Phillip J. Long, who teaches full time at Grace Bible College in Grand Rapids, has an interesting article in his blog, Reading Acts. In Why Should We Care About Archaeology? he writes:
First, popular media tends to promote “sensational finds” which challenge the Bible. Most recently, James Tabor and Simcha Jacobovici . . .
Second, we all want to be able to claim that “archaeology proves the Bible.” When archaeologists first started exploring what was then called Palestine . . .
Third, people in your congregations are smart and can check facts quickly. In the age of smart phones and iPads, anything you say from the pulpit can be checked on the internet instantly. For example, there is a persistent story that the wheels of the Egyptian chariots were found in the Red Sea near Nuweiba, in the Sinai. These stories come from one pseudo-scholar who has no proof of the claim other than his own underwater photographs, which are not even that clear. If you claim that this is a fact of history and members of your congregation double check on your claim, they will find that the evidence for the discovery is simply missing. I think most pastors would not cite the Shroud of Turin or some fanciful report of the discovery of a piece of the True Cross as “proofs of the Bible
Isn’t that the steering wheel from the 1953 Chevy Bel Air I drove in high school?
Actually I watched a documentary that covered, amongst other findings the ‘chariot wheel find’ and it is almost certain it is an Egyptian chariot wheel, as it was compared to several wheels found in tombs; design, style and dimension wise it’s exact, but of course one cannot say it is from the Moses era or actual crossing of the nile story. but it is a chariot wheel. The author’s comparing the Shroud to evidence like this chariot wheel is or a piece of the cross is simply an absord comment.
The ’53 Chevy Bel Air came with 2 or 3 spoke steering wheels by the way lol.
R
My dad owned a ’53 Bel Air by the way. Forgot to mention that ;-)
R