It's not as rare as you're suggesting. Look at historians like Dr. Bart Ehrman. He's atheist and he would agree with all the historical stuff from the Bible. He just doesn't see evidence for the magical stuff.
Many people are so welcoming of other religions lately but Christians are demonized where I live it's annoying but God tells me to love them anyways that's what I do.
@@michaelhawkins3168 we have to admit, Mike, that we Christians have def earned some of the distain. Between our religion being used as a political axe, horrible injustice being done in the name of the Prince of Peace, and the fact that many of us are really judgemental of others, Christians have done their best to taint the teachings of the Lord. There is nothing in the world that has done more damage to His teachings than the ones professing to follow them. That being said, we Christians are by nature flawed. Thus the search for redemption. But yes it's awesome that Simon (who probably thinks it's all BS) is respectful of our religion. It is appreciated.
@@TheRealMightyHokie And Atheists are such nice people isn't it. From Where I'm living, Atheists and irreligious people are the ass holes and Christians are the best.
@@SIX6SIXeras opposed to being a nominal Christian like myself; respectful towards the religion, supportive of many of the major tenets, christened/baptised but generally agnostic or atheistic by adult choice 🙂
@@cjlake5754 nominal christian is a made up concept taylor fitted to someone's specific interests in order to mitigate the sacrifices to one's personal life that faith requires. bad news is that religious doctrine doesn't allow any half-assing when it comes to believing. in or out. all or none. that's the breaks of their game.
@@adamk.7177 i have no goal. i dont disparage people of faith. i actually envy them. but i will always call people out for nonsense like saying they are a nominal christian. that's one of those words like nonbinary or gender fluidity.
The owner of the apple farm where Steve Jobs lived and worked in his early twenties could tell you a few stories about that. The MacIntosh was named after the apples Steve Job plucked on his farm. That Aplle symbol originates from that. Looking at all the Apple Stores...
Funny how Jesus never asked that ANYTHING be enshrined to Him🤔 Nowhere, anywhere in the NT, does He ask this and in fact says quite the opposite to this; “And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:” - Revelation 9:20 (KJV) So I would venture a guess that maybe, just maybe, these enshriners didn't quite follow His comandments and did these things. But, no worries, He's got some news for them; Matthew 7 (KJV) ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ ²¹ Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. ²² Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? ²³ And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. ²⁴ Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: Sorted. How about you?
Wine from Cana, St Peter's nose, splinters from the cross, wooden plates, a table and a finger from Our Lord. Baldrick you stand amazed. Course. I thought they came in boxes of ten.
I saw on a program at least 10 years ago, archeologists did find a wrist bone with a nail in it that the archeologist said was of a person who had been crucified by the Romans. The archeologists said that the Romans knew enough about the body to know that the bones of the wrist were strong enough to support the person, while the bones in the hand weren't. That is why the Romans actually nailed the person through the wrist not the hand.
The Bible is based on a fictional 6,000 year-old Earth where Neanderthals never existed. In the real world, most people have some Neanderthal DNA because our human ancestors mated with Neanderthals and Africans whose ancestors have never left Africa have no Neanderthal DNA.
The ancient Greek language did not have separate words for 'wrist' and 'hand' which is something that caused a lot of confusion on this topic. Yeah, its believed that the nail went between the bones of the wrist but the Bible says 'hand' because that's the closest translation English had to the Greek word used there.
I haven’t heard of the discovery of a hand, but there was a Discovery of a long, iron nail in a heel bone found. I remember growing up and this was atheists argument that people could not have been crucified. Are you kidding me!!?? It was there MO for major crimes. Atheists have since quietly backed away from that argument-like they always do-and moved on to others that have been proven wrong as well. The claim is always on page one of the news paper; the retraction is always on page 6. Jesus is out Lord and a Savior, come out of His heavenly abode to portray the ultimate price for His love for us, and even today people spit on Him.
@@kathleenmann7311 The earliest definitive mention of the Shroud of Turin in any written document is a letter written in 1389 by Pierre d’Arcis, the bishop of the city of Troyes to the Avignon Antipope Clement VII. In the letter, Pierre states that the shroud was being used as part of an elaborate faith-healing scam. Pierre describes how his predecessor, Bishop Henri de Poitiers, set out on a mission to find out where the shroud had come from. After much inquiry, Henri managed to track down the original forger who had made the shroud, who confessed to him that he had created the shroud as a deliberate hoax and even showed Henri exactly how he had done it. Henri, having obtained this confession, ordered that the shroud be put away and that no one be permitted to venerate it. "...Eventually, after diligent inquiry and examination, he discovered the fraud and how the said cloth had been cunningly painted, the truth being attested by the artist who had painted it, to wit, that it was a work of human skill and not miraculously wrought or bestowed.”
If you guys are going to go down the bible path, I would love for you to do some series on what the bible says in Hebrew and compare it to what the English version is. And/or include what it was like to live in the time the individual books of the bible were written.
Ooh. Can we add some of the Apocryphal books as well? The ones that were removed along the way or were taught concurrently but didn't make the cut during the councils, or were deliberately excluded.
for a man who isn't a Christian believer I admire your courage. All the time people claim that the Bible is just a fairy tale and the facts presented are just fiction. When archeology proves that the Bible was right they just move to the next claim, without admitting they were wrong. You just give credit where credit is due. I admire that.
There are a lot more claims in the Bible that are simply objectively untrue. The Exodus, for example. It is claimed variously that either two million or thirty thousand Jews escaped Egypt and fled to Israel. The average human being produces right at 320 pounds of feces in a year. Multiplied by 30,000 people, that's 9,600,000 lbs.(4,800 tons) of feces per year, or 192,000 tons for the entire Exodus of 40 years given the lowball figure of 30,000 Jews. That's a lot of feces in the hot, dry and comparatively tiny Sinai desert, and we would expect much of it to have fossilized - but it hasn't. There has been no fossilized human feces (or anything else - camps, bits of firewood etc.) found in the Sinai. Using the high ball number of two million we get 640,000,000 pounds (320,000 tons) of feces per year, or 25,600,000,000 pounds (12,800,000 tons) of human excrement for the entire Exodus era. If the former number, you would expect the desert to have pretty consistent piles of human excrement found at regular intervals. If the latter it should be almost covered in it. Nowhere to be found
Who does that? The books of the Bible were written in antiquity and touch on events of the day. Some they got right, some they got wrong, and some they made up. I don't know why anyone, believer or agnostic, would deny that.
The Bible would not exist had it not been for the belief systems that preceded it, from sumerian to babylonian to assyrian to akkadian to hellenic to egypt to roman to paganism etc etc. There are historical observations within the works, yes obviously, but even that is erroneously presented even when there is historical backing. Where are all the hebrew slaves of egypt... I never understood how a person can believe in a fixed system built on such flimsy pillars as that of the abrahamic theologies. One must seriously suspend ones reason and logic to even consider the ridiculous. And with all its errors and mistakes and historical fallacies how can a person in the age of information and remotely believe this nonsense. There were no hebrew slaves in egypt. The flood story is based on much much older myths and legends which the Bible retells to the tooth but changes names and date and regions to fit its own narrative. How many christians speak the old tongues? Barely anyone, how many christians can attested to the bible, none for none of them know the previous works, they merely go on blind assumptions. Honestly I find the whole thing incredibly pathetic given the blood thirsty history of the christians and their murderous nature, no religion in history has been as sacrificial as that of the judiac religions none have also been nearly as destructive as the judiac religions. And after all that bloodshed and destruction, entire people groups eradicated, languages lost histories rewritten in the light of the new themes religions instill upon the population, and after all that, people still have the nerve to say, "I need not to think for myself and I feel you should join me for else you will go to hell and be damned" well I usually tend to reply with "fuck off ya imbecile" and it usually works.
@@armaniwebb4467 I’m an atheist and have never heard anyone deny that. Yes, there are a lot of real places mentioned in the Bible and discovered by archaeologists, but that doesn’t prove the god claims which is why we don’t believe, even though we discovered Solomon’s temple.
Yes, thank you, Simon! I believe that the archeological findings of Sodom and Gomorrah in the exact places described in The Bible should have been mentioned also…
@@RammusTheArmordillo how is he not being objective??? He’s only mentioning facts that have been proven by historians and explicitly states when something is just a speculation and to not take it as 100% fact
To paraphrase CS Lewis, Christ is clearly a corn-king like Osiris or Dionysus in that his dying and rising is representative of the natural agricultural cycle. The difference between the myth of Christ and the myth of Osiris is that Christ’s is a myth that actually happened.
This stuff is really interesting to me. The part about the nails in the bone was particularly fascinating, I had no idea that crucifixion was ever doubted to that extent.
@@desperadox7565 Why should it be outdated? BCE and CE is just a way to try to erase the historical and cultural significance of the western way of divide and measure time. No one is bothered that Thursday comes from the cult to Thor, so why should they be bothered that BC and AD come from a cult to Jesus?
If you haven't done so, you should look into joining some digs. Many will take amateur's/volunteers. My grandfather (David Livingston) was a Biblical Archeologist and started Associates for Biblical Research (ABR). he passed away, 10 years ago, but he used to take volunteers (I was lucky enough to go on a dig in 1996). I'm not sure if ABR still does digs, but you might check it out.
@@CrazyDrunkAsianMonkey , what a completely useless comment. he does segments on anything of interest. This Subject is clearly about Biblical Archeology.
King Jesus EmManuel, was King Izas Manu of Eddessa. The Eddessans became the defacto kings of the Jews, with the kargest palace and tomb in Jerusalem. And they always wore the traditional Eddessan plaited crown of thorns. This Eddessan king was crucified by Rome, but taken down early by Josephus Flavius bar (Ari) Matthias, and survived. We have a complete account of this event. Familiar story? See ‘Jesus, King of Eddessa’. R
@@RalphEllis leaving asides the conspiracy theory, youre correct to call Jesus as Emmanuel as it was the title Isaiah given him in prophecy (Immanuel meaning god is with us)
@@joshuaracey7967 OT is a rip off of other religions and cultures....the NTis a rewrite of the OT with jesus as the new elijah....very little in both books is true.........................
Thank you for presenting this! I am Christian so I have a bias of course but I think it is important to understand that the Bible is not only a religious text but also the written history of a people. Of course with a religious outlook on life but nontheless a description of their time. I think the Babylonian invasion describes it well. The history is fact, the outlook on why it happened is religious. That doesn't mean that the bible will be 109% accurate in describing history but it is also not a book describing only the supernatural aspects of life. Another comparison might be the story of Troy which was long believed to be myth, however it appears the historical part of the story actually took place. That is to say the ancients were much better at keeping their history alive than we give them credit for.
The irony of worshippers declaring a book to be a history of a people, and using that book to condemn, torture, and murder the people whose history the book speaks of.
You know, I just happened to be researching war, torture and what not. It may seem crazy, but no religion is needed for war, torture, whatever. I get your point, but I think you should use a little balance in your thinking. I can almost hear you saying something about not having to make comments if Christianity didn't exist. Would you find something different to make negative remarks about though?
The bible is so true that it doesn't preach victory and heroic acts. It tells all the bad and wrong things the "protagonists" did. A false story tends to make its main characters be heroes. The bible does not do that. Even Jesus's disciples are painted as cowardly, weak, flawed but they repent. That doesn't happen in writings of other cultures.
I just want to point out that the "prophetic books" aren't all about future events (in reference to your comment about the book of Amos). The function of a prophet (biblically) isn't primarily about telling people about future events. Just some context for people who are unaware.
Very interesting video. Even as a non-religious person, l enjoy hearing about the ways in which ancient religious writings do preserve some accurate historical elements, which give us windows into the ancient world that might otherwise have been lost to time.
The term used to describe what King Uzziah was stricken with was Tzaraath....a skin disease that is said to be spiritually inflicted. Shows the inward spiritual state. Is definitely why he was chased out of the temple. What is noteworthy is that it says he remained afflicted until he died. Typically this is temporary
Okay this is bugging me. What is the music you use for opening chapter 3? I hear it in your videos all the time, but I can't find it. I want to listen to it on repeat lol
I've not watched a video you've made that I haven't thoroughly enjoyed. You're a very good storyteller and do a great job at researching and taking the important and interesting information out and conveying it in an easy to understand and well-paced way. And you're editing is great, I really enjoy the mix of pictures and videos you put in. Thanks for doing this. This video in particular I really enjoyed, as I am Catholic and haven't heard these things. And learning that you are not Christian here in these comments, God bless you for this video. It's awesome that you can research something so deeply that you don't personally believe in, and then make an interesting informative video conveying these facts and stories. You're history videos are second to none on RUclips. Thank you Simon for making interesting content that I enjoy while I eat nearly every dinner.
It is pretty astonishing 🙂 thanks simon that was cool...I like it when we dig where the Bible says things happened...and then find the collaborative evidence for said stories. Please do more
If you read Spiderman in 1000 years then dug in new York you would find evidence of the empire state building and the Yankee stadium.... Lol. Doesn't mean it's evidence that spider man was real or had super powers lol
Studies in relation to the Big Bang and the formation of the universe has shown that the order of events are pretty much identical to the biblical creation story. Mind, only the _order_ of events. Not the events themselves. As in, light came before matter, life started in the oceans, and that humans were quite late in the evolutionary race. Stuff like that, which would have been unknown at the time.
Nail through the heel bones???? Why would anybody come up with such horrible ideas???? The more we learn about the past, the more amazing it is that so many people survived!!!... And the happier I am to be living now!!! Thanks for another great video!! Oh, Simon, idea from my previous message, any facts on mysterious goings on at underground railroad sights??? The Old Mill restaurant in Westminster, Massachusetts has some tales to tell... I'd really be interested in what you could find out!! I have confidence in your ability to find facts over rumors!! Thank you!!
I don't get whats so crazy about nails through heel bones. The purpose of a cross was literally to make your dying moments as painful as possible as torture.
It seems likely to me that anybody tied to a cross is highly likely to be untied by their friends. A nail through the heal would be a dead give away of anyone that had been crucified, even if they escaped and survived.
Crucifixion is still considered one of the most brutal forms of execution. It was invented by the Parthians and perfected by the Romans 500 year later. Rome used teams of professional soldiers/executioners to do the job. They made no mistakes and nobody lived once it started. Dr. Mark Eastman, a physician and emergency room doctor did a speech on Jesus death on the cross from a medical perspective, describing how the body reacts and breaks down. It’s a good listen to a horrifying way to die.
Thanks Simon and Co. for another really interesting episode. Keep up the good work :) Just a heads up; there's a scammer posing as your channel replying to comments, asking people to contact them.
I don’t think anyone doubts some of the historical facts of the Bible (and other religious books). The problem comes when supernatural elements are taken as fact.
The problem with science and religion isn't what they are, but when we misapply their answers. Generally speaking, the underlying purpose of science is to answer "how" questions, whereas the underlying purpose of religion is to answer "why"questions. This is always how I understood it. So, if I were to ask you "How did you get to the store?", the answers would be like "in my car" or "down Main Street". If I were to ask "Why did you go to the store?", the answer would be something like "to pick up milk and bread". The age of enlightenment split the previously intertwined concepts of knowledge and wisdom. Throw the fact that even though the Bible and other ancient documents were written by people like you or I, and you have potential wrinkles of confusion everywhere due to the separation of time, language, and culture. This is why I like Simon's stuff. He tries to get as close to the truth when he shares his nuggets with us.
Judaism and Christianity - the only religions I have any real knowledge of - certainly do have historical facts, but also stories where doctrine was more important than historical accuracy.
Im not "religious" i was raised a Christian but I have gravitated more towards a Deist set of beliefs. I appreciate Simon remaining entirely unbiased. In my searfh for the truth.... unbiased takes like this are so refreshing. Because Christianity is so polarizing. You either believe or you dont. I have found a pretty happy medium and its nice not to hear the bigotry of Christians... or the ignorance of athiests.
Hi Simon. Thank you for this. You maybe interested to know that there are quite a few more significant discoveries of late. One is a lead 'tablet' which was found near an alter described in the book of Joshua.
I read an academic paper a year or 2 ago about a city that was found in the Levant that had evidence of being destroyed by a potential meteorite impact. Bricks were found melted and walls were blown apart but there were no signs of an invasion or battle. It was argued in the paper that it could have been an inspiration for the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Temple Moun... I always thought it was Temple Mount... learn something everyday, forget 4 or 5 things :) Put Book of Enoch in your future videos. Great voice, good content in all your videos, excellent writing & awesome pictures.
@Yourgodisntrealitcanthurtme ........your profile name is more ridiculous than mine. People who make a God they don't believe in their personality are hilarious. I used to be an obnoxious atheist, too. You don't have to believe me, all the people in my life saw my very real re birth and quite frankly, your belief in my conversion is your own problem. I pray you wake up and seek God like I did friend. Clearly you need purpose in life.
@@oBCHANo Why do you feel the need to bully people online? Does that somehow make you feel more important? Or is it perhaps you're just venting over the fact that all you've done since 2010 on this platform is steal animation from other RUclipsrs and pass them off as your own? I mean that must really sting.
not proof of crucifixion at all, it's just evidence of a foot that has a nail in it. making baseless claims is what religion does to fool its followers, it's not the process of the scientific method at all.
And how exactly do you know that its specifically the foot of the messiah? Its not like Jesus was the only person to ever be crucified by the romans. Even during Jesus' crufixion in the Bible other people were being crucified alongside him.
Hey Simon, look in to the Greek word that many bibles translate to cross. It's Stavros. Upright pole, tree, stake. No cross member mentioned. Also, logically, a cross shape doesn't really cause asphyxiation, having your arms vertical does though, as you eventually cannot support your weight with your legs and slump, causing your asphyxiation by compressing your airway. Arms to the sides do not have this effect.
Stavros means literally Cross, i am greek myself, that was very popular symbol too, due to the crucifixions, theres no point in making conspiracies here
The word that is somewhat questioned is the nail through the hand. Ancient greek used the same word for hand/wrist, so it being through the wrist would have no conflict with the Bible.
I think he's just a paid host. I usually try to note who is writing these articles, then if a certain video stands out, I can find more stuff written by the same person. Kevin Jennings is the writer for this episode.
I love this stuff. So fascinating. As someone who believes in god and jesus i have never been one to take the bible literal. Humans of that time just couldn't comprehend things like we can, and through time stories get embellished. Im not saying this proves anything but shows the bible at the least has histroic value.
Note for 4:10: prophecy in Christianity does not mean "telling the future", it means "speaking the heart of God". This does often mean predictions of the future, but the focus is not the event, but the consequences. Prophecy can mean giving instruction, giving information, interpreting a dream, providing wisdom, or conveying God's love. Predictions of the future are a small part of it.
Oh man!! A mainstream content creator that is being nice/respectful to us Christians!? You’re blowing my mind Simon! Really it’s been ages since someone covers these topics without calling us fanatics or zealots.
To be fair, fundementalists can be blamed for how hostile some of the US is towards christian. When all you see is a very bad extremist side of a religion, said religion will grow really sour to you.
Why wouldn't it have real places and happenings. It was written in those times. The fact that these places exist is no stretch. It's great that they can still be found today.
@@johnadams7402 yeah. I've been told for forty years that there's was no such thing as a great flood.. yet the Carolinas have tear drops and the Sahara desert terrain was scraped like a giant tsunami...
My university teacher had the theory that the nails were rarely used as they were expensive to make just to punish some thief or petty criminal. He said they were used for important people, someone some people might want to risk death to save them and cuts the cords. Nails could not be taken out so easily and rapidly as cutting cords. And their feet were rendered useless, so they couldn’t just run away. Like Jesus or this person in this hidden tomb. He said we would know if we ever found Jesus’s body because he would also have the hands nailed, suffocating his healing powers. Because as Simon said, no nailed hands were ever found.
“I was baptized twice, once in water, once in flame. I will carry the fire of the Holy Spirit inside, until I stand before my lord for judgement” -Joshua Graham, FO: New Vegas.
I mean a book which spans thousands of years and is a collection of multiple authors all writing a canonical story, so it’s bound to get something’s right.
@@WhatWhy42 This is the approach taken by scholarly none christians on certain aspects. for instance because of the house of david inscription atheist scholars believe david existed although without as powerful as a kingdom as the bible describes
@@WhatWhy42 Well, that takes a step of faith. It's a personal decision. I decided long ago that the Bible was reliable and God was real. It may sound weird but since then I can see Him at work in my life and still operating in this world.
@@boshman78 in my head God would be the creator but significantly the creator of the things which we do not know.. I also think there are real explanations for the possibility of the many worlds theory and different dimensions/realms.. However at the pinnacle of everything is what everyone calls God.
Make a multitude of claims and predictions and sooner or later some will be right, that only means that "some" statistically lined up with events you interpret a specific way... It proves nothing. Come back when its "ALL" or at least a significant portion is proven Isn't there a saying about correlation and causations... It must equally be true that a correlation to an insignificant amount of a substantial text is not proof of anything other than chance and probability...
Have you seen the electric resistivity scans of Noah’s Ark? Or the chariot wheels under the gulf of Aqaba? Here’s a fun one, 173880. Proves Jesus was the promised Christ!
There's tens of thousands of archeological "discoveries" that prove the Bible is true. People just dismiss it because if the Bible is true, then they don't want to deal with the eternal consequences of their actions.
Amen! Well stated! The archaeological paper on Tall El Hammam is intriguing, for example, because it demonstrates a likely location and historic truth to the destruction of Sodom and the cities of the plain. While there are some problems with the paper's conclusions, it does raise some interesting prospects-not the least of which being the accuracy of the biblical account as filtered through the minds of Bronze Age authors. We moderns need to realize that just because oral traditions lacked the exacting accuracy we expect does not necessarily make them wrong.
The Bible clearly says that the power and principalities of the world willingly suppress the truth. Everything I see and experience in this world indeed proves this correct.
There are tons of findings. For instance: Joshua’s alter at Mount Ebal with lead tablet curses from the Laws written on them dating to the 1400’s bc. Atheist scholars would have you believe that the Israelites couldn’t read or write until the 400’s bc, after their return from Babylon. They just keep trying, and keep getting shot down. Also sulfur balls that do not appear naturally really anywhere, but especially in the Jordan plans(the Jordan planes and the Dead Sea are not volcanically active) have been found along with a burnt city that reached amazing temperatures. Or how about Jabal Al Lawz that has all the tellings of Mount Sinai including the top of the the mountain, where the the top of the rocks are black but not the bottom; like the mountain was on fire. The amazing things you can find when you actually listen to the people that have been there, the archeologists without an agenda and not CNN are amazing.
Wow, it appears you are seeking confirmation bias. Perhaps you should scrutinize your beliefs and learn about what archeology has shown to contradict in various biblical narratives. Also, there is literary and archeological evidence to demonstrate the origins and antecedents of Christianity and Judaism.
The thing about the Bible is that even if Jesus himself is conclusively proven to have existed it doesn't "prove" the Bible. Christianity hinges not simply on the existence and teachings of Jesus, but specifically on him being the divine son of God.
Gotta love the amount of smooth brains that keep saying "it still doesn't prove the bible is real".... THAT WASN'T THE INTENTION OF THE VIDEO.... nowhere in it does it talk about the ideals or teachings being real, just that we have found things to confirm SOME of what was written.
I am pretty new to this channel and I thought, as your average german atheist, that it will be a US christian rant of "Why we should all pray to the christian god " rant. Lucky me a good a nice surprise. The bible was written in the late 300s, at least that what I learned in history classes. Some of it was real, like certain persons, happenings and places. Much was just the writers versions of other faiths and cultures like the Gilgamesh Epos. But a lot of is is esoteric nonsense. Like an almighty omnipresent god that hates everybody so much that he drowns the whole world. And asks people to sacrifice their children. Jesus wasn't gods son. He was a political activist against the romans and a rebel against the jew religion. As an atheist I think it's good to differ between intention, message, real happenings and esoteric fiction. And this channel delivers.
@@CordeliaWagneras a US Christian I wasn’t expecting a German Atheist to rant about things he doesn’t know about. Unlucky for me. I disagree with everything you said, especially Jesus not being the Son of God. But I just want to point you to this from the Bible: “You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.” Deuteronomy 12:31 ESV “There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer” Deuteronomy 18:10 ESV If you’re talking about Abraham going to sacrifice Issac, if God wanted Abraham to sacrifice Issac, then why did God provide a Ram to be sacrificed in Issac’s stead? Abraham believed that Issac would be resurrected when he went to sacrifice him (Hebrews 11:19). Is it wrong to sacrifice your child if God promises that your child will come back? A deep and interesting question that Kierkegaard wrote a book on. I hope that clarifies one of your misconceptions, if you want to hear what the Bible says about your other points I would be happy to explain it to you.
Hallelujah I was able to visit Capernaum, Galilee, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Golgotha, Cana, Bethany, Bethesda, Mount Carmel, Mount Zion, Mount of Olives, Mount Mariah, Mount Sinai, Mount Nebo, Jordan River, Dead Sea, Sea of Galilee, Red Sea. To visit Jerusalem, Israel, Egypt, Jordan Holy Land is best investment to walk the footsteps of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen
Even from a purely secular point of view, the authors and compilers of biblical writings would have at a minimum needed some kind of kernel of truth to be believable in their day. Some parts of the Bible were initially written for the sole purpose of record keeping. Instances such as the Israelite conquest of Canaan actually match the Amana letters found in Egypt, even detailing the same regions that sympathized with the invaders.
Stop with these kinds of videos. Magic isn't real, Genesis is a story ripped off from other cultures, the flood never happened, and neither did the Exodus. Making videos like this is like making one that says, "more discoveries prove that Santa Clause is real."
“The Bible the word of god? Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence” it’s still standing on YT here even after all these years and I think it’s the best video
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Wait- this guy isn't a Christian and he engages with the content THIS deeply and honestly? Wow, that's so rare. Mad respect.
historians do not rely on a personal believe system to be rational and honest
It's not as rare as you're suggesting. Look at historians like Dr. Bart Ehrman. He's atheist and he would agree with all the historical stuff from the Bible. He just doesn't see evidence for the magical stuff.
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@@stirlingmoss4621 That's the Schoolhouse Rock version of history. They very often do in real life.
I disagree. Everyone has their own biases. Depends on how much of an objective view you are willing to have on a topic.
I know Simon isn't religious but appreciate him talking about my religion with respect.
religion poisons everything, every single time.
Many people are so welcoming of other religions lately but Christians are demonized where I live it's annoying but God tells me to love them anyways that's what I do.
@@michaelhawkins3168 lmao poor Christians
@@michaelhawkins3168 we have to admit, Mike, that we Christians have def earned some of the distain. Between our religion being used as a political axe, horrible injustice being done in the name of the Prince of Peace, and the fact that many of us are really judgemental of others, Christians have done their best to taint the teachings of the Lord.
There is nothing in the world that has done more damage to His teachings than the ones professing to follow them.
That being said, we Christians are by nature flawed. Thus the search for redemption.
But yes it's awesome that Simon (who probably thinks it's all BS) is respectful of our religion. It is appreciated.
@@TheRealMightyHokie And Atheists are such nice people isn't it. From Where I'm living, Atheists and irreligious people are the ass holes and Christians are the best.
As a religious Christian, I really appriciate your even-handed approach to this series.
opposed to being an atheist christian?
@@SIX6SIXeras opposed to being a nominal Christian like myself; respectful towards the religion, supportive of many of the major tenets, christened/baptised but generally agnostic or atheistic by adult choice 🙂
@@cjlake5754 nominal christian is a made up concept taylor fitted to someone's specific interests in order to mitigate the sacrifices to one's personal life that faith requires.
bad news is that religious doctrine doesn't allow any half-assing when it comes to believing.
in or out.
all or none.
that's the breaks of their game.
@@adamk.7177 i have no goal. i dont disparage people of faith. i actually envy them. but i will always call people out for nonsense like saying they are a nominal christian. that's one of those words like nonbinary or gender fluidity.
@@cjlake5754 religions was invented to control
Imagine if your friend crashed with you for a while, and a couple decades later your house was a shrine to him.
The owner of the apple farm where Steve Jobs lived and worked in his early twenties could tell you a few stories about that.
The MacIntosh was named after the apples Steve Job plucked on his farm. That Aplle symbol originates from that.
Looking at all the Apple Stores...
@@CordeliaWagner So I guess you could say the Apple fell far from the tree! Course the other thing being Steve Jobs was a real person.
@@punkwrestle Among scholars of antiquity there is nearly universal consensus that Jesus was also a real person.
Lol 😆 🤣 🤣Love that
Funny how Jesus never asked that ANYTHING be enshrined to Him🤔 Nowhere, anywhere in the NT, does He ask this and in fact says quite the opposite to this;
“And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:”
- Revelation 9:20 (KJV)
So I would venture a guess that maybe, just maybe, these enshriners didn't quite follow His comandments and did these things. But, no worries, He's got some news for them;
Matthew 7 (KJV)
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²¹ Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
²² Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
²³ And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
²⁴ Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
Sorted. How about you?
0:24 ST. Peter's house
2:55 King Uzziah's earthquake
5:40 proof of crucifixion
9:01 the Babylonian chronicles
10:36 the kingdom of Edom
thank u bro
Spoilers much?
Wine from Cana, St Peter's nose, splinters from the cross, wooden plates, a table and a finger from Our Lord. Baldrick you stand amazed.
Course. I thought they came in boxes of ten.
thanks bro.
Thank you for doing this
I saw on a program at least 10 years ago, archeologists did find a wrist bone with a nail in it that the archeologist said was of a person who had been crucified by the Romans. The archeologists said that the Romans knew enough about the body to know that the bones of the wrist were strong enough to support the person, while the bones in the hand weren't. That is why the Romans actually nailed the person through the wrist not the hand.
The Bible is based on a fictional 6,000 year-old Earth where Neanderthals never existed. In the real world, most people have some Neanderthal DNA because our human ancestors mated with Neanderthals and Africans whose ancestors have never left Africa have no Neanderthal DNA.
The ancient Greek language did not have separate words for 'wrist' and 'hand' which is something that caused a lot of confusion on this topic. Yeah, its believed that the nail went between the bones of the wrist but the Bible says 'hand' because that's the closest translation English had to the Greek word used there.
See Shroud of Turin . It shows bloodstains on the wrist and feet
I haven’t heard of the discovery of a hand, but there was a Discovery of a long, iron nail in a heel bone found. I remember growing up and this was atheists argument that people could not have been crucified. Are you kidding me!!?? It was there MO for major crimes. Atheists have since quietly backed away from that argument-like they always do-and moved on to others that have been proven wrong as well. The claim is always on page one of the news paper; the retraction is always on page 6. Jesus is out Lord and a Savior, come out of His heavenly abode to portray the ultimate price for His love for us, and even today people spit on Him.
@@kathleenmann7311 The earliest definitive mention of the Shroud of Turin in any written document is a letter written in 1389 by Pierre d’Arcis, the bishop of the city of Troyes to the Avignon Antipope Clement VII. In the letter, Pierre states that the shroud was being used as part of an elaborate faith-healing scam. Pierre describes how his predecessor, Bishop Henri de Poitiers, set out on a mission to find out where the shroud had come from. After much inquiry, Henri managed to track down the original forger who had made the shroud, who confessed to him that he had created the shroud as a deliberate hoax and even showed Henri exactly how he had done it. Henri, having obtained this confession, ordered that the shroud be put away and that no one be permitted to venerate it. "...Eventually, after diligent inquiry and examination, he discovered the fraud and how the said cloth had been cunningly painted, the truth being attested by the artist who had painted it, to wit, that it was a work of human skill and not miraculously wrought or bestowed.”
If you guys are going to go down the bible path, I would love for you to do some series on what the bible says in Hebrew and compare it to what the English version is. And/or include what it was like to live in the time the individual books of the bible were written.
That's a very good Idea. And II Kings 2:23-24 would be a great example to highlight.
@Gerald H Yeah, that's another thing; the "New Testament" is obviously not the original bible.
The New Testament wasn't written in Hebrew, rather Aramaic.
Revelation 3:9
@@mMAmericanSpiritMm The NT was written in Greek. The OT was mostly in Hebrew but some parts in Aramaic.
Ooh. Can we add some of the Apocryphal books as well? The ones that were removed along the way or were taught concurrently but didn't make the cut during the councils, or were deliberately excluded.
0:30 - Chapter 1 - St peter's house
3:00 - Chapter 2 - King uzziah's earthquake
5:45 - Chapter 3 - Proof of crucifixion
9:05 - Chapter 4 - The babylonian chronicles
10:40 - Chapter 5 - The kingdom of edom
for a man who isn't a Christian believer I admire your courage. All the time people claim that the Bible is just a fairy tale and the facts presented are just fiction. When archeology proves that the Bible was right they just move to the next claim, without admitting they were wrong. You just give credit where credit is due. I admire that.
There are a lot more claims in the Bible that are simply objectively untrue.
The Exodus, for example. It is claimed variously that either two million or thirty thousand Jews escaped Egypt and fled to Israel.
The average human being produces right at 320 pounds of feces in a year. Multiplied by 30,000 people, that's 9,600,000 lbs.(4,800 tons) of feces per year, or 192,000 tons for the entire Exodus of 40 years given the lowball figure of 30,000 Jews. That's a lot of feces in the hot, dry and comparatively tiny Sinai desert, and we would expect much of it to have fossilized - but it hasn't. There has been no fossilized human feces (or anything else - camps, bits of firewood etc.) found in the Sinai.
Using the high ball number of two million we get 640,000,000 pounds (320,000 tons) of feces per year, or 25,600,000,000 pounds (12,800,000 tons) of human excrement for the entire Exodus era.
If the former number, you would expect the desert to have pretty consistent piles of human excrement found at regular intervals. If the latter it should be almost covered in it.
Nowhere to be found
Who does that? The books of the Bible were written in antiquity and touch on events of the day. Some they got right, some they got wrong, and some they made up.
I don't know why anyone, believer or agnostic, would deny that.
The Bible would not exist had it not been for the belief systems that preceded it, from sumerian to babylonian to assyrian to akkadian to hellenic to egypt to roman to paganism etc etc.
There are historical observations within the works, yes obviously, but even that is erroneously presented even when there is historical backing.
Where are all the hebrew slaves of egypt...
I never understood how a person can believe in a fixed system built on such flimsy pillars as that of the abrahamic theologies.
One must seriously suspend ones reason and logic to even consider the ridiculous.
And with all its errors and mistakes and historical fallacies how can a person in the age of information and remotely believe this nonsense.
There were no hebrew slaves in egypt.
The flood story is based on much much older myths and legends which the Bible retells to the tooth but changes names and date and regions to fit its own narrative.
How many christians speak the old tongues? Barely anyone, how many christians can attested to the bible, none for none of them know the previous works, they merely go on blind assumptions.
Honestly I find the whole thing incredibly pathetic given the blood thirsty history of the christians and their murderous nature, no religion in history has been as sacrificial as that of the judiac religions none have also been nearly as destructive as the judiac religions.
And after all that bloodshed and destruction, entire people groups eradicated, languages lost histories rewritten in the light of the new themes religions instill upon the population, and after all that, people still have the nerve to say, "I need not to think for myself and I feel you should join me for else you will go to hell and be damned" well I usually tend to reply with "fuck off ya imbecile" and it usually works.
@@emptyhand777 leave the cave and tell that to an atheist
@@armaniwebb4467 I’m an atheist and have never heard anyone deny that. Yes, there are a lot of real places mentioned in the Bible and discovered by archaeologists, but that doesn’t prove the god claims which is why we don’t believe, even though we discovered Solomon’s temple.
“I was *in* Genesis. That’s proof”
- Phil Collins
Why did the DC comics, and TV series of _Preacher_ come to mind when I read that? Lol
Seth Rogen helped develop the TV version, and you can tell. Lol
@@busimagen Must've been some misunderstanding
For HE said - Follow me, I will follow you...
Too good
"I was at the genesis of 'Genesis'." -Peter Gabriel
Which one? Phil or Peter?
The graffiti saying "Pete Woz 'Ere!" is a massive give away that it was Peter's home.
and the old water barrels that smelled suspiciously of wine
Simon "The Rock" Johnson
I don't know. That graffiti sounds more likely to decorate the wall of an ancient pub toilet stall.
_"For a good time carrier pigeon Pete's mum!"_
You graffiti your own home? Or others walls?
Thank you, Simon, for this fascinating look into biblical archeology and history.
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Agree. Great stuff Simon. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, thank you, Simon! I believe that the archeological findings of Sodom and Gomorrah in the exact places described in The Bible should have been mentioned also…
There’s a reason ur name starts with w
I really appreciate your objective coverage.
It is encouraging to hear objectivity even from someone who is no particular friend of the Bible.
Adam n Eve it.
?????
Objective??? you've gotta be kidding
@@RammusTheArmordillo why don't you think so?
@@RammusTheArmordillo how is he not being objective??? He’s only mentioning facts that have been proven by historians and explicitly states when something is just a speculation and to not take it as 100% fact
I think it's pretty cool that some parts of the bible are actually a small look into what the past was like: mostly horrible, but still interesting
Yeah agreed! Still waiting for evidence of divinity, but this is still pretty good.
All good mythologies and legends have some basis in reality. I don’t see why the Christian mythologies are any different.
To paraphrase CS Lewis, Christ is clearly a corn-king like Osiris or Dionysus in that his dying and rising is representative of the natural agricultural cycle. The difference between the myth of Christ and the myth of Osiris is that Christ’s is a myth that actually happened.
Dude a look into the future a well🙂
And ALOT of exaggeration mixed with wine 🍷
This stuff is really interesting to me. The part about the nails in the bone was particularly fascinating, I had no idea that crucifixion was ever doubted to that extent.
and hey man , i really like your channels , and the fact you use BC and AD, thank you
He just reads the report. The authors of his reports did that. He himself is an atheist.
That's just outdated. Historians don't say that anymore.
@@desperadox7565 wouldnt say its out dated just unpopular
@@matthewmartin9649 No, BCE and CE is the modern way historians write dates. That's just a fact.
@@desperadox7565 Why should it be outdated? BCE and CE is just a way to try to erase the historical and cultural significance of the western way of divide and measure time. No one is bothered that Thursday comes from the cult to Thor, so why should they be bothered that BC and AD come from a cult to Jesus?
Biblical Archeology is my favorite topic. I'm so glad I found your channel. You will provide hours of going down the rabbit hole!
If you haven't done so, you should look into joining some digs. Many will take amateur's/volunteers. My grandfather (David Livingston) was a Biblical Archeologist and started Associates for Biblical Research (ABR). he passed away, 10 years ago, but he used to take volunteers (I was lucky enough to go on a dig in 1996). I'm not sure if ABR still does digs, but you might check it out.
This isn't a channel about biblical archeology. He does episodes on many different subjects and topics
@@CrazyDrunkAsianMonkey , what a completely useless comment. he does segments on anything of interest. This Subject is clearly about Biblical Archeology.
@@markgreiser464 Way to add an even more useless comment 👏👏👏
Please keep these kinds of videos coming ! Love it Mr whistler
This man showed more respect for Jesus than the olympics
I love how Simon can take pretty much any topic and make it interesting to learn about.
it's the accent.
King Jesus EmManuel, was
King Izas Manu of Eddessa.
The Eddessans became the defacto kings of the Jews, with the kargest palace and tomb in Jerusalem. And they always wore the traditional Eddessan plaited crown of thorns.
This Eddessan king was crucified by Rome, but taken down early by Josephus Flavius bar (Ari) Matthias, and survived. We have a complete account of this event. Familiar story?
See ‘Jesus, King of Eddessa’.
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He purposefully talks in a way that keeps you focused and attentive.
@@RalphEllis leaving asides the conspiracy theory, youre correct to call Jesus as Emmanuel as it was the title Isaiah given him in prophecy (Immanuel meaning god is with us)
Good to see more open mindedness from you....an unbiased approach is always the best.
If only he would be more open-minded with other non-Christian religions
@@SugarandSarcasmdo you mean you wish he would look into their historicity as well, or...?
@@joshuaracey7967 OT is a rip off of other religions and cultures....the NTis a rewrite of the OT with jesus as the new elijah....very little in both books is true.........................
This man destroyed the pronounciation of the names but with style.
I had to leave my man I couldn't do it, he murder it lol.....
Just me not knowing what destroy as rarely know how to pronounce things
Which names
Briton’s gonna Brit.
Pronunciation*
Sorry, couldn’t help it.
Thank you for presenting this! I am Christian so I have a bias of course but I think it is important to understand that the Bible is not only a religious text but also the written history of a people. Of course with a religious outlook on life but nontheless a description of their time. I think the Babylonian invasion describes it well. The history is fact, the outlook on why it happened is religious. That doesn't mean that the bible will be 109% accurate in describing history but it is also not a book describing only the supernatural aspects of life. Another comparison might be the story of Troy which was long believed to be myth, however it appears the historical part of the story actually took place. That is to say the ancients were much better at keeping their history alive than we give them credit for.
The irony of worshippers declaring a book to be a history of a people, and using that book to condemn, torture, and murder the people whose history the book speaks of.
*eyerolls intensify* who did that in your lifetime?
@@jonathonrobinson6081oh dear. Here we go again
You know, I just happened to be researching war, torture and what not. It may seem crazy, but no religion is needed for war, torture, whatever. I get your point, but I think you should use a little balance in your thinking. I can almost hear you saying something about not having to make comments if Christianity didn't exist. Would you find something different to make negative remarks about though?
@@armellebiampamba4257 Oh no, is reality treading on your sensibilities? What a shame.
Really cool video, would love to see more of these!
Have you seen the electric resistivity scans of Noah’s Ark?
Or the chariot wheels under the gulf of Aqaba?
The bible is so true that it doesn't preach victory and heroic acts. It tells all the bad and wrong things the "protagonists" did. A false story tends to make its main characters be heroes. The bible does not do that.
Even Jesus's disciples are painted as cowardly, weak, flawed but they repent. That doesn't happen in writings of other cultures.
I just want to point out that the "prophetic books" aren't all about future events (in reference to your comment about the book of Amos). The function of a prophet (biblically) isn't primarily about telling people about future events. Just some context for people who are unaware.
Simon must be the wealthiest RUclipsr ever considering he’s got a half dozen channels with more than a half million subscribers each.
No that would be pewdiepie I believe
@@FuriousImp Mr. Beast is up there too
Subscribers don't make money though. Views do. And it's a lot of the same people who are subscribed and watching each channel.
This was soo interesting, I learned a ton! Thank you so much!!
Very interesting video. Even as a non-religious person, l enjoy hearing about the ways in which ancient religious writings do preserve some accurate historical elements, which give us windows into the ancient world that might otherwise have been lost to time.
Interesting video. Very well done.
I work at Timna in southern Israel!
Cool to hear my workplace mentioned in the video!
Go Simon! Love the subject, rare to hear a science based perspective, thanks!
thanks for doing these
The term used to describe what King Uzziah was stricken with was Tzaraath....a skin disease that is said to be spiritually inflicted. Shows the inward spiritual state. Is definitely why he was chased out of the temple. What is noteworthy is that it says he remained afflicted until he died. Typically this is temporary
Leprosy. ?
@@kathleenmann7311 it wasnt leprosy.
@@kathleenmann7311 yeah would have been
Okay this is bugging me. What is the music you use for opening chapter 3? I hear it in your videos all the time, but I can't find it. I want to listen to it on repeat lol
Same here!
I've not watched a video you've made that I haven't thoroughly enjoyed. You're a very good storyteller and do a great job at researching and taking the important and interesting information out and conveying it in an easy to understand and well-paced way. And you're editing is great, I really enjoy the mix of pictures and videos you put in.
Thanks for doing this. This video in particular I really enjoyed, as I am Catholic and haven't heard these things. And learning that you are not Christian here in these comments, God bless you for this video. It's awesome that you can research something so deeply that you don't personally believe in, and then make an interesting informative video conveying these facts and stories. You're history videos are second to none on RUclips.
Thank you Simon for making interesting content that I enjoy while I eat nearly every dinner.
It is pretty astonishing 🙂 thanks simon that was cool...I like it when we dig where the Bible says things happened...and then find the collaborative evidence for said stories.
Please do more
If you read Spiderman in 1000 years then dug in new York you would find evidence of the empire state building and the Yankee stadium.... Lol. Doesn't mean it's evidence that spider man was real or had super powers lol
@@NEWPORTBOOTCAMPScom I'd believe... And start a SPIDEY CULT....
Studies in relation to the Big Bang and the formation of the universe has shown that the order of events are pretty much identical to the biblical creation story.
Mind, only the _order_ of events. Not the events themselves. As in, light came before matter, life started in the oceans, and that humans were quite late in the evolutionary race. Stuff like that, which would have been unknown at the time.
@@NEWPORTBOOTCAMPScom. How stupid.
@@Ikajo No. What you’re insinuating is… no.
Hey Simon!
You are amazing!!
Interesting. Simon is a biblical name.
I hope you keep doing these till you see light
Nail through the heel bones???? Why would anybody come up with such horrible ideas???? The more we learn about the past, the more amazing it is that so many people survived!!!... And the happier I am to be living now!!! Thanks for another great video!! Oh, Simon, idea from my previous message, any facts on mysterious goings on at underground railroad sights??? The Old Mill restaurant in Westminster, Massachusetts has some tales to tell... I'd really be interested in what you could find out!! I have confidence in your ability to find facts over rumors!! Thank you!!
If you look at history any time before 120 years ago, I'm pretty sure no one survived.
actually there is higher crimerate and murders today than any other time in history, with usa being the worst on that
I don't get whats so crazy about nails through heel bones. The purpose of a cross was literally to make your dying moments as painful as possible as torture.
It seems likely to me that anybody tied to a cross is highly likely to be untied by their friends. A nail through the heal would be a dead give away of anyone that had been crucified, even if they escaped and survived.
Crucifixion is still considered one of the most brutal forms of execution. It was invented by the Parthians and perfected by the Romans 500 year later. Rome used teams of professional soldiers/executioners to do the job. They made no mistakes and nobody lived once it started.
Dr. Mark Eastman, a physician and emergency room doctor did a speech on Jesus death on the cross from a medical perspective, describing how the body reacts and breaks down. It’s a good listen to a horrifying way to die.
This is all amazing and thank you for your video, for those watching though we also need to have faith to be saved
Too cool, more please!
the more i learn about archeology the more i realize the bible is more of an embellished report of history than a fictional story
cant treat it like anything other then fiction
Thanks Simon and Co. for another really interesting episode. Keep up the good work :)
Just a heads up; there's a scammer posing as your channel replying to comments, asking people to contact them.
You also?😅 the "sideprojectsofficial" one? Been reporting it all over😥
Simon is the starbucks of youtube. Gotta have it and luckily he's everywhere.
Yeah, but he isn't overpriced, full of himself, and his product is actually good.
Intro was epic Simon keep it up baldy
I don’t think anyone doubts some of the historical facts of the Bible (and other religious books). The problem comes when supernatural elements are taken as fact.
so how exactly did the universe start
@@yvonetubla7682we don't know, but scientists are at least trying to answer that, rather than saying God did it
@@lukedeakin7124 or saying god did not do it automatically like you do
The problem with science and religion isn't what they are, but when we misapply their answers.
Generally speaking, the underlying purpose of science is to answer "how" questions, whereas the underlying purpose of religion is to answer "why"questions. This is always how I understood it.
So, if I were to ask you "How did you get to the store?", the answers would be like "in my car" or "down Main Street". If I were to ask "Why did you go to the store?", the answer would be something like "to pick up milk and bread".
The age of enlightenment split the previously intertwined concepts of knowledge and wisdom.
Throw the fact that even though the Bible and other ancient documents were written by people like you or I, and you have potential wrinkles of confusion everywhere due to the separation of time, language, and culture.
This is why I like Simon's stuff. He tries to get as close to the truth when he shares his nuggets with us.
That's super interesting you say that, but it's not been my experience.
Makes sense. All religions have some historical facts. They are just concerned with the shades of their respective faith.
All?
Judaism and Christianity - the only religions I have any real knowledge of - certainly do have historical facts, but also stories where doctrine was more important than historical accuracy.
Im not "religious" i was raised a Christian but I have gravitated more towards a Deist set of beliefs. I appreciate Simon remaining entirely unbiased. In my searfh for the truth.... unbiased takes like this are so refreshing. Because Christianity is so polarizing. You either believe or you dont. I have found a pretty happy medium and its nice not to hear the bigotry of Christians... or the ignorance of athiests.
Hi Simon. Thank you for this. You maybe interested to know that there are quite a few more significant discoveries of late. One is a lead 'tablet' which was found near an alter described in the book of Joshua.
I read an academic paper a year or 2 ago about a city that was found in the Levant that had evidence of being destroyed by a potential meteorite impact. Bricks were found melted and walls were blown apart but there were no signs of an invasion or battle. It was argued in the paper that it could have been an inspiration for the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Best video i have watched on RUclips in many years.
Temple Moun... I always thought it was Temple Mount... learn something everyday, forget 4 or 5 things :)
Put Book of Enoch in your future videos.
Great voice, good content in all your videos, excellent writing & awesome pictures.
Book of Enoch would be nice. It’s very complex.
I thought it was Temple Mound
You were right - it is Temple Mount.
I went from being an atheist trying to read the bible to prove it was false and ended up a Christian. God bless! Thanks for being respectful!
I'll take things that never happened for 100 points
@@Yourgodisntrealitcanthurtme it happens more often than it doesn't.
@@SavageJoe1775 sure, keep telling yourself that I'll think you'll find it's the otherway round, people tend to grow out of their imaginary friends
@@Yourgodisntrealitcanthurtmehappened to me lol God bless!
@Yourgodisntrealitcanthurtme ........your profile name is more ridiculous than mine. People who make a God they don't believe in their personality are hilarious. I used to be an obnoxious atheist, too. You don't have to believe me, all the people in my life saw my very real re birth and quite frankly, your belief in my conversion is your own problem. I pray you wake up and seek God like I did friend. Clearly you need purpose in life.
Great job 👍May God Bless you!
Cool. Thanks for this information.
God bless everyone involved
I was surprised to find you making this video, but I am really glad you did.
Very cool, Simon
this strengthens my faith even more thanks for this awesome knowledge
Imagine being this delusional.
@@oBCHANo Imagine the need to put other people down.
@@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319 Lmao, cry more.
@@oBCHANo Why do you feel the need to bully people online? Does that somehow make you feel more important?
Or is it perhaps you're just venting over the fact that all you've done since 2010 on this platform is steal animation from other RUclipsrs and pass them off as your own? I mean that must really sting.
@Seal don't be a fool. Jesus is very much real. He is full of mercy and grace. Accept it now before it's too late!
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That’s legit crazy considering they crucified a man ever 30 feet on the way back to rome after killing Spartacus
Thank you Sir for covering 👍
Actually archeologists found one thing to prove crucifixion was used they found a Roman nail still embedded in someone's heel
That’s just proof of a nail in a bloke’s heel.
What if he just stepped on a nail and died of sepsis?
not proof of crucifixion at all, it's just evidence of a foot that has a nail in it.
making baseless claims is what religion does to fool its followers, it's not the process of the scientific method at all.
And how exactly do you know that its specifically the foot of the messiah? Its not like Jesus was the only person to ever be crucified by the romans. Even during Jesus' crufixion in the Bible other people were being crucified alongside him.
Definitely love your content, Biblical and non-biblical. Watched your videos on the Roman emperors multiple times.
Great video, fascinating stuff!
Hey Simon, look in to the Greek word that many bibles translate to cross. It's Stavros.
Upright pole, tree, stake.
No cross member mentioned.
Also, logically, a cross shape doesn't really cause asphyxiation, having your arms vertical does though, as you eventually cannot support your weight with your legs and slump, causing your asphyxiation by compressing your airway.
Arms to the sides do not have this effect.
Stavros means literally Cross, i am greek myself, that was very popular symbol too, due to the crucifixions, theres no point in making conspiracies here
The word that is somewhat questioned is the nail through the hand. Ancient greek used the same word for hand/wrist, so it being through the wrist would have no conflict with the Bible.
I like how Simon uses side projects to explore the part of his psyche that questions everything he talks about :|
@officialsideprojectt your scamming!!! that's illegal!!!!
Still waiting for Simon's ASMR channel.
I think he's just a paid host. I usually try to note who is writing these articles, then if a certain video stands out, I can find more stuff written by the same person.
Kevin Jennings is the writer for this episode.
Very, very well done. Interesting, engaging and intelligently presented. Thank you.
More biblical history please! ☺️
Have you seen the electric resistivity scans of Noah’s Ark?
Or the chariot wheels under the gulf of Aqaba?
@@johnstown2451 no and neither have you you. Stop copy pasting this trash everywhere no one cares
I love this stuff. So fascinating. As someone who believes in god and jesus i have never been one to take the bible literal. Humans of that time just couldn't comprehend things like we can, and through time stories get embellished. Im not saying this proves anything but shows the bible at the least has histroic value.
Note for 4:10: prophecy in Christianity does not mean "telling the future", it means "speaking the heart of God". This does often mean predictions of the future, but the focus is not the event, but the consequences. Prophecy can mean giving instruction, giving information, interpreting a dream, providing wisdom, or conveying God's love. Predictions of the future are a small part of it.
Oh man!! A mainstream content creator that is being nice/respectful to us Christians!? You’re blowing my mind Simon! Really it’s been ages since someone covers these topics without calling us fanatics or zealots.
Yeah this is legit blowing my mind. I'm just used to being ridiculed and mocked. Doesn't bother me.
To be fair, fundementalists can be blamed for how hostile some of the US is towards christian. When all you see is a very bad extremist side of a religion, said religion will grow really sour to you.
Why wouldn't it have real places and happenings. It was written in those times. The fact that these places exist is no stretch.
It's great that they can still be found today.
There are many who contend the Bible is pure fiction with no historical basis as opposed to a dramatization of events that actually occurred.
@@tornicade Hard to dismiss events that are in other people's written history.
@@johnadams7402 yeah. I've been told for forty years that there's was no such thing as a great flood.. yet the Carolinas have tear drops and the Sahara desert terrain was scraped like a giant tsunami...
Much admiration for this man for speaking respectfully about this when I suspect that he's far too skeptical to be religious.
Maybe he’ll find 173880 or the electric resistivity scans of Noah’s Ark?
Or the chariot wheels under the gulf of Aqaba?
My sincerest prayer that Simon comes to know Christ through his research
My sincerest prayer that you come to know the truth. :)
My sincerest condolence for the lost of the remaining brain cells you lost by this fallacies.
My university teacher had the theory that the nails were rarely used as they were expensive to make just to punish some thief or petty criminal. He said they were used for important people, someone some people might want to risk death to save them and cuts the cords. Nails could not be taken out so easily and rapidly as cutting cords. And their feet were rendered useless, so they couldn’t just run away. Like Jesus or this person in this hidden tomb. He said we would know if we ever found Jesus’s body because he would also have the hands nailed, suffocating his healing powers. Because as Simon said, no nailed hands were ever found.
“I was baptized twice, once in water, once in flame. I will carry the fire of the Holy Spirit inside, until I stand before my lord for judgement”
-Joshua Graham, FO: New Vegas.
HOW MANY BELIEVERS HERE?
..NON-Believer here in SoCal...
Wow! 4? That is concerning
Repent and believe in Jesus and be saved hell is real(God's eternal prison much worse than the ones we have) .@@neclark08 Jesus loves you.
Here
@@GabrieleZaza Jesus Christ superstar sir!
Great video , thanks !!!
I can only imagine the tangents Simon would be going on if this were a BB episode.
"Digging with a trowel in one hand and a bible in the other"
It's good at swatting bugs
Really enjoyed this video
That first one is pretty amazing
I'm not religious I'm a follower of Jesus Christ
Add chode to your resume as well
😶....
Oh Για να ξέρεις τη διαφορά;
Γι αυτό Δεν είμαι χριστιανός Δεν ακολουθώ Το να ακολουθήσουμε Our LORD είναι η διαφορά εντελώς
Ditto
I’m not religious. I’m a pathetic dirty sinner who needs Jesus otherwise I have no hope.
Good video.
I mean a book which spans thousands of years and is a collection of multiple authors all writing a canonical story, so it’s bound to get something’s right.
It seems to be based on real events.. maybe a bit exaggerated but idk
@@WhatWhy42 This is the approach taken by scholarly none christians on certain aspects. for instance because of the house of david inscription atheist scholars believe david existed although without as powerful as a kingdom as the bible describes
@@snopespeerreview Nobody really Knows
@@WhatWhy42 Well, that takes a step of faith. It's a personal decision. I decided long ago that the Bible was reliable and God was real. It may sound weird but since then I can see Him at work in my life and still operating in this world.
@@boshman78 in my head God would be the creator but significantly the creator of the things which we do not know..
I also think there are real explanations for the possibility of the many worlds theory and different dimensions/realms.. However at the pinnacle of everything is what everyone calls God.
What do any of these prove?
That the bible got some things accurate.
No proof for an invisible almighty but indifferent man in the sky
it proves that even a stopped clock is right twice a day... lol
Make a multitude of claims and predictions and sooner or later some will be right, that only means that "some" statistically lined up with events you interpret a specific way... It proves nothing. Come back when its "ALL" or at least a significant portion is proven
Isn't there a saying about correlation and causations... It must equally be true that a correlation to an insignificant amount of a substantial text is not proof of anything other than chance and probability...
Have you seen the electric resistivity scans of Noah’s Ark?
Or the chariot wheels under the gulf of Aqaba?
Here’s a fun one, 173880. Proves Jesus was the promised Christ!
@@johnstown2451 No, no one has, whose telling you this rubbish? The Hong Kong thing was a scam...
Great video.
There's tens of thousands of archeological "discoveries" that prove the Bible is true. People just dismiss it because if the Bible is true, then they don't want to deal with the eternal consequences of their actions.
Amen! Well stated!
The archaeological paper on Tall El Hammam is intriguing, for example, because it demonstrates a likely location and historic truth to the destruction of Sodom and the cities of the plain. While there are some problems with the paper's conclusions, it does raise some interesting prospects-not the least of which being the accuracy of the biblical account as filtered through the minds of Bronze Age authors.
We moderns need to realize that just because oral traditions lacked the exacting accuracy we expect does not necessarily make them wrong.
The Bible clearly says that the power and principalities of the world willingly suppress the truth. Everything I see and experience in this world indeed proves this correct.
Genesis also claims that the universe had a beginning, an idea which scientists did not believe for the longest time.
It also claims a whole lot of really stupid things
Can someone link the first video on bible evidence? I searched through the channel but couldn't find it. Thanks!
I love finding biblically accurate historical facts... does make one really take the book seriously.
There are tons of findings. For instance: Joshua’s alter at Mount Ebal with lead tablet curses from the Laws written on them dating to the 1400’s bc. Atheist scholars would have you believe that the Israelites couldn’t read or write until the 400’s bc, after their return from Babylon. They just keep trying, and keep getting shot down. Also sulfur balls that do not appear naturally really anywhere, but especially in the Jordan plans(the Jordan planes and the Dead Sea are not volcanically active) have been found along with a burnt city that reached amazing temperatures. Or how about Jabal Al Lawz that has all the tellings of Mount Sinai including the top of the the mountain, where the the top of the rocks are black but not the bottom; like the mountain was on fire. The amazing things you can find when you actually listen to the people that have been there, the archeologists without an agenda and not CNN are amazing.
Wow, it appears you are seeking confirmation bias. Perhaps you should scrutinize your beliefs and learn about what archeology has shown to contradict in various biblical narratives. Also, there is literary and archeological evidence to demonstrate the origins and antecedents of Christianity and Judaism.
The thing about the Bible is that even if Jesus himself is conclusively proven to have existed it doesn't "prove" the Bible. Christianity hinges not simply on the existence and teachings of Jesus, but specifically on him being the divine son of God.
Gotta love the amount of smooth brains that keep saying "it still doesn't prove the bible is real".... THAT WASN'T THE INTENTION OF THE VIDEO.... nowhere in it does it talk about the ideals or teachings being real, just that we have found things to confirm SOME of what was written.
I've seen lots of smooth brains arguing the opposite, actually. Lots of "ah ha! Take that Atheist (& pro-Secularist)!" Types.
@Gerald H wait…
I am pretty new to this channel and I thought, as your average german atheist, that it will be a US christian rant of "Why we should all pray to the christian god " rant.
Lucky me a good a nice surprise.
The bible was written in the late 300s, at least that what I learned in history classes.
Some of it was real, like certain persons, happenings and places. Much was just the writers versions of other faiths and cultures like the Gilgamesh Epos.
But a lot of is is esoteric nonsense.
Like an almighty omnipresent god that hates everybody so much that he drowns the whole world.
And asks people to sacrifice their children.
Jesus wasn't gods son.
He was a political activist against the romans and a rebel against the jew religion.
As an atheist I think it's good to differ between intention, message, real happenings and esoteric fiction.
And this channel delivers.
@@CordeliaWagneras a US Christian I wasn’t expecting a German Atheist to rant about things he doesn’t know about.
Unlucky for me.
I disagree with everything you said, especially Jesus not being the Son of God. But I just want to point you to this from the Bible: “You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.”
Deuteronomy 12:31 ESV
“There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer”
Deuteronomy 18:10 ESV
If you’re talking about Abraham going to sacrifice Issac, if God wanted Abraham to sacrifice Issac, then why did God provide a Ram to be sacrificed in Issac’s stead? Abraham believed that Issac would be resurrected when he went to sacrifice him (Hebrews 11:19). Is it wrong to sacrifice your child if God promises that your child will come back? A deep and interesting question that Kierkegaard wrote a book on.
I hope that clarifies one of your misconceptions, if you want to hear what the Bible says about your other points I would be happy to explain it to you.
you're just bumhurt that ZERO of your stupid religions supernatural assertions are even remotely demonstrable to be true or real.
zero.
zip.
nada.
John Walton’s Lost World books are excellent for understanding the early chapters of Genesis in their literary and cultural context.
Hallelujah I was able to visit Capernaum, Galilee, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Golgotha, Cana, Bethany, Bethesda, Mount Carmel, Mount Zion, Mount of Olives, Mount Mariah, Mount Sinai, Mount Nebo, Jordan River, Dead Sea, Sea of Galilee, Red Sea. To visit Jerusalem, Israel, Egypt, Jordan Holy Land is best investment to walk the footsteps of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen
Even from a purely secular point of view, the authors and compilers of biblical writings would have at a minimum needed some kind of kernel of truth to be believable in their day. Some parts of the Bible were initially written for the sole purpose of record keeping. Instances such as the Israelite conquest of Canaan actually match the Amana letters found in Egypt, even detailing the same regions that sympathized with the invaders.
God, I love listening to you talk...
Stop with these kinds of videos. Magic isn't real, Genesis is a story ripped off from other cultures, the flood never happened, and neither did the Exodus. Making videos like this is like making one that says, "more discoveries prove that Santa Clause is real."
Bro the Dead Sea scrolls back the Bible and genesis there’s even a bunch of historical evidence for Jesus
With this, I would love a list of proven bs from the bible :P
Problem is, all the bible humpers would report that video until taken down.
“The Bible the word of god? Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence” it’s still standing on YT here even after all these years and I think it’s the best video
Thank you for being respectful, Simon.