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		<title>Evidence for the Existence of God</title>
		<link>http://ridiculous.davidchristopher.net/2009/06/evidence-for-the-existence-of-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<title>The Isaiah 53 Conspiracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the message at church this morning, Pastor Allen Jackson talked a few minutes about the history of Isaiah 53.  I&#8217;ve been accused of puporting a conspiracy when talking about this and so often, the accuser seems intent on not informing him or herself of the facts, let alone really reading my comments.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the message at church this morning, Pastor Allen Jackson talked a few minutes about the history of Isaiah 53.  I&#8217;ve been accused of puporting a conspiracy when talking about this and so often, the accuser seems intent on not informing him or herself of the facts, let alone really reading my comments.</p>
<p>So for those who run into this sort of problem themselves, here is a 3 and a half minute talk about this, putting it as simply as can possibly put.  Sometimes we have to make these as short and sweet as possible, and how great it is that in these 3 and a half minutes, a brief encounter with the Gospel is had.</p>
<p><a href="http://ridiculous.davidchristopher.net/audio/theIsaiah53Conspiracy.mp3">Download audio file (theIsaiah53Conspiracy.mp3)</a><br />
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		<title>The Fallacy of Humanism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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The violation of the function of the spirit by asserting the supremacy of his soul is the basic fallacy of humanism.  It&#8217;s this reversal of man&#8217;s nature that has tried to make his reason superior to revelation, that&#8217;s the hallmark of humanism ever since.
&#8211;Chuck Missler, session 6 in his Esther commentary discussing the fall of [...]]]></description>
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<h3><em>The violation of the function of the spirit by asserting the supremacy of his soul is the basic fallacy of humanism.  It&#8217;s this reversal of man&#8217;s nature that has tried to make his reason superior to revelation, that&#8217;s the hallmark of humanism ever since.</em></h3>
<p style="text-align: right;">&#8211;Chuck Missler, session 6 in his Esther commentary discussing the fall of Adam</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Reading piles of books on philosophy will only confuse matters.  A Biblical worldview not only answers the most basic and probing questions, it does so in the simplest of ways.  Every problem on the face of this earth can be summed up in one word: <strong>Pride</strong></p>
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		<title>King Solomon&#8217;s Mines</title>
		<link>http://ridiculous.davidchristopher.net/2008/10/king-solomons-mines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article is a worthy read though littered with your typical mainstream media bias.  They hate anything that offers credibility to the Biblical text.  The point is, it&#8217;s another nail in the coffin on the debate over how reliable the Bible actually is.  It also proves the stupidity of the claim by most countries in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="Found?  King Solomon's Mines" href="http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/labnotes/archive/2008/10/27/the-real-life-king-solomon-s-mines.aspx" target="_blank">This article</a> is a worthy read though littered with your typical mainstream media bias.  They hate anything that offers credibility to the Biblical text.  The point is, it&#8217;s another nail in the coffin on the debate over how reliable the Bible actually is.  It also proves the stupidity of the claim by most countries in the Middle East that Israel never had any history in the land.<br />
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		<title>Evidence for Jeremiah</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While this is a couple months old, I have been meaning to post this as it is fascinating how the Bible consistently comes out on top. 

Proof of Jeremiah Unearthed in Jerusalem
Seal of King Zedekiah&#8217;s Minister Found in Jerusalem

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While this is a couple months old, I have been meaning to post this as it is fascinating how the Bible consistently comes out on top. </p>
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<li><a title="Proof of Jeremiah Unearthed in Jerusalem" href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127048" target="_blank">Proof of Jeremiah Unearthed in Jerusalem</a></li>
<li><a title="Seal of King Zedekiah's Minister Found in Jerusalem" href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&amp;cid=1215331162371" target="_blank">Seal of King Zedekiah&#8217;s Minister Found in Jerusalem</a></li>
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<p>While the &#8216;higher critics&#8217; figure they know so much more about the Bible some thousands of years after it was written, they continually end up wrong.  That makes these higher critics turn out to be liars.  People who really have no grasp of truth on a mission to dethrone the only book that has withstood the test of time. </p>
<p>You have to go where the evidence leads.</p>
<p>*update &#8211; 11/18/08* Comments are closed due to spam attempts.<br />
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		<title>Gabriel&#8217;s Tablet and the Suffering Messiah</title>
		<link>http://ridiculous.davidchristopher.net/2008/08/gabriels-tablet-and-the-suffering-messiah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The buzz around the blogosphere regarding Gabriel&#8217;s Tablet is rather interesting. The recent find helps solidify the fact that Christ wasn&#8217;t speaking something completely new in His day but it hadn&#8217;t been completely put together before Christ. Instead, it was something that wasn&#8217;t totally understood or settled. The Messiah ben Joseph and the Messiah ben David [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 290px"><a href="http://www.bib-arch.org/image.asp?PubID=BSBA&amp;Volume=34&amp;Issue=05&amp;ImageID=05900&amp;SourcePage=article.asp"><img title="Gabriels Tablet" src="http://www.basarchive.org/bswb_graphics/BSBA/34/05/BSBA340505900L.jpg" alt="The tablet containing Gabriels Revelation predating Christs first coming." width="280" height="600" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The tablet containing &#39;Gabriel&#39;s Revelation&#39; predating Christ&#39;s first coming.</p></div>
<p>The buzz around the blogosphere regarding <a title="“Gabriel’s Revelation” and the Birth of a New Messianic Model" href="http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/article.asp?PubID=BSBA&amp;Volume=34&amp;Issue=5&amp;ArticleID=14" target="_blank">Gabriel&#8217;s Tablet</a> is rather interesting. The recent find helps solidify the fact that Christ wasn&#8217;t speaking something completely new in His day but it hadn&#8217;t been completely put together before Christ. Instead, it was something that wasn&#8217;t totally understood or settled. The Messiah ben Joseph and the Messiah ben David were argued about and thought of as two seperate Messiah&#8217;s, not the same Messiah with two comings.</p>
<p>The debate goes something along the lines of &#8220;<em>&#8230;if we can prove that what Christ taught was completely new and that He made it up, then the case for Christ is diminished&#8230;</em>&#8220;  But that can&#8217;t be done as there is just too much evidence to the contrary.  You just wouldn&#8217;t know that with the way the topic is being discussed regarding the writing on the tablet.  A lot of the thoughts of the New Testament were already put in place in the Dead Sea Scrolls, particularly 4q521 and 4q285 among others.</p>
<p>The point is that Gabriel&#8217;s Revelation is but another of the many proofs that Christianity&#8217;s core doctrinal beliefs were indeed predicted well beforehand.  Christ was the expected Messiah ben Joseph and He wasn&#8217;t just making it up.  He fulfilled specifications laid out well in advance and what makes it most unique is that those specifications weren&#8217;t totally understood until He was able to make them clear &#8211; without a doubt &#8211; to the point that only a literal reading, a literal understanding of God&#8217;s Word could be used (a man, born in Bethlehem, of a Virgin, etc.)</p>
<p>I do find one thing interesting that I haven&#8217;t seen quite picked up on yet in the articles I&#8217;ve read, and that is: Gabriel was really made known by the Book of Daniel, making his introduction in Daniel 8:16.  For years scholars have tried endlessly to date Daniel as late as possible, mostly because the prophecies contained within (Chapter 11, in particular) are too specific, detailed and perfectly laid out as we know them to be in the 400 years prior to Christ&#8217;s first coming.  But Christ Himself authenticates the book and the book was included in the LXX.  The dating of this tablet is showing it to be early first century BC and it is making reference to the very Gabriel within Daniel 8 and 9.  One of them must have come first, would be the world&#8217;s logic, and the question would be &#8216;which?&#8217;  Odds are Daniel which makes it date earlier than the &#8216;<em>higher criticism</em>&#8216; would like to admit.  Pray that their eyes be opened &#8211; afterall, Daniel 9:25-27 predicts to the very day that Christ would present himself as King of Jews.</p>
<p>For more information and worthwhile reading see the following:</p>
<ul>
<li><a title="Extra!! Extra!! New Discovery Challenges Beliefs About Jesus!! Read all about it!!" href="http://www.jewsforjesus.org/blog/20080728" target="_blank">Extra!! Extra!! New Discovery Challenges Beliefs About Jesus!! Read all about it!!</a></li>
<li><a title="The Messiah Son of Joseph: “Gabriel’s Revelation” and the Birth of a New Messianic Model" href="http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/article.asp?PubID=BSBA&amp;Volume=34&amp;Issue=5&amp;ArticleID=14" target="_blank">The Messiah Son of Joseph: “Gabriel’s Revelation” and the Birth of a New Messianic Model</a></li>
<li><a title="New Evidence for an Old Question? The “Gabriel’s Revelation” text and the question of a suffering Messiah" href="http://blog.bible.org/primetimejesus/content/new-evidence-old-question%3F-%E2%80%9Cgabriel%E2%80%99s-revelation%E2%80%9D-text-and-question-suffering-messiah" target="_blank">New Evidence for an Old Question? The “Gabriel’s Revelation” text and the question of a suffering Messiah</a></li>
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