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Archaeology keeps confirming the setting

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Reason 101 / 4

Luke names Pilate as governor.

1Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

Luke 3:1 (WEB) · context

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Archaeology keeps confirming the setting

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Reason 102 / 4

A stone found at Caesarea in 1961 names Pontius Pilate, prefect of Judaea.

The Pilate Stone, Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

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Archaeology keeps confirming the setting

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Reason 103 / 4

Jesus sent a blind man to wash in the Pool of Siloam.

7and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.

John 9:7 (WEB) · context

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Archaeology keeps confirming the setting

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Reason 104 / 4

The pool itself was uncovered in Jerusalem in 2004.

Excavated by Eli Shukron and Ronny Reich.

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Archaeology keeps confirming the setting

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Reason 111 / 4

The first words of the Bible.

1In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:1 (WEB) · context

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The universe had a beginning

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Reason 112 / 4

Made from what cannot be seen.

3By faith we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

Hebrews 11:3 (WEB) · context

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The universe had a beginning

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Reason 113 / 4

Cosmologists describe an expanding universe that began in a hot, dense state about 13.8 billion years ago.

Planck Collaboration, 2018 results.

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The universe had a beginning

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Reason 114 / 4

His power is seen in what He made.

20For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.

Romans 1:20 (WEB) · context

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The universe had a beginning

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Reason 121 / 3

The heavens declare the glory of God.

1The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

Psalms 19:1 (WEB) · context

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A universe tuned for life

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Reason 122 / 3

He formed the earth to be inhabited.

18For Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: “I am Yahweh. There is no other.

Isaiah 45:18 (WEB) · context

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A universe tuned for life

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Reason 123 / 3

Physicists describe the fine-tuning in detail.

See Martin Rees, Just Six Numbers (1999), and Luke Barnes and Geraint Lewis, A Fortunate Universe (2016).

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A universe tuned for life

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Reason 131 / 4

The law is written on the heart.

14(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves, 15in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

Romans 2:14-15 (WEB) · context

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Right and wrong are real

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Reason 132 / 4

What does the Lord require?

8He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Micah 6:8 (WEB) · context

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Right and wrong are real

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Reason 133 / 4

C. S. Lewis began his case for faith here.

Mere Christianity (1952), Book 1: Right and Wrong as a Clue to the Meaning of the Universe.

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Right and wrong are real

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Reason 134 / 4

And we all fall short of it.

23for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

Romans 3:23 (WEB) · context

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Right and wrong are real

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The Bible takes suffering seriously.

1How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? 2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?

Psalms 13:1-2 (WEB) · context

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If God is good, why is there so much suffering?

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God entered it Himself.

3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

Isaiah 53:3 (WEB) · context

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If God is good, why is there so much suffering?

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And promises to end it.

4He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain any more. The first things have passed away.”

Revelation 21:4 (WEB) · context

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If God is good, why is there so much suffering?

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Creation can be studied because it has a Maker.

2Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.

Psalms 111:2 (WEB) · context

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Hasn't science disproved God?

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Order in nature was expected.

25Yahweh says: “If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth,

Jeremiah 33:25 (WEB) · context

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Hasn't science disproved God?

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Read in context.

11Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Acts 17:11 (WEB) · context

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Isn't the Bible full of contradictions?

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Witnesses who agree on everything word for word are usually copying each other.

Independent accounts differ in detail. That is a mark of genuine testimony, not of invention.

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Isn't the Bible full of contradictions?

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Men spoke from God.

21For no prophecy ever came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

2 Peter 1:21 (WEB) · context

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Wasn't the Bible just written by men?

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All Scripture is God-breathed.

16Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

2 Timothy 3:16 (WEB) · context

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Wasn't the Bible just written by men?

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Be ready to give a reason.

15But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

1 Peter 3:15 (WEB) · context

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Isn't faith believing without evidence?

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Luke wrote so you would be certain.

4that you might know the certainty concerning the things in which you were instructed.

Luke 1:4 (WEB) · context

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Isn't faith believing without evidence?

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Jesus gave many proofs.

3To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking about God’s Kingdom.

Acts 1:3 (WEB) · context

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Isn't faith believing without evidence?

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Jesus made an exclusive claim.

6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

John 14:6 (WEB) · context

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Aren't all religions basically the same?

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The apostles said the same.

12There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

Acts 4:12 (WEB) · context

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Aren't all religions basically the same?

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From everlasting to everlasting.

2Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

Psalms 90:2 (WEB) · context

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Who made God?

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Before all things.

17He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

Colossians 1:17 (WEB) · context

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Who made God?

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God takes no pleasure in death.

11Tell them, ‘“As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?”’

Ezekiel 33:11 (WEB) · context

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How can a loving God judge anyone?

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Just, and the one who justifies.

26to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time, that he might himself be just and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

Romans 3:26 (WEB) · context

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How can a loving God judge anyone?

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