THE GALLIO INSCRIPTION
According to Acts 18: 12-17 when the apostle Paul preached in Corinth, the Jews complained to the Roman proconsul—a man named Gallio.
Gallio refused to get involved, basically saying this was an internal dispute among Jews that did not concern him.
Acts 18: 15 quotes Gallio, “Look into it yourselves. For I do not intend to be a judge of these matters.”
Skeptics since the 19th century proclaimed the Book of Acts to be a largely fictional account of the early Christian movement.
Yet this armchair incredulity can be challenged by numerous discoveries of biblical archaeology over the past 150 years.
From 1905 to 1908, nine fragments were found in the Temple of Apollo in Delphi, Greece.
They record a letter from the Roman emperor Claudius dated to 52 A. D.
The letter mentions L. Junius Gallio as “proconsul of Achaia.” Both Corinth and Delphi were cities in that province.
Historians and archaeologists are confident this is the same Gallio, and the importance of the inscription also comes from the date.
Historians can now approximately date Paul’s trip to Corinth; indeed 52 A. D. serves as a kind of anchor, and other dates for Paul’s journeys are derived from that date.
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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.
In the 8th century B.C., the Assyrian empire led by Sennacherib attacked Judah, razed many cities and proceeded toward Jerusalem.
The righteous king Hezekiah, aided by his advisor the prophet Isaiah, prepared for a siege.
King Hezekiah knew the main source of water for the city was the Gihon Spring, which was outside the city.
Hezekiah had to find a way to keep the water out of the control of the Assyrians, and to make it available to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so they could survive.
2 Kings 20:20 says that Hezekiah figured it out. “The rest of the deeds of Hezekiah, all his power, how he made a pool and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?”
This somewhat obscure passage, alluding to another source that is now lost, is illuminated by the discovery of the Siloam Tunnel—also known as Hezekiah’s Tunnel—in Jerusalem.
Dated to the 8th century B.C., the tunnel is a marvel of ancient engineering. It is one-third of a mile long and...
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