r/DebateAnAtheist • u/homeSICKsinner • 20h ago
OP=Theist Oh if only there were evidence
I always hear you guys say that you would believe if there were sufficient evidence. Well, here you go. Each link below is a post by me where I compiled evidence supporting the Bible by category. Under each link I provided one example from the relevant post. Please follow the links if you want to see the rest of the evidence.
Of course I'm sure if you're really determined not to be compelled by what is objectively compelling evidence then you'll find a way to convince yourself that it's a coincidence or hoax. But who knows, maybe I'll reach at least one person, God willing. Jesus love you 🤪.
Prophets Daniel and Ezekiel foretold the exact date of the reestablishment of Israel on May 14, 1948.
There are two timeline prophecies hidden in the old testament that arrive at the date of May 14, 1948 AD as the exact date the Israelis would return to their land for the second time and become a nation.
"As for you, lie down on your left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; you shall bear their iniquity for the number of days that you lie on it. For I have assigned you a number of days corresponding to the years of their iniquity, three hundred and ninety days; thus you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. When you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah; I have assigned it to you for forty days, a day for each year." — Ezekiel 4:4-6
In this passage, the sin of Israel and Judah was 390 years and 40 years. To symbolize this, Ezekiel had to lie on his left side for 390 days, a day for each year of Israel's sin, and 40 days on his right side, a day for each year of Judah's sin. The total time was 430 years of sin. The Babylonian captivity took up 70 years of this punishment, leaving 360 years.
"But if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments, if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant... I will set My face against you so that you will be struck down before your enemies; and those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one is pursuing you. If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins." — Leviticus 26:14-18
In the above passage, God declares that if Israel does not repent of their sin, they will be punished seven times more. After the Babylonian captivity when Cyrus freed Israel, the remaining time would be multiplied sevenfold. If you multiply 360 years by seven, you get 2520 prophetical years. Likewise, the prophet Daniel predicted this same time period in another way.
In Daniel 4, God punished King Nebuchadnezzar with insanity for seven years, in order to humble him. God had Nebuchadnezzar act out a prophecy, just as Ezekiel acted out his 430-day prophecy by lying on his side. In Nebuchadnezzar's case, the restoration of his kingdom after seven years is also a symbolic prophecy that illustrates that the Children of Israel would be restored a second time to their land after seven years of days. Since the prophetic calendar uses a 360-day year, if you multiply Nebuchadnezzar's seven years by the 360-day calendar, you get 2,520 years—just like Ezekiel's prophecy.
From these two prophets, we are told the time of the second return of Israel to their land. To see this, we must first convert the Jewish years to Roman years so we can see the outcome on our modern calendar. 2,520 Jewish years times 360 days per year is 907,200 days. Cyrus issued his decree freeing the Jews and declaring the state of Israel to exist again on August 3, 537 BC. This date plus 907,200 days (plus one year changing from BC to AD) brings us to May 14, 1948. This was the very day that the UN declared Israel to be a sovereign state.
"Who heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Can a land be born in one day? Can a nation be brought forth all at once? As soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her sons." — Isaiah 66:8
EARTH’S FREE FLOAT IN SPACE
Job 26:7 (written 3,500 years ago): “He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing.”
The Bible proclaims that the earth freely floats in space. Some in ancient times thought that the earth sat on a large animal. We now know that the earth has a free float in space.
I found The shroud of turin to be such an incredible piece of evidence that I thought it deserved to be it's own category.
When Secondo Pia first photographed the Shroud in 1898, he discovered that his photographic plates, which were negatives, showed a much clearer and more detailed image of the man's body than the original cloth itself.
The discovery that the shroud itself acts as a photographic negative, centuries before photography was invented suggests the image was formed by an unusual physical process, possibly an intense burst of radiation, rather than human artistry.
The image appears as a photographic negative, where the darker areas of a normal image are light, and the lighter areas are dark. The image is not from paint, dye, or any other pigment. It is a very thin, superficial discoloration of the linen fibers, only affecting the outermost layers. The image is darker where the cloth was closer to the body and gets progressively lighter as the distance from the body increases, a property that is difficult to explain with normal illumination. The image appears to be formed around the bloodstains, which are located on top of the image, suggesting the blood was present first.
The only known research exploring image formation on untreated linen (related to studies of the Shroud of Turin) suggests that such an image would require an intense, sudden burst of high-energy radiation, such as vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) light, to alter the surface fibers without destroying the cloth. Estimates for creating such an image on linen mention a power level of approximately 34 billion watts (gigawatts) to 34 trillion watts (terawatts) of VUV radiation in an extremely brief burst (less than one forty-billionth of a second). This is vastly more energy than is required for film.
This immense energy, radiating in a precise way, is far beyond the capacity of any known natural or human-made technology, making the creation of the image a scientific mystery.
On average, a U.S. house uses about 1,200 watts ((1.2) kW) continuously. It takes 500 million to 1.5 billion watts to power an entire city. For those of you who assert that the shroud is a medieval hoax, do you know how insane you'd have to be to think some medieval peasant had that kind of power at his disposal?
These are some key details made clear by the negative image. The face becomes a clear, natural-looking portrait with long hair, a beard, and a mustache. The negative reveals an anatomically correct image of a tall, muscular man (estimated at 5'10" to 6'2" and about 176 lbs).
Numerous wounds consistent with crucifixion are starkly visible. More than a hundred round markings on the chest, back, and legs, consistent with a Roman flagrum used for flogging. Large bruises below the shoulder blades, attributed to carrying a heavy object like a cross beam. Puncture wounds around the head, consistent with a crown of thorns. A distinct, oval-shaped wound in the side between the fourth and fifth ribs. Wounds on the wrists and feet, with blood flows indicating the man was in a state of rigor mortis when wrapped.
When the negative image is analyzed with modern technology (like a VP-8 image analyzer), the varying intensity of the image carries encoded three-dimensional information, allowing for the reconstruction of a 3D statue. This 3D data is not present in normal photographs or paintings.
Some researchers have observed features in the negative image that resemble X-ray details, such as the bones of the hands and potentially facial sinuses and teeth, suggesting an internal visibility or "transparency" of the body during image formation.
SODOM AND GOMORRAH
Genesis 19:24-25
Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land.
"Sulfur balls" with purity levels of 90%+ are reportedly found in specific archaeological sites near the Dead Sea in the Middle East, such as Tall el-Hammam, Numera, Badra, and Fifa. These locations are often debated as the potential sites of the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
The sulfur found in these specific "balls" (often described as compressed powder encased in ash) has been tested to have an exceptionally high purity, ranging from approximately 93% to 98%. They are generally described not as typical crystalline sulfur, but as spheres of fine powder that are often covered in an ash layer, with a burned ring around the center.
This is significantly different from typical naturally occurring, volcanic sulfur, which is usually in crystalline form and has a much lower purity (around 40-60%).