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items in the NEW TESTAMENT that you claim is in there. (Links would be nice) and to archieologist sites not religious)

2007-08-08 07:59:57 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

If you make a claim about all the factual historically proven item that are in there then why can you not produce those items?

2007-08-08 08:04:21 · update #1

What part of NEW TESTAMENT and Non religious sites do you not understand?

2007-08-08 08:14:05 · update #2

Androgyne.
Your links are worthless. The first has nothing in it even attempting to show any proof. The second and third are religious rags with no basis in science.

2007-08-08 08:18:08 · update #3

I have, there is none, Your claim there is evidence not mine so it is your to provide proof and show you do not just have your head up your butt.

2007-08-08 09:03:15 · update #4

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Various Roman characters, e.g. Pontius Pilate, and Hebrew characters e.g. King Herod are independently verified outside of the bible. Various events in the bible just could not have happened as written.e.g. Herod died 4 years before the reported birth of Jesus and therefore could not have been responsible for the slaughter of the innocents -- if it ever took place.

There is NO independent contemporary verification of the existence of Jesus. The Romans kept a lot of records, but they wrote nothing about a Jewish troublemaker/messiah or of his execution. If he did exist he must have been a very minor character as far as they were concerned.

2007-08-08 08:10:26 · answer #1 · answered by Sandy G 6 · 1 1

In Luke:

Luke 3:1 Lysanias as the tetrarch of Abilene around AD 27, thought to be incorrect because Lysanias was ruler of Chalcis around 25 BC, proved correct when an inscription from the time of Tiberias, AD 14-37, which names Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene.

Acts 17:6 the politarchs of Thessalonica, thought wrong because no evidence for such a term existed in any Roman documents, proven correct when a first century arch was found to be inscribed with "in the time of the politarchs..." and since 35 other inscriptions have been found mentioning the politarchs in the firct century AD.

Discrepancy between Luke and Mark, One says Jesus is going into Jericho and the other that he is leaving Jericho, resolved when archeology found that Jericho is actually made up of four different areas and the part under discussion actually touched each other so one can leave and enter Jericho at the same time.

From John:

The pool of Bethesda in John 5:1-15, no such pool was thought to exist in that location in the way it was described, resolved when a pool was excavated forty feet below the surface that matched exactly what John describes.

There are more but this is a good list to start with. If you have any more questions go ahead and ask them.

2007-08-08 15:30:10 · answer #2 · answered by mrglass08 6 · 2 0

I think the onus is on you to investigate - your previous questions have seemed to been aimed at casting doubt on christianity. So it doesn't seem right for me to make an effort when you are showing yourself to be a "mocker", and God in general won't help mockers until they have a respectful attitude.

I know for instance they have found some of the sites in John's gospel. Some 19C liberal theologians (semi-athiest) said it was all invention, but they were shown wrong. Also Acts' places were thought to be all wrong by some in 19C, but archaology has proved Luke very good on geography.

Buy some books, or get them from your library. There is some information on the internet, of mixed reliability and thought application.

2007-08-08 15:18:42 · answer #3 · answered by Cader and Glyder scrambler 7 · 0 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_archaeology

I'm not a Christian, and I don't know if anything in there is from the New Testament since I haven't bothered to go through it all.

But you should know that, even if artifacts were discovered that are mentioned in the Bible, this does not prove the Bible is all true. You don't believe everything a textbook says simply because half of it is correct, right?

And it's certainly not proof of YHWH, let alone a deity in general.

2007-08-08 15:28:10 · answer #4 · answered by Skye 5 · 2 0

If you are really and sincerely interested, try Gibbons, The Rise and Fall of THe Roman Empire.===Lots of verification of New Testament data----then try Any of Works by Josephus which covers the societal situation in First Century.
Dealing with Old Test. Try The Code of Hammurabi which gives you an idea of the laws which were adapted and utilized by the early Israeli history of the Jews.

2007-08-08 15:07:54 · answer #5 · answered by glenn t 4 · 0 2

Well there's a whole field of archaeological research called Biblical archeology, and there are numerous resources to address your questions. The researchers come from a wide variety of backgrounds, not only "fundamentalist Christians." I haven't looked into these myself, but if you are actually looking for information and not just trying to be argumentative, there is information available.

2007-08-08 15:08:06 · answer #6 · answered by snapoutofit 4 · 1 1

Wait a second, when did you ever hear me claim anything is factual in the new testament ? Maybe you mean fictional.

2007-08-08 15:07:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1 2

well of the top of my head....St. Peters square where Peter (who walked with Jesus and knew him) was crucified upside down. monument still there.
Golgotha the "hill of the skull" where Jesus was crucified.
Bethlehem where He was born, Nazareth where he was raised.
Pilot the Ruler in Jerusalem at the time history book talk of him and the bibles account same ..

2007-08-08 15:06:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

You need to take a tour of the Holy Land;-} especially Jerusalem.

2007-08-08 15:13:14 · answer #9 · answered by Robert S 7 · 1 1

These items,if they were found,wouldn't convince anyone to believe.
This isn't in God's plan.God said faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.Another words,there must be a preacher
to proclaim the word of God before one can
hear it.

2007-08-08 15:14:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

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