Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 1082. Biblical archaeology has quietly become one of the most persuasive answers I can give a sceptical friend, because it deals in something they cannot simply wave away: dirt, pottery, inscriptions, and dated strata pulled directly out of the ground. For centuries critics dismissed much of the Bible as myth and legend, claiming that…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 01067. Knowing the Bible is true, rather than just claiming it, requires a rather different kind of evidence to the question of whether it is God’s Word, and I think it can bear the weight of honest scrutiny very well indeed. In a sceptical age, people rightly ask how we can trust a set…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 1045. Biblical archaeology occupies an unusual place in my ministry, because it sits right at the boundary between faith and physical evidence, and I find that boundary endlessly interesting rather than threatening. In 1868 a German missionary named Frederick Klein discovered a black basalt stone in Jordan bearing an inscription from Mesha, king of…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60057 When Genesis 8:4 records that Noah’s Ark came to rest “on the mountains of Ararat,” many people naturally assume this refers to the specific peak known today as Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey. The question of whether these mountains are the same as those referred to in Scripture touches on geography, geology, linguistics,…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 60042 This is a question that sceptics love to raise. If Jesus said that not one stone would be left upon another, how is it that the Western Wall—also called the Wailing Wall—is still standing in Jerusalem today? Did Jesus get it wrong? Was His prophecy a failure? The answer lies in understanding exactly…
Reading Time: 8 minutesQuestion 8015 The Bible speaks clearly about giants existing in ancient times. The Hebrew word נְפִילִים (Nephilim) appears in Genesis 6:4 and Numbers 13:33, and these were real, physical beings that walked the earth. But were they genuinely historical, or are we reading ancient mythology? Let’s examine what Scripture actually says and what evidence supports…