Why is there no historical evidence that a single thing in the bible occurred?

Question

With all the events in the bible why does no history record it. Many other events were historically recorded that was happening at the same time as biblical events supposedly were.

I love all your pitiful denials thus far thanks.

Answer 1

Good grief, look at all the ignorance being touted as fact.

Reality check: There is no evidence of a mass migration from Egypt to Canaan. Not one artifact, campsite, or latrine pit...very strange considering the size the population was supposed to have been according to legend.

There is no evidence of a worldwide flood. Anyone who tells you so is lying.

Jericho may have been found. However, the evidence of the site strongly suggests that the walls of Jericho fell at a time much earlier than the Biblical accounts say it did--and at the hands of different people.

The claim of Noah's Ark being found is an old one, but none of the stories match up in their details: Size, location, position, etc... The most famous man who claimed to have found the Ark was Ron Wyatt...a man who also claimed to have the Ten Commandments tablets under wraps somewhere and a sample of Jesus's blood.

Answer 2

It is true, there are the cities that they have found that were recorded in the Bible. But once again, those that have answered did NOT read the question. For instance historical evidence of something occurring would be.
If Pharoh's army was washed away when Moses parted the sea, why has not even one piece of evidence been found?

Just because a book mentions cities that exist, does not make it fact. IF that were the case, then because Harry Potter lives in England, (A real country), then Hogwarts MUST exist.
Even though no imperical evidence has been found to prove it.

Or if every fan merely stated it does exist, with no mention of hard fact to stand behind it, makes it no more real.

Answer 3

I don't know why people say the ark has been found. Scientists thought they found it but they "lost" it again. Something to do with looking at the mountains at a certain angle. Sounds like a load of BS to me. The shroud of turin has basically been proven as a fake. There was some evidence of an Exodus occuring but at a different time than the bible says. There has been NO EVIDENCE of a worldwide flood although some areas have flooded over the last 2,000+ years (wow - big deal). And of course they've found archaeological proof of towns existing - there is also proof that native americans have had villages for centures too. So that basically proves that humans existed in those times - big freaking deal, that's not news. The plagues in the bible have even been explained scientifically.

Answer 4

NELSON GLUECK, a renowned Jewish archeologist, wrote, “it may be stated categorically that no archeological discovery has ever controverted a biblical reference.”

He continued by commenting on, “the almost incredibly accurate historical memory of the Bible, and particularly so when it is fortified by archeological fact.”

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In reference to these findings Garstang says: “As to the main fact, then, there remains no doubt: the walls fell outwards so completely that the attackers would be able to clamor up and over their ruins into the city.”

Why so unusual? Because walls of cities do not fall outwards, they fall inwards.

And yet in Joshua 6:20 we hear “ . . . the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city every man straight ahead, and they took the city.”

Answer 5

I'm an Atheist, but even I have to admit that this question is off.

There is historical evidence that some of the events happened. However most of the supposed history is recorded in the bible. You can research the history of the bible, but beyond that you will only find a small amount of the events recorded elsewhere, however they do exist.

My issue with this is that if I don't believe in the bible, why should I believe in things telling the same stories? They could easily be just as fictional.

Answer 6

There are those that will claim such things like Noah's Ark was found and Jerusalem was a real place etc.But the sad truth is it is a flawed control mechanism born of a time when crime was the biggest problem any society had and forensic science was nil,hence as prevention is always better than cure,create a sky tyrant ready to punish you for eternity for your misgivings and if you get even some to believe it,you diminish crime.
There is no evidence for any "worldwide flood" - just that floods do happen everywhere at some point in time.

Answer 7

Suen is talking about Josephus, btw. His works are not in the Bible, but he pretty much correlates the happenings at that time.

There's plenty of historical evidence that things occurred. True, there are no footprints in the sand to say there was an Exodus but there is plenty of Egyptian evidence showing the Jews were their slaves, and there is evidence from them of plagues. Then all of the sudden (in history times lol) here come a bunch of folk claiming to be freed slaves taking over the "promised" land. So how'd they all get there, all at the same time? Any guesses? :)

Answer 8

Actually, there is. My husband is an ordained minister and he and others have explained there are historians of the time of Jesus who recorded some of the same events independently of the bible accounts. I forget the name of the historian he told me about. I've been wanting to look into it more for the same reason you ask. The general population just tends not to know these things because they teach about it seminary classes.

Here is one resource...from http://www.facingthechallenge.org/tacitus.php

"What the Roman historian Tacitus said about the first Christians
Tacitus was a Roman historian. His 'Annals', written about 115 AD, mention the emperor Nero's persecution of the followers of Christ in Rome in AD 64. This was the year of the great fire of Rome. There were suspicions that the emperor himself had started the fire. This is what Tacitus says (Annals 15:44):
To dispel the rumor, Nero substituted as culprits, and treated with the most extreme punishments, some people, popularly known as Christians, whose disgraceful activities were notorious. The originator of that name, Christus, had been executed when Tiberius was emperor, by order of the procurator Pontius Pilatus. But the deadly cult, though checked for a time, was now breaking out again not only in Judea, the birthplace of this evil, but even throughout Rome, where all the nasty and disgusting ideas from all over the world pour in and find a ready following.

Notice the following points from Tacitus:

* Christ was executed while Tiberius was emperor (14-37 AD)
* He was executed by order of Pontius Pilate (procurator from 26-36 AD)
* His movement had its origins in Judea
* There were enough followers of Christ in Rome by AD 64 to be made scapegoats by the emperor Nero

This comes from an unsympathetic pagan writer. "

also this quote and names of period historians...

"Written sources for Christianity outside the Bible

Clearly, something unusual happened in western Asia about two thousand years ago. How else are we to account for the origin and explosive growth of the new religious movement called Christianity - a movement that, in less than four centuries grew from its obscure origins to become the official religion of the Roman empire? How else are we to account for the origins of the documents that today we call the New Testament? So what is the evidence?

People sometimes give you the impression that the only evidence we have for the origins of Christianity comes from the Bible itself (and other Christian sources). The implication is that we cannot trust this evidence, because the writers are biased in favor of the Christian message.

It is true that there are not many references to Christian origins outside of the Bible and the Church. This should not surprise us - the documents available to us today must only be a tiny fraction of all those written at the time, and a fairly random selection at that. (By comparison, R T France cites the case of Tacitus, the Roman historian, for which we only have two manuscripts, covering only half of what he is believed to have written.) Not only that, but the earliest stages of the Christian movement were obscure and 'low profile'. They took place in an unimportant province on the eastern edge of the Roman Empire.

However, there are at least half a dozen non-Christian (that is to say Roman or Jewish) sources that refer to Christian origins. These are sufficient to provide some confirmation of the historical picture that is painted by the Bible. Some of the most important of these sources are: Tacitus, Pliny the Younger, Suetonius, The Babylonian Talmud, Josephus, and the letter of Mara Bar-Serapion."

Answer 9

Are you sure that you want to speak with such a blanket of "a single thing?"?????????????

Bablyon conquered ancient Israel and enslaved her people. That is found in records of Bablyon, Israel, artifacts discovered in Bablyon, and the Bible.

John was exiled to Patmos. Countless secular writers of his time support such an occurance.

Mary was a concecrated woman of the faith, as supported by the writings of St. Anne.

I could go on and on and on and on and on and on.........Yes, there are parts of the bible that are not independantly verified, but there are also parts of the bible that are. The existence of the Temple, the zionist "genocidal" tactics against the Caininites, the rulership of Herod, the Rulership of Ramases......you need to watch your history channel more.

Answer 10

actually there is quite a lot of evidence for some of the things in the bible - though the big stuff like the exodus seems to be missing.

it is actually quite surprising that there is no confirmatory evidence from other sources for the exodus. especially when you consider that the route of transmission for all classical learning for almost a thousand years was via manuscripts which were hand-copied by monks in monasteries.

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though i have never seen any christian able to deal with the overwhelming evidence that nazareth never even existed in biblical times.