Physical proof for the bible?

Question

I have a deal with my husband that I will show him 15 things in the bible that have scienfic or physical proof of happening, or being proved true, and he has to prove just one thing in the bible that is a proven lie. If he is able to, I will renounce my religion.
Do you know of any websites that talk about proof from the bible?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Maybe www.ansersingenesis.org? That would at least provide some origins insights.

Answer 2

I'll give you a couple1 the Hebrews were in Egypt,2 the Jews exist and there in the bible,3God made the earth in seven days we have a seven day week,4God said he confounded the languages we have different languages,5 We come from Adam & eve science says we all have the same origin,6 the bible says that all have sinned well nobody's perfect,7 the bible says we all die,8pork is a unclean meat science says it is full of parasites,9 the bible says we cant eat prawns science says there high in cholesterol, 10the bible says its not good to be drunk,11 god said if we don't obey him he will send terror upon us we are being attacked by terrorism,12 the bible said in the future people would be going to and fro just look at traffic,13 the bible says life is in the blood well we cant live without it,14the bible says men will seek the lust of there hearts well,15 the bible says the love of money is the root of all evil look at the greed in the world, 16god said he wouldn't flood the whole world again and he hasn't,17 the bible said the earth is the center of the universe in 2012 it will be,........................I hope some of these will be helpful to stick it to him good luck

Answer 3

Proof...you are going to have a tough time. I mean the cities are a real, but there isn't much beyond that. There isn't even a good case there was a man named Jesus. Only a few accounts outside the Bible written several generations later. The Iliad has better archaeological evidence.

You want a few examples of things on his side.,
- Evolution clearly doesn't match Genesis.
- The census that Mary was supposed to be in Bethlehem for never happened.
- There is no evidence of a global flood. Further 2 of every species with food and water wouldn't fit on the USS Enterprise, let alone a wooden ship. I can show you this math if you want. It is staggering. And to cover Everest you are talking water up to almost where commercial jets fly. Think about that for just a second.
- There is no evidence of Hebrews in Egypt at all. Let alone the half million they claim.

Answer 4

If you would renounce your faith based on one proof of fallacy in the Bible, then you don't have much faith.

I have a feeling you will lose this bet. I could name off at least 5 things in the Bible off the top of my head that have been misinterpreted and/or mistranslated and several more than are physically impossible or inaccurate.

There was a show on the History Channel that gives scientific explanations for the events in Exodus (the plagues) but this does not prove the entire Bible. This just proves that those events could have happened and that there is an explanation for it. Exodus is just one society's interpretation of the events.

I think the bet would be more fair the other way around. It will be very difficult for you to prove 15 things in the Bible. I'd rather see ONE thing in the Bible proven...I don't think it can be done.

Answer 5

Your husband should be able to look into your life and find the biggest proof of how real the bible is. The Bible in and of itself is Truth and these truths are hidden from those who reject Jesus Christ so that they cannot see. We who can see have no business waging a bet on our faith! Have you ever noticed that in Ephesians where we are told to put on the whole armour of God there is a piece for every part of our bodies but what????? There is NO protection for the back. Meaning, there is no divine protection for those who " walk away" from the Truth they onced confessed. I would apologize to the Lord quickly and start praying even greater for your husband to see Jesus through you. There truly is no greater reason the Lord has you in this marriage ( 1 Corinthians 7:12-16).

Answer 6

study the e book "i don't have adequate faith to be an atheist" via Frank Turek and Norman Geisler in case you truly need "evidence" and are particularly fascinated. He began college doubting the existence of God and by lots study arrived at some very medical and extremely sound evidence that proves the Bible's actual and that God does certainly exist. it truly is somewhat ironic that the greater technological awareness has more desirable, the greater technological awareness is now getting used to coach the existence of God... ...somewhat humorous thinking the place the origins of Humanism began (i.e. technological awareness, Darwin, etc.). i became a believer when I study it; yet am much greater confident i'm perfect after examining this astonishing e book.

Answer 7

Purchase or borrow a Thompson Chain Reference Bible and go to the back and look at the archaeological supplement. It contains plenty of information concerning the Bible and the archaelogical finds that support it.

The Rosetta Stone and the Behistun inscription, The Tell-ell-Armarna Tablets, Absalom's Pillar, Aceldama (the potter's field), Ai, Anatoth, Beth-Zur, The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III of Assyria, Ruins of the ancient Synagogue at Capernaum, The "Street called Straight" at Damascus in Syria, The well-known "Dead Sea Scrolls," The Moabite Stone, Jacob's Well near Sychar, The remains of the city walls of Jericho, The Siloam Inscription, Solomon's Stables, Sennacherib's military campaign against Judah about 686 BC inscribed on his hexagonal clay prism found in his palace in Nineveh, and more than enough to cover your 15.

As far as your bet with your husband - I am wondering how something as valuable as knowing Christ as your Saviour and Lord could be bartered so cheaply since it cost Jesus His life.

Answer 8

It was a bad choice to say you only need 1 (or any number) thing prooven wrong to show that the Bible is wrong.

In 1800, the French Institute of Science came out with a list of 80 things that proved the Bible wrong. But by 1880, all 80 things where shown to as the Bible said.

The point is, Science facts change (we use to have 9 planets in our solar system, now we have 8), but the Bible does not. Also believers may be wrong in conecting something in the Bible with a piece of science.

I like to tell people that the Bible says that man and dinosaurs lived together (in the Bible dinosaurs are called Leviatan, Behemoth and dragons. The word dinosaur was first made up in 1884 and the orginonal text for the Bible are much older than that). Science says that we lived millions of years apart. But there are several places around the world (Glenn Rose Texas for one) where there are human and dinosaur footprints together in the same rock (do a web search with the key words - human dinosuar footprints - for more info).

Answer 9

15 to 1? You're out of luck.

And are you actually willing to completely "renounce your religion" if you find ONE fact wrong in the Bible? If the religion means anything to you, I don't know why you just can't join some Christian sect that isn't made up of fundamentalists. There are plenty of denominations who don't view the Bible as a word-for-word historical book. They have no problem realizing that people 2000+ years ago didn't know as much about the physical world as they do now.

The only people who say that "everything in the Bible is true" and free of contradictions (however moot they might be) are people who think they can't accept the Bible otherwise, so they go into the old game of rationalizing away contradictions until they're vague enough to be comparable.

Answer 10

I don't really know of a website, but I know of a book that you can kinda thumb through and get some really good factual stuff. It is The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel. He also has The Case for Faith and The Case for Easter..which is really short and a quick read. Strobel was an atheist trying to prove that Christianity is a bunch of lies and was converted because he found hard evidence that proved that the Bible and our faith was solid and true. Hope that helps some.

Answer 11

Sigh.

It's cute that you made a "deal" with your husband and staked your religion on it, first of all. Very pious.

It's quite impossible either to prove or disprove any of the important events in the Bible. Nobody can say whether the Crucifixion (e.g.) really happened at all, let alone whether it happened as the gospels depict. Yet we can agree that Judea at the time was under the Roman yoke and that the Romans regularly crucified convicted criminals. We cannot know whether the veil of the Temple was rent on the death of Jesus, but the remains of that Temple (the "Wailing Wall") still exist as proof that it really once stood there. When people talk about "Biblical Archaeology," what they mean is that it's possible to establish that the settings of events in the Bible were usually more or less as the Bible depicts them. This proves absolutely nothing that's actually important from the standpoint of "faith."

On the other hand, such events as Herod's supposed "Massacre of the Innocents" have absolutely no historical basis outside of the Gospel of Matthew. If the King of Judea had actually ordered the death of all male infants in Bethlehem, one would suppose that it would've provoked comment. Yet the absolute silence of the record obviously does not conclusively "prove" that it never happened - it only makes it that much less likely. Much more reasonable is the assertion that Matthew simply invented the story as another way of making the life of "Christ" resume the fabled history of the Hebrews - in this instance, the massacre of the Hebrew firstborn at the behest of Pharaoh, in anticipation of the prophesied "Deliverer." But you'd be justified in objecting that this is not "proof" in itself.

In short, there's no way to "prove" either case; but if we're talking about probability, the "religious" position looses almost every time.