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-Authenticity of the Bible-
-Bible and Archaeology-
Seal of Megiddo
There have been numerous seals excavated in Palestine, many having been the seals of ministers and high officials. Some contain personal names of people mentioned in the Bible including kings of Israel and Judah. No seal has been discovered as of yet, which actually belonged to a king of Israel or Judah. Read More
-Bible and History-
Mount Sinai
Mount Sinai, also known as Mount Horeb, is the mountain where God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses. However, a major controversy among archaeologists and Bible historians has been raging for many decades as to where the real Mount Sinai is located. If we are ever to discern a correct location for the historical events recorded in any biblical book, it is important to use the Bible as a guide.Read More.
-Bible and Medicines-
Sanitation and the Bible
Here are some rules of Sanitation found in the Bible:
"All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be." (Leviticus 13:46, KJV)
Early in the Middle Ages, the dreaded disease leprosy had killed countless millions of people; and later the Black Death took another sixty million. Not until the physicians of the day gave up leadership to religion was the plague brought under control. The church took as its guiding principle the concept of contagion as embodied in the Old Testament, Leviticus. Read more.
-Bible and Science-
Science and the Bible at odds?
The Bible is often described as a book that includes many ideas that are scientifically inaccurate. Many people have misinterpreted the Bible in such a way as to make it seem to be at odds with the reality of our world. For example, the Roman Catholic Church promoted geocentrism (the idea that the earth is the center of the universe) for many years. This concept is not found in the Bible, but stems from the idea that since humans are the center of God's attention, that the place where they live must be the center of God's universe. This is neither a logical nor biblical inference because the Bible said that the heavens control the earth and not the other way around (the heavens "fix their rule over the earth,"). Scientists (Nicholas Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei) believe too that the earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around which the Catholic religion asserted. In fact, Isaac Newton, in his famous scientific work, Principia, stated, "The most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion on an intelligent and powerful Being." Read more.
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