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Well, I must caution you, though, is archaeology a cure-all? No, because, as
a matter of fact, faith is still resident. I mean, I, again, can’t tell you that I
can prove so that you’ve got every person that is rational, every person that is normal
IQ and once I give you the facts I’ll tell you they’ll so bend you, everyone’s going
to become a Christian. But on the other hand, it seems to me that what happens here is that
it can build up such a high weight of evidence on the side of the reliability, the trustworthiness,
it can so illuminate the text, it so demonstrates that it belongs to that culture and that time,
that it seems to me [that] to go in the opposite direction, you’ve got to run in the teeth
of all the evidence that is here. And therefore, the facts, it seems to me, are enormously
important.
So, does archaeology help? Yes. It gives setting for God’s Word. It gives the truthfulness
of God’s Word. It illuminates that Word. It builds confidence in that Word. And time
after time, where we have been tempted to distrust that Word, it will come back with
reliability.