Is the Old Testament Historically Reliable? - Dr. Steven Collins

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The part you clicked for is at 7:00 if you were wondering. If you want to skip the rest just go there.

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saw this comment after seeing all useless seven minutes :(

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hi pastor GOD's blessing to you ; my eldest son wants to run a business please pray for him because he has no job

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Outstanding!!!

[@WorldofElsuon]

Kenneth Kitchen's comment that extremists should "get lost" is a bit off the mark. They are already lost: that's why they believe nonsense. Great presentation, by the way. Love your work!

[@Valetic6]

Wait, didn’t the pharaoh die in the read sea? Is there any evidence with the mummy that might suggest this?

[@HansFormerlyTraffer]

"Oh Israel, I give Egypt as your ransom"

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[@melvinbowen2nd]

What some examples of Bronze Age treaties outside of the Bible?

[@pscull6306]

Seems to be a lot of sacrifice of innocent animals in the old testament.

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God chose Moses because of his educational background

[@pscull6306]

So when did Adam eve happens? 4 billion years ago, 65 million years ago, 100k years ago?

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Why do you ask?

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[@efaleafine]

Nice if you posted evidence of Egypt weakening Canaan.

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[@needaman66]

Why do you need to protect the bible? Does God need humans help? An evil generation asks for a sign. Anyone who believes in the true word of God already knows the bible is true. Everyone who doesnt will not change their mind for God has blinded them.

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Its important because the quran for instance fails horribly as far as history is concerned yet has over 1 billion followers

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God doesn't ask for blind faith. He gives us good reasons

[@finalfrontier001]

@@noface5605 Quran has more historical evidence than Bible and even corrects the Bibles faults. Eygpt Quran vs Bible great topic.

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@@finalfrontier001 Oh please no.. don't start telling me about the historical and scientific disasters of the quran🤣😂

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@@Noname-qz5hg Profile picture looks cringe when Jesus allegedly died on tree not a cross dumbass.

[@edgarmorales4476]

Religious authorities were not happy to dispense with the Old Testament altogether, since it had supported and kept them together throughout their history. In the interests of preserving what they thought to be valuable in the old dispensation, they suppressed any description of the "person" Jesus was. Religious authorities built their own edifice of "sacred beliefs" on what they wanted to preserve from Jesus' life and teachings. They only taught and consolidated what they deemed to be valuable to people. Consequently, they distilled what they could use and they "let go" most of what Jesus termed the "secrets of the Kingdom of God" for they never understood them. Nor found them desirable in the creation of a new perception of the Divine, the Father. To preserve the belief in "salvation from punishment for sins" by means of sacrifice, the "person of Jesus" was adopted as the "supreme" sacrifice who had paid for men’s sins by his crucifixion. It gave Jesus' death on the cross a valid and heroic reason. It proved to the people that Jesus was the "Son of God" who had carried out a specific mission to the very end of his life. This belief also proved to be of great comfort. Consequently, it was greatly comforting to hear that "Jesus Christ" had overcome death and retained his body. Too much human thought, life was not possible without a body. Therefore, life after death could only mean the resurrection of the body. It also kept Jesus' name constantly alive in the minds of people. Jesus was the "historic figure" who had valiantly died to ensure that men should be freed of all fear of hell and damnation. Providing they believed in "Jesus," they could walk as "freed men."

[@mikev4621]

Didn't the Hebrews get their alphabet from the Phoenicians? Dr Collins says the mentioning of Bronze Age slave prices ( 20 and 30 shekels ) couldn't have been inserted by a later writer - but surely they could have- just as I could find out English medieval prices by researching old archives

[@mikev4621]

Any that were available to them at that time

[@frankpopolano6004]

Sorry...the Bible does not say Pharaoh was lost in the Sea of Reeds, and sorry...the Pharaoh of the Exodus was Amenhotep II.

[@kevinsheridan9718]

There was no Iron Age or Bronze Age. Men knew about Iron as early as Genesis

[@paulc1391]

History divides eras by the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. You can easily look up documentaries of both on KZbin and read about it by historians.

[@ericsonofjohn9384]

How can you even hope to prove that claim? When did Genesis occur? Who knows? If you can’t even date the events of Genesis then how can you say whether they had iron or not?