

Stellarum Fixarum, which contains 1,564

stars.

Jer 33:22 As the host of

the heavens cannot be

numbered, nor the sand of

the sea measured, so I will

multiply the seed of David

My servant and the Levites

who minister to Me.

Psa 8:8 the birds of the

heavens, and the fish of

the sea, and all that

pass through the paths

(Hebrew = A well

trodden road) of the

seas.

Deep ocean currents are driven by

density and temperature gradients.

Thermohaline circulation is also

known as the ocean's conveyor belt

… These currents, called submarine

rivers, flow under the surface of

the ocean and are hidden from

immediate detection.

The Gulf Stream was first described

by the Spanish navigator and

explorer Juan Ponce de León early

in the 16th century. In

the late 1700s Benjamin

Franklin produced a map of the

current. In 1844 systematic

surveying of the stream was begun

by the United States Coast and

Geodetic Survey.

Ecc 1:6 The wind goes

toward the south, and it

turns around to the

north; it whirls around

continually; and the wind

returns on its circuits.

The Bible

predicts

Nuclear war

Zec 14:12

And this shall be the plague

wherewith the LORD will smite all

the people that have fought against

Jerusalem; Their flesh shall

consume away while they stand

upon their feet, and their eyes shall

consume away in their holes, and

their tongue shall consume away in

their mouth.

In his book “Hiroshima”, John Hersey

describes some victims: “There were

about 20 men, and they were all in the

same nightmarish state; their faces were

wholly burned, their eye sockets were

hollow, the fluid from their melted eyes

had run down their cheeks. (They must

have had their faces upturned when the

bomb went off; perhaps they were anti-

aircraft personnel.)”

Containing a detailed description

of the bomb's effects, the article

was a publishing sensation. In

plain prose, Hersey described the

horrifying aftermath of the atomic

device: people with melted

eyeballs, or people vaporized,

leaving only their shadows

etched onto walls.

Mat 24:21 For the trouble at that time will be

far more terrible than any there has ever been,

from the beginning of the world to this very

day. Nor will there ever be anything like it

again.

Mat 24:22 But God has already reduced the

number of days; had he not done so, nobody

would survive. For the sake of his chosen

people, however, God will reduce the days.

Rom 1:20 For the invisible things

of him from the creation of the

world are clearly seen, being

understood by the things that are

made, even his eternal power

and Godhead; so that they are

without excuse:

The second law of thermodynamics

is commonly referred to as the law of entropy,

and it holds that energy becomes less usable

over time.

Not discovered until

the 19th century

Psa 102:25 Of old You have laid the

foundation of the earth; and the

heavens are the work of Your

hands.

Psa 102:26 They shall perish, but

You shall endure; yea, all of them

shall become old like a garment; like

a robe You shall change them, and

they shall be changed;

Isa 51:6

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and

look on the earth beneath; for the

heavens shall vanish away like

smoke, and the earth shall become

old like a garment; and its

inhabitants shall die in the same

way. But My salvation shall be

forever, and My righteousness shall

not be broken.

To be termed scientific, a method

of inquiry must be based on

gathering empirical and

measurable evidence subject to

specific principles of reasoning.

The Oxford English Dictionary

says that scientific method is: "a

method or procedure that has

characterized natural science

since the 17th century, consisting

in systematic observation,

measurement, and experiment,

and the formulation, testing, and

modification of hypotheses."

Dating of samples is

based on assumption.

Mount St Helens adds up to a real life

laboratory to understand a number

of processes that occurred on a much

larger scale, during Noah’s Flood. At

Mount St Helens, these processes were

observed to rapidly form a wide range

of geological features, in contrast to the

thousands to millions of years assumed

by mainstream scientists. Mount St

Helens demonstrates that when we

bring the Flood back into our thinking,

a large percentage of the uniformitarian

time challenges melt away.

Gregor Johann Mendel (20 July 1822[1] – 6 January 1884) was a

German-speaking Moravian scientist and Augustinian friar who gained

posthumous fame as the founder of the modern science of genetics.

Though farmers had known for centuries that crossbreeding of animals

and plants could favor certain desirable traits, Mendel's pea plant

experiments conducted between 1856 and 1863 established many of the

rules of heredity, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance.

Mendel worked with seven characteristics of pea plants: plant height, pod

shape and color, seed shape and color, and flower position and color.

With seed color, he showed that when a yellow pea and a green pea were

bred together their offspring plant was always yellow. However, in the

next generation of plants, the green peas reappeared at a ratio of 1:3. To

explain this phenomenon, Mendel coined the terms “recessive” and

“dominant” in reference to certain traits. (In the preceding example, green

peas are recessive and yellow peas are dominant.) He published his work

in 1866, demonstrating the actions of invisible “factors”—now called

genes—in providing for visible traits in predictable ways.

It takes more faith to believe

in evolution than to believe

in God – an intelligent

creator who created us for a

purpose.

I believe your stance on mutation needs to be re-

evaluated. The articles I’ve been reading say that

mutations are either harmful or neutral. There are,

however, such things as beneficial mutations. For

example, there are people with mutations in the

CCR5 gene that make them virtually immune to

HIV. There are also a class of cancer drugs that

are 100% effective, but only in a minority of

individuals that have a certain mutation. Both of

these mutations could seriously improve a

person’s chance of survival. I therefore fail to see

what makes you think all mutations are bad?

MoleculaMolecular Geneticist Geneticist

But are there such things as beneficial mutations? In short, no, but let

me explain. While I have yet to see evidence of a truly beneficial

mutation, I have seen evidence of mutations with beneficial outcomes

in restricted environments. Mutations are context dependent, meaning

their environment determines whether the outcome of the mutation is

beneficial. One well-known example is antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

In an environment where antibiotics are present, mutations in the

bacterial DNA that alter the target of the antibiotic allow the bacteria to

survive (the bacteria are faced with a “live or die” situation). However,

these same mutations come at the cost of altering a protein or system

that is important for the normal functioning of the bacteria (such as

nutrient acquisition). If the antibiotics are removed, typically the

antibiotic resistant bacteria do not fare as well as the normal (or wild-

type) bacteria whose proteins and systems are not affected by

mutations (see also Is Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics an

Appropriate Example of Evolutionary Change?). There are numerous

other examples as well. Thus, the benefit of any given mutation is not

an independent quality, but rather a dependent quality based on the

environment.

Again, the mutations only improve a person’s chance for survival in a

given environment (external or internal), such as if the person is

exposed to HIV or cancer develops within a person’s body. It is

possible that the mutations would not be beneficial in other

environments (i.e. if the person is exposed to West Nile Virus).

Keep in mind that beneficial, information-gaining mutations are a

necessary mechanism of molecules-to-man evolution, so focusing on

any potential for this is essential for evolutionists. What doesn’t seem to

be often addressed is the vast amount of data to the contrary. But even

if there were a clearly beneficial mutation, this would by no means

“prove” the mechanism for evolution (for one thing, beneficial,

information-gaining mutations would have to be a regularly occurring

phenomenon and would have to “build” on previous mutations so as

not to be “undone” and to keep the evolution going “uphill”), nor negate

the truth of God’s revelation of His Creation in Genesis.

Exo 20:11 For in six days the

LORD made heaven and earth,

the sea, and all that in them is,

and rested the seventh day:

wherefore the LORD blessed the

sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Gen 1:5 And God called

the light Day, and the

darkness he called

Night. And the evening

and the morning were

the first day.

Theistic evolution:

A merging of the 2 views to

satisfy a poor Bible student.

Rom 5:12 Therefore, even as

through one man sin entered into

the world, and death by sin, and

so death passed on all men

inasmuch as all sinned:

Creation Ministries

Creation.com

Many scientists with degrees are

on the staff and believe in God’s

word and the Biblical creation

account.

• Water should be a gas

• Moon too large to have been caught

• Moon too large would flood the earth

• Jupiter attracts meteors

• Right distance from the sun

• We have oxygen

• Earth’s tilt

The Wright Brothers

Gregor Mendel

Nicholas Copernicus

Johannes Kepler

Robert Boyle

Isaac Newton

2Pe 1:19 and we have the more established

prophetic Word, in which you do well to take

heed, as to a lamp shining in a murky place,

until day dawns and the Light-bearing One rises

in your hearts;

2Pe 1:20 knowing this first, that every prophecy

of Scripture did not come into being of its own

interpretation;

2Pe 1:21 for prophecy was not at any time

borne by the will of man, but being borne along

by the Holy Spirit, holy men of God spoke.

Israel – a

national

resurrection.

Isa 43:9 Let all the nations be brought together,

and let the people be gathered; who among

them can declare this and make us hear former

things? Let them bring out their witnesses, that

they may be justified; or let them hear, and say,

It is true.

Isa 43:10 You are My witnesses, says Yahweh,

and My servant whom I have chosen; that you

may know and believe Me, and understand that

I am He. Before Me no God was formed, nor

shall there be after Me.

Lev 26:33 And you will I scatter

among the nations, and I will

draw out the sword after you: and

your land shall be a desolation,

and your cities shall be a waste.

Jer 46:28 Do not fear, O Jacob

My servant, says Yahweh, for I

am with you. For I will make a full

end of all the nations where I

have driven you. But I will not

make a full end of you, but

correct you in measure; yet I will

not leave you wholly unpunished.

Eze 37:21 And say unto them,

Thus saith the Lord GOD:

Behold, I will take the children of

Israel from among the nations,

whither they be gone, and will

gather them on every side, and

bring them into their own land:

Jer 31:35 Thus saith the LORD, which

giveth the sun for a light by day, and the

ordinances of the moon and of the stars

for a light by night, which stirreth up the

sea, that the waves thereof roar; the

LORD of hosts is his name:

Jer 31:36 If these ordinances depart from

before me, saith the LORD, then the seed

of Israel also shall cease from being a

nation before me for ever.

Eze 36:22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus

saith the Lord GOD: I do not this for your sake, O house

of Israel, but for mine holy name, which ye have

profaned among the nations, whither ye went.

Eze 36:23 And I will sanctify my great name, which

hath been profaned among the nations, which ye have

profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall

know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I

shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

Eze 36:24 For I will take you from among the nations,

and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring

you into your own land.

Hygiene Laws

God’s word:

* Bury

excrement

* Quarantine

lepers

* Abstain from

pig meat and

shellfish

Man’s history

*Plagues stopped

when Jewish

principles applied –

European history

* Algal bloom in NZ –

MAF – “Do not eat

fish that do not have

fins and scales” – Lev

11 v 9

Circumcision on the 8th day:

On the eighth day, the amount of

prothrombin present actually is

elevated above one-hundred

percent of normal—and is the only

day in the male’s life in which this will

be the case under normal conditions.

If surgery is to be performed, day

eight is the perfect day to do it.

Vitamin K and prothrombin levels are

at their peak.

Dan 2:31 Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This image,

which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee;

and the aspect thereof was terrible.

Dan 2:32 As for this image, his head was of fine gold, his breast and his

arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,

Dan 2:33 his legs of iron, his feet part of iron, and part of clay.

Dan 2:34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which

smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them

in pieces.

Dan 2:35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold,

broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer

threshing–floors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found

for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain,

and filled the whole earth.

Dan 2:36 This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof

before the king.

Dan 2:37 Thou, O king, art king of kings, unto whom the God of heaven

hath given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory;

Dan 2:38 and wheresoever the children of men dwell,

the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath

he given into thine hand, and hath made thee to rule

over them all: thou art the head of gold.

Dan 2:39 And after thee shall arise another kingdom

inferior to thee; and another third kingdom of brass,

which shall bear rule over all the earth.

Dan 2:40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as

iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and

subdueth all things: and as iron that crusheth all these,

shall it break in pieces and crush.

Dan 2:41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes,

part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, it shall be a divided

kingdom; but there shall be in it of the strength of the

iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry

clay.

Dan 2:42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of

clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

Dan 2:43 And whereas thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay,

they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they shall

not cleave one to another, even as iron doth not mingle with clay.

Dan 2:44 And in the days of those kings shall the God of heaven

set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed, nor shall the

sovereignty thereof be left to another people; but it shall break in

pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

Dan 2:45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that a stone was cut out of

the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the

brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made

known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the

dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

Gentile Kingdom Image

1Babylon

* Head of GOLD 625 B.C. TO 539 B.C.

2 Medo-Persia

* Chest and Arms of SILVER 539 B.C. TO

331 B.C.

3 Greece

* Waist and Thighs of

BRONZE 331 B.C. TO 164 B.C.

4Rome

* Legs of IRON164 B.C. - 70 A.D.

So accurate that skeptics say it

must be written after the

fulfilment.

However, the Septuagint was

written 3rd century BC before

Roman empire.

Also the presence of Aramaic

language in the text proves its

500 BC period.

Dan 9:24 Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people

and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to

make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for

iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and

to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most

holy.

Dan 9:25 Know therefore and discern, that from the

going forth of the commandment to restore and to build

Jerusalem unto the anointed one, the prince, shall be

seven weeks: and threescore and two weeks, it shall be

built again, with street and moat, even in troublous

times.

Daniel's Visions, Accuracy of his Prophecies

HOW ACCURATE IS DANIEL

The accuracy of Daniel's prophecies is one of the reasons that so many

skeptics advance the theory that the Book of Daniel was written around

162 BC by a Hellenist Jew named Judas Maccabaeus. The skeptic

cannot reconcile Daniel's precision in any other way short of the obvious

acceptance of God's inspiration, an apparently unacceptable choice. But

the following aspect of the prophecy cannot be explained away by late

dating.

Daniel's vision, in particular that part dealing with the first 69 weeks,

intrigued Sir Robert Anderson, a retired Scotland Yard Inspector of the

late 19th Century. Daniel 9 v.25 predicts: "Know and discern that from

the issuing of a decree to restore and build Jerusalem until Messiah the

Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty two weeks“ - Daniel's 70

Weeks.

In other words, using the issuance of the only

decree that authorized the rebuilding of both

the city of Jerusalem and the Temple as a

starting point (given by Artaxerxes

Longimanus of Persia), 483 years later

should bring us to the time of Jesus.

Sir Robert calculated these 7 weeks, plus 62

weeks or 483 years (69 x 7 = 483). Virtually

every fair authority to examine them since

has confirmed his calculations.

Jesus fits the

prophetic and

Messianic mould

Edgar Edwinson

50 Owen St

Wanganui

New Zealand

1) A man

2) A descendant of Shem

3) A descendant of Abraham, Isaac and

Jacob

4) A member of the nation of Israel

5) Belonging to the Tribe of Judah

6) Of the Family of David and Nathan

7) Conceived by the virgin Mary

JESUS

Num 24:17 I shall see him, but not now. I shall behold him, but not near. There shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a

Scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall strike the corners of Moab, and destroy all the sons of tumult.

Num 24:18 And Edom shall be a possession. Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies. And Israel shall do valiantly.

Num 24:19 Out of Jacob shall come He who shall have dominion and shall destroy him who remains of the city.

Mat 2:1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men came from the

east to Jerusalem,

Mat 2:2 saying, Where is He who is born king of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the east and have come to

worship Him.

Mic 5:2 And you, Bethlehem

Ephratah, you being least

among the thousands of Judah,

out of you He shall come forth to

Me, to become Ruler in Israel,

He whose goings forth have

been from of old, from the days

of eternity.

Zec 12:10 And I will pour on the

house of David, and on the people

of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace

and of prayers. And they shall look

on whom they have pierced, and

they shall mourn for Him, as one

mourns for his only son, and shall

be bitter over Him, as the bitterness

over the first-born.

Psa 89:27 I also will make

him my firstborn, the highest

of the kings of the earth.

Isa 53:9 And they made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; although he had done no violence,

neither was any deceit in his month.

Isa 53:10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering

for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

Isa 53:11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant

justify many: and he shall bear their iniquities.

Isa 53:12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bare the sin of many, and made

intercession for the transgressors.

Mat 27:57 And when even was come, there came a rich man from Arimathaea, named

Joseph, who also himself was Jesus’ disciple:

Mat 27:58 this man went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate

commanded it to be given up.

Mat 27:59 And Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

Mat 27:60 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb,

and departed.

Psa 22:18 They part my garments among

them, and upon my vesture do they cast lots.

Mat 27:35 And when they had crucified him,

they parted his garments among them,

casting lots:

Psa 22:1 <For the Chief Musician; set to

Aijeleth hash–Shahar. A Psalm of David.>

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken

me? why art thou so far from helping me,

and from the words of my roaring?

Mat 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus

cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama

sabachthani? that is, My God, my God, why

hast thou forsaken me?

Archaeology

“Three major expeditions to the site over

the past 90 years uncovered abundant

evidence to support the Biblical account,"

he said. As Wood went on to point out,

John Garstang ( 1930-1936) and

Kathleen Kenyon (1952-1958) both dug at

Jericho for six seasons and a German

excavation directed by Ernst Sellin and

Carl Watzinger dug for three. All found

abundant evidence of the city’s

destruction by fire in a layer related to the

Biblical date of 1400 BC.

THE "HOUSE OF DAVID": At Tel Dan in upper Galilee in Northern

Israel a fragment of an inscription on basalt stone has been

uncovered. It was part of the paving near the entrance of the outer

gate of the ancient city of Dan. In 1992, in order to tidy up the site

for presentation to visitors, a heap of debris was removed which

dated from the time of the Assyrian destruction of the city by

Tiglath-pileser lll - no doubt a legacy of his campaign against

northern Israel. [2 Kings 15v29] Unexpectedly, a hitherto unknown

gateway to the city was uncovered. The entrance led to a courtyard

where stood a low stone platform large enough to take a throne.

This possibly marked the place where the king would sit on

ceremonial occasions. The Scriptures allude to such a custom

when Ahab king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat in the

gate of Samaria. [1 Kings 22v10] The inscription is a section of a

victory stela (commemorative stone) about the conquests of one of

the kings of Aram, recording the defeat of his foes, sometime in the

9th century BC. The inscription is written in Aramaic (a language

closely related to early Hebrew) and is unique because it is the first

reference found outside the Bible to 'The House of David.'

History proves the Bible true:

Josephus ben Matthias is the best known ancient Jewish

historian.

He recorded information about Jewish wars and the history

of the Jewish people.

In Josephus’ book ‘Jewish Antiquities’ he tells us some

important information about

Jesus (Jewish Antiquities 18.3.3)

- Jesus was a teacher

- He was the Christ

- He did wonderful works

- He had a brother named James

- Jesus was crucified under Pilate

- He rose from the dead on the third day

The names of Biblical

places, kings, events have

been confirmed by

archaeology.

The first physical evidence relating to Pilate was

discovered in 1961, when a block of limestone, the

Pilate Stone, was found in the Roman theatre at

Caesarea Maritima, the capital of the province of

Judaea (Iudaea). Bearing a damaged dedication by

Pilate of a Tiberieum, the dedication states that he was

[...]ECTVS IUDA[...] (usually read as praefectus

Iudaeae), that is, prefect of Judaea.

The first physical evidence relating to

Pilate was discovered in 1961, when a

block of limestone, the Pilate Stone, was

found in the Roman theatre at Caesarea

Maritima, the capital of the province of

Judaea (Iudaea). Bearing a damaged

dedication by Pilate of a Tiberieum, the

dedication states that he was [...]ECTVS

IUDA[...] (usually read as praefectus

Iudaeae), that is, prefect of Judaea.

Rom 3:3 For what if some were

without faith? shall their want of

faith make of none effect the

faithfulness of God?

Rom 3:4 God forbid: yea, let

God be found true, but every

man a liar; as it is written, That

thou mightest be justified in thy

words, And mightest prevail

when thou comest into judgment.

Psa 119:160 Your Word is true

from the beginning; and every

one of Your righteous judgments

endures forever.

E=MC²

Energy = mass x speed of light squared

Jer 32:17 Ah, Lord Yahweh! You have made

the heavens and the earth by Your great

power and stretched out arm. Nothing is too

great for You.

In Greek = energia = God’s power

Energy

Eph 1:19 and what is the

surpassing greatness of

His power toward us, the

ones believing according to

the working (energia) of

His mighty strength

Other

Religions

Hinduism – approx 1500BC

Polytheistic

Re-incarnation

Buddhism – approx 500 BC

Roots in Hinduism

Non theistic

No life after death

Confucianism – approx 500 BC

Confucius

Learning to be human

Man is basically good (humanistic)

Islam – approx 600 AD

Mono theistic

Prophet Muhammed – did he prophesy?

Judaism – 2000 BC

Mono theistic

Bible

Christianity – 30 AD

Based on Judaism

Deals with sin

After life

Jesus has credentials – BC / AD