By Dr. Don Bierle, FaithSearch President

Author’s Note: The following article is written in first person as if the Mount itself were capable of a personal response.

Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah.

2 Chronicles 3:1

It’s been an incredible ride! I’m humbled by the God-ordained events which I’ve borne on my slopes, but I’m still waiting for the “big” one (more about that later). Yes, I’m Mount Moriah, home of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem – itself the size of twenty football fields, nearly 145 acres. 

In the last two issues of the Happ-0-getics I began this as a four-part series. (See the June and August 2023 issues for the evidence from the inspired Word of God and from the fossils.)
The third argument is: A global flood is supported by the evidence in the rock layers.
I am a biological scientist, not a geologist. I am persuaded by those who are, however, that there are good reasons to conclude that the sedimentary rock layers were deposited rapidly by a cataclysm such as the biblical global flood. Briefly, I will identify four.

By Dr. Don Bierle, FaithSearch President

Travel about fifty miles south of the Dead Sea, take a nearly mile-long donkey ride through a narrow rock-carved gorge called the Siq, and emerge before the stunning rock-cut façade of the Khazneh (“Treasury”). You stand there with fascination and awe. You have just repeated the experience of a million tourists in 2022. Tucked away in the red sandstone cliffs of southern Jordan, Petra was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985, and in 2007 it was named one of the new seven wonders of the world.