Discoveries That Confirm Parts of the Bible
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You stayed, at the above time, let the Bible is the best selling book of all times. That would be incorrect, according to those that keep track of records. Those that keep track of records have stated that the book known as "Guinness World Records"has surpassed the record the Bible has made....
Just to let you know....
Video starts at 1:18
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You missed that for a long time the only evidence for the existence of the Hittite Empire at all was the Jewish scriptures and most historians assumed it didn't exist until they actually found its remains.
Historians also mocked the idea that any culture would hold a tree counting on a plot of land being sold, as is described when Abraham purchased the cave of Macpelah. The discovery of the Hittite records showed that this policy was actually accurately described in Genesis.
Actually it was referring to the neo-Hittite city states
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. But it's also not evidence of presence
Hittites were not the son of god.
@@23strawbale yes but neither was Jesus. We voted on it. :)
As a devoted Simonian from the 32nd century, seeing our prophet narrate this video brought a tear to my eye.
May facts be with you brother
Pls let this become the top comment
Hail the Creator and blessings to his prophet Simon.
This person is a charlatan!! In the 25th century humanity lost the need for eyes and thus evolutionarily discarded them!
Where is Danny the True?
I've always been fascinated by the fact that many religions share common myths or legends, like the great flood, and that gives them in my opinion some legitimacy that makes me wonder what could have been the real circumstances of those events that gave them such recognition.
A giant iceberg in Europe melted,leading to major flooding in Africa and the middle east. Most humans only lived in those places at the time. When they spread around the world they kept the story of the flood but over time it changed to match cultural norms.
Christianity unlike the major world religions tells you that man is at war with God. The God who commanded creation by his word. It also shows you how to be right with him.
@@kyokasanagi incorrect, the Native American peoples and East Asian cultures (China, India, Southeast Asia, etc) also have very similar flood origin stories. It was a global event and there's proof of it in every continent.
@@elijahhang9986Can you provide such evidence?
@@elijahhang9986there isn’t. At all. Anywhere. Stop being an apologist and lying about things we already know
I watched a documentary about a recent find (2015). Some geologists were rereading the exodus to figure out the descriptions of the route that Moses and the people of Israel had taken, and found a location with a small beach bunkered by a bunch of really rough hills. From this small beach ran a huge sand bank that stretched all across the opposite coast of the red sea. He sent scuba divers and they found coral formations littered almost all the way across the sand bank, but they were perfect circles and straight rods, so they took one out and discovered that it was a cart wheel made of bronze that had been half buried on that sand bank for centuries and coral grew all over it. Further inland, somewhere in Saudi Arabia is a dead volcano which would have been active in those days, which coincides with the part about "God showing the way to Moses through a column of smoke in the sky during the day, and of fire at night". I found the documentary here in youtube, but I dont remember the name.
I saw that, undeniable basically. Chariot wheels
might be one of the Patterns of Evidence documentaries which are focused on Moses and the Exodus
@@user-rb3tk5th2ithis video is from a scammer Hovind.
@@user-rb3tk5th2ilooks like a cool channel, thanks!
While this is fascinating, I find it scary because of all the Christian bigots out there using their Bible to fuel hatred. What will they do if they think science agrees with their holy book?? :/
Cool christians are cool but they're not nearly loud enough to drown out the hateful ones.
Simon’s aesthetic is slowly shifting towards “most terrifying Cold War spymaster” and I’m here for it
Then in ten or twenty years, he will go full comic-book Bond-style villain with a Monocle, gold prosthetic arm and a luxuriantly furry cat to stroke on his lap, as he finally achieves what Dr Evil never could, and makes a laser that fires sharks.
@@TheHorseshoePartyUK BS! ... he will accidently light the oil reserve under his lighthouse and rocket to the moon while livestreaming a Manscaped Infomercial about Ball Cologne and his historic input into the ingredients and unsponsored history of loving the product he had never ONCE mentioned in a single CZcams post despite being the voice of Elevinty Gazzilion channels whilst owning a metric fugg-tonne of these revenues. Next week? Kneecap oil and eyelash aligners. $0.02
His channel Into the Shadows he is there.
Looking like a true Bond villain
I was thinking more of the Smith Brothers cough drops - that is some serious beard.
This is a man that's done his archaeological research. Thank you for just basing facts, without pushing any sort of agenda pro or anti religion. Imo it's a video anyone can watch without feeling like their positioning on the matter is being attacked.
The video has a number of common errors in it. See my comments of those errors
@@leecooper3852 "see my comments" how would anyone do that lol?
@@DatHombre I replied to a video that's 2 months old and my above comment is 11 days old so somewhere between 2 months and 11 days if you click newest On the comments and scroll down you'll find them... You'll just have to be patient he is one of him that I posted
Seeing as there are proven kings, accounts, places names, coins, rituals, customs all mentioned in the Bible, mainly written about the time they happened...how can any scholar say they know better than anyone who was there or knew someone there (I.e..recordings as they happened)..thats a bit arrogant don't you think...why could those reported on, not actually have said what was reported to be said?
@@DatHombre....... clicking on the person's avatar.....
@@captainspaulding5963 ............... And all the comments that I see are from a different video.................................
As a PhD candidate in Biblical Studies, let me give you some more-
SOLEB INSCRIPTION: Pharaoh Amenhotep III specifically names he captured "The Shasu of yhw" or "The Semites of [who worship/belong to] Yahweh"
KARNAK TEMPLE INSCRIPTION: Pharaoh Shishak I list several Israelite cities he overtook, all of which are recorded in the Old Testament
BLACK OBELISK OF SHALMANESER: Shalmaneser III names Israelite kings Jehu and Omri, as well as name a tribute paid to him, as recorded in 1 & 2 Kings
SUMMARY STATEMENT OF TIGLATH-PILESER III: Tiglath-Pileser III names both King Jehohaz and the kingdom of Judah, as recorded in 2 Kings 16
SENNACHERIB PRISM: Sennacherib names both King Hezekiah and the kingdom of Judah, as recorded in 2 Kings 18-19 (although Sennacherib leaves out his loss)
BABYLONIAN CHRONICLES: Nebuchadnezzar records the kingdom of Judah by name, as well as installing a puppet king, as described in 2 Kings 24
JEHOACHIN RATION TABLET: Kingdom of Judah mentioned by name, Judah King Jehoiachin mentioned by name, rations given as described in 2 Kings 25
NABONIDUS TABLET: Names King Belshazzar, as found in Daniel 5
CYRUS CYLINDER: Describes King Cyrus allowing foreigners to return to home land and return to worshiping home god[s], as found in Ezra 1:1-4
INSCRIPTION OF DARIUS: Events on tablet align with the events described in Esther 1
TATTANAI/TATTANNU GOVERNOR-BEYOND-THE-RIVER FRAGMENT: Names Tattanai/Tattannu (variation of same name), who is mentioned in Ezra 5-6
This just sounds like different sides of the same story. It’s not necessarily confirmation of a divine being just that people recorded the same criminal.
Good stuff 👍
Bullshit😂
My mom always says miracles are entirely natural and reasonable events. What's miraculous about them is the timing.
When would it be a bad time to rise from the dead? Or turn water into wine? If your mom was saying "if it's not entirely rational or reasonable you can rule it out," well then, she's a smart one. 🤓
I actually saw someone speculating on time being a 4th dimension that God has control over. It's interesting when you consider the timing part of what your mother said, too. She sounds wise
@@Philusteen Personally, I believe that anything that occurs in reality is natural and reasonable. If it seems otherwise, we just haven't developed the skills and knowledge to explain why they are. I haven't asked my mom as to her take on that.
@@NealBones that person clearly never took a physics class, otherwise they'd understand that a fourth dimension wouldn't work like that. We don't actually live in a comic book, lol
@Philusteen Yes, because you alone obviously have dominion and knowledge over a 4th dimension that is part of theoretical physics 🙄
As a historian, this is great
I also have to argue that the Bible is a historical record
Regardless if you believe in the religious aspects, it is history. Same as the Quran, or Egyptian writings, etc; they all show us what people were like in the past, what they believed, it's all still important
Sure, like the Iliad or Jabberwocky. It was written in the past and gives a fictional narrative of what was in the author's head.👍🏼
@@brokenrecord3523 Prove it was fictional. This video proves several parts to be true already. Just because you don't like something, Doesn't make it untrue.
And just because you like something, doesn't make it true. Talking about the whole bible as true or false is silly, and you have to look at each story, and part of the story individually. Adam and Eve, Noas Ark and Job, was all based on older non-jewish stories, and therefore most likely fictional. And then there's other passages that most likely was historical. Whether som parts of it was historical or not, has no bearing on the rest of the stories.
@@nikolajrasmussen9573 How do you know they were based on older stories? Which stories? Is it possible the Bible could be the first or an early attempt to tell what really happened?
@@Nsinger998 fish. can actually date the various versions and Sumerian accounts are older.
As a believing Christian, I always appreciate clear eyed presentation of known facts. Ancient history is hard
@@stephenlaing2152 not presented through a biased lens.
@@stephenlaing2152 But you demonstrate that its hard for you so what do we deduce from that ?
No one is more biased or quick to judge than a person of science who values their idea or ideas more than others. They cannot reconcile themselves with other possibilities. They are regimented in thought and opposition is not for debate but denouncement.
Everyone must consider themselves possibly in error, including scientists.
My brother. 🙏🏻
Belief and facts don’t go together
chris rock in dogmas speech about beliefs and how they can’t be changed people will kill for believing whether they are right or wrong because its their belief and it can’t be changed
"The Bible is a big book and there's lots going on in it."
Masterful! 😁😁
Yet it’s all true
Having lived near and played in the ocean and nearby bays for most of my life, like others I am very familiar with sinking into the sand at the waters edge. Given that chariot wheels provide very little surface area on which to rest or put another way creating a high bearing stress in engineering parlance, it is easy to see why the Egyptian chariots and heavily armored (for the era that is) soldiers would have become mired in whatever land bridge might have existed at the event.
Thank you for being serious, respectful, and unbiased. Much appreciated.
@@stephenlaing2152 examples please?
@@stephenlaing2152 lol do you realize how biased it makes you look when you even feel the need to argue against the raw data? Not interpretations of the data, simply the data itself.
@@stephenlaing2152 you don’t understand the concept of ancient historical evidence. You don’t understand how historical evidence gets skimpier the further back in time you go. Old Testament historical data is certainly sparse compared to NT…but it’s always a special pleading fallacy with you people. Do you have any clue how sparse & scattered Egyptian history is for instance? Let me guess, Egyptian history is solid as a rock in your book lol?
@@stephenlaing2152 One person's interpretation we should all accept as fact? No thanks. Especially since you obviously have an agenda.
@@stephenlaing2152 Stephen can't. Atheists have their own religion and they are terrified of being proven wrong.
A possible reason King Solomon is missing from historical records, eg, the Amarna Letters, is that Solomon was almost certainly not his real name but rather a title bestowed on him by later chroniclers meaning ‘The Peaceful’ or similar (shalom in Hebrew, salam in Arabic). The same way we call the last Anglo Saxon king of England ‘The Confessor’.
Great point! Sometimes things get lost in translation. For example in translating the Bible from Hebrew to another language some words can not be translated exactly. What if the translator wrote God in place of something like most powerful being like an extraterrestrial whom people thought was God.
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Exactly the point I was going to make. The Hebrew name used is Shlomo. Solomon vines from the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, and might be cognoscenti with other a name more familiar to the readership: Suleiman.
If Solomon even existed it would have been roughly 350 - 400 years after the Armana letters.
@@sav7568 Would it?
@@lardyify According to the Thiele/Young timeline the Amarna letters would have been more during the time of Joshua. Which I suppose tracks with some of what the vassal states are writing to Egypt about, a foreign menace attacking and razing a number of cities around Canaan and being repelled by others.
And their timeline, which favors the Biblical narrative timeline and synchronizes later Israelite kingdom events with records of Neo-Assyria, Neo-Babylonia, and Egypt, is one that puts the Exodus at, I think, one of the earliest points among academics. But the building of the Temple is widely considered a pretty solid date and is put as beginning in the year 967 BC.
The Amarna Letters span from around 1360-1332, as Sav says, about 400 years too early.
Good health Sir,
each of your releases is very interesting and professionally created.
Sir, what do you know about the lead books of the first Christians found in Jordan?
This could be the topic of your next issue.
In regards to the final story. I don’t know how recent this information is, compared to when you made this video, but there is a natural land bridge that has been found in the Red Sea that stretches from one side to the other. Divers have started to search the area and the deeper parts surrounding it, and have found chariot wheels and and such that match Egyptian chariots from that time period
The person who “discovered” the chariot wheels is Ron Wyatt. He isn’t an archaeologist, or even a scientist, he is a anaesthesiologist. He is considered by all archaeologists, including the national archaeology office of israel, as a liar and absolutely false. The “wheels” he found, were algae in the shape of a wheel, and marine biologists have said it is completely natural shape.
Unfortunately, this is a story going around creationist circles that is almost entirely fabricated. Not saying it’s evidence of absence, but it is not true either. The parts that are true-ish like the “land bridge” are incredibly misrepresented.
Source ???
@@Pooki2024 several, actually. Google it. Also Google "the Pillars of Solomon".
This is true and some of the images are stunning. They’ve also found horse hooves and human bones as well. He also said the bottom would have been muddy but the location your talking about has a hard sand bottom.
I think you did a fantastic job with this material from both historical and biblical. As a Christian you caused a lot of questions for those who believe and don’t believe which is fantastic. This causes people to look for more information which is far better than taking a side. Well done and good honest commentary.
I agree. Never thought I would see such a video from Simon but am very happy to see a man that has scientific integrity enough to be objective and give credit where it is due, despite it being one of the more taboo areas amongst many of his peers, and so often dismissed outright.
Much respect to you, Simon. Thank you.
The more you actually look for more information the more Christianity shows its true colors as a cruel trick created and still used for political manipulation of the lower classes.
Look at the Adoptionism preached by Paul. Pauline theology said Jesus was a normal human, created and born to a human mother through normal means and adopted by God by imbuing Jesus with his Spirit where it remained until Jesus exclaimed “Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani” while on the cross.
Adoptionism was the predominant theological belief of the origin of Jesus for Christianity during the Creeds and Maxims period prior to Nicaea.
Then you jump to the Old Testament and the Creation myth is entirely plagiarized from the Babylonians who took it from the Akkadians who had absorbed it from the Sumerians.
There’s a lot of Jewish history packed between the genocide of the Canaanite by the Egyptian Jews and the death of Jesus, but pointing to the history as evidence of the validity of the rest is absolute madness. Bereft of research, reason and logic.
As a Christian, I appreciate how he handled it. Passionate, charming and gracious. Glad that he laid out both sides fairly. I found it really wholesome and healthy.
@@ElliottWong2024 Only one side exists and that is what can be factually proven. Some make the mistake to consider storytelling with talking snakes, and talking burning bushes as more than various stories.
@@WaylonCampbell Facts are valued and when one fails to prove claims then one walks in the land of fiction and fantasy.
I love the way Simon gives full details and carefully explains the background, then the main points and finishes witth just what a person may be considering.
Numerous times I'd be thinking as I listen and suddenly Simon would mention the point I was thinking about.....Its almost frightening........
Keep up the brilliant work. 👍
This is exactly why I love this guy. He commentates my curiosity.
The evidence is useful for Bible archaeologists but worthless as proof of a god.
Proof of a god does not require a Bible. A simple appearance would do it.
I was going to say it seemed to be lacking a lot of things. He showed the tablets but didn't show any of the supposed translations and who they were done by and then who they were verified by and how all this information was scrutinized... I actually reported this video for misinformation It's pure hearsay and anecdotal evidence...
A lot of the scientists and archaeologists on these expeditions are funded by religious groups So it makes them a lot more future funding if they just produce a narrative for said religious groups.
Actually, He has joined the ranks of many who would dissuade you from the very thing he seems to be explaining as possible.
Concerning the Red Sea crossing; He starts of very well pointing out certain details beginning @11:00 but stops short of other even more important details. Let's not forget the pillar that blocked the Egyptian army which had caught up with them. ALSO, in Exodus 14:22 we have this "And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left."
The ground was dry, not muddy, AND there was a WALL of water to either side.
No natural phenomena can do exactly that.
So, we are at a point where we must choose to accept or reject God's word.
What sort of God do you believe in? One of miracles or one that is limited to mere natural phenomena.
Here's the rub, one cannot reject the word of God and receive His Son as savior
@@JamesRichardWiley Actually, literally EVERYTHING stands as evidence. Nature, history, the cosmos, the very stars are evidence. And nothing God has made is useless in that regard.
I once did a bunch of research on plagues of Egypt and most of them can be explained through a local volcanic eruption, which according to some historic evidence, there very likely was a massive volcanic eruption near Egypt at the time.
Island of Santorini
Is there evidence the plagues occurred at all? Given that the majority of archaeological evidence does not support the Exodus narrative, including the titular exodus itself, I am suspicious.
God did what he had to in order for his will to be complete.
I saw that documentary too.
Fantastic presentation! Unbiased and informative.
I took a class in college with a biblical archaeologist who was on the team that discovered the oldest portion of the Bible. Very fascinating.
Biblical archaeologist? That's a red flag right there.
@@benjalucian1515 well there's a biblical archaeologist that studied the dead sea scrolls for 14yrs and wasn't theist. So take that with a grain of salt? It's a science niche for biblical archaeology, that's it. That's how you get information on these things.
@@benjalucian1515 yeah. It more refers to studying the events and history of the bible/near east. There's really no religious bend to it. I daresay you wouldn't think twice about an archaeologist who's specialty was The Veda.
@@hacker4chn841 - if he was making claims about the Veda and artifacts, I might
@@benjalucian1515 Why do you consider that a red flag?
Thank you for providing a non-biased approach to this topic. This was very well written to not bash any side, but just present possible evidence. You did a good job presenting this. Thank you.
Far from non-biassed. Skips all bits where there is no evidence at all for some of the major bits.
@@aled721 As the evidence he detailed shows, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Scholars who don't want to believe the Bible have been pointing and sputtering at the lack of evidence (because nobody could or was looking for it) for centuries. Not to mention he chose the smallest number possible of things to detail. Lol
@@noahlarson1861 So someone went through the desert and got rid of every piece of evidence 2m Hebrews would have left behind during a lifetime. I know that's quite the strawman, but the "absence of evidence isn't evidence for absence" phrase doesn't really work with the Exodus.
@@biedl86 What desert are you talking about? Meaning, what desert did they wander around in for 40 years?
@@noahlarson1861 Read Joshua 5:6 or Numbers 13:1-33 to understand the reasons of them staying in the desert for 40 years.
Also, your claim that nobody could or would look for evidence is not completely accurate. Historians didn't do anything but trying to confirm the Bible for a long time. They stopped, because they ran into too many dead ends. The Bible is nice to get an orientation, but it isn't as historically accurate as some want to believe.
I’ve been watching Wondrium (formerly The Great Courses) for a decade now and can’t say enough good things about their courses and lecturers! The course mentioned, “The Decisive Battles of World History” is one of my favorites in part due to Dr. Gregory Aldrete’s delivery of the material! I also recommend Dr. Dorsey Armstrong’s course, “The Black Death: The World’s Most Devastating Plague.”
That last one is really cool, especially when taken in conjunction with the fact that the plagues of Egypt were all very possible, and that some may have even necessarily preceded others.
3:00 - Chapter 1 - The mernepath stele
3:55 - Chapter 2 - The tel dan inscription
6:00 - Chapter 3 - Gates at Hazor/Gezer & Megiddo
8:00 - Chapter 4 - The moabite stone
9:55 - Chapter 5 - Parting of the red sea
Thank you cap, you can fly away now haha
Me and my time machine thank you good sir
This mans script writers are quite skilled , in many regards. It's nice to hear the proper and clever use
of the English language. Mr Whistler is a great presenter of these amazing stories, from the Bible , or otherwise. Thanks
I highly recommend “Expedition Bible” CZcams channel for anyone interested in historicity of the Bible
And Titus Kennedys archaeological books, where you have much more all documented, and regarded around the world
I'll check it out
Scholars thought the Hittite Empire was legendary because the only known references were in the Old Testament or Jewish Scripture. However, in the nineteenth century, archeologists discovered the ruins of the Hittite capital of Hattusha and thousands of cuneiform clay tablets written in the Indo-European Hittite language. Additionally, Egyptologists found hieroglyphs referencing the Hittite Empire, further corroborating its existence as a historical fact.
@@stephenlaing2152 They were discovered after the discovery of Hattusha, slick.
@@stephenlaing2152 I will believe you if you prove it - and stop calling you "Slick", Slick.
Now when did I say "It's just the Bible"? Never. Don't put words in my mouth, stud. You contradicted me. The burden is on you to prove I am wrong. So, can you do that or do you just want to assume I am a religious fanatic and make that your argument? That's only convincing to people uninterested in the facts.
@@stephenlaing2152 I will look it up. Thanks.
@@peterplotts1238 "The burden is on you to prove I am wrong." -- Peter Plotts
Really?! So the burden of proof of an assertion is not on the person making the claim, but rather on their interlocutor to prove that the assertion is wrong?
Wow! Alrighty then. I've had it backwards all this time. Thank you, Peter, for enlightening me.
I gotta say, I'm pretty excited about this because I thought I had a burden to support any claim I might make with evidence or argument. But according to you, I don't. And the reason I'm so happy about this? Well, I think you'll understand once you see my assertion:
"The Universe was created by Universe-Creating Pixies."
I suspect you can see why I'm so excited by your position on the burden of proof. The fact is, I haven't so much as a scrap of evidence in support of this claim. I just kinda feel in my bones that it's true. But according to you, that good enough. I don't need any evidence because, as you so wisely state: "The burden is on you to prove I am wrong."
I'm so looking forward, Peter, to examining your evidence demonstrating that the Universe wasn't created by Universe-Creating Pixies! Because if you can't prove it wrong, I guess I get to claim it's true!
I'll keep you eye peeled for your definitive and comprehensive response.
I love how non biased the information was presented. Beautifully done sir!
I love how you can tell someone who makes this kind of statements religious beliefs judging by the title of the video it's posted under
Before you get mad I already know you're a Christian😂
In my study of the Bible, it is a series of inspired books that are somewhat diverse in context. They have historical, symbolic, and literal significance. Most of theme contain all three aspects, but some, like in Genesis and Exodus, etc., are very literal and historical. The intent and context must be carefully considered, but most importantly, understood through a relationship with the God of the Bible through communion or prayer by faith in Him.
I was raised Christian and unlike my peers, I was always taught to look at the Bible as a history, not in the literal sense for everything but in a way of it being written by people. I'm glad there's starting to be proof of this.
As an atheist I believe something did factually happen like the great flood that’s in all the different religious bibles ( in history it most likely the end of the ice age when water rose hundreds of meters in days around 11,500 years ago ) but I don’t believe a husband his wife their sons and their wife’s were the only people to live through it.
How can you be a Christian and see the Word of God as just mere history? Im genuine curious as to that argument?
The Bible is an anthology of Hebrew literature. The collection we have was not finally gathered into one until after 70Ad when the Temple was destroyed, There was much other material that is not included,
@@johnschuh8616 I do understand that. But still as a born again Christian how do you merely view the bible as simple literature and not the inspired Word of the Living God.
In that case every book is mere history and nothing is inspired or Holy. In that case in 100 years( if humanity lasts that long) certain books will be simple collection of histories and we will all be witches and wizards with magic powers because Harry Potter..im sorry i stand by my argument the bible is more than a collection if history. It is the true living Word sharper than a double edge sword and not just history. Shalom.
@@tarim2822 I look at the Bible as sacred history, providing the soil out of which the Jewish people AND Christianity sprang. Its authority rests upon the testimony of those people who held it to be sacred. Those who did worship and do the God of Abraham. But as a Christian I believe that we only know that God through the person of Jesus. A human being like us in all ways except sin. Through the Bible we come to know him and the nature of humanity as God wills us to be.
Some other really interesting artifacts that you might like to look up:
1. Nazareth Inscription
2. Book of Balaam
3. Egyptian seals of Jacob
4. Cursed tablet on mount Ebal
5. Tel-Jericho
6. Shroud of Turin
7. Sennacharib Stele
8. Solomon's Pillars at the Red Sea
9. Gath inscription
10 Jerubaal inscription
I would add Mara bar Serapion’s and Tacitus’ mentions of Jesus
@@DANtheMANofSIPA mara bar serepion is one I haven't heard of
@@andrewthomas4636 Its one of my favorite New Testament era artefacts. Ive heard some discredit it as not contemporary enough to Jesus or as not referring to Jesus at all but I find it as a quite compelling evidence that even as close as the late first century (probably shortly before The Gospel Of John was written), even Pagans knew Jesus to be a historical figure whom was a wise teacher at the very least. Its one of the earliest non Christian references to Jesus since Josephus and the Talmud cant be trusted to be accurate.
Also in terms of Christian writings, you cant find better than Polycarps letter to the Phillipians. Its written around 108 AD and references almost every letter written by Paul, 1 John, 1 Peter and The Gospel Of Matthew. Polycarp was a student of St John. Clement of Rome was a student of Polycarp and in 96 AD Clement wrote about the trinity. The Didache in ~70 AD wrote about it and Jesus divinity as well. All this to say not only was Jesus believed to be a real person, but Jesus’s divinity probably was a widespread belief among Christian Gentiles and Christian Jews as early as the late first century.
@@DANtheMANofSIPA I have read all of these other works that you mentioned.
I understand why we can't use the Midrash or Talmud, but why do you think we can't use Josephus?
@@andrewthomas4636 good question!
I usually laugh alongside you with your quips about topics like this since you're not disrespectful of others' beliefs, and everyone is entitled to their beliefs, but I do appreciate you being serious Simon in this video. In my case, I believe people can both be men and women of science and simultaneously of religion, as hard as that is for a lot of people to digest. Again, thanks for being respectful in this video and thank you for all the hard work you put into your many channels in general.
It depends on the specifics of what you mean by religion.
He has openly made fun of at least one religion in a previous video. That was a few years ago at this point, so perhaps his stance has changed somewhat.
@@ReddFoxx1562 My father is a devout Catholic - he is also a research scientist.
I used to work in a medical research organisation (I'm an accountant, I used to help apply for and administer research funding - so I'm NOT a scientist myself) - I knew many of the researchers were religious - we had a prayer room near the labs on the request of some of them. We had Christians (of many denominations), Muslims, Hindus, Jews....
None of them were radical or extremists, they were all open minded and relaxed about other people's faith or lack thereof.
Belief in science and faith are not mutually exclusive.
I asked my father once how he reconciled his faith and his science. He said that science reveals more fully the wonders of the world - the depth of God's creation.
@@raylouis7013 that's why I said it depends on what you mean by the word religion. If people take it as allegory and parable in don't have the idea of a perfect all-powerful all-knowing God then sure that can work with other fields. But if someone believes in an omnipotent creator of that nature then there is always going to be some conflicting situation when dealing with the real world.
Lol no, religion says "this happened cuz of magic sky wizard" science says the opposite. You're either delusional and in a cult or you're a rational adult.
Been looking for simon ever aince he left biographics. So glad i stumbled upon this. Instant subscribe
As an agnostic, THIS is the kind of proof that pushes me towards theism
Does that make sense?
@@jeebeeheebee it's definitely more convincing than "you just have to have faith" or "it's true because the Bible says so" or "I can't explain this, therefore it's God's work"
@@AdrianCuyubambaDiazbut faith literally is belief without logical proof that’s why they call it faith.
@@fxbeliever123 I know, but that won't convince anyone who hasn't been properly indoctrinated
Of course the bible is loosely historical, all ancient *myth* books are since the imagination has it’s limits - but none of this proves God, magic, giants, demons, etc... ya know, the real reasons people still care about any of it. Without the magical stuff it could be just any other old book, of which it isn’t even the oldest. Personally I think it’s dangerous to view Jews as magical. If Christians didn’t worship Jews we probably wouldn’t have war in the Middle East right now (let’s not forget that Muslims are waiting for *Jewish* Jesus to return too). It’s all just psychological warfare, controlling enemy populations with mere stories.... more efficient and convenient than whips, chains and bombs.
So many were missed out a part 2 must surely be coming
It's going to be on Simon's new channel Bible Blaze
"Am I RIGHT, Saint Peter?!" 😉😁
Part 2 should be the contradictory archeological and literary evidence to the accuracy of the Hebrew and Christian bibles/canons.
Can we mention the fact that Simon hosts 12 sperate channels and uploads consistently on all of them.
Of course you can, why wouldn't you do so?
Yeah because the paycheck is good. And who’s we. You mentioned it. You. There is no we
Other people: I'm a CZcamsr
Simon: I am CZcams
@@MrShanester117 calm down MrShanester117, it was just an observation. No need to get angry
What are the other 11?
As a Christian and Historian, this was a great video. Learning actual history and thinking critically caused me to pull away from the church and organized religion as a whole. Just because, the more i studied, the more I saw what was appropriated and what could not possibly have happened. I never lost my faith in god, just in the church. But as you stated, every legend or myth (religion included) comes from some nugget of truth. Something Ive always found fascinating
Jesus looks a man right in the eye, and told him he would be back "before the last of this generation" has passed away.
If Jesus is real, he had to have come back 2,000 years ago.
Otherwise Jesus told a lie, and that's not possible.
The problem isn't organized religion. The problem is the bible is just made up stories. The fact that they used some actual historical events, doesn't help make the rest of it true. The bible also gets quite a bit of known history wrong as well.
that ain't it borda
I think the god of the old testament was not the one true god
@@marknavarro953 he is the God we worship but we are under a new covenant,
The reason why we don't relate to the old testament much is because it's a different culture.
So the creation of the world was possible but you try to limit God to just that? Come on now. creation has a creator and if Jesus is that powerful to create a universe but you limit him. that is kinda sad bro. We are going to stand and be judged. Once you cross over and see him. It will be to late.have you ever had a nightmare and woke up and we're so happy it was just a dream. Now imagine never waking up from that dream ever except it's not a dream.
People debate whether Jesus existed when Josephus, Pliny and Tacitus confirm it, but nobody debates if Pilate existed with fewer references.
None were contemporaneous with the reported Jesus.
@@seanbrady6731Niether were any with Julius Caesar’s 😂, who’s dates 150 years later before any of his.
Thank you Simon for a video well done. I am a believer in The Lord and remember you saying you don't really believe.
But you approached the material in a very professional manner that I found refreshing.
@@stephenlaing2152 , let's clarify what the OP said... he uses the phrase "The Lord".
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This is using "lord" in place of a proper nouns, so of course it would be capitalized, but it is also using the entire phase "the Lord" in the same sense that any Christian or Jewish person would understand it as noted in Deuteronomy 6:4: "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord"
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Christians say "the Lord our God" all the time. However, the fact that James didn't state it that way isn't arrogance; it's just one different way to use God's title as his name. "Lord" by itself is an English translation of the Hebrew word "Adonai" which means "Lord who is above all other lords." So if I believe in and wish to address God as "the Lord who is above all other lords" then the most accurate way to address him is "The Lord" (Adonai).
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I would also point out that James was complimentary of Simon's video, which shows his good will. Are you likewise showing good will?
@@stephenlaing2152 I'm sorry you're bitter about this
the Nazareth Inscription, the Book of Balaam, the Egyptian seals of Jacob, the Cursed tablet on mount Ebal, Tel-Jericho, the Shroud of Turin, the Sennacharib Stele, Solomon's Pillars at the Red Sea, the Gath inscription, or the Jerubaal inscription not to mention the golden chariot wheels found dating back to the parting of the red sea, the giants bones found or the walls of jericho all of these things are archaeological evidence which cant be refuted now wheather u want to believe or not is up to you but even atheists believe in god they know he exists but they just choose not to believe have a good life sir ill be praying that you get saved one day :)
@@sidwhiting665 Thank you :)
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John 14:6-7 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
1 Timothy 1:12-17 I thank him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful, appointing me to his service, though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief, and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life. To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
I've been hoping for this video for over a year! Love it.
Great video! Interesting topic, thorough, concise, don’t feel like I’m being lectured by a self serious ‘academic’. Liked and subscribed!
Subscribed! Great work
As a assistant Pastor in Cardiff, I found this very interesting indeed. Expected to see the Dead Sea Scrolls on this list, tbh glad I didn’t as it introduced me to other things. Love the Megaprojects, Sideprojects & Warographics Channels, please keep going.
Lol what a waste of time
@@godlygamer911 Look kids we located an angry atheist lurking in a comment section. This is their natural habitat. Please be quiet so that we do not scare it away.
@@perceivedvelocity9914 lol look kids we located a delusional cultists making a fool of himself like always and incorrectly inferring tone as is common place with room temp IQs
@@perceivedvelocity9914 it's not really "angry atheism", I'm sure you've seen online people going to great, exhaustive lengths to prove someone they've never met wrong, so much so that this propensity can be leveraged with cunninghams law... Which is hilarious, you should try it on any social media platform of your choosing.
Religion, having no provable points at all, and just like me saying pixies are real can't be satisfactorily proven wrong, you get: "just another person online arguing their point and being insulting about it because they've had no resolution".
For most, it takes a bit of time to realise that there's not much point in arguing as there is no resolution, it doesn't matter that religion flies in the face of all established reason or logic, and for many they never realise that.
Tl;dr: "angry atheists" are people arguing against a topic that has no experiment to prove - just like everyone else who argues dumb shit online.
I'd recommend Isaac Asimovs guide to the bible.
I am so pleased about your research on the Red Sea/Moses/Exodus!! Being born into a Southern Baptist military family, the Bible’s events have been ingrained in memory since early childhood. My Sunday school teacher actually explained the exact passage as you did. Saying it didn’t part like magic, but was a product of intense weather (which we were taught was divine intervention.)!! It is rarely clarified by using the actual scriptures!!
I am not religious, but my knowledge of scripture remains. However it continues to fascinate me as more evidence is found to corroborate the stories.
You should do one on Sodom and
Gommorrah. Dr. Z. Hawass thinks he found the actual ancient cities in Iraq!
Intense guided and focused winds... there's the mechanism of how it happened and then there's the agency, who did it...two different categories of explanation: You could have the workings of internal combustion for the automobile and/or Henry Ford.
Why would he think that Sodom would be in Iraq.
Until they find kangaroo and bison skeletons near Mt Ararat I’ll still be a skeptic. 🤷🏼♂️
You have Zero critical thinking skills
@@CorePathwaywhy would there be kangaroo skeletons near mount Ararat?
For those who have ever had to push wheelbarrows through fresh mud, I can promise you that chariots would NOT have tried to chase people through silt only a few hours free of the ocean.
Those chariots dumb enough to do so would not only have been stuck long enough for the waters to cover them back up, but honestly would be stuck there for near forever without a great deal of manpower and planks to pull it out of the mud.
The bible says the ground was "dry." Go read it!
Not to mention instead of needing a phenomena of a disappearing sea all it really needs is a shift in tides, tides goes out and exposes land, by the morning the tide comes back and recovers it.
IF we go the Moses route then he was a clever sod and brought his followers to a miracle site where he knew the water would part and they would see the 'miracle' of God and his enemies getting the view as well confirming these people were blessed and the chosen people.
For anyone who is interested, you should see The Exodus Decoded. A documentary by Simcha Jacobovici and James Cameron that goes in depth to discover evidence for the Exodus as well as how the eruption of Thera/Santorini in 1600 BCE may have been the source of the plagues.
And this is what you call quality content. Big salute Simon!
Dude what a cool presentation. I find myself questioning and doubting the bible allot lately but I don't hate it like so many others. This particular point of view seems sincere. That includes the scepticism and confirmation alike. Hands down one of the best presentation on the bible I have ever seen. Thank you for this information my friend you have given me much to think on.
Study the Word of God! Read John. Call upon the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be SAVED! Get a king james bible and believe. We love HIM because HE first loved us!
Don’t let anyone make you feel bad for trying to find your own truth. I use to be a Christian as a child, but actually grew to love the spiritual beliefs of my own ancestors (Thor, Freyr, etc). Mostly it started when I explored the origin of western holidays and even the days do the week.
@@Vandelberger You live in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ 2022 by a 7 day week as written. It is not 7 days because of the rotation of the earth or revolution around the sun. They have no reason it would be 7 days to begin with. The jews DID not evangelize. All is as written.
@@MichaelAChristian1 No, the 7 days are named after the old Saxon/ Germanic gods, but with Saturn (Saturday) and the Moon on Monday added later. Tuesday is for Tyr, Wednesday is Wodan, Thursday is named after Thor and Freyr for Friday. The seven days of the week did not always exist and don’t pretend they did.
@@Vandelberger Yes they did. Are you saying they didn't have WEEKS before then? Go ahead and say that so everyone can see your lies. Read Genesis. There is NO physical reason for 7 days except Genesis.
"And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good." Genesis chapter 1 verses 14 to 18.
Before the TELESCOPE existed the bible told you what the calendars would use. Then we see it was FORETOLD that He would come preach the ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF OUR LORD! In HIS name the gentiles trust.
"Monday lundi Moon
Tuesday mardi Mars
Wednesday mercredi Mercury
Thursday jeudi Jupiter
Friday vendredi Venus
Saturday samedi Saturn
Sunday dimanche (Sun)"
Again they HAVE NO reason it should even BE 7 days. Nor for how so many could FAIL to try to change it. They are lying to you. Jesus Christ is the ONLY SAVIOUR! Call upon the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be SAVED! We LOVE HIM BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US!
Looking forward to your future video, where I hope you'll cover the ongoing discovery of Feb 2023 Mt Ebal Curse Tablet, (concerning Moses and Joshua mythology) (discovered in 2021) and going through the academic peer review publishing process this year)
Well done Simon.I am a Christian but I love biblical archaeology as well. There such a vast array of physical items and discoveries that are continually being found that match up with biblical text.
No there isn't, quite the opposite in fact!
it is quite the opposite, modern archeology is showing how inaccurate stories in the Bible were......including whole towns not yet existing in the time claimed by the Bible..sorry mate...
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Neandar Valley is neanderthals, hence name! Where the first was found, if you go there you can see practically complete skeletons and you can un other museums.
Chronology is massively important to understanding history.
Like your hun thing, only 35/40 thousand years out from neanderthals and huns, pluss we know how huns shaped skulls and neanderthals have no marks.
If you get the time wrong the story is wrong, wrong kings etc.
There's a prophecy about nebuchadnezzar sacking a island town, raising it to the ground and no one will live there again, only remains for fisherman to catch net's on.
Nebuchadnezzar is dead never went, the island is still there, you can see it in Google maps and people have always been there.
This prophecy can never come true!
But then non ever have!
@@davidmcpott1924
Evolution has been proven, we gave fossil records for multiple animals non more so than the horse.
But also a practically complete human fossil record with no missing links.
And other human remains.
Evolution has been observed in nature and lab's and never stops and all life is transitional including you.
Without a single fossil dna nails common ancestry even showing when certain mutations happen and species change.
Evolution is the corner stone of modern biology and underpins our whole understanding of modern.
It's backed and proven by all fields of science.
The evidence is overwhelming and it's been proven since the 1870s.
Like what?
Another great installment of the Simonverse. Keep them coming!
I appreciate the respect you showed for scripture here even as someone who takes a skeptical view of its recorded events. Thanks for this video!
I respect the skeptical attitude while maintaining arguments and counter arguments based in scientific facts. Posing these questions and seeking for legitimate answers is the only way to come to the truth of what this world is as well as revealing our true past history.
I appreciate how fair and respectful he is about his explanations. The Bible, religious or not, is just a huge collection of records with more integrity than people like to give it credit for.
I Know Right. Too many CZcams Atheists claim that it's all made up out of whole cloth like the book of mormon. People who make claims like that are not just wrong they are arrogantly and stupidly incorrect
@Yummy Spaghetti Noodles I'm also Christian ya dingus.
@Yummy Spaghetti Noodles Still not good enough. You need to know the holy spirit. That's what makes up the remnant. Daily lessons from God - verified prophet Julie Green on Rumble. Also includes daily predictions of future news via keywords.
The Bible was always treated as a historically accurate account until the middle of the 20th century. Then archaeologists started digging without looking at the Bible first. Since then the Bible is loosing credence all over the place. The fields of Archaeologists and Historians have changed drastically in the last century, due to humanity becoming more and more secular and advanced in producing reliable methodologies for looking at history. The need to find Bible confirming evidences dropped significantly. Today we follow the evidence, instead of searching for the evidence which could potentially confirm what's written in this bronze age book.
@@biedl86 This had nothing to do with my comment.
On the last part about the parting of the sea, it's interesting because during Hurricane Ian recently, there were areas along the Gulf Coast of Florida where the water receded significantly because of the hurricane, which could certainly be an explanation for strong winds - a hurricane/typhoon or something hurricane-like could explain it, depending on how close the location is to an ocean.
Check Wyatt Archeology for definition and proof of what took place
@@mikepotter6426
Check reality for evidence that Ron Whyatt was full of it. As usual.
Take a look at photos of the alleged chariot wheels. They are clearly ship wheels. None of the late Ron Whyatt's claims stand up to scrutiny. Not a surprise since he had zero training in archaeology.
@@mikepotter6426 Ah the late and never great Ron "the liar" Wyatt...
1. He wasn't any kind of qualified expert in the field
2. He wasn't EVER licensed by the Egyptian authorities to carry out any excavations in their country, EVER
3. He was a Grade A BS merchant.
Take his "proof of the story of Noah", where he claimed he had found the Ark, because there's a hanging valley on a mountain in Turkey, that sort of looks like a HUGE boat sat there, if you squint, and then claimed that he proved such a boat HAD been there, by finding NO evidence of an Ark that was the wrong size, and made of iron instead of wood...
Then there's his Red Sea BS... photos of a coral formation which he claimed was a chariot axle and wheel covered on coral, which was "digitally enhanced" for clarity, the enhancement being him drawing an oval in brown pixels where he wanted you to "see a wheel".
Then there was his "photo of a gold covered chariot wheel half buried in the sand" which he claimed he couldn't recover as "it was too fragile to move".
Quite apart from the item bearing NO resemblance to a n 18th/19th Dynasty chariot wheel, and looking suspiciously like a cast brass valve control wheel from a large pipe valve, if it HAD been gold foil over rotten wood, it wouldn't have withstood the current enough to be photographed intact.
Add in his BS claim that "gold left on the sea bed for 3000 years would still be shiny because coral wont grow on it", try telling that to anyone who ever recovered a 300 year old coin from the warm waters of the Caribbean... The term "Marine Accretion" will be used when mocking you and Ron Wyatt.
Lastly, there was his claim that there was a sandbar, within 4 feet of the surface , running right across the Red Sea, that somehow remained undetected by all the heavy maritime traffic passing over it.
And then he claimed that said sandbar was NOT marked on US Maritime charts because the USS Govt. had been infiltrated by Bible hating Atheists, but that it was clearly marked on Royal Navy charts, because Britain's Queen is head of the Church of England, and therefore Britain was a "Christian Country" where Atheists hadn't taken over.
That was especially funny as at the time, the percentage of godless in the UK was more than THREE TIMES HIGHER than in America, and the Church had NO governmental authority whatsoever.
And... The mythical sandbar wasn't shown on RN charts anyway, Ron "The LIAR" Wyatt just assumed his target "Southern Redneck" audience would NEVER travel to the UK and visit a public reference library with maritime charts, and see for them selves what a lying sack of crap he was.
B.C. The waters could possibly be pusherd back by strong winds but PARTED ? Not likely
@Mel Dummar
Why no?
I mean besides the story mostly being just a story.
Moses
'Yes I was born a poor black ... PRINCE, yes, I was a born a prince.'
'You were circumcised so we KNOW you weren't a prince'
'Why that was a um was I was born a Jew and mom put me in a box on the river and I was raised AS a Prince by a PRINCESS.' Yeah that is what really happened'
Well OK then that makes it all so much better. What was it like growing up as a Prince who was circumcised?
wow, thank you awesome info especially with the red sea!
Forgot to mention the chariots found under water. That was interesting to see as well.
On the same note we need a video about epics like the Iliad and the Odyssey having portions proven true. For example it is believed that the Trojan horse has now been found. With a bronze plate inscribed with the same words as homers works.
Lol amazing as Homer wrote it centuries after the event occurred js lol at plate in other words.
I would tend to take the epics as being fairly historical though the myths of "gods" are a little more difficult to follow as their reported ordering does not make sense , so is either myth, or set even further back in time but I dont think there is evidence as such, but obviously inference - such as Atlas holding the world on his shoulders vs Bible Translations definately putting the earth suspended in space vs Bible Translations of things in " The Heavens" - Indeed Genesis 1 is titled "When The Lord Did The Heavens and The Earth" (and is reasonably scientific in its ordering as we see now back to the birth of stars and matter and gas - no one in the future if we lose the science through our own self destruction would belive what we can see and report now - we dont write much on stone trusting silcon digits and rottable paper
@@terryarmbruster9719 yeah on both ends its incredible. Like Homer was almost as far away from that conflict as he was from the modern day. Yet he still got it right down to the words inscribed on the plaque
@@terryarmbruster9719 Many believe Homer wasn't an actual person though and just a representative name given to storytellers. So it could be that the name was birthed at the actual battle of troy.
Simon did a Geographics video on Troy.
This is a pretty cool video. Now I want more parts to it as there are a LOT of other discoveries like these that proves parts and people. Also some of these on other major religions would be neat too
Troy is a good example. Great idea!
All History is fascinating, thank you for this
Another interesting thing about the Merneptah stele is the hieroglyph used to identify Israel. There are four regions within Canaan that the stele describes victory over, Asqaluni, Gezer, Yanoam, and Israel. The first three are described as city states, while Israel is described not as a government or a city, but as a foreign people with a distinct cultural identity. The time period of the Merneptah Stele correlates to the period of the book of Judges, where a common motif throughout the book is "In those days Israel had no King."
One of the problems with the parting of the red sea is the simple fact that there isnt any evidence that we know of that indicates the israelites were ever in egypt.
There is some evidence but as you would expect from the situation, very few written records exist compared with some other books. Egypt at the time certainly would not have written down anything about it.
I've always found historical texts as incredibly fascinating views into the past. For example the story of Adam and Eve takes place near the intersection of 4 rivers (which did exist) during the Ice Age in the middle east. And the story details people who lived off the land and were punished by being kicked out of a fruitful area and their descendants forced to farm.
Makes you wonder how old this story really is, and if it's not actually ~10k+ year old oral story detailing the transition from hunter gather to agriculture.
And before anyone says that's too old, we know from studies of aboriginal folklore that oral traditions absolutely can and have survived for over 10K years.
In addition, ancient ME societies would've likely been costal in regions that are long since under water since the end of the ice age.
Coastal waters rising during the melt could certainly be an explanation for why so many ancient societies have flood myths
Also adding to your point, the great flood. There is a likely candidate for this incident, that could fit this timeline, and that is the creation of the black sea. One of the largest and fastest flooding events in human history, with the water levels estimated to have risen by several meters per day.
A believer don't need proof. The seeker needs something to believe in.
I was watching a documentary about the parting of the red sea. And they noted, found and shown Egyptian style chariots in the specified location.
Have you wondered what happened to this ground breaking discovery? Pretty sure that documentary was a lie. (Not saying you made it up, but the documentry was a lie).
There was a joke story published in 2014 that this happened.
@gareth6326 Yes, I've seen those articles. Of course, there will always be those who try and prove against it. I haven't seen an article who actually provides evidence against it and rely on mere opinion. So, it's up to the individual to choose what they consider fact or fiction. Those who seek to disprove the claim have the burden of proof and as I said their proof has been based on "well no they didn't," Or "it's not there."
@@benholmgren8138 That is not how burden of proof works at all. In the slightest.
I love how the small clip of Jesus and his hollowers is actually from Monty Python's Life of Brian lol. I love Simons editors. Legends
Fascinating subject matter, you did a good job presenting the facts. Here is a like and comment to help your channel grow and get you the recognition you deserve.
In regards to Moses, if there was a time delay of several hours, then the first part of the pharaos army might have tried to cross a visible land bridge. I would expect the spearhead to be light cavalery and chariots. The former could have been defended against with spears using a medium sized troup set at the back of moses treck to fend of the egyptians. The chariots however may have gotten stuck in the mud like its 1942 Russia.
But I would suspect the chariots still trying to pursuit, because they may have been able to see their own forces engaging. But the more get stuck the wider the formation gets as they have ti bypass others stuck in the mud. And obviously this is severly exhausting and some foot soldiers may be forced to help, too. In this case the whole thing could have taken several hours and once the water came back, it would have been utterly chaotic and frightening. They would have been forced to abandone their extremely expensive yet stuck chariots, free the horses from the chariots and get back, while exhausted, possibly in panic and wearing heavy gear. On top of that there was probably a current dragging them sideways. These currents are really good at digging your feet into sand in shallow waters.
Combining this it could be somewhat factual after all. Maybe not high human losses, but certainly a lot of chariots, which were the elite forces, so definitely a significant defeat.
I wonder whether anything could still be found there...
This is speculation of course, but I cant help but think of amphibious ww2 operations and just how difficult they were.
There is a very specific strip of land in the Red Sea where it is only possible to cross because the rest of the Red Sea is very very deep, it’s basically a vast series of giant walls, impossible to cross even if the water left. At this one strip of land linking up to Saudi Arabia, divers have found Roman chariots at the bottom and no sign ship wrecks.
5 billion bibles printed.
3 billion of them in hotel drawers
Great channel and very interesting video. I watched a documentary some time back about a diving team equipped with underwater camera equipment exploring the bottom of the Red Sea. They found hundreds of coral formations shaped like chariot wheels and chassis. It was very thought provoking.
Do you remember the name of the documentary?
There was a place in the northern portions of the red sea where there was a natural shelf shallower than the rest of the sea floor and on this part of the sea floor they found the remains of roman chariot wheels and stone pillars on opposite banks of the sea.
Do you have the guts to do the complementary video - archeological finds that disprove elements of the Bible?
. Is it impossible to ask a question without insulting his integrity at the same time. How hard is it to be civil
@@PeepersonCreedo What an odd response. Perhaps re-read and re-think.
@@StamfordBridge why are you asking him if he has the guts to do something
@@PeepersonCreedo The question was not a snarky attack. The question was a straightforward, sincere query. As someone interested in ancient history, I greatly enjoy a piece like this that explores archeological finds that corroborate history as represented in the Bible. Yet as anyone with a cursory acquaintance of real, academic research and archeology into Antiquity of the Middle East would know, there is at least an equal amount of research that conflicts with biblical historical accounts. Yet this entire area is never explored in material made for popular American consumption, and it seem evident to me that the reason for this is a kind of fear. A huge percentage of the general public interested in biblical history doesn’t seem to really want to think and learn too much. They just want enough carefully curated history to confirm their preconceived beliefs. This “confirmation” material you’ll find over and over in the sphere of pop culture, but outside of academia you’ll never see creators with the guts to give the other “half” of the historical picture. I was asking this creator if they were ready to take that step and do the other half. Not an insult, a real question.
@@StamfordBridge i interpreted Your statement of asking him if he had the “guts” to do so, implying that you think he doesn’t. something similar to that as asking him if he has the spine to make that style of video. I apologize if I misunderstood your intentions when you made your statement. I can see how I may have taken the word out of context
Glad you mentioned the Moabite stone. Would have loved to see the Cyrus cylinder and the prophecy regarding him by name written in Isaiah 200 years before his birth, it is extremely intriguing.
About that, while some have used the Cyrus Cylinder as proof that Cyrus allowed the Jews to return, the mainstream view is that Cyrus was simply continuing a long tradition started by Mesopotamian Kings whereby a new king would promise certain reforms to be done once he ascended the throne. The cylinder does not even mention Jews and Judea and only mentions Mesopotamian sanctuaries being rebuilt. As for the Isaiah prophecy, most Biblical scholars believe that the Book of Isaiah was actually composed in three parts. Part 1 consists of chapters 1-39 and were likely written by the Real Isaiah. Part 2 consists of chapters 40-55 and was most likely written by a follower of the real Isaiah who lived during the Babylonian Exile. And Part 3 consists of chapters 56-66 and was mostly written by another follower of the Real Isaiah who lived after the Babylonian exile.
@@ethanjacobrosca7833 the “second Isaiah” theory was proven wrong by the Dead Sea scrolls containing chapters 39 & 40 on the same scroll, which; the theory suggested was the separation of the “first” Isaiah and “second” Isaiah. I may have been wrong about the cylinder containing Cyrus’ naming the Jews but his freeing them and funding the temple rebuilding is undeniable. The temple cost in today would be billions, I would like an explanation for that, the releasing of the Jewish captives is one thing, but what inclined Cyrus to fund a massive project to the temple of a god he didn’t worship? He was shown the fully finished scrolls of Isaiah, which Josephus confirmed, which intrigued him so much he couldn’t deny the true God and acknowledged that it was His will to set them free and He (YHWH) was simply using Cyrus. I would like your opinion of the book of Daniel prophecy about the leader of Greece and how after he fell it would be divided into 4, which as history confirms was an accurate description of Alexander the Great, his conquest and his kingdom being divided by his 4 generals after his death. This was fulfilled in the fullest and it was written over 150 years before Alexander, they also believe that the reason Alexander didn’t sack Jerusalem was because he was shown the prophecy about him and his Greek empire and was extremely impressed. Was there a “second” Daniel? The main stream opinions of secular scholars though at the time and perhaps for a time may appear to be accurate but through archaeology the Bible has been proven over and over to be accurate. For instance; there was scholarly skepticism about the existence of king Sennacherib and his father king Sargon II among others for at the time there was no archaeological proof that they existed but overtime clear evidence of their undeniable existence was uncovered and it is now not even debated. The main stream has a narrative against the morals of the Bible which gets in the way of their cause and ways of doing things which has changed over the years but the Bible still gets in the way and there’s a threat to the main stream wether it be Christendom oppressing people and hiding the truth of the Bible which would expose their vile actions or people who think it is restrictive towards their sexual freedom. Therefore there are scholars who are day and night not only trying to prove the Bible wrong for the apparent benefit of the progression of mankind but to also make a name for themselves.
@@imissyoumom7644 I do not deny that Cyrus the Great was indeed committed to allowing the Jews to return home and funding the rebuilding of their temple, even if such is not mentioned in the Cyrus Cylinder. As for the Book of Daniel, most scholars has agreed that it was composed during the Greek period when Judea was under Seleucid Rule shortly before the Hasmonean Revolt and it was likely written in order to tell the Jews to remain faithful to God even under the oppressive policies of Antiochus IV due to the fact that while some of its information may be historically accurate, it has some discrepancies when it comes to chronology. As for your mention of a "second Daniel" it turns out that the Jewish and Christian Books of Daniel actually have one major difference: the Christian Book of Daniel is actually longer since it contains the following additions: the Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three Children as well as the stories of Susanna and the Elders and Bel and the Dragon. While these additions are present in the Septuagint version of Daniel, the Dead Sea Scrolls do not even contain those additions. As for your concern about the "Second Isaiah theory", keep in mind that the Dead Sea Scrolls date to between 200 BC to the first century AD, well after the 5th century BC (which is the time when most scholars believe the Book of Isaiah reached its final form).
@@ethanjacobrosca7833 there is a reason that the addition to Daniel and the extension to the holy scriptures are always listed separate from the Bible usually in the form of; “with apocrypha”. The apocrypha may be attached to the same physical bindings that contain the scriptures in some bibles but compared to the rest of the scriptures it is clear that those additions are clearly NOT inspired and serve no purpose in recording the progression of the seed of the messiah through the nation of Israel and God’s dealings with his people. The same is with the Quran and the Book of Mormon. And the Second Isaiah prophecy is not “mine” it was a secular theory titled as such. And the prophecy about Alexander the Great was recorded in Daniel chapter 8, which no one debates it’s canonicity and has never been considered part of the apocrypha.
@@ethanjacobrosca7833 I said my last two messages over voice text so I fixed the grammatical errors. It didn’t make much sense.
Great work Simon! love your videos. I thought I read or heard somewhere that there were chariot parts/pieces found at the bottom of the Red Sea... Anyhow, I would think that even if that were the case has anyone looked at the bottom of Lake Take Tanis? Anyhow, great informative video as always! Keep up the fantastic work, Simon!
I saw that online too. I looked it up and it's sadly fake
The wood from the chariots, and any iron would definitely have degraded completely by now. Any bronze maybe (REALLY big maybe) could have survived if it was buried just right but even that is doubtful
Bronze corrodes in salt water. There wouldnt be anything left after just a few years.
@@mikeborsum8881 Not true. Look up Dover's Bronze Age Boat. Hundreds of bronze axe heads have been recovered that are a few thousand years old from Langdon Bay, near Dover. I've sat in the actual boat too!
The person who “discovered” the chariot wheels is Ron Wyatt. He isn’t an archaeologist, or even a scientist, he is a anaesthesiologist. He is considered by all archaeologists, including the national archaeology office of israel, as a liar and absolutely false. The “wheels” he found, were algae in the shape of a wheel, and marine biologists have said it is completely natural shape.
The existence of New York proves SpiderMan.
Dude Jesus is the most historically recorded person in history it’s not fiction 🤦🏻♂️
Dude. That's a lue you've been fed. No attestations if Jesus exist until the 50s CE, 20 or more years after his alleged death.
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Thank you!!! People don't realize the mistranslation of the red sea from Torah and the sea of reeds. Respect my friend and thank you so much for doing actual research.
Excellent episode absolutely fascinating from multiple perspectives. Would love more on this.
I once saw a documentary which explained how the ten plagues could be natural phenomena and possibly resulting from the exploding of a distant supervolcano. Sounds far fetched but once explained in detail it seemed perfectly plausible
They might be able to explain WHAT happened, but they’ll never be able to explain HOW.
That’s the mystery .the SUPERnatural part of it
I mean…people have been making up stories to explain things that happened all the time and people still do that haha
Why did we have a drought and sickness for like 10 years? Let’s make a story about it and it’s in the bible now probably been through different forms until it made it to paper but still.
Look at the epic of Gilgamesh the flood story is practically a copy and paste of Noah and the Ark of the bible.
Red sea: Yam Suph = sea of reeds. Weird thing is all translations into English still have 'red'. There are a few other examples of wrong translations persisting across translations
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I remember reading some years ago that it was following the eruption of Thera (modern day Santorini) approximately 3,600 years ago caused a massive tsunami, which could have caused the Sea of Reeds to withdraw.
Could give an honorable mention to the Mari letters that were likely written by Abraham’s father, Terrah (Terhu) governor of Ur(Urkeshdi) to the king of Mari.
Terah is the oldest Biblical figure that we have (probable) extra-Biblical confirmation of.
I just finished a course about Ancient Egypt and I was shocked how close it's intertwined with the Bible! Like Joseph the only Hebrew name on ancient seals ever discovered in ancient Egypt, more than a dozen so far. Even "Hymn to the Aten" and Psalm 104 almost identical.
Something I used to say to myself when I was young and looking to the future “never lose the wonder” glad to say I haven’t. My interests in knowledge are so varied
Lifelong learning is a joy. My family is that way. But then we got that from my maternal grandmother, who was a teacher in a one room school in the end of of the 19th and start of the 20th centuries.
My grandfather was a cowboy (cattle drover) when they met, so they prove the cliche of the handsome cowboy and pretty schoolmarm who fell in love married and raised a family.
Anyway, my grandmother pretty much taught her 7 surviving children to love learning, and they all passed that love on to their children. Many a heated discussion at Sunday dinner devolved into discussions Bent over copies of the encyclopedia to determine who was right LOL.
You might be interested in looking at a video:
Irving Finkel | The Ark Before Noah: A Great Adventure
Link: czcams.com/video/s_fkpZSnz2I/video.html
He describes what was written on a clay tablet that is in the British Royal Museum. It is a set of instructions to Noah on how to build the ark. Fascinating!
Something important to remember about Solomon and David - the Israel of their day was substantially smaller and weaker than the stories in the Bible suggest. A good comparison would be King Arthur. There may very well have been a historical figure at the root of the Arthurian legends, but the post-Roman Britain he lived in would have looked nothing like the medieval England we tend to picture him in. Similarly, most (if not all) of his supposed deeds tell us more about the people who them and next to nothing about the real Arthur.
Well said, you can question King Arthur, but not really His father Uther that was a King. There is a lot of evidence that he existed
This was really cool thanks for doing it
The Bible is a mixture of history, allegory, meme, postulation, and life lessons for the Generations yet to come
It was believed that the parting of the Red Sea was due to Moses' use of a sea saw
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In the Book of Exodus, it says like multiple times "out of Egypt" also the "point of lands end", which is clearly not the sea of reeds. Also once crossing the Israelites were then in the land of Midan. Milan is located in the now Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦. Everything that is referred to in Exodus is there. Including the mountain of Moses.
Ever see Forrest Gump? Lot of places referred to in the movie are there. So that means..?
This is why youtube stars like simon are raking over the entertainment world, genuine curiosity and honesty.
The "sea of reeds" is only a good translation if you use the egyptian language. If translated from hebrew, it will say red sea, and is further evidenced by the same word being used to locate the sea at which Salomon had his fleet of ships, at the location of modern day Eilat. Further, if you go diving off the Nuweiba beach, you will find a "junk yard" the resembles broken charriots with wheels and axels still in place (coral encrusted obviously), and on that beach as well as on the Saudi side there have been descovered the Salomon pilars that were erected to mark the location of the crossing. And that particular spot is the only possible crossing site as the red sea is very deep with sudden drop off, and only at nuweiba is the slope gradual and not too deep.
And the rocks are burned in that area of the seaside.
The name "Red Sea" came from Greek (Erythra Thalassa). The Hebrew name (Yam Suph) literally translates "The Sea of Reed" (singular because it's a mass noun in Hebrew). The Hebrew text was translated into Greek in the third century BCE, and the use of the "Red Sea" is not a literal translation, but rather the belief of the translators that the two were one and the same.
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This is a very detailed study on the translation of yam suf, and what is meant with it in the context that it's used.
Thank you for highlighting the evidence for some true aspects of the Bible! If anyone wants to learn more about archeology that corroborates the Bible, I recommend looking up Titus Kennedy. He's a Christian archeologist who has written 2 books (that I know of), and also has interesting CZcams interviews, about archeological discoveries that point towards the historicity of the Bible.
you can never trust archeologist
You might be interested in looking at a video:
Irving Finkel | The Ark Before Noah: A Great Adventure
Link: czcams.com/video/s_fkpZSnz2I/video.html
He describes what was written on a clay tablet that is in the British Royal Museum. It is a set of instructions to Noah on how to build the ark. Fascinating!
@@sparky7915 you can't turst archeologist
@@ray_x6959 Graham Hancock Phil Collins and Erich von Daeniken are interesting. They think outside the box. Also, Edgar Cayce gave readings that confirm some of what these people have been saying. Edgar Cayce never knew of these people.
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The thing about the exodus is that Jews were not slaves in Egypt, they were powerful but they developed a disease that made Egyptians kick them out, after that Jews wrote the story of exodus.
Thanks for the video it was well done. Many Christian’s don’t realize that the wind blew the water back.
One recent discovery that would be great for your list is the curse tablet found on mount Ebal. It’s well worth a mention if you do future videos on biblical history.
course then there is a problem that the Israeli people were never enslaved by Egypt in the first place and if they had been they basically fled Egypt to wind up in Egypt.
@@punkwrestle do you have some sort of proof that Israel was never enslaved in Egypt?
@@stephenlaing2152 yes.
the discovery at Mt. Ebal is a compelling piece of evidence backing the biblical narrative.
What I meant earlier is if he has proof they were never in Egypt then I would be interested in hearing it. it seems we can at least see back to prior to entry to the land of Canaan in the archaeological record thanks to the MT Ebal discovery. The artifact they found could possibly be something Joshua actually touched it’s pretty cool.
@@stephenlaing2152 yes I have heard of the currencies that you have mentioned. I don’t know if the fact that they aren’t mentioned by name means there is no evidence of them. And even if there is zero evidence of them being there, it doesn’t mean they weren’t. Though, I will admit that the lack of evidence may be in itself evidence to your point.
You might be interested in looking at a video:
Irving Finkel | The Ark Before Noah: A Great Adventure
Link: czcams.com/video/s_fkpZSnz2I/video.html
He describes what was written on a clay tablet that is in the British Royal Museum. It is a set of instructions to Noah on how to build the ark. Fascinating!