[Genesis 15:18-21] In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, And the HITTITES, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. An ancient people, known as the Hittites, are mentioned some fifty times in the Old Testament. For a long time they were considered to be fabricated by the Bible because the only evidence of their existence came from the Old Testament. Liberal scholars assumed the biblical references to the Hittites were historically worthless. Archaeologist A. H. Sayce was the first scholar to identify the Hittite people from a non-biblical source. In 1876 he released his information from his study of the ancient monuments and revolutionized critical theories concerning the Hittites. This is but one example of how archeological records have vindicated Biblical accounts. For years, the logical fallacy was used, that said since no evidence of the Hittite civilization was found, it must mean that it never existed. And thus this lack of evidence was used to attack and discredit the Bible. Once the discovery was made, they no longer were able to use that line of attack. So the Bible knew about the Hittite civilization before the scholars did. This is one of many reasons why I believe the Bible to be reliable. A lot of so called problems are cleared up, once archeology and history catch up. One more example... The Existence Of Belshazzar Was Denied. The fifth chapter of the Book of Daniel mentions a ruler named Belshazzar. For a long time this reference was assumed to be a made-up name by the author of Daniel who supposedly wrote hundreds of years after the alleged events took place. This, of course, would make the author of Daniel not the biblical Daniel but rather some forger. Belshazzar Did Exist. Discoveries in Babylon have shown that Belshazzar did indeed exist as ruler in the fifth century B.C. Therefore the author was historically accurate. Consequently it gives us no reason to doubt that he was exactly whom he claimed to be – Daniel the prophet. unamsanctamcatholicam/history/historical-apologetics/79-history/402-the-belshazzar-problem.html
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 23:26:08 +0000