by davdi | May 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
HOW DOES EVOLUTION HAPPEN
It has long been believed that evolution from one kind of
creature to another takes place very slowly over millions, if not billions, of
years. Each creature mutates into
another type of creature; like monkey to man.
Each step of this mutating experience is supposed to happen so slowly
that it is not discernable for many generations. All the steps needed to progress upwards into
a better creature, according to evolutionists, all are directed by accidental
duplications or mutations in the genes.
There is no guided direction in any of this. It is all pure chance. Mutations in the genes was supposed to be the
reason all things evolve. It has long
been held by those who believe in evolution that habitat change, food supplies,
and other outside forces are the only guide to change. Nature indiscriminately selects the healthier
of the species to survive and allows all others to die off. If you have followed my articles in the
past, you know that genetics is now proving all the above to be wrong. I have long believed that the discovery of
DNA would one day be the nail-in-the-coffin for the Theory of Evolution. One of the things that science has discovered
is that mutations in the genes are almost always detrimental to all creatures,
including man. Genetics has now proven
that there seems to be a time when all things were genetically pure…no
mutations at all. In other words, we
started out perfect in our genes and have slowly gained one hundred or more
mutations in each generation. Evolution
has always had us believe that we are constantly getting better and
better. However, science has now proven
that we are getting worse and worse. The
evolutionary doctrine of ‘natural selection’ creating all things to get better
has fallen apart. Science now estimates
that mankind will gain so many mutations in the next 10,000 years that we will
become extinct. Evolution has long held
that mutations in the genes are what creates new features in creatures. What science has discovered is that mutations
can only modify existing features and
that mutations cannot create new features
at all. In other words, we can get
different features in a dog, but it will always remain a dog, even with
modified features. The same is true for man.
He never evolved from a monkey to a man.
Monkeys are a whole different kind of creature. It has also just been found that all males on
this planet have one chromosome that is identical. This chromosome is passed
down from father to son and has been doing so since man was created. We would and
should expect that all monkeys would also then have this same chromosome.
Research has now shown that they do not. There are multiple choices of
chromosomes in the spot where a male human chromosome is. This is pretty stiff
evidence that man did not evolve from monkeys.
Mutations did not create anything. They are mostly destructive or else
useless. This means if mutations do not work as once supposed, then no new
creature can be created from mutations.
This runs completely contrary to what evolutionary scientists have
believed since the day of Darwin. The fact that genetic researchers can now
calculate how many mutations mankind has added since we were originally
genetically pure means we can count backwards to know when man was genetically
pure. It appears that it was less than
eight thousand years ago, per the research. This information can be found in the Genetic
Entropy Program; an offshoot of the massive Human Genome Project that took ten
years to complete. This would mean that, if man has existed millions of years
on this earth, then more than ninety nine percent of that time he’d have been
genetically pure, which is impossible. This
finding of man once being genetically pure just happens to correlate quite
nicely with what the Bible says about when the heavens, earth, and all things
were created. These are daunting
obstacles for evolutionists to overcome, and have been brought to our attention
not by Bible believers but by science, itself.
There are numerous genetic research programs taking place in labs all
over the world, and many seem to nullify evolutionary beliefs while verifying
the Bible creation story. My money has
been on the Bible nearly since I abandoned atheism for Christianity, and I see
no reason to change that belief now.
Look for us at evidenceforthehope.org
by davdi | Apr 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
138 MOSES DID WRITE THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS
Julius Wellhausen wrote the ‘Documentary Hypothesis’ in the
1870’s. Reading the first five books of
the Bible, he came to the conclusion that none of them (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus,
Numbers, and Deuteronomy) could have been written by Moses. Moses had long been held by Christians and
Jews to have written those books. If he didn’t
then he couldn’t be the author of any book in the Bible. Wellhausen pushed his ideas about who
actually did write the first five books of the Bible; four different people supposedly
did separated by hundreds of years.
Wellhausen believed there had been no written language in the days of
Moses. No evidence for a written language around 1450 B.C. had ever been found,
he said. How could Moses write the first
five books of the Bible if there’d been no written language to use, he argued. This flew in the face of all Christian
beliefs. Jesus Himself said, “If you
cannot believe the ‘writings’ of
Moses, how then shall you believe my words?”
Was Jesus wrong!? If Jesus was
the Son of God, then he surely should have known whether Moses wrote the first
five books. If Wellhausen was right,
this meant that Jesus mistakenly believed Moses wrote the first five
books. His apostles would have also been
wrong, since they also attributed to the writing of Moses. Many authors of books of the Bible had to be
wrong since they too, mentioned Moses writings.
It would mean that Jesus couldn’t possibly be God in the flesh. Wow!
This would indicate that Christian beliefs were unprovable and incorrect! Eventually, nearly every college and
university began to teach Wellhausen’s theories as fact. Millions of students learned about the
‘Documentary Hypothesis’ and ended up losing their faith. Hang in there, I’m about to share a new
archaeological find proving Wellhausen very wrong. Numerous written languages have since been
found pre-dating the Birth of Moses. However, these were not discovered until the
last twenty years or so. This meant the
‘Documentary Hypothesis’ was taught in schools of higher learning for nearly
125 years. The Ebla tablets are now
being said to be the oldest language ever found, predating Moses by many
hundreds of years. There are other
written tablets discovered in many other countries near Egypt (where Moses was
a Prince). The newest discovery is
rather shocking. It has long been held
that the Egyptians only had hieroglyphic writing. In the recent ‘Archaeology’ magazine, it
describes how Egyptologist Ben Haring, of the University of Leiden, found a
tablet in Egypt that shows that the Egyptians not only wrote in hieroglyphs,
but had an alphabetic type of writing, too.
This is a written language that can be spoken as well as read. One can only transcribe hieroglyphs into what
they mean, not speak it as a language.
This puts an alphabetic type of writing in Egypt just about six hundred years before Moses
was born. Julius Wellhausen’s theory has
just been shot all to pieces by this and other discoveries. All those millions of students who lost their
faith because of his theory did so based on him being absolutely wrong. This kind of antagonistic rhetoric has been
going on in colleges and universities for 150 years. Before that, the Bible was widely accepted as
historically accurate. What changed? Men like Darwin were led by their “daddy”
(Satan) to attack the Bible. When our Bible is attacked, students lose their
faith and leave the church. Too late, we later find the antagonists were wrong
on those things they had attacked. This
atheistic theorizing has cost countless millions of Christians their
faith. Thousands of things have been
attacked in the Bible, only to be proven right by nearly 6,500 archaeological
discoveries proving our Bible to be absolutely correct and provable. Please tell your children and grandchildren
this before sending them off to schools of higher learning. I just received pre-copies of my new book
‘LEARNING THE A,B,C’S…APOLOGETICS, THE BIBLE AND CREATION’. Look for it at the
book sources shortly. Once I O.K. the pre-copies the publisher will start
publication. It will be the best $17.95 you have ever spent if you want you, or
your children’s, faith to grow. Look for us at evidenceforthehope.org or
Evidence for the Hope Ministries. have a nice day.
by davdi | Mar 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
136
OPEN WIDE, PLEASE
One hears “open wide, please” at the dentist office, but who
knew that the plaque scraped off our teeth contains a treasure trove of information? The largest DNA laboratory in the world doing
research on ancient bones is at the University of Oklahoma. One of their recent discoveries is making us
smile. They are examining plaque on
teeth of individuals who died hundreds to thousands of years ago. Mankind contains about two pounds of bacteria
in our bodies, and some of this is found in our mouths. Plaque has been found to be a preserver of
all kinds of things that we have going on in our bodies during our lifetime. Researchers can even trace how we gained or
lost health benefits due to changes in our lifestyles, what we eat, where we
work, and much more. Plaque bacteria is
a treasure trove of DNA, containing nearly three and a half million genes
compared to our bodies measly 22,000 genes.
So, what’s the big deal about plaque? Our mouth contains more bacteria than there
are trees and vegetation in a rainforest.
As our teeth develop plaque, we preserve some of this bacteria, along
with genetic portions of what we have been eating all these years. By examining this, geneticists hope to see
how we developed things like diabetes, heart problems, and much more. This will hopefully lead to a cure for all of
those things by giving us programs on what to eat or not, how to work safely in
dangerous places, where to live, and much more depending on our specific
genetics. Bacteria was once thought to
be harmful. However, science has found
that specific bacteria are very beneficial to man. Researchers examining the teeth of ancient
individuals discovered pathogens that are related to heart disease, meningitis,
pneumonia, and more. They hope to use
this information to cure these things.
One of the things they have discovered is microbial
antibodies that our bodies produce naturally.
People many years ago seem to have had resistance to disease hundreds of
years before antibiotics were necessary.
With further research, scientists hope to possibly eliminate the need
for drugs. This whole research project
shows me that we are “fearfully and wonderfully made’ as the Bible says. I can’t imagine how all of this came about by
so-called evolutionary accidents causing us to change over millions of
years. How did our bodies know to design
antibodies or bacteria strains to form inside of us to keep us healthy? I must ask evolutionists this; since we needed
these things to exist. How’d we survive
before we got them? Trillions of bodily
accidents are needed, if one believes all things came to us slowly over
billions of years, that are beneficial.
How is that possible? Our bodies
are in a symbiotic relationship with the bacteria living inside of us. It needs us and we need it in order to
survive. When did this relationship begin, if evolution is correct? The bigger
questions for Darwinian evolutionists are how and why did it begin. The idea that we had natural antibodies that
kept us healthy falls right in line with what’s being discovered in DNA
research; that we had no sign of mutations in the genes in the beginning of
humankind. I imagine that the Garden of Eden had health benefits we can only imagine.
Of course, those of us who hold fast to the things of God will one day have the
same. I have to fall back on the Bible as my source of knowledge on this; ‘In
the beginning, God created man and woman’ and we were “perfect in our
generations”. We were not monkeys, fish,
or anything else to begin with. I have
long believed that the study of DNA would ultimately give us plenty of proof
for man being created in the beginning by God.
It looks like it’s happening.
Look for us at evidenceforthehope.org.
by davdi | Mar 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
135 FULL OF GRACE
Many
years ago, we had a woman in our congregation by the name of Miss Grace
Coffman. She was like the Rock of
Gibraltar when it came to her faith.
Having just turned from atheism to Christianity, I was impressed with
her. Miss Grace was kind, loving, reserved,
and as strong as could be when teaching about the Lord. My wife and I were invited to her home after
church one Sunday. My wife eagerly
accepted, but I wasn’t so sure about us going to an older persons home for
lunch. She was in her eighties and we
were in our late twenties. I remember
thinking that we’d have nothing in common. God has a way of humbling some of us who
ignore others because of age. When I
entered her living room, I saw a picture of her with President John F.
Kennedy. Miss Grace was busy fixing
snacks. As my wife and I moved around,
examining pictures, we saw at least a dozen very famous men with Miss Grace
right alongside: Henry Kissinger, Ted Kennedy, President Eisenhower, and
more. We were shocked, to say the least. This little old lady lived in a humble home,
in a tiny town in Virginia. In the two
years that we’d known her, she’d never mentioned a word about knowing these
people. When she came in with our snacks,
we asked about the pictures. She simply stated
that she’d met them over the years, and left it at that. She even had personal letters from them! Instead, she insisted on talking about
“important things”. She asked how we
were doing spiritually and if we had any questions about the Bible or the Lord
that she could help us with. We did,
and she answered each. My wife, still
curious, asked what she had done for a living to have met dozens of famous
people. She said she had worked in
Washington for politicians for a while, but quickly added that she had also
worked as a teacher in Fort Valley, Virginia.
She went on to talk of her teacher days.
We found out later, from others, that Miss Grace had been very
instrumental in political circles in Washington. “There were no buses back in those days”, she
related. “I had to take a horse and
wagon to cross the mountain from here to the tiny one-room school in Fort
Valley. One day it began to snow, and I
had to keep the old wood stove going in the school for days, until we could get
dug out. I fed the kids, kept them warm,
and survived the storm. I then had to
cross that snowy mountain in a horse and buggy to get home. A car wouldn’t make it. It took me the whole day.” We asked if she was afraid, and what she did
for days. “I’m never afraid since I
found the Lord, and I was thrilled that it had snowed because I got to read and
share the Bible with my students. Many
of those kids are preachers or teachers today.”
She then went on to tell us that she was eight years old before she
celebrated her first birthday. That confused
us. She laughed and explained that she
had been born on February 29, 1896.
Anyone born on February 29th will not experience another
February 29th for four years, since February normally only has 28 days. However, in Miss Grace’s case, the year 1900
had no February 29th either.
She had to wait until 1904 before she could celebrate her first
birthday; she was eight at the time. None
of the hundreds of students of Miss Grace had ever been arrested, gotten
divorced, or left the church. I was
humbled. Here this woman could have
bragged on and on about the people she had worked for and met in Washington,
but didn’t. Instead, she talked of her
school kids, and was concerned for our spiritual welfare. I wept at her funeral, but did as she had
asked just before she had died. I rejoiced
and sang praises to the Lord that day that she was with her Lord in
heaven. She, and others like her, are
the reason that I wasn’t satisfied just to know the Bible. I so much wanted to be like her. I’ve spent
forty five years researching archaeological and scientific finds proving the
Bible to be true. Miss Grace is one of those mentors who encouraged my wife and
me to study more than just the Bible. She wanted me to prove it so that I would
never doubt it. I am fortunate to have had several people like Miss Grace in my
life. She was indeed a teacher, but not just a school teacher; a teacher of
Christ and His gospel. Everyone has a story and, if we listen, we could learn much
and be blessed. Look for us at
evidenceforthehope.org.
by davdi | Mar 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
COULD
THE RED SEA HAVE PARTED FOR MOSES?
The Bible tells us the story of Moses and the Israelites
being freed from hundreds of years of slavery in Egypt, and then being trapped
at the Red Sea by Pharaohs’ army.
Miraculously, Moses held up his staff and the Red Sea parted, allowing
the Israelites to cross over to the other side.
However, when Pharaoh tried to move his army across, the waters suddenly
came back and drowned them. Could an
entire sea suddenly part, then return as quickly as the Bible declares? National Geographic News ran an article
written by Stephan Lovgran on July 19, 2006.
The research of that article was going to be published in the highly
acclaimed Journal of Nature, a very scientific journal, the following day. The very first sentence of Stephan’s article
says, “Moses may have received geological assistance when he parted the Red Sea
to let the Israelites through, according to the Bible.” The article then goes on to describe how the
European Space Agency’s Envisat radar satellite then examined the area of the
Red Sea. The Arabian tectonic plate has
been known to be moving away from the African tectonic plate. These moving land masses cause tremendous
stress on the geology of the area, and partially ripped apart in 2005. The scientists believe that molten magma is
the cause of the plates moving rather than by earthquakes; so much so that
Arabia and Africa have been separating from one another for many
centuries. One of these movements of
land caused a tremendous tear between the plates in 2005 in the area of the Red
Sea. Nearly 2,000 football fields of
lava filled a great void after African and Arabian plates moved twenty-six feet
and a mile long from one another. This is
what Stephan’s proposition of Moses possibly being helped by geologic forces is
all about in the beginning of his article.
If this same type void happened in the Red Sea when Moses and the
Israelites had their backs to it, it would have caused the sea to part. The
waters would have stopped flowing and then travelled back up the Red Sea to
fill a great void (there is some evidence of this). The Israelites could have then crossed,
leaving the army of Pharaoh behind. Once
Pharaoh moved his army into the empty sea, the waters could have filled the
void and allowed tremendous amounts of rushing water to return, thereby killing
all the Egyptians. The greater miracle
here is the timing of this event. About
a million Israelites were about to be slaughtered, suddenly a way was made for
them to escape across the sea, and the Egyptians drowned when they entered the
empty sea bed by the returning waters.
I’ve often mentioned that I have no problem with God using natural
forces to accomplish His purposes and goals.
This is one of those times. I
also have no problem if it was not the way God used to get the Israelites
across. However, I have seen much in my
lifetime that gives me confidence that this just might be the way that God
saved the Israelites at the Red Sea. So
many things are being discovered today by science and archaeology, giving
credence for each and every event written in our Bible, that I am in
shock. In just the last twenty years I’ve
watched as thousands of discoveries have uncovered something proving our Bible
to be right. I have to ask…why is all of
this happening now 2,000 years after Jesus died and rose to life? What is God preparing us for? Are we ready for whatever it is? Have a nice day, and look for us at
evidenceforthehope.org.
by davdi | Mar 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
133 SO, HOW OLD IS LIFE?
It’s fascinating to read about scientific discoveries. They so often prove the Theory of Evolution
to be an extremely flawed theory. Another discovery is now showing that. Australian scientists working in Greenland
discovered fossilized colonies of microbes called ‘Stromatolites’. The receding ice revealed these hidden
fossils, and the scientists were stunned when they discovered how far back
these particular stromatolites supposedly dated to; 3.7 billion years
ago!! They immediately published their
findings in the journal ‘Nature’.
Scientists around the world were shocked, greatly troubled, and
confused. Why? The answer is that nothing should have been
living way back then. There are multiple
problems with this discovery. First, stromatolites
only grow in shallow water. The Earth is
said to be about four billion years old according to evolutionists. This puts these colonies of microbes living
at the same time the earth was supposedly forming from molten lava. Two; there was no water on earth according to
the Big Bang theorists, when earth was forming.
Three; these were not microbes that were just starting their
evolutionary journey; they were already fully formed. This means that they would had to have been
here before the earth formed; an impossibility. How could fully formed
stromatolites have lived? Four; the
earth was thought to be all molten lava for billions of years until it
cooled. Life was thought and taught to
have not formed until much later; after the earth cooled and comets supposedly brought
our water here. Five; these ‘billions of
years old’ fossils look exactly like the same stromatolites found today. How could that be if evolution is true? They should have evolved from something far
different over eons of time. This
bewildering anomaly of things looking exactly as their so-called fossilized
ancestors is now being found in thousands of other living things, too. Something that only grows in water couldn’t have
survived living in a lava world say the scientists. This is just one more nail in the coffin of
the Theory of Evolution. Notice it is
still just a theory. I have an answer to all of these puzzling discoveries
taking place in science today; earth is not billions of years old. God made it just as the Bible says; about six
to eight thousand years ago. Their radiological dating systems of fossils and rocks
are based upon the so-called “known” age of the earth. What if their “known” age of the earth is
wrong? After all, If I had to choose
between man’s guess and God’s guess, my money would be on God. Radiological dating is a man-made system and
has been found to be wrong in countless situations. Newly formed lava rock, days old, has been dated at millions of years. To be an
evolutionist one has to first believe in the Big Bang Theory creating the
universe sixteen billion years ago. The
Big Bang dictates that something the size of a ‘pinhead’ exploded, and all of
the universe came spilling out. W now know there are millions of galaxies. Is this reasonable? It says that earth was first a ball of lava
with no water. When enough water was
recently discovered deep in the earth (enough to cover the highest mountains),
scientists began to wonder if the Big Bang could be wrong. No water was supposed to be here when earth
was formed. However, the Bible tells us
the earth was separated from the waters when God made it; meaning there would
have been a lot of water. Also, the
Bible tells us that the waters of the great deep broke up during the flood of
Noah and then returned deep into the earth. Scientists just found that
water. Yes, science discoveries can be
very enlightening; proving our Bible to be right. Stromatolites are a classic
example. Look for my book to come out at the end of April, according to my
publisher. It is called “LEARNING THE ABC’S, ARCHAEOLOGY, THE BIBLE AND
CREATION”.
by davdi | Feb 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
132 DARWIN’S BIGGEST MISTAKE
Every adult and school kid knows the name of Charles Darwin,
the man attributed with the Theory of Evolution. The full title of Darwin’s book is not ‘The
Origin of Species’ as many believe. The
full title is ‘On The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation
of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life’. In his title we find one of his greatest
mistakes; that there are ‘Favoured Races’ in mankind and other living
things. Darwin was convinced that the Black race was
lesser evolved than the white race, and more closely related to monkeys. This gave credence to slavery and racism. He also believed the aborigines of Australia
were not as evolved. In the late 1800’s
and beyond, the aborigines were hunted down and their bones sold to museums all
over the world for study, or for the public to view what “sub-human” bones looked like.
American museums were particularly fond of displaying pickled aborigine
brains and labeling them as brains of ‘recently
living missing links’. Darwin
ordered a Tasmanian skull to study when there were only four Tasmanians left alive
in the world. This mistake of there
being inferior races gave rise to a large, financially prosperous bone-collecting
industry in Australia; resulting in the deaths of thousands. For example, England alone had over ten
thousand bones in their collections. In 1906, a pygmy by the name of Ota Benga
was placed in the Bronx Zoo in New York.
He had been purchased by African slave traders and brought to America to
be displayed in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in Missouri in 1904 as an
example of Darwin’s philosophies. In the
Bronx Zoo, He was given a parrot and an orangutan to keep him company. Many tens of thousands came to see the so-called
‘living missing link’. Look it up on the internet. His purchase, being brought to America and
put in a zoo was not considered wrong since he was thought to be
sub-human. This would not have been
possible if we hadn’t first been taught that man evolved from monkeys. This after only 60 years after Darwin. The
Darwinian theory of monkey-to-man is mostly responsible for Hitler killing six
million “sub-human Jews” during
WWII. Hitler felt like if there was a ‘Master Race’, Germans were it. He also
felt that to speed up evolution, it was his job to remove all of the
sub-species of man. Remember, it was only Darwin’s ‘beliefs’ that man evolved
from monkeys. There had never been any
proof for monkey to man “Favoured Races”.
There still isn’t. No science has
proven the Theory of Evolution. It is
still just a belief. So why am I writing about this? The Human Genome Project has now proven that
we all descended from one family in the beginning. This project included thousands of geneticists,
scientists and others from many fields of study; costing over one billion
dollars and taking ten years of painstaking research to complete. By mapping the entire human genome (DNA),
they made marvelous discoveries. One was
that they found all races of man originated at the “same time”, and
that we’re related to one set of original parents. The DNA gene pool can be restricted by centralizing
people groups to a local geography, causing the population to resemble each
other in various features. When certain
gene features are not passed on, they become less dominant and can become
dormant. Adam and Eve had all the
possible gene features of all races. After
the dispersal at the Tower of Babel, we lost certain features in each family of
man, developing very pronounced features in each. However, it’s possible for those features to
remain dormant for centuries and suddenly reappear in one of our children. In the October issue of ‘Acts and Facts’
magazine, they mention twin girls; one’s white with silky red hair. The other
is black with wiry black hair.
Otherwise, they’re identical. Both
parents are white; so are the grandparents. We need to be careful how we accept
so-called science facts. Many millions died due to Darwin’s erroneous beliefs. We need to be careful how we act upon
unfounded theories. Darwin felt his
family was superior, so the three related families (cousins) all intermarried.
He was hoping to create a master race. Just the opposite happened. There were
tremendous mental and health issues in the related families. Find us at
evidenceforthehope.org. Have a nice day.
by davdi | Feb 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
TO SET THE CAPTIVES FREE
In the days of Jeremiah, the biblical prophet, it was
prophesied that the Israelites would be defeated and taken into captivity. They had turned their backs on God, and God
thus turned His back on them; allowing this to happen. Did it actually happen as described in the
Bible? For thousands of years there had
been no proof for this other than that which was written in the Bible. The answer is that we now have an
overabundance of archaeological evidence to support all of what happened. Jeremiah told the people that God said, when
they went into captivity, to “Build houses and live in them, plant gardens and
eat their fruit. Take wives and begat
sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to
husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there, do not be decreased. And seek the welfare of the city to which I have
exiled you and pray to the Lord in its behalf; for in its prosperity you shall
prosper.” (Jeremiah 29:5-7). We now have
the records of Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon that state he took captives of Judah
starting about 597 B.C. The temple in
Jerusalem is recorded as being destroyed, and its artifacts taken, in 586
B.C. Remember, the dating system before
Christ counts down not up; as we do now.
If it is 597 this year then the next year would be 596, and so on. The Judahite king Jehoiachin was taken
captive, just as our Bible says.
Nebuchadnezzar’s tablets confirm this.
In one of the passages of the Bible it says that one of the Babylonian
princes came with Nebuchadnezzar and took a seat in the gate of the captured
city. His name was Nebosarsekim, as
found in Jeremiah 39:3, 13. A small
tablet has now been found in the form of a receipt with his name on it, and naming
him as a prince of Babylonia. Our Bible
also says that when Nebuchadnezzar seized the city and took its king captive,
that he set another king up in his place.
A Babylonian tablet has been found saying that this did happen. It reads “…the second day of the month Adar
he captured the city…seized…. King. A
king of his own choice he appointed in the city.” Our Bible says that king Jehoiachin was then
appointed rations as a captive king (2nd kings 25:30). Once again, the records of Nebuchadnezzar
state that Jehoiachin and other captured kings were assigned a daily
ration. We just heard how Jeremiah said
to pray for the city that the captives would be assigned to. Ancient Babylonian tablets have now been
found detailing a place called ‘al-Yahudu’, which translates to ‘Judah town’. This
is where the Israelites were taken and placed in captivity. The records show that the captives did
exactly what God told them to do; they married, bore sons and daughters, prayed
for their captors, and prospered in that place according to the newly found records. This prosperity allowed them to increase
their numbers. Over 160 texts have been
found in nearby towns, too. They record
that the place was also called ‘alu sa Yahudu’, meaning ‘the city of the
Judeans’. Isaiah prophesied that the
Judeans would eventually be freed by a Persian king named Cyrus; who was yet to
be born. About two hundred years later,
Persian King Cyrus set the captives free and ordered them to rebuild the temple
in Jerusalem and ordered others to rebuild their temples, too. The Judahites were now free. This is interesting because Jeremiah
prophesied that when that order would be given, the Messiah would be killed
483years later. Jesus was crucified 483
years later. Do we have records of a
Persian king by the name of Cyrus ordering the freeing of captives, rebuilding
of temples, and Jerusalem? Yes. It’s found on the Cyrus Cylinder, which is
located in the British Museum. These are
just of the few things that we can use as proof for our Bible being correct, and
being the Word of God, by way of archaeological discoveries. Look for us on evidenceforthehope.org or on Facebook
at Evidence for the Hope Ministries, Inc. My first book is now ready to print
and is in the research for a cover stage. Please tell your friends about it. It
should be on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other places soon. It is “LEARNING
THE A B C’s; APOLOGETICS, THE BIBLE, AND CREATION”. It is a first in a trilogy;
two more to be written.
by davdi | Feb 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
130 QUARTZITE QUESTIONS
It’s amazing how much we can learn about the evidences for
our Bible from rocks. I was recently
reading an article on percussion marks being found on quartzite boulders and
rocks. Quartzite is one of the hardest known
rocks known to man; just below the hardness of diamonds, the hardest known
mineral in the world. Scientists around
the world have found that not only is some quartzite rounded smooth but that
others had marks on them of something striking them. This is what I was referring to as ‘percussion
marks’. So, what’s the big deal you
ask? There are several things here that
need to be understood. First, we need to
know how rocks get rounded. When rocks
fall from ledges on mountains and other geologic formations, one will notice
that they are not rounded at all but usually flat, jagged, rectangular and so
on. In order to be rounded or smoothed
over they have to be captured by a source of water. Once a rock falls into a river or creek it
starts its journey downstream. As it
goes along, it’s rolled over and over until it is finally circular and
smooth. Notice that sand on a beach is
all rounded. It takes quite a force of
water to round off quartzite, though.
The faster the water is moving, the quicker the stone becomes
rounded. Scientists have a very hard
time explaining why there are percussion marks found on rounded quartzite. In order to mar the surface of rounded quartzite
by something striking it in water, there have to be tremendous forces
applied. These forces absolutely must be
equivalent to water moving at least seventy miles per hour. There’s never been any flood in the world
moving constantly at that speed on land long enough to round off quartzite and
then leave percussion marks. The speed
of seventy miles per hour is three times any flood speed ever observed on the
earth. Or is it? It’s estimated that a worldwide flood would
reach orbital speeds on land of over a hundred miles per hour and could easily
leave percussion marks on quartzite. Many
disbelieve the story of Noah and a worldwide flood. If not from Noah’s flood, how did quartzite
become rounded and have percussion marks?
There’s no answer to this for those who dismiss the story of Noah. For those of us who have spent a lifetime
researching proofs for the things of the Bible, the answer is obvious; there
once WAS a worldwide flood, and eight people were all that were saved by
entering into the ark. It’s incredible
to know that no other ship was as large as the ark until the Queen Mary luxury
ship was built in England in 1931. Like
I said, rocks can give us proof for things in our Bible. Didn’t Jesus say the very rocks would testify
of Him, if we denied Him? I’ve studied my way from atheism to becoming a strong
Christian believer by examining things that we find all around us. I love science, ancient history, and
archaeology. In each of those fields, I
find tremendous amounts of evidence for nearly every story and other things in
our Bible to be true. I can now go to
any part of my Bible and say “Gosh, we have proof for that”. Therefore, I write newspaper articles and
speak on radio in four states. I want
others to have the opportunity to learn what I’ve learned and to decide one way
or another for or against the Bible being the very Word of God. I honor whatever one decides to choose. God would have it no other way. Each of us is given free will, and we should
respect each other’s right to choose what they want to believe. I just want to present some facts, not
normally taught in the average church, to become known before that decision is made. Look for
us at evidenceforthehope.org or on Facebook at Evidence for the Hope Ministries.
Have a nice day.
by davdi | Feb 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
WHO KNOWS MORE ABOUT THE PAST?
An archaeologist is quoted in the “Times” as saying “It
shouldn’t be every archaeologist’s first instincts to see if their findings are
in the historical sources”. In other
words, archaeologists shouldn’t be trying to prove the history of the find, but
just report the find. I’m confused. Why wouldn’t a curious archaeologist want to
know if discoveries are rooted in true history?
This type of thinking is especially common when it comes to a Biblical
archaeological find. The average Western
archaeologist seems to side with fiction at any mention of Biblical history. Any proof the find is actual history has to be
forced upon them before they grudgingly admit that it’s true history. For example; it was long held that King David
and Goliath were fiction, that there were no King David palaces, Solomon (the fictional
David’s fictional son) never built the fictional first temple and so on. Recent archaeological finds proved that
David, Solomon, Goliath, the Temple and the palaces were all real, but do the
antagonists admit they were wrong? No. They simply discredit something else. The ultimate discovery of things once
discredited have now reached over 6,500 in number; proving the Bible to be
right 6,500 times! Why do they even
bother to attack the Bible anymore? They’re
being proven wrong over and over. Why is
it so necessary to say that Bible history is pure fiction or myth? You’d think they’d be a bit embarrassed by
this time. The people of the past, not
the people of today, knew more of that past. Wouldn’t it be wise to accept what they wrote,
and use that to make other discoveries?
The answer as to why some can’t accept the Bible lies in
another realm; there’s a God and a devil.
It’s the job of God to get us into His kingdom, and Satan’s to keep us
out. God uses truth to accomplish this,
and Satan uses lies. Ephesians 6:12 says
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual
wickedness in high places”. I find
myself somewhat frustrated when challenged by an antagonist of the Bible…until
I remember who my antagonist is mindlessly serving. Many give themselves over to the works of the
devil without even knowing they’re doing so.
I’ve spent nearly forty years studying scientific, historical, and archaeological
facts proving the Bible to be right.
When I first began, much of what we know today was not known. Over 2,000 discoveries in archaeology alone, proving
the Bible, have taken place since.
So what’s the answer to so much antagonism against the Bible
in this world? Ephesians 6:13 says
“Wherefore take unto you the full armour of God, that you may be able to stand
in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.” Each Christian is called to share his or her
faith and make disciples, even during persecutions. The enemies of God called His Son names, spit
on Him, beat Him, and crucified Him. Should
we expect less? However, we can still share
our faith without much fear of retribution.
We will never rid the world of Biblical adversaries. They’ll always be among us trying to take
away our religious freedoms. “Having
done all, to stand” should be our motto.
Look us up at evidenceforthehope.org or go to face-book; Evidence for
the Hope. I currently completed a book
on a lot of these discoveries and what they mean for Christian believers. It is a compilation of forty years and many tens
of thousands of hours of research. Please pray for it to get in the hands of
students and others.
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