First of all, no archaeological find has ever contradicted the Bible. Archaeology has only confirmed what the Bible says.
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In Ezek.26:7-14, 26:2 and 27:36 God says that Tyre will be destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar and never rebuilt It will never be found again according to God in Ezek.26:21.
But Mark 7:24, Matt.15:21, Acts 21 :3, and Mark 3:8 show that Tyre existed throughout New Testament times.
It still stands today.
There's no evidence of Nazareth existing before the 4th century CE either.
Except that nobody's ever found any evidence of a large group of people wandering in the desert for 40 years, no evidence of any place called Sodom or Gomorrah ever existing, no evidence of Jesus' tomb, no historical records of someone named Jesus being executed by the Romans, etc.
Your problem is that no archaeological find has ever supported anything in the bible. Not to mention that modern science pretty much disproves everything in it, too.
Funny, ancient Egypt seems to have survived Noahs flood without even noticing it.
Wouldn't you say that a whole civilization that somehow manages to exist during the time of a worldwide deluge is a pretty strong archaeological contradiction to the Bible?
How about the unbroken existence of Chinese and Egyptian culture before, during, and after the flood? how about the cave paintings that are more than 40,000 years old? Oh shit! I forgot to include my "Creationist warning: you may stick your fingers in your ears and go 'la-la-la' now" warning. Well, you can still ignore everything I said while us "evolutionists" continue to talk about real evidence.
Speaking of real evidence, Google maps can prove you wrong .
If you didn't go to the link or know what it is, it's the city of Tyre, which the Bible says shouldn't exist.
No evidence of a worldwide flood, there has never been a bat unearthed that shares a common ancestor with a bird, no evidence of several key locations mentioned in the bible ever existing...oh, and where the fuck is Eden?
Let's see...this is a combo of historical, scientific and biblical illiteracy. Nice trifecta!
Ezekiel 26:7-14
I don't see any part of the historical record that indicates nebuchadnezzar destroyed tyre like it is written.... in fact Alexander the Great destroyed it, 200 some years later.
Please tell me another one....
And, there's always Hector Avalos' excellent book, The End of Biblical Studies, which shows almost NO archeological studies have supported all of the bible stuff (except verifying some cities existed). It has a GREAT discussion about how the HECK did the Hebrews wander in the wilderness for 40 years when there was a major trade road running between (IIRC - don't have the book in front of me) Egypt and Damascus...
As far as the historical portions of the Old Testament are concerned (political history, wars, cities, kings, etc.), the texts are every bit as accurate as non-biblical ancient Near Eastern texts. The archaeological evidence collerates with the texts pretty well, as is to be expected, except of course for the propaganda selections, but all ancient Near Eastern texts from all cultures have those.
The mythological portions of the Old Testament (Genesis, Noah, the Flood, etc.) have no archaeological correlation whatsoever.
Taken as such, the OP is more or less right. In general, the existing archaeological finds don't contradict the text. There aren't any finds for the flood etc, so they don't contradict the text, simply because they don't exist.
E silentio is bad archaeology.
What you meant to say was that no archeological find has ever confirmed anything in the Bible other than the occasional geographic location of something. Nothing from Genesis, nothing from Exodus, nothing from the Gospels, just to name three.
Göbekli Tepe - you lose
next !
Did Jesus die before the first night of Passover as John relates, or after the first night as the other Gospels say?
We don't need archeology. The bible contradicts itself well enough!
KittyKaboom
"there has never been a bat unearthed that shares a common ancestor with a bird"
Kitty, all life on earth shares a common ancestor, just a bit further back in time than the creationists like to admit to.
Boz
Speaking of China and Egypt, two societies which had high literacy rates before, during, and after the flood. You would think the all knowing god would have demonstrated his power to them so that it could be recorded, instead of entrusting it to a nomadic illiterate group of people who probably never existed as nation with a common culture until damn near "jesus times".
Woke up. Went outside. Came over all archaeological. Dug hole in the lawn. Removed dirt. Looked about. Found myself in a three dimensional realm with a solid ground below and a sky above. Saw a bus stop. Concluded that there were other places too. Realized it's a world. I'm sure that a world is mentioned in the Bible. Therefore, God.
*Sigh*. Lucy. That is the name of the remains of a skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis, one of the early precursors to homo sapiens and is estimated, via radiometric dating methods to be around 3.2 million years old.
Your move Matt.
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