Coins bearing the Biblical patriarch Joseph's name and image have been found. This is amazing for two reason.
1. Historians believed that Egypt did not use coins in commerce during the time Joseph was believed to be around.
2. It gives extra-Biblical attestation that Joseph really existed and held the prominent position the Bible says he did.
"According to the report, the significance of the find is that archeologists have found scientific evidence countering the claim held by some historians that coins were not used for trade in ancient Egypt, and that this was done through barter instead. The period in which Joseph was regarded to have lived in Egypt matches the minting of the coins in the cache, researchers said."
During his debate with James White last week, Dan Barker used, um...misused, a quote from an early Christian named Justin Martyr to bolster his point that the early Christians knew that that they were borrowing ideas and theology from pagan sources. Dr White, squelched the idea by showing:
1. Barker has not read all of Justin Martyr's words and
2. Barker took Martyr out of context.
Fortunately, Dr. White has posted a video presentation in detail talking about what Justin Martyr actually said and the context in which he said it.
James White wrote:
I fully expected Dan Barker to use (or, I should say, misuse), the quotation from Justin Martyr's First Apology, and so I had invested a fair amount of time reviewing the material prior to our debate. In fact, in the video below, watch my face during Mr. Barker's opening statement when he mentions Justin. That is the smile of "Another prediction comes true." In fact, either in the #prosapologian chat channel, or maybe even on the DL, I specifically said, "I have a feeling Barker is going to try to go a different direction than he did in his book." Not that you can mind-read such things, and hence must, if you are to be an honest scholar, respond to someone's published arguments, but I just had that feeling. But I fully expected Justin to make an appearance, and since the debate was not the place to go over the entire presentation, I provide the background material here that substantiates the claims I made in the debate. I hope this will assist Christians in rebutting this common (and false) claim, found so often in popular (but equally shallow) atheistic writings.
Time has an excellent article by Bruce Feiler on “How Moses Shaped America.” This article is an adaptation of a section of Feiler’s book, America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story. The article shows how Moses, his story, his person, and the Mosaic struggle to bring freedom to a group of Egyptian slaves has inspired American politics and the ideals that shaped American history.
I've come across a couple of apperances of Richard Dawkins on the S
tephen Cobert show. They are hilarious and although Dawkins is taking the ridicule good-naturedly, I've got to admit that I think he was skewered. Some of Cobert points are valid in my opinion.
Dr Mariottini wrote this post about polygamy and monogamy and what does the Bible have to say about it. It's really interesting reading. In my opinion, one wife is enough. I can barely do all I have in my heart for one wife, impossible to do for several!
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