Has anything in the bible been proved correct?

Answer 1

Jerusalem is a real city.

Answer 2

That all depends on what you mean. It is very difficult to prove anything in history really happened. The only thing you have to go by is written documentation and supporting evidence. Written documentation can always be biased, if not propagandic. Because of the Bible's many extraordinary claims, its validity is often brought into question. However, if even one history's (written almost 500 years later) validity was question, it would be difficult to prove that much of what we know or believe about Alexander the Great was correct. This would be true for almost any anceint person.

The fact of the matter is, if you put the Bible to the same tests that we put to other historical documents the Bible passes with flying colors. We have been able to accurately prove that many historical people lived when and where the Bible says they did. The Bible seems to accurately portray the political and religious situations and attitudes of the time. There is very little concern (despite what critics say) that the Bible has been significantly altered. In fact, the Bible is the ONLY document older than a few hundred years that this can truly be said for. We have so many thousands of manuscripts of the New Testament that it is fairly easy to compare them all and identify any mistakes made in copying. Almost any other document, whether it is a history or a piece of literature, we have only a handful of manuscripts, and usually there are many centuries between our oldest document and the original. With the New Testament we have much less time, between the copies and the originals, and many more of them.

While I could go on about this topic, here is the gist of the matter: The Bible is as historically accurate as any known document of antiquity. Many people and places have been historically verified, and it has never been proven that someone mentioned in the Bible did not live in that place or time. In matters that can be verified some 2,000-4,000 years later, the Bible has been proven as correct as possible. However, whether or not Jesus raised from the dead, whether or not Moses parted the Red Sea, etc., cannot truly be verified. Evidence may be found to support these claims, but ultimately it must be taken as a matter of faith. If, however, you look to disprove the Bible by showing that it is not historically accurate, you will find that this task is futile. You must choose to reject the miracles and teachings out of the bible out of faith, as well.

Answer 3

A non-Christian Egyptologist and historian has written two big books and had some TV documentaries screened on archaeological discoveries proving much in the Old Testament as true, that was previously ridiculed by non-believers. He unearths evidence of Enoch, Noah, Nimrod, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, Saul, David and Solomon. He sorts out misunderstandings about the Hebrews being slaves in Egypt due to dynastic miscalculations. When he went by the Old Testament accounts, he found them to be more accurate than historians' non-biblical methods.

There is too much supportive evidence about the New Testament to go into here. Josephus was a Jewish (ie non-Christian) historian of the 1st C A.D. who confirms certain things, as do the catacombs and Roman records. The Bible's historicity is well accredited.

Answer 4

I don't have finger stamina enough to list all the things.

Archeology -- the places mentioned in the Bible have proved to be there as well as the people from writings dug up from those times.

The Dead Sea Scrolls and older writings prove Israel had a written language in Moses time.

Modern science proves Job 26:7 and Isaiah 40:22 true when it spoke of the earth as round hanging on nothing well over 1,000 years before Christ when everyone else thought it was flat till Columbus went the wrong way and side swiped another continent. They also came up with various things holding the earth up and moving it.

The Bible also is correct about human interactions. How family life should be run. How to view work. If this council was followed today, there would be no use for the 600,000 copies of self-help books printed each year as they rehash the Bible's advice over and over.

Answer 5

Nothing that I've read about yet...from what I can tell it is possible but no true evidence...The historical figures don't add up to the time in the Bible (there are records of the historical figures outside of the Bible but nothing mentioned about Jesus except what's in the Bible) the archaeological finds turn out to be replicas or fraudulent (I read one case there might be a possibility but that's unknown) Also from what I read there is no document on Jesus crucifixion but what is in the Bible. Everything leads to possibilities either you believe or you don't.

Answer 6

there are many things confirmed by archeology, such as many details given by Luke in Acts. Basically Luke is seen as trucstworthy in what we can check, so it is reasonable to trust him in what we cannot check

David Downs has interesting comentary realted to the Exodus and archeology of the Olt Testament, being an archeologist form Australia and has some definite things to say on that and worth reading his books

as far as before Genesis 10, the young earth geologist, astronomers and biologists have some compelling arguments. See the RATE study, Radioisotopes and the age of the eart. In the Beginning was Information, and Lucy She's no Lady to name a few of many good sourses

Answer 7

All biblical cities mentioned in the bible are in fact real places or well they were at one point. Kingdoms come and go and names get changed sometimes. Also Pontius Pilot was a real Roman Governor. Also all the proverbs or "The wisdom of Solomon" are really said by King Soloman, for the most part much of the old testement can be proved and we know all 12 of the apostles were real people.

Answer 8

Yes, in some of the wars the Israelian troops have used battle descripions in the bible to set up attac/defense lines.

Answer 9

They all missed the fact that a rebel extremist named Jesus was in fact cruxified, for crimes against the state. However he didn`t die and therefore never rose from the dead. But the guy did actually exist..
Come on christians you are slipping.

Answer 10

There are historical records other than the Bible that mention Jesus.

Answer 11

I gather that archaeologists have found what could have been the Bethesda Pool in Jerusalem.

Can't think of anything else.
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