A few weeks back I was at a Christian Education Center called Aletheia Springs. (It's similar to a camp, but not quite) One of the teachers was explaining how amazingly accurate God's Word is.

At one point, he pulled up a bunch of screenshots showing people claiming to have proved the Bible wrong. I honestly just about laughed out loud. I mean, did these people seriously think they could prove God's Word inaccurate?! 😂😂😂

Here's a few examples.

#1. The Canaanites

Scientists have claimed that the Bible is inaccurate because of recently discovering Canaanite descendents living in modern Lebanon. They picked out the verses Deuteronomy 20:16-17— 16"However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. 17Completely destroy them— the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites— as the LORD your God has commanded you."

and announced that since they'd found DNA and living descendents, then the Bible must be wrong.

And yet they failed to read on to find these next passages—

Joshua 16:10 - They did not dislodge the Canaanites living in Gezer; to this day the Canaanites live among the people of Ephraim but are required to do forced labor.

Psalm 106:34 - They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them . . .

Joshua 17:13 - However, when the Israelites grew stronger, they subjected the Canaanites to forced labor but did not drive them out completely.

Even as far on as MATTHEW 15:21-22! That reads— 21Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. 22A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, "LORD, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly."

"Region of Tyre and Sidon", it reads. Let's have a look on where that is on the map, shall we?

*snorts*

The answer was there all along, and they couldn't bother to check it up?

"Sorry to bust your news story. Next time, you better double check your facts." *cough, cough* 😎😂💕

#2. The Existence of Belshazzar

As seen in the Biblical account of Daniel 5, the king of Babylon was titled Belshazzar. But many scholars and people questioned among themselves about his existence. All the records they had of that time in history said that the king during that period of time was King Nabonidus. They were very confused, and thought the Bible had it wrong; they thought that Belshazzar had never existed.

Well, they were right about one thing. Nabonidus was king at that time.

But after a bit of research, you find that the Bible had it right once again.

Nabonidus was known to be a very absentee king. In fact, he spent ten years of his seventeen-year reign in Arabia. It was later discovered that the mysterious Belshazzar was his eldest son, discovered in a recorded prayer to a pagan moon god titled "Sîn". While Nabonidus was away, he left Belshazzar in charge of Babylon, as acting king.

This also explains verse 7 of chapter 5 in Daniel, after the writing on the wall: The king cried aloud to bring the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke, saying to the wise men of Babylon, "Whoever reads this writing, and tells me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around his neck; and he shall be the third ruler in the kingdom."

He says third ruler in the kingdom. Many probably wondered, Why not second? This is the answer: because Belshazzar himself was second, and Nabonidus was first.

"Oh, yeah. It's all comin' together." 😂

#3. The Hittites

The people titled the "Hittites" are mentioned over and over again in the Bible. But no one in modern days seemed to know anything about them. Who were these people, anyway? Did they even exist?

Well, I'd say they found just a bit of proof . . .

How about a whole empire? 😂😂😂😉😉😉

#4 How about the crazy awesome event of Jesus' resurrection from the dead?! 😃😃😃😃💕💕💕💕💕💕💕😂😻😻😻😻😻

Many people claim that it was all just a hoax. Some claim the Roman soldiers fell asleep on duty and the disciples stole His body during the night.

Have any of you seen the movie "Case for Christ"?

It explains everything perfectly, but for those who haven't watched it . . .

First off, Jesus definitely died on the cross. He didn't just faint or something and then awaken in the tomb. Do you know just how terrible and horrifying a death crucifixion was?

The victim literally had their hands and feet NAILED to the wood. Jesus was flogged before being crucified. In other words, whipped repeatedly across the back with a strap that had bones and pieces of metal attached to it.

This next article is from a wikipedia, and it's descriptions are horrifyingly accurate.

"Crucifixion was most often performed to dissuade its witnesses from perpetrating similar (usually particularly heinous) crimes. Victims were sometimes left on display after death as a warning to any other potential criminals. Crucifixion was usually intended to provide a death that was particularly slow, painful (hence the term excruciating, literally "out of crucifying"), gruesome, humiliating, and public, using whatever means were most expedient for that goal. Crucifixion methods varied considerably with location and time period.

The Greek and Latin words corresponding to "crucifixion" applied to many different forms of painful execution, including being impaled on a stake, or affixed to a tree, upright pole (a crux simplex), or (most famous now) to a combination of an upright (in Latin, stipes) and a crossbeam (in Latin, patibulum). Seneca the Younger wrote: "I see crosses there, not just of one kind but made in many different ways: some have their victims with head down to the ground; some impale their private parts; others stretch out their arms on the gibbet".

In some cases, the condemned was forced to carry the crossbeam to the place of execution. A whole cross would weigh well over 135 kg (300 lb), but the crossbeam would not be as burdensome, weighing around 45 kg (100 lb). The Roman historian Tacitus records that the city of Rome had a specific place for carrying out executions, situated outside the Esquiline Gate, and had a specific area reserved for the execution of slaves by crucifixion. Upright posts would presumably be fixed permanently in that place, and the crossbeam, with the condemned person perhaps already nailed to it, would then be attached to the post.

The person executed may have been attached to the cross by rope, though nails and other sharp materials are mentioned in a passage by the Judean historian Josephus, where he states that at the Siege of Jerusalem (70) "the soldiers out of rage and hatred, nailed those they caught, one after one way, and another after another, to the crosses, by way of jest". Objects used in the crucifixion of criminals, such as nails, were sought as amulets with perceived medicinal qualities.

While a crucifixion was an execution, it was also a humiliation, by making the condemned as vulnerable as possible. Although artists have traditionally depicted the figure on a cross with a loin cloth or a covering of the genitals, the person being crucified was usually stripped naked. Writings by Seneca the Younger state some victims suffered a stick forced upwards through their groin.

Despite its frequent use by the Romans, the horrors of crucifixion did not escape criticism by some eminent Roman orators. Cicero, for example, described crucifixion as "a most cruel and disgusting punishment", and suggested that "the very mention of the cross should be far removed not only from a Roman citizen's body, but from his mind, his eyes, his ears". Elsewhere he says, "It is a crime to bind a Roman citizen; to scourge him is a wickedness; to put him to death is almost parricide. What shall I say of crucifying him? So guilty an action cannot by any possibility be adequately expressed by any name bad enough for it."

Frequently, the legs of the person executed were broken or shattered with an iron club, an act called crurifragium, which was also frequently applied without crucifixion to slaves. This act hastened the death of the person but was also meant to deter those who observed the crucifixion from committing offenses."

Not to mention a Roman soldier stabbed Him in the side after He died, instead of breaking his legs (which fulfills scripture about the Messiah).

And do people honestly think the Romans couldn't tell when someone was dead? They'd done this so many times before, they'd become gruesome experts on it. Of course they knew it.

Okay, He was dead for sure. "What if the disciples stole His body at nighttime, while the soldiers were sleeping?"

...

You mean to tell me that you think a group of uneducated fishermen managed to sneak past the Romans' best way of guarding and sealing a stone tomb (which had a huge round stone blocking the entrance), grab a dead body, carry it out again, roll the stone back into place, and sneak off again, and the soldiers slept through it all?

Do you even know what happened if a Roman soldier was caught sleeping on duty? They were put to death. And yet they go around proclaiming that the disciples (did I mention they were a group of uneducated fishermen?) managed to steal the Teacher's body while they were SLEEPING. On duty.

And since when had a dead man been guarded?!

Plus the fact that the Jews never came up with a body?

And the fact that Jesus was seen by over five hundred eye witnesses after His death? According to a psychologist that Lee Strobal (the real person whom the movie "Case for Christ" told about his true story) asked about this topic, if that many people had had the same hallucination at the same time of Jesus, it would've been a bigger miracle than the actual resurrection.

Before he was saved, Lee Strobal also argued that all the people who saw Jesus had been His followers.

Once again, not true. Take the apostle Paul for instance. After Jesus ascended to heaven again, (Paul had never really seen Him while He was on Earth, it seems) Paul (at that time called Saul) went around persecuting Christians and dragging them off to prisons. And yet today he is remembered for being one of the most passionate believers of Jesus in history, after his amazing conversion on the road to Damascus. He saw Jesus in a vision. Many have since then as well, including in modern times. Read the book Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus to discover that. 😉

God's Word is completely true, accurate, and reliable. It has not changed a bit since the beginning of time, and neither has God.

I don't know what kind of people are reading this, but whoever you are, no matter what you've done or are doing, no matter where you are right now . . . 

JESUS LOVES YOU. HE LOVES YOU SO MUCH THAT HE LITERALLY DIED FOR YOU! HE, THE GOD OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, THE SAME GOD WHO LED THE ISRAELITES THROUGH THE WILDERNESS, THE SAME GOD DANIEL SERVED, LOVES YOU UNCONDITIONALLY MORE THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE. AND HE IS OFFERING US THIS AMAZING FREE GIFT OF ETERNAL LIFE!!! IN THE MOST AMAZING PLACE YOU'VE EVER SEEN, WITH YOUR CREATOR, WHO LOVES YOU!

ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS ACCEPT THE GIFT! ACCEPT JESUS AS YOUR PERSONAL SAVIOR, AND YOU'RE SAVED! YOU CANNOT LOSE SALVATION!!! 💕💕💕💕💕💕