Chapter Four from my Book, The Word Set in Stone: How Archaeology, Science, and History Back up the Bible [to be published by Catholic Answers Press on March 20, 2023; 320 pages] [pre-order from Amazon ($21.95 for the paperback) ] Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven . . . and lo, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace. —GENESIS 19:24, 28 Prior to the... Read more
+ Near Eastern Archaeological Periods and Timeline of the Patriarchs [click on the cover to see a much larger image] [to be published by Catholic Answers Press on March 20, 2023; 320 pages] [pre-order from Amazon ($21.95 for the paperback) ] Introduction What we may call biblical archaeology flourished from the 1930s to the 1950s, under the leadership of the great Methodist archaeologist and polymath William Foxwell Albright (1891–1971) and Jewish archaeologist and rabbi Nelson Glueck (1900–1971). In his 1959... Read more
[published by Catholic Answers Press on March 15, 2023; 271 pages] *** PURCHASE OPTIONS [PAPERBACK: $20.41] [KINDLE: 9.99] *** [Note: the artifact on the cover is the “Isaiah bulla”: discovered in 2018, and very likely connected with the prophet Isaiah (8th-7th c. BC)] A Personal Word from the Author: My Excitement Over My Upcoming Book [Facebook, 2-28-23] 15 Archaeological Proofs of Old Testament Accuracy (short summary points from the book) [National Catholic Register, 3-23-23] 15 Archaeological Proofs of New Testament... Read more
That’s the title of Brazilian Calvinist Francisco Tourinho’s public Facebook post of 1-16-23. He continues: * “If this seems absurd to you, then [note that] it is exactly what Roman Catholicism teaches, in asserting that God grants power to Mary to hear the thousands of simultaneous prayers addressed to her. The person prays, and God takes his prayer to Mary.” * Original Portugese: Deus como mediador de Maria. Se isso lhe parede absurdo, então é exatamente o que o catolicismo... Read more
“axelbeingcivil” is a cordial atheist who is a biologist. I’ve enjoyed many good dialogues with him. This one occurred in a combox of my blog. His words will be in blue. Citations of older words of mine will be in green. ***** This dialogue is a continuation of the discussion, Dialogue w Atheist on the Borders of Science & Theology [1-16-23]. Alrighty! Here I go. This will probably end up being a long post so I beg your patience but... Read more
“axelbeingcivil” is a cordial atheist who is a biologist. I’ve enjoyed many good dialogues with him. This one occurred in a combox of my blog. His words will be in blue. Citations of older words of mine will be in green. ***** Think of, for example, the “missing links” in evolution. That didn’t stop people from believing in it. Folks believed in gradual Darwinian evolution even though prominent paleontologist and philosopher of science Stephen Jay Gould famously noted that “gradualism... Read more
. . . And What is a So-Called “Bible Difficulty”? This is Chapter One of a hoped-for book tentatively entitled, Anti-Bible: Refutations of XXX Alleged Biblical Contradictions. It lays bare some of the basic repeated fallacies that atheists and other skeptics employ in their attacks upon the internal logical consistency (and indirectly upon the inspiration) of the Bible. ***** A common tactic of biblical skeptics is to question the veracity and historical trustworthiness of the New Testament based on alleged... Read more
Including a “New” Argument from How Jesus is Described in Relation to Mary and Joseph This is a follow-up to my article, Dialogue w a Protestant on Mary’s Perpetual Virginity (II): Biblical Proof That Three Named “Brethren” of Jesus Are Non-Siblings + Harmonious 2nd Century Evidence Regarding the Fourth (Simon) [1-3-23]. ***** In the previous effort, I set forth the opinions of Church historian Hegesippus (c. 110 – c. 180) regarding the brothers of Jesus (particularly, Simon, or Symeon: see... Read more
Biblical Proof That Three Named “Brethren” of Jesus Are Non-Siblings + Harmonious 2nd Century Evidence Regarding the Fourth (Simon) “Iceman2525” is some sort of Protestant. His Disqus profile offers no further information about him. Much of this exchange took place underneath my article, “Jesus’ ‘Brothers’: Anti-Catholic Lies from a Tiny Lutheran Sect (ELS).” I compiled my counter-responses into a new article: Dialogue w a Protestant on Mary’s Perpetual Virginity (1-2-23), which he has now responded to in turn. I appreciate... Read more
“Iceman2525” is some sort of Protestant. His Disqus profile offers no further information about him. This exchange took place underneath my article, “Jesus’ ‘Brothers’: Anti-Catholic Lies from a Tiny Lutheran Sect (ELS).” His words will be in blue. I have made some slight editorial corrections or additions in his text. ***** [Regarding] your first argument of Luke [2:]41-51, I don’t think it should be expected that siblings would be mentioned. Jesus’s siblings would have been young and hardly responsible for... Read more
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