“A scientific breakthrough has exposed the truth about a site in ancient Jerusalem, overturning expert opinion and vindicating the Bible's account.

Until now, experts believed a stretch of wall in the original heart of the city was built by Hezekiah, King of Judah, whose reign straddled the seventh and eighth centuries BC.

He had seen his neighbours to the north, the Kingdom of Israel, destroyed by the Assyrian Empire, and it was thought that he built the wall to defend against the invaders.

But now an almost decade-long study has revealed it was built by his great-grandfather, Uzziah, after a huge earthquake, echoing the account of the Bible.

The wall is in the City of David – the historic archaeological site that formed the original town of Jerusalem, according to the Bible. …”

DailyMail article:
https://mol.im/a/13378663

Finds like this happen time and time again. But the Bible is just a book of fables, right?

Check out the book Where God Came Down by Joel P. Kramer. It does an excellent job at detailing Biblical sites and the evidence discovered to backup the Biblical accounts. Complete with photos, maps, etc. Joel also has a YouTube channel where he goes to many of these locations and recounts what occured. It's pretty well done.

Cool, thanks for sharing. We actually just read that chapter in 2 Chronicles the other night during family Bible reading about Uzziah building towers along the wall, and fortifying them with devices for shooting arrows and hurling large stones. Kinda neat to see archeological finds that directly correspond to that.

The The Pool of Bethesda was also rediscovered after being discounted for years as a fairy tale or metaphor.

This was the place that Jesus told the lame man to stand up and walk, the guy had been waiting there for years for the water to “stir”, where people believed that angels stirred the water once a day and the first one into the pool when that would happen would be healed. But since he was crippled, he always got beat by other people rushing to get in there.

What they found was there was an upper pool and a lower pool and the upper pool would somehow empty into the lower pool through system of pipes once a day!

Cool thank you for sharing. It is nice seeing more and more of the Holy Bible proven as FACT. God Bless !!!

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Finds like this happen time and time again. But the Bible is just a book of fables, right?

Some? Yes.

All? No.

Jesus Christ was clear. It is the hardness of one’s heart that keeps one from believing. And what causes that hardness is sin. I speak from experience. I hope someday you come to believing that Christ is Saviour and with that you’ll see the Bible is 100 percent true.

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Check out the book Where God Came Down by Joel P. Kramer. It does an excellent job at detailing Biblical sites and the evidence discovered to backup the Biblical accounts. Complete with photos, maps, etc. Joel also has a YouTube channel where he goes to many of these locations and recounts what occured. It's pretty well done.

I’ve met Joel Kramer and heard him talk to a men’s breakfast group. Not about that book, but about how as a young man he tried trekking over the mountains of New Guinea and nearly died. He wrote a book about his experience, Beyond Fear. I have both books. I’ve also seen some of his YT videos, e.g. one about the fall of Jericho.

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Originally posted by PowerSurge:
Finds like this happen time and time again. But the Bible is just a book of fables, right?

Some? Yes.

All? No.

This.

It is exciting to see that portions are true, but I guess in my mind humans are fallible, and humans wrote these words and translated them multiple times, never mind excising whole sections not deemed pertinent by those in power at the time. I think we just had a thread where Para was looking for the “truest” or most faithful version of a story written in a foreign language. It had been translated into a number of languages and some more literal/accurate than others.

The problem is there have been many, many non-believers that have translated the Bible. Even the NIV had a “literary stylist” who was a lesbian woman (Virginia Mollenkott) that bragged about making the Bible ‘gay friendly’. That’s why I read the KJV which is in agreement with ~96 percent of manuscripts.