
The account of the events recorded in the Book of Jonah seem to be almost an enigma, it on its own. Biblical critics love to attack the Bible through it. But when its events are analysed with respect to history, everything falls into place.
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Dr Gary Baxter holds a PhD in Organic Chemistry and has studied the Bible for over 30 years. He is a speaker, author and preacher.
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The account of the events recorded in the Book of Jonah seem to be almost an enigma, it on its own. Biblical critics love to attack the Bible through it. But when its events are analysed with respect to history, everything falls into place.
The biblical account of Jonah may seem not quite right at first, but when it is place into the correct time period everything fits nicely.
The Lachish Letters add to the large body of evidence that show that the people and places recorded in the Bible were real and that the events mentioned, actually took place.
Tests show that biological material can only last a few thousand years in our environment. Yet more and more soft tissue is being found in dinosaur era fossils. It can only mean, evolution did not happen.
The Jehovah Witnesses, Christadelphians, Mormons, Christian Science people, The Way and The Unification Church, all claim to be Christian in some regard but reject the fact that Jesus Christ is God. Are they right?
Because Daniel’s prophecies were so detailed and accurate, liberal scholars say the book must have been written no earlier than the second century BC. However, the weight of evidence is against such a proposal.
Ezekiel’s prophecies concerning Tyre have come true even in the minutest detail. Again proving the reliability of the Bible.
Jehovah Witnesses claim that Christ was crucified on a pole and not a cross. They are clearly wrong about Christ’s Lordship, are they wrong with His form of crucifixion as well?
The answer is that God controls world powers; He raises them up and He pulls them down. Jerusalem is central to God’s plan for mankind. It is from where Christ will reign during His millennium kingdom.
God’s amazing creation is all around us, this article focuses on a biological micro motor that spins at >7,000 revs and there are thousands of trillions of them in each of us.
Many people have struggled with this question, but there is only one logical answer.
The Darwinian evolution story is so fanciful that propagators have to resort to deception in order to sell it.
Most paintings of the crucified Jesus show Him wearing a loincloth, but was this true?
There is good evidence that the seal found belonged to the prophet Isaiah; it was found in the right place and in the right archaeological period. But it is broken in half and definitive assignment is impossible.
It was Christianity, with its law, individual rights, care for the needy, its institutions for learning, its basis for science and the arts, that made the West great.
Mutations, genetic copying mistakes, have powerfully confirmed the Bible, showing all humanity came from one man and one woman, the reality of the eight surviving members of the Ark and that evolution is impossible.
The evidence that exists of his reign, associates, projects and the events that occurred during his time, is very strong and it confirms the integrity of the Bible.
A typical question directed at Christians in an effort to undermine their faith. But there is an answer.
Evidence is presented based on observations, measurements and calculations which show that the our galaxy is at, or close to, the centre of the universe and is powerful evidence for creation.
An incident occurred in southern France recently, where two men lived out their religions and in doing so, left four people dead.
A faithful servant, an unknown preacher, changed the face of Victorian England with a ten minute sermon to 12-15 people, showing that God can and will use anybody or situation to bring about His purposes.
Whoever would have thought that the discovery of a toilet would have shown that the Bible is a true historic account of the events it mentions.
Antony Flew, the world’s most vocal atheist, looked at the chemistry of life, rejected atheism and announced that he believed in a God as the only possible position he could hold. It is Christianity that makes sense, not atheism.
Strong circumstantial evidence supports the assignment of Naboth’s Vineyard to one discovered in an archaeological dig. again showing the Bible to historically accurate.
God promised that once the Jews return to their promised land, He would not allow them to be “pulled up from the land.”
The return of the people to the land that God promised them 4,000 years ago, and they have been disbursed to the four corners of the world without a homeland for 1813 years, is not only a miracle but powerful evidence for the God of the Bible.
The Jews, God’s chosen people, have remained distinct from all other people for 2,700 years and they have suffered like no other. They are also the most brilliant of all people.
Jesus equates the days of Noah and Lot with His re-appearance. We now have homosexuals taking to the streets and babies from three people. The time must be getting close.
Everything was in place for the recording and proclamation of the message the Christ would give. When Jesus was born, the “time had fully come.”
Who were the people in the “Days of Noah”? Who were the “sons of God”, the “daughters of men” and who were the Nephilim? And why did God destroy them all?
Mendel experimented while Darwin theorised. Darwin was embraced and Mendel forgotten until real science showed Mendel to be correct and Darwin not.
Two important anniversaries to Christians cannot be allowed to pass by without comment.
A chronic drunkard, born into abject poverty, turned to God and produced a one-word sermon that reached over two billion people.
This, third part of the series Genesis in Ancient Chinese Culture, shows very clearly how the events of Genesis had become embedded into ancient Chinese characters and even present-day characters as well.
Evidence is presented that shows that Shang Di [上帝, the supreme God that the Chinese worshipped and sacrificed bullocks to for over 4,000 years, is the same God whom Christians worship.
Recorded Chinese culture extends back to almost the Tower of Babel. A recent archaeological find confirms the truth of Genesis chapter 3 in an amazing, powerful and completely independent way.
As the title states; the human eye is a masterpiece of design. There is no way it could have evolved and it is an insurmountable problem for evolutionists.
The statement; “In the beginning, God created the heavens and earth” is intellectually credible and the only rational explanation for the existence of the cosmos and life.
Lee Strobel was a hard-line, arrogant and astute investigative journalist with a nose for a good story, as well as being an ardent atheist. His life changed totally when his wife told him that she had become a Christian.
The Bible has been under attack virtually from the time the first documents were written. However, the Bible stands strong and here are 83 people who are mentioned in the Bible and their verification.
God gave Abraham irrevocable promises concerning his descendants including the land of Canaan . The promise of the land was repeated many times to Abraham.
Matthew Maury was born in 1806 into a family whose lives were based around the Bible. Later in life he noticed the phrase “the paths of the sea” in Psalm 8:8. Believing that the Bible was true, he went looking and consequently changed sailing forever.
The key to radiometric dating is that a radioactive isotopes normally decay at a precise rate. But there are three major problems which give inaccurate results.
A straight forward reading of the Bible will give the age of the heavens and earth of about 6,000 years. However, this is disputed and ice core dating is claimed to give a much older age for the earth.
“In that day” declares the Sovereign LORD, “I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.” Amos 9:8
The Bible tells us that Jesus was crucified at Passover. This being the case, both Jews and Christians should have the same day in common, so why are they not?
In May 1844, Constantin Tischendorf, discovered the oldest completed copy of the New Testament in the Convent of St Catherine at the foot of Mt Sinai.
Transgender politics is sweeping through western nations like a tidal wave. The idea is that gender is fluid and that the brain determines gender. But biology says differently.
We are told constantly in books, documentaries, movies and magazines that the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, so it must be true, right? Wrong; read further.
For this is what the LORD says— he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited— he says: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.
For this is what the LORD says— he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited— he says: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.
We can only imagine the wonderment of Mary as she looked into the face of God who had just come from her own body
From an Olympic competitor to a brutally treated prisoner of war, to a drunkard racked by post-war nightmares to a new life in Christ free from his tormentors; all in the remarkable life of Louis Zamperini.
Many people have been predicting the end of Christianity and the irrelevance of the Bible; Voltaire was one, but his story has an intriguing twist to it.
This cartoon, which is courtesy of Creation Ministries International, illustrates the absurdity of evolution which posits that in the beginning there was nothing and it exploded to give hydrogen which in turn produced all the heavenly bodies, our earth, water, all plant and animal life and then you and me.
He had fame and fortune, but Olympic gold medal winning machine; Micheal Phelps, contemplated suicide…
To dismiss John as historically unimportant is absurd. Now it becomes clear that the gospel of John does have reliable historical information. We have found there is such a pool, precisely as John describes it.
The existence of an ossuary was announced on October 21, 2002. What made this artifact so different from the over 10,000 that have been found, is that it contained the inscription written in ancient Aramaic; “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus.”
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The account of the events recorded in the Book of Jonah seem to be almost an enigma, it on its own. Biblical critics love to attack the Bible through it. But when its events are analysed with respect to history, everything falls into place.
The biblical account of Jonah may seem not quite right at first, but when it is place into the correct time period everything fits nicely.
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