ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY ATTEST TO THE RELIABILITY OF THE BIBLE!!!!!!! No other ancient book is QUESTIONED or MALIGNED like the BIBLE... Critics looking for the FLY-SPECT IN THE MASTERPIECE ALL ALLEGE THAT THERE WAS A LONG SPAN BETWEEN THE TIME THE EVENTS IN THE [NEW TESTAMENT] OCCURRED AND WHEN THEY WERE RECORDED... THEY CLAIM A [GAP] EXISTS ARCHAEOLOGICALLY BETWEEN THE EARLIEST COPIES MADE AND THE AUTOGRAPHS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. IN REALITY, THE ALLEGED SPACES AND [SO-CALLED GAP] EXIST ONLY IN THE MINDS OF THE CRITICS!!!!!!! (MANUSCRIPT EVIDENCE)... Aristotles [Ode to Poetics] was written between 384 and 322 B.C. (Before CHRIST). The earliest copy of this work is dated A.D.1100- (After Death of CHRIST), and there are only 49 [EXTANT MANUSCRIPTS]... BY THE WAY YOU ARE LIVING IN 2014 (A.D.). GET THE PICTURE? ITS STILL CHRISTS TIME! The [gap] between the original writing and the earliest copy is 1,400 years of Aristotles [Ode to Poetics]. There are only seven [Extant MANUSCRIPTS] of Platos (Tetralogies), written 427-347 B.C. The earliest copy is A.D. 900--a [gap] of over 1200 years. What about the (NEW TESTAMENT)? JESUS was crucified in A.D. 30. The (NEW TESTAMENT) was written between A.D. 48 and 95. The oldest manuscripts date to the last quarter of the first century, and the second oldest A.D.125. This gives us a NARROW [gap] of 35 to 40 years from the originals written by the APOSTLES.......... From the early centuries, we have some 5,300 Greek manuscripts of the (NEW TESTAMENT). Altogether, including Syriac, Latin, Coptic, and Aramaic, we have a whopping 24,633 texts of the ancient (NEW TESTAMENT) to CONFIRM the wording of the Scriptures in the (NEW TESTAMENT)..... So the bottom line is, THERE IS (NO)!! GREAT PERIOD BETWEEN THE EVENTS OF THE (NEW TESTAMENT) and the (NEW TESTAMENT) writings...... NOR IS THERE A GREAT TIME LAPS BETWEEN THE ORIGINAL WRITINGS AND THE OLDEST COPIES!! With the great body of manuscript evidence, it can be proved beyond a DOUBT, that the (NEW TESTAMENT) says EXACTLY the same things TODAY as it ORIGINALLY DID NEARLY 2,000 YEARS AGO!! (CORROBORATING WRITINGS). An other point of contention arises when BIBLE critics have KNOWINGLY or UNKNOWINGLY misled people by IMPLYING THAT OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT BOOKS WERE EITHER EXCLUDED FROM AOR ADDED INTO THE CANON OF THE SCRIPTURES AT THE GREAT (ECUMENICAL COUNCILS) of A.D. 336, 382, 397, and 419. In FACT, one result of these gatherings was to CONFIRM the Churchs belief that the books already in the (BIBLE) were DIVINELY INSPIRED.!!!!! Therefore, the Church, at these meetings, neitherADDED TONOR TOOK AWAY from the books of the (BIBLE)!!! At that time, the 39( OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS) had already been ACCEPTED and the (NEW TESTAMENT), as it was written simply grew up[ with the ancient Church.... Each document, being accepted as it was penned in the first century, was then passed on to Christians of the next century. So, this FOOLISHNESS!!!!! ABOUT THE ROMAN EMPEROR CONSTANTINE DROPPING BOOKS FROM THE BIBLE IS SIMPLY [UNEDUCATED RUMOR]!!!!!! (FULFILLED PROPHECIES). Prophecies from the OLD & NEW TESTAMENTS that have been [FULFILLED] also add (CREDIBILITY) to the BIBLE.... The Scriptures predicted the rise and fall of great empires like Greece & Rome (Daniel 2:39-40 39). And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth... 40). Ant the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: for asmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. Scriptures foretold the destruction of cities like Tyre and Sidon (Isaiah 23:1&5 1). The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them, 5). As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.) Tyres demise is recorded by ancient historians, who tell how Alexander the Great lay siege to the city fro seven months. King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had failed in a 13 year attempt to capture the seacoast city and completely destroy its inhabitants. Durning the siege of 573 B.C. much of the population of Tyre moved to its new island home approximately half a mile from the land city. Here it remained surrounded by walls as high as 150 feet until judgment fell in 332 B.C. with the arrival of Alexander the Great. In the seven-month siege, he fulfilled the remainder of the prophecies (Zechariah 9:4 Behold, the LORD will cast her out, and HE will smite her power in the sea: and she shall be devoured with fire)... (Ezekiel 26:12 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water), this was concerning the city at sea by completely destroying Tyre, killing 8,000 of its inhabitants and selling 30,000 of its population into slavery. To reach the island, Alexander the Great scraped u- the dust and rubble of the old land city of Tyre, just like the BIBLE predicted, and cast them into the sea, building a 200-foot causeway out to the island... Alexanders death and the murder of his two sons was also foretold in the Scriptures. Another startling prophecy was JESUS detailed prediction of Jerusalems destruction and the further spreading of the Jewish diaspora throughout the world, which is recorded in (Luke 21). In A.D. 70, not only was Jerusalem destroyed by Titus, the future emperor of Rome, but another prediction of JESUS CHRIST in (Matthew 24:1&2 1). And JESUS went out, and departed from the temple: and HIS disciples came to HIM for to show HIM the buildings of the temple. 2). And JESUS said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down), another prediction came to pass--the complete destruction of the temple of GOD. (MESSIANIC SCRIPTURE). In the Book of Daniel the BIBLE prophesied the coming of the one and only Jewish Messiah prior to the temples demise. The (OLD TESTAMENT) prophets declared HE would be born in Bethlehem (MIcah 5:2 But thou, Bethlem Ephratah, though you be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall HE come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.) to a virgin (Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the LORD HIMSELF shall give you a sign: Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call HIS name IMMANUEL), be betrayed for 30 pieces of silver (Zechariah 11:12&13 12). And i said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. Sot they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. 13). And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that i was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD), died by crucifixion (Psalms 22 ), and be buried in a rich mans tomb (Isaiah 53:9 And HE made HIS grave with the wicked, and with the rich in HIS death; because HE had done no violence, neither was any deceit in HIS mouth. THERE WAS ONLY ONE PERSON WHO FITS ALL OF THE MESSIANIC PROPHECIES OF THE OLD TESTAMENT WHO LIVED BEFORE A.D. 70: JESUS OF NAZARETH.. The original transcript by Richard M Fales, Ph.D.
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