It’s 1859 in America. The country is spinning out of control. A rogue regime is hell-bent on taking out the leader of the opposition party. This is not democracy—it’s tyranny masking itself as “rule of law.” This is uncharted territory and no one knows where it will end #Trump
Before debating free will, you have to start with the Calvinist view of God.
In Calvinism, God doesn’t merely permit or allow events to happen—He decrees them.
That distinction changes the entire debate over predestination.
This video illustrates how biblical archaeology works by examining a clay seal dated to the 8th century BC and attributed to the prophet Isaiah. It was produced by the Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology (http://www.armstronginstitute.org) and narrated by Stephen Flurry.
The Dead Sea scrolls are considered the greatest discovery of biblical archaeology.
Why? Because they confirmed the reliability of the Hebrew Bible.
Prior to the discovery, the oldest complete Hebrew Bible was a Masoretic Text—the so-called Leningrad Codex—dating to around 1000 A.D.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are dated to between the third and first centuries B.C.
Yet oddly enough there was a way to verify the accuracy of the Masoretic text even before the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls.
The Bible was translated from Hebrew and Aramaic into Greek during the second and third centuries B.C.
This translation is called the Septuagint.
Many scholars believe it was the Septuagint that Jesus and the apostles used and quoted from, not the original Hebrew text.
So one could establish the reliability of the 10th century A.D. Masoretic text simply by comparing it to the much more ancient Septuagint translation.
Such a comparison would immediately reveal whether the Masoretic scribes had over the ...
My conversation on biblical archaeology with Jennifer Bagnaschi on the “Deep Believer” podcast.
The prophet Isaiah scolds a guy named Shebna for building an ostentatious tomb for himself. (Isaiah 22:15-16)
Isaiah describes Shebna, who is the steward to King Hezekiah, as the man “over the royal household.”
Shebna is a minor character in the Bible. In film parlance, he’s a biblical “extra.”
In 1870 the French archaeologist Claremont-Ganneau found a limestone block with a 3-line Hebrew text.
It dated to the eighth or seventh century B.C.—around the time of Hezekiah.
The inscription was above the entrance to a tomb built in the grand style befitting an official of some importance.
The British Museum acquired the limestone inscription which was only deciphered in 1953 by the Israeli archaeologist Nahman Avigad.
The inscription has a missing space with only the ending part of a name—“yahu”—but it lists the man’s occupation by saying he is “over the house.”
That’s precisely the job of the royal steward as described in Isaiah.
Archaeologists recognize the missing space ...
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