Indus Apologetics Journal

Excavating Hezekiah’s Tunnel

Radioisotope dating has confirmed that an underground tunnel bringing water into the city of Jerusalem was built around 700 B.C., confirming the biblical story that it was constructed by King Hezekiah to provide water in anticipation of a siege of Jerusalem by an invading Assyrian army. Experts say the tunnel, known either as the Siloam tunnel or as Hezekiah’s tunnel, is one of the first biblical structures to have its age precisely determined. “This is one of the dramatic confirmations of the Bible,” said Hershel Shanks, editor of Biblical Archaeology Review.

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Biblical Reasoning against Human Cloning By Eugene Newman: You should know that the ethical issues regarding human cloning have been addressed in print by an advisory board to Advanced Cell Technology (Worcester, MA). The gist of their moral reasoning is (not surprisingly) a cost/benefit trade-off analysis; a pragmatic theory which assumes that human beings have no intrinsic moral value; which permits them ethically, to measure the worth of a human being by the benefit they can be to others. If they can measure that benefit in some tangible or empirical way, then they have an objective justification to assert that their actions are morally desirable or sound. That benefit can take the form of creating, buying, or selling human biological parts used to treat disease.

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South Dakota Pediatrician Says His Experience Shows Abortion Is Unnecessary In Any Situation: Dr. Don Oliver, a pediatrician in Rapid City, South Dakota, has had an opinion piece published in The Dakota Voice. Well worth reading in its entirety, the following are excerpts from his letter:

I have been a pediatrician in Rapid City for 26 years now. During those 26 years it has been my job and privilege to attend the births of many infants whose pregnancies were complicated in various ways: prematurely, infections, toxemia, and multiple births among many others.

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American Evangelist and Chinese Atheist Official Co-write “Amazing, Historic” Book: “This is the first time in the history of China that an international religious leader has been permitted to sign copies of his book in a large public secular venue.”

Christian Northwest News reports that amidst fanfare seldom seen in China, Portland-based international evangelist Luis Palau and China official Zhao Qizheng recently released their highly anticipated, co-authored book Riverside Talks: A Friendly Dialogue between an Atheist and a Christian.

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King Solomon-era fortifications revealed in Israel excavation
JERUSALEM, Israel - Baptist Press - July 18, 2006

More than 30 years have passed since a major expedition has attempted to reveal the history of Tel Gezer, the ancient city of King Solomon fame located between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. This summer the biblical site has been re-excavated by a joint expedition of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and the Israel Antiquities Authority.

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New TV/DVD Documentary to bring Scientific Proof of Christ’s Resurrection: “The world has long demanded solid proof of the existence of Christ, His death and resurrection. Now the evidence is here—including the ability to view the world’s first scientific three-dimensional holographic image of the face of Christ.”

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Israeli Archaeologist Claims He Has Found Temple’s Location and it is NOT beneath the Dome of the Rock: The possible new location “leaves the rock (in the Dome of the Rock) outside of the confines of the Temple itself.”

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The New Age Movement By Dr. Johnson C. Philip & Dr. Saneesh Cherian: “New Age” is a term seen frequently in personality-development books and magazines these days. They claim that we are in an age when humans can take total control of their bodies and minds. Contrary to what the name suggests, the New Age Movement is a very ancient Cult, and they claim it to be “New” only to deceive people. Plenty of Christians have become spokesmen and agents of this movement without realizing it for what it is. The New Age Movement has its origin in Satan who promised to Eve that by eating the forbidden fruit, she would become “like God”. Realizing this promise is the basic promise and quest of this movement.

The pursuit to become like God became an organized movement with Nimrod and the Tower of Babel. There one observes the seeds of the first one-world religion and government, both contrary to the course of human history as decreed by God. Consequently, God dispersed this movement. Yet Satan, the architect of this movement, continued in his struggle to raise up another all-world religious and political union. The story that unfolded in the millennia that followed is quite complex, but what one needs to know took place only in about one century.

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Dehumanization: The Humanistic Agenda, P. Andrew Sandlin

Humanism has been around since Genesis 3. It is the belief that there is no God or, better yet, that man himself is a god. The temptation of the serpent to Eve was simple: If you establish your own moral standards, and act on them, you can be as God (Gen. 3:5). The history of depraved man is the history of an unending quest for an ever more consistent humanism. From the ancient world empires - Egypt, Babylon, Persia, Rome - to the Italian Renaissance to the European Enlightenment to Romanticism and finally to today’s “postmodernism,” man’s root sin is humanism - the desire to be his own god.

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Christian Culture Today, Not Yesterday or Tomorrow, P. Andrew Sandlin

The question is not whether we should work toward a Christian culture. Of course we should. The Reformed Faith - more importantly, the Bible - demands the Lordship of Christ in all of life. This is part of what it means to be Reformed - and, I would add, Christian.

What, by the way, is culture? It is the dominant, inner religious conviction of a society that is manifested externally in its arts, its education, its economics, its law, its politics, its science, its technology, and so on. Religion is the bones, and culture is the skin, of a society. Let’s hear the last line of Henry Van Til’s newly re-issued classic The Calvinistic Concept of Culture: “[A] people’s religion comes to expression in its culture, and Christians can be satisfied with nothing less than a Christian organization of society” (p. 245). We all agree - or should agree-with this conviction.

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