BIBLE IS TRUE

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 August 1939, Page 3

BIBLE IS TRUE

SCIENCE PROVIDES PROOFS. Science is proving the Bible to he. correct. Did the Flood really occur? Did Jericho really fall? Did Biblical figures actually live, to great ages to 150 or 200 years? ■ These questions and scores of| similar questions. Science is now aide; to answer. In every case the answer I is "yes." | Sir Charles Marston, the eminent J archaeologist, who has recently been! connected with tiie excavations al the! ancient Biblical city of Lachish inj Palestine, is convinced that, far from | being mere mythology handed down) by word of mouth, the Ohl Test.'imoni ! is. substantially, contemporary ey.--' witness accounts of events set down •)■;■ they occurred. i “We have been digging.up remain-sl of civilisation left behind by men wind lived iti the days of Solomon and Jerc-i miuh the prophet.” Sir Charles told a; ‘Sunday Referee’ reporter. | “The remains are like the pieces of: a jig-saw puzzle. Key dates enable usj to lit. them together to form a chrono-1 logical table of Hie history of those, limes. ! “Familiar names on tablets and pot-' tery provide us with clues. The name of Abraham has been found: Joshua is mentioned and so on. \ “A water ewer in a refuse heap outside a temple at. Lachish bore an inscription written in the earliest known form of alphabetical script, used by miners who worked the turquoise mines of Sinai in the time of Moses. The potter.v was of the date of about 13on |-..c. “Eighteen vessels dug up showed ink writing. Ninety lines were deciphered. “They form a. series of letter from an outpost officer to the military governor of Lachish endeavouring to repudiate charges of having revealed official secrets, “Jericho we have been investigating I'oi--15-years4. We: lixed its destruction at 1400 n.c. "The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is now known to have occurred in 2061 n.c.. and was probably due to volcanic action." In Genesis vii. it is recorded that Abraham lived to 175 years of age. It is by no means impossible. Sii- Charles Marston pointed out a passage in his book. ‘The Bible Comes Alive,’ quoting authenticated records as late as 1621 of a woman living two miles from Cardiff who lived to the

age of 177. while a man in Hie same parish died at the’ age of 156. Ihindreiis of years before the coming of Christ there was a religion startlingly similar to religion to-day —Monotheism, or the belief in one God. Tablets found in both Babylonia and Assyria frequently refer to the Deluge. On one tablet a king praises himself because he loved to read “the writings of the age before the. Flood.”