AUTOMATIC, INSTANTANEOUS, TOTALLY UNCHALLENGEABLE, COMPLETELY INDISPUTABLE, TOTALLY UNQUESTIONABLE, FOREVER ASSURED, INFINITELY GUARANTEED, ROCK SOLID, TITANIUM REINFORCED CONCRETE, ALMOST MIND NUMBING PROOF that the Bible’s original Hebrew and Greek are overwhelmingly truthful, accurate, and inspired by God Himself is the FACT that it is SO mathematically unlikely that it is, for practical purposes, I-M-P-O-S-S-I-B-L-E for well over 400 BIBLICAL PROPHECIES to have been written and fulfilled hundreds of years later by mere random chance or luck without divine inspiration and without God repeatedly and miraculously manipulating events. One more time, it is completely IMPOSSIBLE !!! For example, Micah 5:2 successfully predicted, about 700 years in advance, that Jesus Christ would be born in Bethlehem. Isaiah 7:14 successfully predicted, about 685 years before Jesus was born, that a virgin would miraculously give birth to Our Savior. Isaiah 53.7 also predicted over 600 years in advance that Jesus would remain silent during his trial. King David, according to Psalms 16:10 and Psalms 49:15 prophesied about 490 years before the birth of Jesus that He would be resurrected after His death, documented by Acts 2:22-32 and Matthew 28:2-7. Zechariah 9:9 predicted about 550 years in advance that Jesus would enter Jerusalem riding a donkey’s colt which was fulfilled in Luke 19:35-37 and John 12:12-15. Jesus also fulfilled many other OT prophecies about Him. The odds that these and other OT prophecies were fulfilled by just chance alone are less than one in ten followed by well over an estimated ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY ZEROES, which is a number that is many QUADRILLIONS of times greater than even the number of atoms in the entire, known universe (ABOUT TEN TO THE EIGHTIETH POWER), according to a number of conservative, secular mathematicians. Statistically it is more likely for a running, hot, gasoline combustion engine, that normally runs quite hot, for it to, on its own, suddenly START STEADILY REFRIGERATING ITSELF, than for all those prophecies to have been written and fulfilled by only random chance and luck, according to Dr. Hugh Ross, well known Bible researcher. No other religion in the world even comes close to having as many fulfilled, validating prophecies as Christianity.
Secular Roman historical records provide additional solid evidence that Jesus and the Christian movement really did exist since those records mentioned His arrest, execution, and Christianity. Publius Cornelius Tacitus, for example, was a prominent, respected Roman senator and historian born in 56 A.D. His most famous historical work, Annals, was published in 115/116 A.D. Tacitus recorded problems that the Christian movement was causing, and confirmed that Pontius Pilate ordered the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Copies of Tacitus’ work have been preserved in two main manuscripts known as the Medicean manuscripts written in Latin. The Laurentian Library in Florence, Italy currently possesses these copies. The following is a quote from Tacitus taken from Annals 15.44 which was translated from the Latin by A. J. Church in 1876:
“CONSEQUENTLY, TO GET RID OF THE REPORT, NERO FASTENED THE GUILT AND INFLICTED THE MOST EXQUISITE TORTURES ON A CLASS HATED FOR THEIR ABOMINATIONS, CALLED CHRISTIANS BY THE POPULACE. CHRISTUS, FROM WHOM THE NAME HAD ITS ORIGIN, SUFFERED THE EXTREME PENALTY DURING THE REIGN OF TIBERIUS AT THE HANDS OF ONE OF OUR PROCURATORS, PONTIUS PILATUS, AND A MOST MISCHIEVOUS SUPERSTITION, THUS CHECKED FOR THE MOMENT, AGAIN BROKE OUT NOT ONLY IN JUDAEA, THE FIRST SOURCE OF THE EVIL, BUT EVEN IN ROME, WHERE ALL THINGS HIDEOUS AND SHAMEFUL FROM EVERY PART OF THE WORLD FIND THEIR CENTRE AND BECOME POPULAR.”
Tiberius refers to Tiberius Caesar. Christus is the Latin term for Christ. Pliny the Younger, whose full name was Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, was a Roman senator and governor of Bithynia and Pontus in 110 A.D. As governor, he wrote many letters to Emperor Trajan seeking advice. In his last and 10th book of letters, a letter contains references to Christians and Jesus Christ. During this time period many people accused the Christians of cannibalistic behavior. Pliny decided to investigate, and he discovered that the accusation was incorrect.
“THEY DECLARED THAT THE SUM TOTAL OF THEIR GUILT OR ERROR AMOUNTED TO NO MORE THAN THIS: THEY HAD MET REGULARLY BEFORE DAWN ON A FIXED DAY TO CHANT VERSES ALTERNATELY AMONG THEMSELVES IN HONOR OF CHRIST AS IF TO A GOD, AND ALSO TO BIND THEMSELVES BY OATH, NOT FOR ANY CRIMINAL PURPOSE, BUT TO ABSTAIN FROM THEFT, ROBBERY AND ADULTERY, TO COMMIT NO BREACH OF TRUST, AND NOT TO DENY A DEPOSIT WHEN CALLED UPON TO RESTORE IT.” (Letters 10.96.7-8, translated by B. Radice)
Another ancient, prominent non-Christian was Lucian of Samosata who mentioned the resurrection of Jesus in his satirical writings, verifying Jesus and the Christians. Lucian was born around 125 A.D. and died after 180 A.D.
Admitting that Jesus really did live after extensive research to verify that, prominent German atheist New Testament scholar and author Gerd Ludemann, Ph.D., (1946-2021) said that “Jesus’ death as a consequence of crucifixion is indisputable.” Another quote from him was “We have, preserved for us, a report about the resurrection of Jesus that dates back to within months of his death.” Concluding, he said that “It may be taken as historically certain that Peter and the disciples had experiences after Jesus’ death in which Jesus appeared to them as the risen Christ ……”
Even acclaimed scholar of early Christianity and author, liberal Paula Fredriksen, born in 1951, stated that (to be continued)
Also, the 2021 book by Dr. Douglas Petrovich Origins of the Hebrews: New Evidence of Israelites in Egypt from Joseph to the Exodus provides remarkable, “jaw dropping,” groundbreaking new evidence showing, for example, that some Old Testament names such as Joseph, Ephraim, Jacob, Moses, Manasseh and even the sons of Manasseh, or the Egyptian equivalent of the names of those sons, have been discovered in Egyptian hieroglyphics. Evidence is presented detailing how the Israelites used Egyptian hieroglyphics to record events and other important matters. Joseph, a major, powerful leader in Egypt second only to the Pharaoh himself, saved Egypt from starvation during the terrible 7 year famine. Ancient, Egyptian coins bearing the name of Joseph and his image have been discovered in the Museum of Egypt in Cairo. Fragments of monuments of Joseph and Jacob have also been discovered in Egyptian archaeological sites. Seals bearing the Biblical name of Jacob, Joseph’s father (the grandson of Abraham), have been uncovered at such sites, too. All this is additional solid proof that the Old Testament really is historically accurate.
The above and other quotations not listed, especially by the Jewish historian Josephus, provide additional confirmation from non-Christian sources that Jesus really did appear in human form and interacted with other human beings for years on the earth. Yes, primarily the New Testament does contain about a dozen or so contradictions, but they involve very trivial issues, such as personal details about the lives of some individuals which are quite insignificant compared to the extremely large quantity of other accurate historical data in the Bible and the overall message of salvation. If you discovered a treasure chest filled with 450 pounds of gold bars buried in your back yard, would you throw away the gold just because some of the gold had a few mouse droppings on it? No, of course not! Similarly, relatively rare Biblical contradictions are simply set aside, and the rest of the Bible is esteemed as precious, extremely valuable, and truthful especially when coupled with hundreds of archaeological discoveries confirming Biblical statements. The 1900+ year old Dead Sea Scrolls and the computer deciphered 1500+ year old charred Ein Gedi Leviticus Scroll discovered about 1970 near Ein Gedi, Israel, for example, are over 99.9% identical to modern day texts of the Old Testament, dramatically providing additional confirmation of the divine nature of the Bible. A very large number of even secular scholars have admitted that the evidence is overwhelming that a certain area in Jordan could very well be the site of the Biblical SODOM. Massive evidence exists that an atmospheric blast 1,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima nuclear explosion about 4,000 years ago, found NOWHERE ELSE in the Middle East, obliterated a large city fitting the exact geographical description of the doomed city found in the Bible. The authoritative, highly respected scientific journal NATURE published a very technical article on September 20, 2021 documenting much evidence of fused sand grains, melted and partially melted artifacts and tools, crushed buildings, shattered and pulverized human bones, and meteoritic or cometary material in the destruction debris indicating that an airburst much greater than the 1908 Tunguska, Siberian meteoritic airburst destroyed an ancient Biblical city at the Tall el-Hammam site, thought to be Sodom, in the Jordan Valley thousands of years ago. The blast was so great that even towns about 20 miles away were severely damaged. The anger of God was so intense that He unleashed the equivalent of a HYDROGEN BOMB over a city with a population of only around 50,000 or less. This article ought to “scare the pants off” of wannabe homosexuals. The extensive evidence in the article adds more support for the divine nature of the Bible. Read the book “Discovering the City of Sodom: The Fascinating, True Account of the Discovery of the Old Testament’s Most Infamous City” by Steven Collins and Latayne Scott to become aware of the tremendous amount of evidence indicating that Sodom REALLY WAS DESTROYED by a nuclear style disaster and REALLY HAS BEEN accurately located in recent years.
The ENTIRE message of macro-evolutionism (fish evolve into reptiles, reptiles evolve into birds, etc.), also, is totally false and unproven and does not even offer any hope of immortality. Therefore simple common sense and logic demand acceptance of the super natural, holy Bible and rejection of macro-evolutionism. The overwhelming goodness and validity compared to the overwhelming evil and falsehood of these choices are so stark, so clear, and so “black and white” that even a “blind” man can see the difference. So Bible skeptics (evolutionists) seem to have an impaired ability to incorporate common sense and reasonable logic when it comes to accepting the Bible. Many to most Bible skeptics, quite amazingly, also seem strangely devoid of the natural instinct to want to live forever. They appear to not even have the good common sense and instinct to want to try to preserve themselves beyond this life that even lowly insects and blind, brainless, worthless weeds have. Judging by their very fervent and determined struggle to stay alive in this physical world, insects and worthless weeds would covet immortality if they could think and talk like humans. They almost certainly would say “Of course a dozen times over I want to live forever, you dummy, and if being a Bible following Christian is the only way to achieve immortality, then count me in!!” In this sense, then, the statement that evolutionists are dumber or less wise than insects or even blind, brainless, worthless weeds is a fair and accurate statement. The deficient philosophy or attitude of evolutionists that “You’re born, you work, then you die, and that’s it, get over it” is grossly mindless with all the evidence left by the Bible and Jesus Christ that there is real hope for not only immortality after this life, but an indescribably joyous immortality.
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In addition to the scientifically accurate verses in Genesis, at least 3 verses elsewhere in the Bible also reveal accurate statements about the earth, recorded thousands of years before being confirmed by secular scientists. Those verses showed that the earth really is round, not flat (Isaiah 40:22), that the interior of the earth is extremely hot (Job 28:5), and that lightning bolts follow a path down to the earth (Job 38:25-27).
Delicate, intact RED BLOOD and COLLAGEN CELLS have been discovered in MANY dinosaur remains using an electron microscope. The long, fragile, delicate DNA molecules in those red blood and collagen cells cannot remain intact longer than about 20,000 years, dramatically proving that the dinosaurs could not have lived more than 20,000 years ago, so the radiometric dating and the imagination concocted, unscientific “Geologic Column” really are completely WORTHLESS. Answersingenesis.org and the Creation Research Society have also documented the discovery of such fragile, short lived soft tissue in many dinosaur bones.
Bill Bryson is an evolutionist. In his book, A Short History of Nearly Everything, though, he admits, summarizing, that the odds are one in ten followed by 259 zeros that just one modest sized, mind staggeringly complex protein with a specific, precise 200 amino acid sequence could spontaneously assemble itself by random chance. In other words, the chances are so remote that it just will not happen, ever, without a divine Creator (God). All animals, of course, including even microscopic bacteria, must have many, many dozens of different kinds of proteins to exist. The chances of those many different proteins evolving by luck and pure chance may be calculated approximately, perhaps, by multiplying ten to the two hundred and fifty ninth power times another ten to the two hundred and fifty ninth power many, many dozens of times to get a number followed by more zeros than can be printed on this page. So the probability of those proteins developing by random chance is only one in that super astronomical number, which basically guarantees that animals never could have evolved by chance or accident. Evolutionists, though, essentially say, “We’re here, so it happened.” Another deficient attitude many of them seem to have says, again for emphasis, “We are born, we work, then we die. Get over it.” No, Christians will not get over it because they know that God, Whose existence is quite obvious and easily proved, expects and even COMMANDS them to strive for immortality. That is the kind of ludicrous, fact rejecting, highly illogical, God rejecting attitude evolutionists have that creationists are forced to contend with.
Based on an article in the September 2019 issue of ACTS & FACTS the continued existence of BLUE STARS also proves that evolutionists’ long age estimates are grossly inaccurate. Blue stars have a maximum life span of about a million years or less because they are releasing so much energy so fast. They burn out after a maximum age of around a million years. Despite evolutionists’ claim that stars are being continuously formed, they have only their hopeful theories and no real evidence.
The continuing presence of NEUTRON STARS in globular star clusters according to another article in the September 2019 issue of Acts & Facts also strongly indicates that the age of the stars is in the thousands of years range, not millions or billions of years. Globular clusters are spherical collections of stars that orbit the galaxies that contain them. Evolutionists claim that globular clusters are at least 9 or 10 billion years old. Neutron stars, composed of subatomic particles called neutrons, are very small but extremely dense. Just one tablespoon of a neutron star weighs as much as the entire mountain of Mt. Everest! Evolutionists also claim that neutron stars were probably formed from the explosions of supernovas. The explosions are thought to give a “kick” to the neutron stars, causing them to travel hundreds to thousands of kilometers per second, which is faster than the speed of surrounding stars in the cluster. The speeds of most neutron stars are so high that they should be able to escape from a globular star cluster and its gravitational pull in just thousands of years, not millions or billions of years. Since secular scientists assume globular clusters are billions of years old, few if any neutron stars should still remain within globular clusters. Yet some globular clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy, for example, still contain hundreds or even thousands of these high speed neutron stars. So this strongly shows that globular star clusters are just thousands of years old, not millions or billions of years old.
Don’t believe for even one split nanosecond the popular myth that the dinosaurs were wiped out 60 million years ago by a massive meteorite. Thousands of tons of evidence show that it was NOAH’S FLOOD that wiped them out. Noah saved some of them on his ark, and many of them thrived for hundreds of years after being released from the ark. Some of the solid, indisputable proof that they continued to exist after the Flood is the following evidence mentioned on page 16 in the April, 2020 issue of Acts & Facts magazine: 1) A cylinder seal from the ancient Mesopotamian Uruk civilization reveals dinosaur like creatures that resemble sauropods in fighting postures. 2) The Egyptian artifact called the Narmer Palette shows several Egyptians trying to subdue 2 creatures that look like sauropod dinosaurs. 3) A bas relief carving from the Cambodian Ta Prohm temple dating back to the 1100’s AD shows an animal similar to a stegosaurus dinosaur. 4) Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) and Marco Polo (1254-1324 AD) reported seeing dinosaur like creatures. 5) The ancient historians Josephus (37-100 AD) and Herodotus (400’s BC) mentioned winged serpents. Petroglyphs (stone carvings) and pictographs (paintings on stone) created by native American Indians occasionally show animals that look like extinct reptiles.
GENETIC ENTROPY also solidly proves that the evolutionists’ radiometric dating methods and their evolution fable are worse than worthless. Since the time of Adam and Eve about 6,000 years ago our DNA has been steadily accumulating irreversible DNA copying errors EACH GENERATION. Some geneticists have calculated that humanity as a whole has only about 14,000 more years to live because the inherited, massive “baggage” of copying mistakes will be so huge by then that our DNA will basically self destruct, according to an ACTS & FACTS article.
DINOSAUR TRACKS actually help confirm Noah’s Flood because ONLY under the unique set of circumstances of advancing global flood waters can dinosaur tracks be permanently solidified according to an ACTS & FACTS article. Nowhere around the world are animal tracks being fossilized today. Also, few people know that the MAJORITY of dinosaur and other large animal tracks head in only one direction for HUNDREDS of miles on increasingly higher ground, as if the dinosaurs were trying to escape rising flood waters. Normally wandering, foraging, large animals of MANY different kinds do not display a record of travel for HUNDREDS of miles on increasingly HIGHER GROUND, at the SAME TIME, in ONE STRAIGHT DIRECTION. That is what most of those solidified tracks reveal, however.
According to https://mohavedailynews.com>news>acres-of-arches 43 of the 2,000 ARCHES in Utah’s famous Arches National Park have collapsed since 1970 due to erosion. Evolutionists claim that slow erosional processes formed these solid rock arches over millions of years. However, they are collapsing and eroding so fast that they should have already collapsed if they really are millions of year old. ICR research has shown that sandstone arches can form in just a few days or weeks and that millions of years of erosion are not required. Some of the arches are gigantic, towering over 112 feet in the air, implying that Utah once lay beneath extremely deep water, beneath an ocean of water on a Biblical scale. Also, there has been no evidence new arches are forming or have been formed recently. According to a February, 2021 ACTS & FACTS article it was really massive amounts of water draining from Noah’s Flood that created these spectacular stone arches.
According to another ACTS & FACTS article the massive amount of data accumulated during the last 50 years, thanks to the help of computers, now supporting a divine creation is so overwhelming that the majority of evolutionist professors now FLATLY REFUSE OR HESITATE to publicly debate creationist professors for fear of being publicly ridiculed, despite the continuous, non-stop PBS television programs promoting an evolutionist explanation for the origin of the universe.
Career scientists are extremely afraid to even openly challenge their almost sacred dating methods because they know that they will be mercilessly blacklisted from well paying jobs in the established, evolutionism dominated scientific community. They value their paychecks more than they value intellectual honesty. The always liberal, anti-Bible mainstream media tries to censor red blood cell and other discoveries, too, making creation science news not readily available to the average person.
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