the newly discovered pool of Siloam

Is that all? I walked through the damn thing a month ago - flashlight in hand and water to my knees - and it sure seemed a lot longer! It's an impressive structure.

i thought i saw that on tv a while back. doesn't sound like news to me.

This has baffled me slightly I'm sure that the place was found around 1900ad - what happened in the intervening period?

actually, i seem to recall the bloody knighs templar using it during the crusades. but i could be wrong

It further verifies the historical accuracy of John and Zachariah.

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What would Xenu do?"Why not go to war just for oil? We need oil. What do Hollywood celebrities imagine fuels their private jets? How do they think their cocaine is delivered to them?"
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Does that mean the civil war shows the historical accuracy of Gone with the wind?

It proves that the city, pool, town, village indeed existed. Does not prove there is a God. As I have said before, other people wrote about their Gods and cities, so by your reasoning they must also be fact. So there are now multiple Gods in existence, because the stories about them and the places it happened at was written down and actually exist. Who wrote all the stories...oh right man did not God.So by your reasoning since the place was found the stories about it must be true. I will ask you again like I have in other threads. What makes the story surrounding your God true and not the Stories about other Gods that exist today or others that are consider a myth i.e. Greek mythology. What makes your myth true and not others?

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"A Dwarf on a Giants Shoulder sees the Furthest of the Two!"

That is for you to decide. The main point of this thread is to prove the bible passes the test of History. The book of Mormon, for example, doesn't pass the test. It has people and places in there that never existed.Skeptics of the bible point to things in the bible that do not have an outside source with which to verify that item/people/place etc.I bring up the example of Pontius Pilate, who was said to not have existed because he wasn't mentioned anywhere other than the bible. Now it isn't in dispute. The more evidence that comes out, the more validity the bible has (maybe) in skeptics minds. That or they have to point to something else they don't think the bible is accurate on.

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What would Xenu do?"Why not go to war just for oil? We need oil. What do Hollywood celebrities imagine fuels their private jets? How do they think their cocaine is delivered to them?"
--Ann Coulter

See message 23.I'm not proving God, nor is this thread attempting to. It is simply another verification of the historical accuracy of the Bible. If christains think that the bible is the infallable word of God, then it only takes one archealogical/historical contradiction to blow the entire case we make!Yet time after time, the bible is verified by archeology and history.Proving God is another thread, and most will say it can't be done.

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What would Xenu do?"Why not go to war just for oil? We need oil. What do Hollywood celebrities imagine fuels their private jets? How do they think their cocaine is delivered to them?"
--Ann Coulter

Really, I thought as our resident expert on Josephus you would have been aware that he wrote about Pilate!On one occasion, when the soldiers under his command came to Jerusalem, he caused them to bring with them their ensigns, upon which were the usual images of the emperor. The ensigns were brought in privily by night, but their presence was soon discovered. Immediately multitudes of excited Jews hastened to Caesarea to petition him for the removal of the obnoxious ensigns. For five days he refused to hear them, but on the sixth he took his place on the judgment seat, and when the Jews were admitted he had them surrounded with soldiers and threatened them with instant death unless they ceased to trouble him with the matter. The Jews thereupon flung themselves on the ground and bared their necks, declaring that they preferred death to the violation of their laws. Pilate , unwilling to slay so many, yielded the point and removed the ensigns. Josephus, Jewish War 2.169-174; Antiquities of the Jews 18.55-59 I would be very interested if you could name a scholar or two who doubted that Pilate existed, I think you will stuggle but I await you reply.You really need to be more critical of your sources. You could really do with taking a few college courses in history, archaeology, and theology, it would make a world of difference to the way you view things.Brian.

And it is also shown to be wrong time after time by archeology and history.If you are going to argue for the Bible's historical accuracy don't you think you should also keep a list of the times it was wrong?

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Is it the same pool that has just been found? If yes, how do we know it is?Does the existence of the pool mean that Jesus really cured a blind dude?Archaeology is a complex subject, you should take some classes on it. Pool of SiloamThe newly discovered pool is less than 200 yards from another Pool of Siloam, this one a reconstruction built between A.D. 400 and 460 by the empress Eudocia of Byzantium, who oversaw the rebuilding of several biblical sites.

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The site of yet another Pool of Siloam, which pre-dated the version visited by Jesus, is still unknown. So, how do we know that this new pool is the one referred to by John?Brian.

Give me an example.

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What would Xenu do?"Why not go to war just for oil? We need oil. What do Hollywood celebrities imagine fuels their private jets? How do they think their cocaine is delivered to them?"
--Ann Coulter

Short list:

• the Flood
• the conquest of Canaan
• the Exodus
• six day creation

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This thread is about historical accuracy of recent archeology that supports the bible, and I'm going to stick to that topic.So do you have any examples of that?You have no archeological evidence to prove thatthe Flood
the conquest of Canaan
the Exodus
six day creationdid not happen.This message has been edited by Tal, 08-12-2005 01:57 PM

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What would Xenu do?"Why not go to war just for oil? We need oil. What do Hollywood celebrities imagine fuels their private jets? How do they think their cocaine is delivered to them?"
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