Proclaiming the Gospel with Evidence to All Peoples Everywhere
One of the difficult realities for blood transfusion is that only one of eight human blood types is a universal donor. As a result, the Red Cross reports that donation shortages have reached a twenty-year high. A new scientific study has the potential to change that soon.
[Read more…]It is hard to imagine biodegradable plastic, but it may become true for some forms. Scientists at the University of California San Diego have discovered that the bacterium Bacillus subtilis can break down thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU), a plastic commonly found in footwear, memory foam, etc.
[Read more…]Antioch-on-the-Orontes, founded in the fourth century B.C. as the capital of the Seleucid Empire, is essentially no more! In February 2023, southern Turkey and northern Syria were hit by a series of powerful earthquakes which destroyed most of the region. Modern Antakya, built on the ruins of ancient Antioch, sustained irreparable damage.
[Read more…]By Dr. Don Bierle, FaithSearch President
Helen Bond, a professor of Christian Origins at the University of Edinburgh told The Daily Beast, “If Jesus was a carpenter/mason, as we generally suppose, then it’s not impossible that he had some rudimentary grasp of letters and/or numbers for the purposes of his trade, but I think it very unlikely that Jesus could read or write.”
Author Reza Aslan similarly told The Wall Street Journal, “…I would say the vast majority of biblical scholars would agree that the illiteracy rates in Jesus’s world were somewhere around 98 percent. 98 percent of Jesus’s fellow Jews could neither read nor write.”
Is this true…or naivety…or arrogance…or nonsense?
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