Christians are "presuppositional" creatures. They believe in the infinite, eternal, and unchangeable God because not to be believe in Him destroys the very possibility of meaning itself. Therefore, all of life and existence--the entire cosmos itself--testifies to God. The fact that these sentences have meaning and can be discussed, cogitated upon, debated, and argued provides proof of God Who has created and sustains all things.
As Karl Popper once expressed it, the cosmology of stochasticity or randomness or evolutionism cannot possibly be true, because were it to be true, it could never be described or meaningfully discussed. The fact that it can be described, debated, and discussed is a certain proof that it cannot possibly be true.
When archaeological discoveries are made which are consistent with ancient biblical history, wise Christians do not see these as "proving" the Bible's account. Rather they provide supporting testimony. We smile when pieces of evidence emerge which testify to the historical accuracy of the Biblical account.
Here is one such example:
Ancient Pottery Shards Analyzed by Israeli Scientists Seem to Support Biblical Narrative
Israeli archaeologists, mathematicians and physicists are joining forces to uncover the meaning behind inscriptions found on pottery fragments believed to be more than 2,500 years old.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported Wednesday that a Tel Aviv University team has been examining pieces of First Temple-era pots and vessels with ancient inscriptions scratched in. The ancient pot fragment is known as an ostracon.
Impression from the seal of Eliashiv ben Ashiyahu (Image source: Israeli Foreign Ministry)
One of the inscriptions addressed events described in the biblical book of Jeremiah. Haaretz reported:
Even more gripping is the tale told by perhaps the most known ostracon from the period, which was found in Lachish, the largest Judahite town after Jerusalem. In the dispatch, an official stationed outside the city reports to his commander on the fall of a nearby stronghold, saying that “we can see the signals from Lachish, but we no longer see Azekah.”The Israeli foreign ministry has noted that more than 100 ostraca written in Paleo-Hebrew script have been found in Arad in southern Israel, calling it “the largest and richest collection of inscriptions from the biblical period ever discovered in Israel.” Paleo-Hebrew was used in the ancient kingdoms of Judah and Israel.
Scholars have taken this as a confirmation of the biblical narrative of Jeremiah, which recounts that Azekah and Lachish were the last fortresses of Judah to fall before Jerusalem was besieged and destroyed by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II.
Some of the inscriptions were addressed to the commander of the Citadel of Arad, Eliashiv ben Ashiyahu, and discussed getting bread, wine and oil to soldiers serving in the Negev Desert. Another excerpt discussed the security threats in the area, warning of an emergency and requesting reinforcements, the foreign ministry explained.
Haaretz reported:
One of the potsherds from Arad, probably sent to one of Eliashiv’s superior officers, is a panicked note from the king in Jerusalem with an order “incumbent upon your very life” to send reinforcements to nearby Ramat Negeb to counter a threat from the neighboring Edomites.The effort to uncover the meaning behind the ancient inscriptions began six years ago by archaeologist Israel Finkelstein and physicist Eli Piasetsky. The team constructed a special camera to capture highly refined photos of the ostraca to discover parts of the inscriptions invisible to the naked eye.
We don’t know what the response to the message was, but shortly after the order was received, the Edomites, who were allied with the Babylonians, overran the entire area and destroyed the Arad citadel.
“Once, the technician mistakenly photographed the reverse side of an ostracon, which was known to be blank, and the image revealed four clear lines of text there,” mathematician Arie Shaus told Haaretz. “It had been sitting in a museum for 50 years and nobody ever noticed this.” Palestinians try to downplay any Jewish historical connection to Israel and often lambaste what they call the “Judaization of Jerusalem.” The new discoveries which appear to support biblical texts provide new evidence of the Jewish connection to Israel, including Judea and Samaria.
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