The Bible and history
Historicity, the quality of being a real and important part of history and not a myth or legend
Archaeologists Unearth Biblical Pool of Bethesda
According to John 5:2-9, Jesus healed a paralyzed man by the pool with five porches in Bethesda. In the 19th century, archaeologists found this large reservoir near Jerusalem’s Sheep Gate surrounded by four colonnaded porticoes.
Biblical history places the cradle of civilization geographically close to where Noah’s Ark landed, near the Middle East’s Fertile Crescent that includes parts of Turkey. So, it makes sense that Gobekli Tepe was one of the first building sites of post-Flood peoples.
This amazing find vindicates what the Bible has said about mankind all along. The earliest humans were every bit as smart and able as modern ones—perhaps even more so. And according to Scripture, people were made on one day by God and in His image—with all the faculties necessary to imagine, build, farm, and worship.
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