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Archeologist Eilat Mazar, center in red, who is leading the excavation of newly discovered fortifications outside the Old City walls, talks to journalists in Jerusalem, Monday, Feb. 22, 2010. Mazar says ancient fortifications newly excavated in Jerusalem date back 3,000 years to the time of the Bible's King Solomon and offer evidence for the accuracy of the biblical narrative.
If they tore down that big gold dome from the religion of garbage, then they might find more good stuff!
Jesus said, “And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God” (John 3:19-21).
For the believer, this life is the worst they will ever have it, for all eternity.
For the person who dies in disbelief, this life is the best they will ever have it, for all eternity.
“others posit that David’s monarchy was largely mythical and that there was no strong government to speak of in that era.”
And yet I’m sure those same archeologists would have no trouble handing Jerusalem over to the Muslims because some traditions hold that Mohamed flew Buraq the magic horse there.
On NPR - the mind boggles.
The Bible has no errors. Only interpretation is the problem. This is an exciting historical find.
Don’t tell the Moslems . . . it will make them crazy . . . er, crazier.
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With all due respect to Eilat Mazar, opinions are like a$$holes, everyone has one.
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Looks like the Bible is getting mountains of evidence to support it.
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2SA 24:9 And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
That's talking about an army of eight hundred thousand men in a part of the world which, without modern technologies today, could not support but a very tiny fraction of the number of people needed for such an army. By way of contrast, no European nation ever put anything close to that number of people on a battle field prior to the two world wars; Chengis Khan's army in his lifetime likely never numbered any more than about 150,000 tops, and there's basically just no modern precedent for such a thing.
In particular, the ancient near East would have to have been some sort of a lush paradise to support such numbers, which is totally at odds with what we find now.
The archaeological history of Jerusalem extends back 4000 years. A miracle would be more a matter of not finding walls around it at this stage of its development.
This is exciting thanks for the post!