I have given you a lot of detail over the last two Nuggets as I have focused on the instrument called the Antikythera Mechanism. A number of my readers have asked what does the word Kythera mean and is it spelt Kythera or Cythera? Well …
Evidence To Believe Nuggets
These are two remaining relics from the very first series of Nuggets I wrote for Jakarta Praise Community Church to provide evidence for the fact that the Bible can be trusted and our belief in the Bible is based on hard evidence.
Many of the other articles written at that time only survive in Indonesian. I will work on posting English Nuggets for this series intermittently as I have time. Keep an eye on this Nugget series for new posts.
The Complexity of the Antikythera Mechanism (120 BC)
In the last Nugget I shared with you some of the detail involved in the Antikythera Mechanism, an instrument made around (circa) 120 BC and yet so complex that it has taken a team of international experts years to piece together in order to figure …
Point of Fact: Were the Ancients ‘Neanderthals’?
We have been led to believe that the early humans were primitive. The worldview we pick up from school comes from the evolutionary theory of graded, incremental change from Primitive Man to Modern Man. From an anthropological point of view the Neanderthals were a primitive …
The Connection Between the Pool of Siloam and Hezekiah’s Tunnel
I left you in the previous Nugget with some sleuthing to do. I divided these Nuggets in order to provide you with an opportunity to learn to read the Bible correctly. To fully understand what is going on we need to read the Bible account …
The Clue Found at the Pool of Shiloah
The Jewish people regard the accounts of the past in the Tanakh (the Law, the Prophets and the Writings) as historical – real life stories. But the attitude of the Gentiles, the non-Jews has varied over the years. At times over history the ancient accounts …
Leviticus: A Good Source for Medical Advice
As I told those of you last week who are signed up for Berean Insights Announcements, I would be changing the focus of the Nuggets from today and going back to add to the Nugget Series Evidence to Believe. This was how the Nuggets started …
Merenptah’s Stele
Egyptologists and experts in the ANE have said the activities of Israel and the Egyptian pharaohs didn’t coincide in time. They say Israel didn’t exist in the same time frame as the pharaohs of Egypt. There is no mention of Israel in any Egyptian annals …
Sennacherib’s Prism
Did the siege of Jerusalem by Sennacherib as described in 2 Kings 18:17-19:37 truly happen or was it just a Hebrew myth? Many world experts think it was a myth. These people think that it’s a story recorded in the Bible to raise the level …
Nabonidus Cylinder
Critics love to cast doubt on the integrity of the Bible by pointing to Daniel Five. Then at Belshazzar’s command, Daniel was dressed in purple robes, a gold chain was hung around his neck, and he was proclaimed the third highest ruler in the kingdom. …