tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25422068.post5062434552623562203..comments2023-11-03T08:44:12.478-07:00Comments on James' Random, Stimulating, Missional, Spiritual Thoughts: Archaeologists find 3000 year old Hebrew textJames Noredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13707292759635770946noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25422068.post-63069169278554791152008-10-31T11:55:00.000-07:002008-10-31T11:55:00.000-07:00Thanks for your thoughts, my friend. The one archa...Thanks for your thoughts, my friend. The one archaeology course that I had cautioned me against letting acchaeological finds either confirm or weaken my faith too strongly. Many times the intial findings are subsequently proven incorrect, one way or another.<BR/><BR/>Mainly, I find these things interesting. In general, I expect that if a finding seems to not match up with the Bible, that it will over time. Or perhaps my understanding of the biblical record is mistaken.James Noredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13707292759635770946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25422068.post-68967836063381487402008-10-30T12:34:00.000-07:002008-10-30T12:34:00.000-07:00Some might say I am simple-minded...and maybe I am...Some might say I am simple-minded...and maybe I am, but no archaelogical finding has any effect on my faith, either to strenghen it or to diminish it, though obviously, these findings are confirmation of my faith.<BR/><BR/>I am very thankful, however, that archaeologists find these things. Many people do have doubts and surely these reports chisel away at those doubts and confirm and strengthen the faith of those people. This is good!<BR/><BR/>I expect that the great majority of any findings will confirm what the Bible says...and those that SEEM to contradict it are either incomplete or misinterpreted or fake because the Bible is, absolutely and without fail, accurate. No doubt in my mind.<BR/><BR/>God IS who He IS and everything He said in scripture is true. If we don't understand or know completely, the gaps are in our finite abilities to know or understand and not in God's infinite power, knowledge and truth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com