Since the Renaissance of15th century and 6th century, Christianity has faced a series of criticisms.
The beginning of the Renaissance was closely related to the Crusades. When the Pope encouraged the Crusades, his main motive was to eliminate political enemies and reduce internal conflicts.
Crusaders really achieved the goal of destroying warlords. Many famous generals never came back. The Pope did use this movement to restore the authority of the Holy See.
But the Crusades in Europe brought about great changes. Why did several Crusaders bring about such a big change? It turns out that since the collapse of the Western Roman Empire due to the Black Death and the invasion of barbarians in the north, the Vatican has naturally replaced the Western Roman Empire and become the only organized government in Europe, because there are churches and anarchist societies everywhere.
But sadly, the bad tradition of the Roman Empire vying for the throne was naturally inherited by the Vatican. This bad tradition dates back to Caesar's time. There is only one way to produce a new emperor every time: the old emperor is murdered, and the generals fight with each other and succeed to the throne.
So the Vatican is full of dark tactics for the Pope. Once any organization is linked to politics, it is prone to corruption. The Holy See is no exception. So he brought Europe into the dark ages.
How do these popes who succeeded in seizing power by conspiracy let the outside world know the truth? So since then, the power to interpret the Bible has been unified in the hands of the Pope. No one is allowed to interpret the Bible. No one is allowed to read the Bible except the appointed priest.
This provision was not abolished until the second Vatican meeting in 1966.
People who came back from the Crusades have been to remote areas where the Pope used to have less power. There, people still maintain the tradition of Christian belief. The Bible has become the center of the living Christian faith. These old messages, which are not ruled by the Pope, have given Europeans considerable encouragement. They started.
Questioning the authority of the pope. Even the internal teaching can't help but be reformed. So there was Martin Luther, and the anti-Romanian Sect was established. His success, on the one hand, is due to the German nobility's desire to get rid of the Pope's control. On the one hand, it is due to his interpretation and translation of the Bible. Suddenly, the Bible has become a book that the public can read again. Many stories recorded in it have once again become the object of public debate and belief.
As mentioned above, the accurate fulfillment of biblical prophecy has been mentioned. At that time, the public outside the church found incredible prophecies in the Bible. These realizations have been the center of Christian belief for many years. For example, where Christ will be born, how Christ will suffer, his underwear will be drawn lots, he will be crucified, and his chest will shed water and blood, and so on. These come true, so that the world can not refute.
Even more surprising is Daniel. This is also the most controversial volume of the Bible. Because it not only tells the story of Jesus being crucified, but also predicts the historical development of Jesus hundreds of years later. For example, the golden statue in the second chapter of Daniel mentions two iron legs. According to Daniel's explanation, this means that the Roman Empire will split in the future. However, the Roman Empire was divided 330 years after Jesus. Constantine the Great decided to build Constantinople into his base in Turkey. Leave west Rome to his people.
Daniel predated Jesus by more than 700 years. How could he possibly know that the Roman Empire was going to break up? Is this just a mystery made up by scholars who interpret Confucian classics? Just the result of playing word games? Of course, the Bible has become an open book, and anyone can study it by himself. Society cannot accept this theory of criticizing the Bible. In addition, Daniel doesn't just mention in the second chapter that Europe will split into two great empires. Chapters 8 and 9, starting from Medes Persia and passing through Alexander the Great and the Greek Empire, are divided into four regions: Persia, the Middle East, Rome and Egypt. And 8: 2 1 predicted that Alexander the Great would die young. Taking Israel as the coordinate, it is pointed out that the forces in the northwest of Israel want to win the final victory. This clearly indicates the rise of the Roman Empire.
The interpreter also found the date and historical background of predicting the crucifixion of Jesus from the ninth chapter of Daniel. These things cannot be explained by biblical critics who oppose faith.
So there was biblical archaeology. The assumption at that time was that the writing date of the Book of Daniel must be after these historical events. Their assumption is that the date of writing Daniel is 480 years after Jesus. Because Daniel's prophecy, at least at that time, did not know the division of the eastern and western Roman empires. They also pointed out that Daniel has five different languages. Therefore, we assume that the Book of Daniel is a deceptive book written in the form of prophecy in different times and after the history.
These early archaeologists took advantage of this hypothesis and went out to look for it. I hope to find the ancient Bible manuscripts, which can prove their hypothesis about the writing date of Daniel is correct.
After more than 200 years of textual research, Christian biblical archaeologists have found many historical evidences to prove the correctness of biblical history. However, the archaeology of the writing date of Daniel has hit a wall everywhere and found nothing.
However, biblical critics who oppose faith find many negative evidences everywhere. Why do I call this evidence negative? It turned out that what they found was the traditional saying of the date when the Bible was written, but there was no evidence. In other words: there is no evidence to support that biblical prophecies are actually written in history.
Before. In other words, they didn't find an archaeological evidence to overthrow what was contained in the Bible. I just can't find any evidence to support that what the Bible contains was written before history.
For example, when a wife receives a phone call one day, she will know that it is her husband's past girlfriend. Her husband answered the phone and she overheard him making an appointment with his ex-girlfriend.
She is jealous of the sea and makes waves, and her heart is mixed. She suspected that her husband was having an affair, so she hired a private investigator, so we must find out the truth.
The private investigator found out that the husband did have dinner with the ex-girlfriend. The husband found his wife's jealousy knocked over and denied it. Gal, the wife is more suspicious.
So she took the reduction to absurdity. She said, "I suspect you are having an affair. You must prove that you are not having an affair. I will also look for evidence that you are not having an affair. "
Both the husband and the private investigator reported to their wives, "There is no evidence that there is no affair."
They all feel that things have calmed down. I didn't expect the news to come back to my wife, but her wife said:
"There is no evidence that there is no affair, which is enough to prove that there is an affair." From then on, there were three small quarrels and five big quarrels. Finally came to the end of the divorce.
This is what happened to biblical scholars in those days. However, what they put forward, for those who don't believe, is simply shirking their responsibilities. They said that after the Bible was copied, the old manuscript was given as a sacred object and buried in the soil. Insects ate it. Where can I find old manuscripts?
This situation did not change until 1979. Why did you mention 1979? It turns out that the Dead Sea Roll was born in 1956. After 23 years of research and translation, the complete translation was not completed until 1979. So from 1980, the Dead Sea Scrolls began a series of roving exhibitions. 198 1 year spent ten dollars in Dallas to see a broken crock and a small piece of handwritten cowhide (about 10"X 12 "). Put it in a big, dark room, plus other copper coins, utensils and fragments of scriptures found in the Dead Sea. Everything is illuminated by a small lamp with five candles. It is said that the fear of modern light destroyed the ink of the ancients.
Why is this dead sea roll so sensational? Because of two hundred years of disputes, the Dead Sea Roll has come to an end. The Dead Sea Scrolls found all the Old Testament volumes except the Book of Esther. The era of the Dead Sea Volume is from 170 to 58 years before Jesus. None of the volumes were written after Jesus. What makes Christians happier is that the Dead Sea Volume contains the most controversial book, the Book of Daniel. No one can argue now. Daniel was written after history.
What's the point? The fortress that critical scholars who opposed the Bible spent nearly a hundred years building has now been completely destroyed by the Dead Sea. They spent so much time to prove that all the biblical records are true. It also proves that the "prophecy" in the Bible really conforms to history. The only problem is that the Bible was written after history. The only line of defense now has brought an empty shell to the Dead Sea to collapse. Since then, no archaeologists have dared to challenge the Bible.
From Christian Network to Post (http://library.ccim.org)