Nuggets provide topical background information to support our understanding of the Bible text.
Nuggets began as apologetic articles, but you, as a reader, can influence the topics I discuss by your questions and requests.
What if . . .We Could Have the God We Want? (A Puzzling Paradox 3)
God After Our Image All our prayers would be answered instantly. Whatever we asked for would be granted. We would have the trouble free life we all long for, even deserve. We would have perfect knowledge about everything because we deserve a full explanation on …
Bringing You All on to the Same Page (A Puzzling Paradox 2)
A number of you have written to me with some questions, but others of you have indicated that you are looking forward to this Nugget for the answer to my doozy of a question in the first Nugget of this series. Why does God heal …
The First Nugget of A Puzzling Paradox Series
This is the first Nugget in the new series, the full title of which is: A Puzzling Paradox Pain & Praise, Suffering & Solace, Grief & Glory Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? (Making Sense of God When God Doesn’t Seem to Make …
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 …
Proof of the Exodus from Egypt
Baruch Halpern from Pennsylvania University says “The actual evidence concerning the Exodus resembles the evidence for the unicorn.” In other words a mythical animal, we have no evidence that the unicorn existed, so conversely since we have no evidence of Israel coming out of Egypt, …
The Biblical Time Frame and the Egyptian Time Frame don’t Match. So Which is Wrong?
There is significant scepticism related to the historicity of the Bible account. Baruch Halpern compares the evidence for the Bible account of the Exodus to that of the unicorn as an indication of the mythical nature of both. The problem is one of the lack …
Looking Again at Jericho under the New Chronology
The first excavation of the mound called Tell Es-Sultan (Jericho) was started in 1907 by Ernst Sellin. Following that John Garstang began work on the same site in 1930. In 1952 Katheen Kenyon began her own excavation in addition to which she also dug a …
Is Ramesses II the Pharoah of Persecution?
It has long been claimed that Ramesses II is the Pharoah who persecuted the Israelites before the Exodus. The reference to Pi-Rameses and the assumption that Shoshenk and Shisak are one and the same, has led scholars under the Orthodox Chronology to believe that Ramesses …
Evidence for Solomon’s Riches
The Age of King Solomon was supposedly the cultural pinnacle for Israel and the Kingdom. If that is so, we would expect to see archaeological evidence of wealth, prosperity and multiculturalism. But if we look in the time frame suggested by the Orthodox Chronology we …
The El Amarna Letters
Prior to David Rohl’s New Chronology, the El Amarna letters were thought to be set earlier in the history of Israeli – Egyptian contact around the time of the Exodus. Now they are believed to record the process of the assault on the hill country …