Abraham, Archaeology, and Vladimir Putin
Growth and Frustration Engaging in Facebook threads for apologetics has provided a wide variety of opportunities to grow in grace and wisdom, through which I have often been challenged in what I believe and forced to dig even deeper. Other times, however, I can be amazed at people’s confidence, people who then demonstrate they have no clue what they are talking about. Today, I would like to talk about one such recent experience. Today’s issue is a case of whether we have archaeological evidence for Abraham, the patriarch in Genesis. We can say several things about that, but I want to focus on the philosophy of the question, rather than archaeology directly, to demonstrate a larger principle that you can use in a wide variety of other situations. The argument given is that we have no reason to believe the accounts of Abraham in the Bible because we have no archaeological finds supporting the accounts. I want to mention that, directly, it’s factually true: we have no archaeological ...