Further Evidence for the Bible | 27th May 2010

On the site of what is to be a new 122-room hotel, archaeologists have discovered one of the world’s oldest synagogues in Northern Israel. The site in the area of Migdal, where Mary Magdalene was born, is believed to date back 2000 years from around 50BC to 100AD.

Secular archaeology has for years suggested that parts of the New Testament story of Jesus had little scientific support. In our last edition we carried the story of the discovery of a house in Nazareth from the time of Jesus, when archaeologists were denying that Nazareth was even inhabited in Jesus’ time. This new discovery points to a synagogue in which Jesus almost certainly taught.

The excavations were directed by archaeologists Dina Avshalom- Gorni and Arfan Najar of the Israel Antiquities Authority. The main hall of the synagogue is c. 120 square meters in area. Its floor was made of mosaic and its walls were treated with coloured plaster (frescos). A square stone, engraved with a seven-branched menorah was set atop a pedestal with a triangular base, which is flanked on either side by jars. Minister of Culture and Sport, MK Limor Livnat, said, “This important find attests to the extensive Jewish settlement in the northern region at the time of the Second Temple.”

Source: Revival Media

BIBLE STUDY: Deuteronomy 4:39-40

PRAISE: God for the increasing scientific finds that make it harder for doubters to deny the Bible.

http://revivalmedia.org/2010/05/26/further-evidence-for-the-bible-27th-may-2010/

Further Evidence for the Bible | 27th April 2010

On the site of what is to be a new 122-room hotel, archaeologists have discovered one of the world’s oldest synagogues in Northern Israel. The site in the area of Migdal, where Mary Magdalene was born, is believed to date back 2000 years from around 50BC to 100AD.

Secular archaeology has for years suggested that parts of the New Testament story of Jesus had little scientific support. In our last edition we carried the story of the discovery of a house in Nazareth from the time of Jesus, when archaeologists were denying that Nazareth was even inhabited in Jesus’ time. This new discovery points to a synagogue in which Jesus almost certainly taught.

The excavations were directed by archaeologists Dina Avshalom- Gorni and Arfan Najar of the Israel Antiquities Authority. The main hall of the synagogue is c. 120 square meters in area. Its floor was made of mosaic and its walls were treated with coloured plaster (frescos). A square stone, engraved with a seven-branched menorah was set atop a pedestal with a triangular base, which is flanked on either side by jars. Minister of Culture and Sport, MK Limor Livnat, said, “This important find attests to the extensive Jewish settlement in the northern region at the time of the Second Temple.”

Source: Revival Media

BIBLE STUDY: Deuteronomy 4:39-40

PRAISE: God for the increasing scientific finds that make it harder for doubters to deny the Bible.

New Discovery Proves Bible True | 6th Mar 2010

On December 21st, 2009, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced an archaeological discovery that may cause red faces for those who have doubted the New Testament’s historical accuracy, after a 1st century house was discovered in the area where the Nazareth of Christ’s time was located. Although Nazareth exists today as a thriving Arab city of 65,000 in northern Israel, many scholars have insisted it didn’t exist during Jesus’ lifetime. For example, in 2006, American Atheist Press published a book by Rene Salm entitled, The Myth of Nazareth. The author summarises his findings: “What must matter to all Christians, however, is the inescapable fact that the evangelists invented this basic element in the story of cosmic redemption. The proof is now at hand that ‘Jesus of Nazareth,’ a long-standing icon of Western civilization, is bogus.” Archaeologist Stephen Pfann, president of the University of The Holy Land, states: “It’s the only witness that we have from that area that shows us what the walls and floors were like inside Nazareth in the first century.”

Source: Y-Jesus.com

BIBLE STUDY: Numbers 24:3-5

PRAISE: God that His Word is proved reliable and sceptics are again shown to be wrong. Pray that the reliability of Scripture may lead many to God.

http://revivalmedia.org/2010/03/05/new-discovery-…e-6th-mar-2010/

New Discovery Proves Bible True | 6th Feb 2010

On December 21st, 2009, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced an archaeological discovery that may cause red faces for those who have doubted the New Testament’s historical accuracy, after a 1st century house was discovered in the area where the Nazareth of Christ’s time was located. Although Nazareth exists today as a thriving Arab city of 65,000 in northern Israel, many scholars have insisted it didn’t exist during Jesus’ lifetime. For example, in 2006, American Atheist Press published a book by Rene Salm entitled, The Myth of Nazareth. The author summarises his findings: “What must matter to all Christians, however, is the inescapable fact that the evangelists invented this basic element in the story of cosmic redemption. The proof is now at hand that ‘Jesus of Nazareth,’ a long-standing icon of Western civilization, is bogus.” Archaeologist Stephen Pfann, president of the University of The Holy Land, states: “It’s the only witness that we have from that area that shows us what the walls and floors were like inside Nazareth in the first century.”

Source: Y-Jesus.com

BIBLE STUDY: Numbers 24:3-5

PRAISE: God that His Word is proved reliable and sceptics are again shown to be wrong. Pray that the reliability of Scripture may lead many to God.