Originally Posted by couchgrouch
There's no archeological evidence my parents lived.

People take for granted the existence of Socrates but the existence of Bible characters is far better attested.

The OT is even better confirmed by archeology.


I can tell you the Bible record is way more reliable than yesterday's New York Times.


Robert

The history of Christianity has always interested me, so I have paid attention and looked into claims of archaeological proof and usually all I find is something akin to your redress here.

There is evidence of your parents. There are birth certificates, deeds to homes, driver licenses, bank accounts and you. All on record at some county courthouse.
There is archaeological evidence for the Assyrians, Babylonians, Phoenicians, Philistines, Myceneans, Minoans and others before those bronze age civilizations mysteriously disintegrated about 1200 BC.

What I can never find is secular evidence of the events described in the old testament which appeals to those same time periods. Judeo/ Christianity is essentially a closed system that appeals to writings within itself for validation of events described within itself. Religious sources will tell you that they can identify the ancient sites of Sodom and Gomorrah. But when you look for actual proof that certifies the claim that those ruins were the ancient sites or that God burnt them down in his wrath as punishment for their sacrilege, it never seems to actually be there. Yet, if you want to know about a middle kingdom Egyptian dynasty, there are inscribed stones and tomb artifacts that were done in the era.

I'm sorry, but telling me that proof is there and showing me the proof that is there...are two different things.

Marty


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