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Skeptics Put To Silence When Biblical City Is Found

For centuries skeptics said the Bible was stories and myths told by ignorant shepherds and nomads. For example, the skeptics taunted, where is the city called Ur? It could not be found.

Ur was the city the Bible patriarch Abraham was said to have left to dwell the rest of his life (about 125 years) in tents as commanded by God. The account is found in Genesis 12:1 and 15:7. Nehemiah 9:7 also confirms it. The New Testament talks about it in Hebrews 11:9-10.

So for hundreds of years the skeptics had a field day with Ur. Because it was not found, the skeptics said Ur proved the Bible wrong; proved the Bible to be myths and unfounded legends.

But in 1854 the city of Ur was found!

Not much excavation work was done however. It took an Englishman named Leonard Wooley to excavate Ur. He labored there from 1922 until 1934. What Wooley found amazed scholars and laymen alike. It turned out Ur had been a powerful, prosperous, colorful and busy capital and trade center. It was a sophisticated city, highly organized.

In a surprising contrast, Babylon the Great had simple mud buildings. But Ur, which was built 1,200 years before Babylon, had homes made of burnt brick, much like ours today.

Were the homes in Ur simple 3 to 4 rooms? No! Wooley found they had been 2 story villas, with 13-14 rooms surrounding a courtyard. They had a modern lavatory up the stairway. There was more than enough room for the family, their servants, and guests. One workshop made 12 kinds of clothing. The names of the mill girls and their quota of rations, even to the weight of wool given each worker, and what each produced, was all recorded.

Tax receipts had been meticulously kept by week, month, and year.

How about mathematics? Tables and formulas computing square and cube roots were found.

How about architecture? Surprisingly the architects of UR used all of today's engineering techniques; the column, arch, vault, and dome,

The Ziggfurat, which was the city's main religious structure, was built 400 years before Abraham. It was three stories high, with walls that all sloped inward, there was not a straight line in it. All walls were slightly curved so as to minimize what would otherwise be an over powering strength effect. The principle is called "entasis", and was lost after Ur and not re-discovered till the Parthenon at Athens.

So the finding and lengthy excavating of Ur took away the skeptics taunts and claims. Ur became another important confirmation that the Bible was accurate.

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The Springs of the Ocean

Genesis 7:1, telling about the flood. It says,

"In the six hundredth year of Noah's life...were all the fountains [springs] of the great deep broken up . . . "

Notice Prov 8:29 that says,

"Wisdom was there when God established the clouds above, and strengthened the fountains [springs] of the deep."

Are there really fountains or springs in the oceans? If your answer is that the Bible was wrong about that, you would have seemed correct for some 3,000 years. Correct until 1977 that is. Despite sixty years of modern submarine activity, ocean springs were unknown and undiscovered until 1977.

With only 5% of the ocean floor explored guess what? In 1977 scientists found springs in the ocean off the coast of Ecuador. (3) They were found at an ocean depth of 1.5 miles! They contain super heated water of about 450 degrees, and are called Hot Springs.

The article reported more springs. It said scientists exploring another section of ocean expected to find springs 125 to 200 miles apart. Instead they were much closer together. The scientists found six springs about 60 miles apart. As you consider this, remember that the springs were discovered with only 5% of the ocean floor explored. How many more springs might there be in the other 95%?

Some Bible skeptics claim the oceans and the atmosphere together do not contain enough water to flood the earth to the depth needed to cover the mountains. That criticism does not hold up, especially after the discovery of ocean springs, because the Bible says the springs in the oceans were broken up at the time of the flood, which would increase their flow.

These newly discovered springs cause even more problems for Bible skeptics. How much extra water could the broken up springs produce? Notice this quote:

"There is probably as much water circulating under the sea floor as there is in the oceans above." (4)

Isn't that remarkable? You might want to ponder that a moment.

The Bible statements about springs in the oceans, written 3,000 years ago, were against all logic, all that was known, or indeed could possibly have been known, at the time. I submit to you that this correct scientific knowledge came from something or someone higher than man; it was divinely inspired.

Written by: C. Frazier Spencer

Mr. Spencer's attends services with: terrehautecog.org

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With You Always

I remember I use to spend hours praying and fellowshipping with the Lord; It wasn't uncommon for me to spend 5-6 hours a day just waiting in His Presence. I'm not saying this to come off as Mr. Super Spiritual, it's a practice that I enjoyed and it was very spiritually refreshing..

On one particular night after I had spent some time talking with the Lord, I decided to drive over to a friends house; even on the way over there I was imagining that the Lord was with me and that we were just hanging out like any good friends would do.

I would imagine Him sitting in that seat beside me in the car and would talk to Him like my very best friend; now that may sound strange to some and even blasphemous to others but if you can't talk to Jesus like you would a normal friend then there's something wrong with that kind of relationship.

You don't have to be one person with others and a completely different person when you're addressing the Lord. Also, God doesn't require you to speak with an air of “holiness” or use big fluent words – He wants you to realize that He cares for you and He wants you to be real with Him.

I finally had arrived at my friends house, pulled into the driveway and went inside and after I had been there a few moments my friend asked me, “Where's the other guy?” I asked him, “What other guy?” and he said, “The guy that was in the car with you when you pulled in the driveway.”

Dear friend always remember even though you may not see Him, God is with you wherever you are.

More nice pictures like the one above can be found at http://jesus-withyoualways.com/index.htm