52006.1 Endnotes Does DNA Point to a Designer?

Does DNA Point to a Designer?

  1. William A. Dembski, The Design Revolution (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2004), 85.
  2. Werner Gitt, “Dazzling Designs in Miniature,” Creation Ex Nihilo, December 1997–February 1998, 6.
  3. Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), 1.
  4. Nicholas Wade, “In Chimpanzee DNA, Signs of Y Chromosome’s Evolution,” New York Times, Sept. 1, 2005, A13.
  5. William A. Dembski and James M. Kushiner, eds., Signs of Intelligence (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos, 2001), 108.
  6. Ibid., 115.
  7. Gerald Schroeder, The Hidden Face of God (New York: Touchstone, 2001), 189.
  8. Ibid.
  9. J.P. Moreland, Scaling the Secular City (Grand rapids: Baker Books, 2000), 221.
  10. Larry Witham, By Design (San Francisco: Encounter, 2003), 147.
  11. Simon Conway Morris, Life’s Solution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 46.
  12. Schroeder, 192–193.
  13. Amir D. Aczel, Probability 1 (New York: Harvest, 1998), 88.
  14. Paul Davies, The 5th Miracle (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 20.
  15. Michael J. Behe, Darwin’s Black Box (New York: Touchstone, 1996), 185.
  16. Sir Fred Hoyle, “The Information Content of Life,” The Universe Unfolding (Oxford: Clarendon Press, eds. Sir Hermann Bondi & Miranda Weston-Smith, 1998), 8.
  17. Aczel, 88.
  18. Francis Crick, Life Itself (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981), 88.
  19. Nell Boyce, “Triumph of the Helix,” U. S. News & World Report, February 24/March 3, 2003, 41.
  20. Aczel, 88.
  21. William A. Dembski, Intelligent Design: the Bridge between Science and Theology (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity), 1999.
  22. Antony Flew, quoted in video, “Has Science Discovered God?” Roy Abraham Varghese’s Institute for Metascientific Research in Garland, Texas, December, 2004.
  23. Quoted in Gary Habermas, “My Pilgrimage from Atheism to Theism”: Interview with Antony Flew, Philosophia Christi, (Winter, 2005).

52007.1 Endnotes Where are Darwin’s Predicted Fossils?

Where are Darwin’s Predicted Fossils?

  1. Michael Boulter, Extinction: Evolution and the End of Man (London: Columbia University Press 2005).
  2. Niles Eldredge, Reinventing Darwin (London: Phoenix Giant, 1995), 33.
  3. Wim Kayzer, “A Glorious Accident” (New York: Freeman, 1997), 92.
  4. Charles Darwin, Origin of Species, 6th ed. (New York: University Press, 1988), 413.
  5. Steven Stanley, Macroevolution (San Francisco: Freeman, 1979), 2.
  6. Darwin, 344.
  7. Ibid.
  8. Behe, 22.
  9. T. S. Kemp, Fossils and Evolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 253.
  10. Richard Dawkins, River out of Eden (New York: Basic, 1995), 83.
  11. Stephen Jay Gould, “The Evolution of Life,” Scientific American, October 1994.
  12. Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (Chevy Chase MD: Alder & Alder, 1986), 46-56.
  13. George Alexander, “Alternative Theory of Evolution Considered,” Los Angeles Times, November 19, 1978.
  14. Kemp, 147.
  15. Eldredge, 95.
  16. Stephen Jay Gould, “Is a New and General Theory of Evolution Emerging?” (lecture, Hobart and William and Smith College, February 14, 1980).
  17. Stephen Jay Gould, “Evolution’s Erratic Pace,” Natural History, vol.86, May 1977,14.
  18. Quoted in, Thomas Hayden, “A Theory Evolves,” U.S. News & World Report, July 29, 2002, 2.
  19. Eldredge, 63.
  20. Behe, 27–30.
  21. Denton, 193–4.
  22. Gerald L. Schroeder, The Hidden Face of God (New York: Touchstone, Simon & Schuster, 2001), 91.
  23. Simon Conway Morris, Life’s Solution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), front book jacket.
  24. Darwin, 413.
  25. M. H. Ho and P. T. Saunders, “Beyond Neo-Darwinism: An Epigenetic Approach to Evolution,” Journal of Theoretical Biology 78 (1979), 589.
  26. George Alexander, Ibid.
  27. Quoted in William A. Dembski and James M. Kushiner, eds., Signs of Intelligence (Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2001), 127.

52008.1 Endnotes Are Humans the Result of Evolution?

Are Humans the Result of Evolution?

  1. Quoted in Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2004), 62.
  2. Ibid. 63.
  3. Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda’s Thumb, (W. W. Norton & Company, 1980), 126.
  4. R. C. Lewontin, Human Diversity, (Scientific American  Library, 1995), 163.
  5. Ian Tattersall, The Fossil Trail: How We Know What We Think We Know about Human Evolution(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), 246.
  6. John Maynard Smith, “The Importance of Gossip,” article in Rita Carter, Mapping the Mind (London: Phoenix Books, 2002), 257.
  7. Ernst Mayr, What Evolution Is (New York: Basic Books, 2001), 253.
  8. Steve Olson, Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins (New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002), 87.
  9. Lewontin, Ibid.
  10. Marcel-Paul Schutzenberger, “The Miracles of Darwinism,” La Recherché, January 1996.
  11. Mayr, 252.
  12. Tattersall, 219.
  13. Fazale R. Rana, “Neanderthal-Human Link Severed, “ Connections, Qtr 2, 2003, 8-9.
  14. Olson, 29.
  15. Ibid.
  16. Ibid.
  17. Ibid., 25.
  18. Olson, 86.
  19. Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory In Crisis (Chevy Chase MD: Adler & Adler, 1986), 330-331.
  20. Denton, 331.
  21. Stephen Hawking, The Universe in a Nutshell (London: Bantam, 2001), 169.
  22. Carl Sagan, Cosmos (New York: Ballantine, 1985), 229.
  23. Gerald L. Schroeder, The Hidden Face of God (New York: Touchstone, 2001), 112.
  24. Ibid.
  25. Mayr, 252.
  26. Nicholas Wade, “In Chimpanzee DNA, Signs of Y Chromosome’s Evolution,” New York Times, Sept. 1, 2005, A13.
  27. C. D. L. Wynne, “The Soul of the Ape”, American Scientist, 89 (2001), 120-122.
  28. Carter, 312.
  29. Ibid., 298.
  30. Sagan, Ibid.
  31. Sir John Maddox, “The Genesis Code by Numbers,” Scientific American, December 1999, 62–67.
  32. C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man (New York: Macmillan, 1947), 45–49.
  33. Laurence W. Wood, Asbury Theological Journal 41, no.1 (1986).
  34. Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), 59.
  35. Stephen Jay Gould, quoted in Wim Kayzer, ‘A Glorious Accident’ (New York: W. H. Freeman & Co., 1997), 93.
  36. Mayr, Ibid.
  37. Mayr, Ibid.
  38. Schroeder, 159.

52009.1 Endnotes Is a Designer Revealed in Creation?

Is a Designer Revealed in Creation?

  1. Fred Hoyle, “Let There Be Light,” Engineering and Science (November 1981).
  2. Quoted in John Boslough, Stephen Hawking’s Universe (New York: Avon, 1989), 109.
  3. Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time, 174.
  4. George Greenstein, The Symbiotic Universe (New York: William Morrow, 1988), 27.
  5. Paul Davies, God and the New Physics (New York: Simon & Schuster, Touchstone, 1984), 199.
  6. Stephen Hawking, ed., Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time: A Reader’s Companion (New York: Bantam, 1992), 142.
  7. Paul Davies, Superforce (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984), 243.
  8. William Keel, “Quasars Explained,” Astronomy, vol. 31, no. 2 (February, 2003), 42-47.
  9. Ibid. Alexei Fileppenko, “When Stars Explode,” 42-47.
  10. Keel, 35-41.
  11. Jan van Paradijs, “From Gamma-Ray bursts to Supernovae,” Science, 286 (1999) 693-95.
  12. Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions—The World As I See It (New York: Bonanza, 1931), 40.
  13. Hugh Ross, Beyond the Cosmos (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 1996), 100–102.
  14. Carl Sagan, Contact (New York: Simon & Schuster, Pocket Books, 1985), 420.
  15. Ibid., 430, 431.
  16. William Lane Craig, The Kalam Cosmological Argument (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2000), 63.
  17. Francis A. Schaeffer, He Is There and He Is Not Silent (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 1976), 9.
  18. Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards, The Privileged Planet (Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2004).

53001.1 Endnotes Are the Gospels Reliable?

Are the Gospels Reliable?

  1. According to jesusseminar.org, “The Jesus Seminar was organized under the auspices of the Westar Institute to renew the quest of the historical Jesus. At the close of debate on each agenda item, Fellows of the Seminar vote, using colored beads to indicate the degree of authenticity of Jesus’ words or deeds.”
  2. Will Durant, Caesar and Christ, vol. 3 of The Story of Civilization (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972), 555.
  3. Josh McDowall, The New Evidence That Demands A Verdict (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1999), 38.
  4. William F. Albright, Recent Discoveries in Biblical Lands (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1955), 136.
  5. William F. Albright, “Toward a More Conservative View,” Christianity Today, January 18, 1993, 3.
  6. John A. T. Robinson, Redating the New Testament, quoted in Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek, I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist(Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2004), 243.
  7. McDowell, 33-68.
  8. McDowell, 34.
  9. Bruce M. Metzger, The Text of the New Testament (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), 34.
  10. McDowell, 38.
  11. Metzger, 39.
  12. Metzger, 36-41.
  13. John A. T. Robinson, Can We Trust the New Testament? (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1977), 36.
  14. Quoted in McDowell, 36.
  15. J. P. Moreland, Scaling the Secular City (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000), 134-157.
  16. Quoted in Geisler and Turek, 256.
  17. Quoted in McDowell, 61.
  18. Quoted in McDowell, 64.
  19. Geisler and Turek, 269.
  20. J. P. Moreland, 136-137.
  21. Geisler and Turek, 276.
  22. Durant, 563.
  23. Gary R. Habermas, “Why I Believe the New Testament is Historically Reliable,” Why I am a Christian, eds Norman L. Geisler & Paul K. Hoffman (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2001), 150.
  24. Ibid.
  25. Ibid.
  26. Metzger, 86.
  27. Quoted in McDowell, 135.
  28. Quoted in Josh McDowell, The Resurrection Factor (San Bernardino, CA: Here’s Life Publishers, 1981), 9.

53002.1 Endnotes Is the Bible True?

Is the Bible True?

  1. Richard Dawkins, A Devil’s Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003), 245.
  2. http://quotes.lifehack.org/quote/richard-dawkins/the-bible-should-be-taught-but-emphatically/.
  3. Cited in Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000), 141.
  4. C. S. Lewis, The Inspirational Writings of C. S. Lewis: Surprised by Joy (New York: Inspirational Press, 1986), 122–3.
  5. C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1970 ), 101.
  6. J. I. Packer, Knowing God (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1993), 113.
  7. Citation from Surprised by Joy,http://home.comcast.net/~pegbowman/BritishSaints/LewisCS.htm.
  8. Genesis 1:1.
  9. Hebrews 11:3, J. B. Phillips.
  10. Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe (New York: Vintage, 2000), 81-82.
  11. Isaiah 40:21-22.
  12. George Smoot and Keay Davidson, Wrinkles in Time(New York: Avon, 1993), 17.
  13. Lawrence M. Krauss, “The End of the Age Problem and the Case for a Cosmological Constant Revisited,” Astrophysical Journal 501 (1998): 461–6.
  14. Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos, 3rd ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2001), 175–99.
  15. Fred Hoyle, “Let there be Light,” Engineering and Science(November 1981).
  16. Edward Harrison, Masks of the Universe (New York: Norton, 1978), 116.
  17. Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (New York: Bantam, 1990), 125.
  18. John Boslough, Stephen Hawking’s Universe(New York: Avon, 1989), 109.
  19. Paul Davies, God and the New Physics (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983), 174.
  20. Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers (London: W. W. Norton, 1992), 107.
  21. To read the major arguments for the two different interpretations of yom, see Rich Deem, “Genesis Clearly Teaches That the Days Were Not 24 Hours,” Evidence for God, http://www.godandscience.org/youngearth/genesis.html; and James Stambaugh, “The Meaning of ‘Day’ in Genesis,” Institute for Creation Research, http://www.icr.org/article/meaning-day-genesis/.
  22. Gerald L. Schroeder, Genesis and the Big Bang (New York: Bantam, 1990), 85.
  23. 2 Peter 3:8, NCV.
  24. Francis Crick, Life Itself (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981), 88.
  25. Quoted in William A. Dembski and James M. Kushiner, eds., Signs of Intelligence(Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos, 2001), 108.
  26. Ibid., 115.
  27. Quoted in Gary Habermas, interview with Antony Flew, “My Pilgrimage from Atheism to Theism,” Philosophia Cristi (winter 2005).
  28. Cited in http://www.wsj.com/articles/eric-metaxas-science-increasingly-makes-the-case-for-god-1419544568.
  29. R. K. Harrison, Introduction to the Old Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1969), 201.
  30. “The discovery of the codified Laws of Hammurabi (ca. 1700 B.C.), the Lipit-Ishtar code (ca. 1860 B.C.), the Laws of Eshnunna (ca. 1950 B.C.) and the even earlier Ur-Nammu code have refuted these claims.” Cited in Ken Boa and Larry Moody, I’m Glad You Asked (Wheaton, IL: Victor, 1977), 97.
  31. Paul Johnson, A History of the Jews (New York: Harper, 1988), 27.
  32. Biblical Archaeology Society Staff, “The Tel Dan Inscription: The First Historical Evidence for King David from the Bible,” Bible History Daily, September 17, 2014, http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/artifacts-and-the-bible/the-tel-dan-inscription-the-first-historical-evidence-of-the-king-david-bible-story/.
  33. Lazar Berman, “Archaeologists Say They Have Found One of King David’s Palaces,” The Times of Israel, July 18, 2013, http://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-say-one-of-king-davids-palaces-found/.
  34. Paul Johnson, “A Historian Looks at Jesus,” speech to Dallas Seminary, 1986.
  35. Bruce M. Metzger, The Text of the New Testament(New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), 39.
  36. Owen Jarus, “Mummy Mask May Reveal Oldest Known Gospel,” Live Science, January 18, 2014, http://www.livescience.com/49489-oldest-known-gospel-mummy-mask.html.Note: Craig Evans, an expert on ancient texts, says, “A combination of carbon-14 dating, of studying the handwriting on the fragment and studying the other documents found along with the gospel…led the researchers to conclude that the fragment was written before the year 90.”
  37. Metzger, 36–41.
  38. http://normgeisler.com/articles/Bible/Reliability/Norman%20Geisler%20-%20Updating%20the%20Manuscript%20Evidence%20for%20the%20New%20Testament.pdf.
  39. Ibid.
  40. John A. T. Robinson, Can We Trust the New Testament?(Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1977), 36.
  41. Cited in Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek, I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2004), 243.
  42. William F. Albright, “Toward a More Conservative View,” Christianity Today, January 18, 1993, 3.
  43. http://y-jesus.com/wwrj/1-jesus-real-person/.
  44. Rene Salm, “The Myth of Nazareth: The Invented Town of Jesus. Does it Really Matter?” December 22, 2009, http://www.nazarethmyth.info/naz2article.html.
  45. Associated Press, “First Jesus-Era House Discovered in Nazareth,” December 22, 2009.
  46. N. S. Gill, “Pontius Pilate,” About Education, http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/pontiuspilate/g/PontiusPilate.htm.
  47. Jennifer Walsh, “Ancient Bone Box Might Point to Biblical Home of Caiaphas,” com,August 31, 2011, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44347890/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/ancient-bone-box-might-point-biblical-home-caiaphas/.
  48. Cited in Geisler and Turek, I Don’t Have Enough Faith, 256.
  49. Cited in Josh McDowell,The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict(Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1999), 61.
  50. Johnson, “A Historian Looks at Jesus.”
  51. Cited in “Are the Gospels True?” Y-Jesus, http://y-jesus.com/wwrj/4-are-gospels-true/1/.
  52. Cited in McDowell,
  53. Peter Steinfels, “Jesus Died – And Then What Happened?” New York Times,April 3, 1988, E9.
  54. C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (San Francisco, CA: Harper, 2001), 170.
  55. James Kennedy and Jerry Newcombe, What If the Bible Had Never Been Written?(Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1998), 213.
  56. McDowell, 12–13.
  57. Deuteronomy 18:20-22.
  58. Romans 3:29, NLT.
  59. Deuteronomy 28:1, 15, 64, NCV.
  60. Amos 9:14-15, NCV.
  61. Ezekiel 36:16-23; Luke 21:24.
  62. Jeremiah 9:16.
  63. “Jerusalem,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem.
  64. Johnson, History of the Jews, 4.
  65. Ray C. Stedman, God’s Loving Word(Grand Rapids, MI: Discovery House, 1993), 50.
  66. Isaiah 52:13—53:12; Zechariah 12—14.
  67. Isaiah 9:6, NIV
  68. Isaiah 7:14.
  69. Jeremiah 23:5.
  70. Micah 5:2.
  71. Isaiah 53:3.
  72. Psalm 41:9.
  73. Zechariah 11:12.
  74. Isaiah 53:7.
  75. Zechariah 12:10.
  76. Isaiah 53:12.
  77. Isaiah 53:9.
  78. Psalm 16:10.
  79. Luke 19:10.
  80. Portions of Isaiah 53, NCV.
  81. Randall Price,The Stones Cry Out(Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 1997), 280.
  82. McDowell, 79.
  83. “Isaiah 53: How Do the Rabbis Interpret This?” Hear Now! http://www.hearnow.org/isa_com.html.
  84. Rachmiel Frydland, “The Rabbis’ Dilemma: A Look at Isaiah 53,” Jews for Jesus, http://www.jewsforjesus.org/publications/issues/v02-n05/isaiah53.(For more detail see http://wisdomintorah.s3.amazonaws.com/medialibrary/Isaiah-53-Rabbis-Commentaries.pdf)
  85. Zechariah 12:10, NLT.
  86. “Did Jesus Claim to Be God?” Y-Jesus, http://y-jesus.com/more/jcg-jesus-claim-god/.
  87. http://sciencespeaks.dstoner.net/Christ_of_Prophecy.html.
  88. John 19:34.
  89. Acts 1:11, NCV.
  90. Henrietta C. Mears, What the Bible Is All About, ed. (Ventura, CA: Regal, 1983), 291.
  91. Zechariah 14:2-3, 9, NCV.
  92. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tyndale
  93. 2 Timothy 3:16.
  94. Ibid., 24.
  95. Cited in https://abrahamlincolnandthecivilwar.wordpress.com/2014/09/07/baltimore-black-delegation-gives-president-lincoln-a-bible/.
  96. John 3:16.

53003.1 Endnotes Is the Bible Historically Reliable?

Is the Bible Historically Reliable?

  1. http://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-say-one-of-king-davids-palaces-found/.
  2. Paul Johnson, A Historian Looks at Jesus, speech to Dallas Seminary, 1986.
  3. Matthew 4:4, 7, 10.
  4. John 5:39.
  5. John 17:17.
  6. 2 Timothy 3:16.
  7. 2 Peter 1:21.
  8. Bruce M. Metzger, The Text of the New Testament (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), 38.
  9. Quoted in Erwin Lutzer, The Da Vinci Deception (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 2004), xix.
  10. Quoted in F. F. Bruce, The New Testament Documents: Are they Reliable? (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1997), 20.
  11. Johnson, Ibid.
  12. http://y-jesus.com/wwrj/4-are-gospels-true/1/.

53004.1 Endnotes Did the Old Testament Accurately Predict Jesus as the Messiah?

Did the Old Testament Accurately Predict Jesus as the Messiah?

  1. Ray C. Stedman, God’s Loving Word (Grand Rapids, MI: Discovery House, 1993), 50.
  2. Isaiah 52:13—53:12; Zechariah 12—14.
  3. Isaiah 9:6, NIV
  4. Isaiah 7:14.
  5. Jeremiah 23:5.
  6. Micah 5:2.
  7. Isaiah 53:3.
  8. Psalm 41:9.
  9. Zechariah 11:12.
  10. Isaiah 53:7.
  11. Zechariah 12:10.
  12. Isaiah 53:12.
  13. Isaiah 53:9.
  14. Psalm 16:10.
  15. Luke 19:10.
  16. Portions of Isaiah 53, NCV.
  17. Randall Price, The Stones Cry Out (Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 1997), 280.
  18. McDowell, 79.
  19. “Isaiah 53: How Do the Rabbis Interpret This?” Hear Now! http://www.hearnow.org/isa_com.html.
  20. Rachmiel Frydland, “The Rabbis’ Dilemma: A Look at Isaiah 53,” Jews for Jesus, http://www.jewsforjesus.org/publications/issues/v02-n05/isaiah53.
  21. Zechariah 12:10, NLT.
  22. “Did Jesus Claim to Be God?” Y-Jesus, http://y-jesus.com/more/jcg-jesus-claim-god/.
  23. John 19:34.

53005.1 Endnotes Does the Bible Foretell Future Events Accurately?

Does the Bible Foretell Future Events Accurately?

  1. D. James Kennedy and Jerry Newcombe, What If The Bible Had Never Been Written? (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1998), 213.
  2. Josh McDowell, The New Evidence That Demands A Verdict (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1999), 12-13.
  3. Portions of Deuteronomy 28, NCV.
  4. Amos 9:14-15, NCV.
  5. Ezekiel 36:16-23; Luke 21:24.
  6. Jeremiah 9:16.
  7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem.
  8. Paul Johnson, A History of the Jews (New York: Harper, 1988), 4.

53006.1 Endnotes Is the Bible’s Portrayal of People, Places and Events Accurate?

Is the Bible’s Portrayal of People, Places and Events Accurate?

  1. Paul Johnson, A History of the Jews (New York: Harper, 1988), 27.
  2. R.K. Harrison, Introduction to the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1969), 201.
  3. “The discovery of the codified Laws of Hammurabi (ca. 1700 B.C.), the Lipit-Ishtar code (ca. 1860 B.C.) the Laws of Eshnunna (ca. 1950 B.C,) and the even earlier Ur-Nammu code have refuted these claims.” Cited in Ken Boa & Larry Moody, I’m Glad You Asked (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1977), 97.
  4. Johnson, Ibid.
  5. http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/artifacts-and-the-bible/the-tel-dan-inscription-the-first-historical-evidence-of-the-king-david-bible-story/.
  6. http://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-say-one-of-king-davids-palaces-found/.
  7. Paul Johnson, A Historian Looks at Jesus, speech to Dallas Seminary, 1986.