Proclaiming the Gospel with Evidence to All Peoples Everywhere
A Jerusalem inscription dating to the first century B.C. spells the city’s name as Yerushalayim. Carved on a limestone drum, it was recently excavated in Jerusalem. The inscription spells “Jerusalem” as Yerushalayim, the same way it is spelled in Hebrew today.
By Dr. Don Bierle, FaithSearch President
In previous issues of the Paraclete, I wrote about the fingerprints of God as revealed in nature and in history (Volume 1, Issue 6, and Volume 2, Issue 1).
Those arguments are considered “hard” or objective evidence for the existence of God. Here I appeal to “soft” evidence: the phenomenon of transformed lives. Some people view it this way:
What is the greatest argument for the existence of God? Answer: Christians!
What is the greatest argument against the existence of God?
Answer: Christians!
Scientists at Britain’s University of Bristol have converted animal and plant tissue into fossils, in just twenty-four hours! With the help of a hydraulic press and high temperatures, they converted bird feathers, lizard limbs, and leaves into fossils which are very similar to those dug out of the ground.
Plastic has long been labeled as a bad pollutant because its petroleum-based production releases chemical contaminants, and because it takes hundreds of years for plastic to decay.
In the January issue of Bioresource Technology, researchers at Tel Aviv Universitydescribed a new technique that produces a biodegradable plastic.
Guinness World Records recently announced that a Japanese couple, Masao and Miyako Matsumoto, set a world record for the oldest living married couple. They celebrated their eightieth wedding anniversary. He is 108 years old and she is a mere 100!
Source: AMAC Advantage Magazine, Nov/Dec 2018, p. 8. See also “Couple together for 80 years with combined age of 208 set oldest living married couple record,” Guiness World Records, retrieved February 20, 2018, http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2018/8/couple-together-for-80-years-with-combined-age-of-208-set-oldest-living-married-c-535346
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