Evidence for God- Houston TX Chapter

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Our speaker will be our own Roy Brown. Roy’s topic will be: “The Importance of Egypt in the Bible”.
Abstract: The most important country in the Bible after Israel and Judah is Egypt. Perhaps more than any other land mentioned in the Bible, Egypt has left a massive record of events, culture, and beliefs in many paintings, reliefs, inscriptions, and other evidence accumulated over a period of several thousand years. This presentation will use this massive record from Egypt to demonstrate visually how it can be used to better understand, illuminate, and demonstrate the reliability of several Bible passages.
Otis Graf also will be sharing insight into his faith journey. Otis is a member of the RTB scholar community. As an aerospace engineer, he worked with NASA helping with lunar landings and the Space Shuttle program before joining IBM. He is retired and we look forward to hearing his perspective on science and faith.

How many earth-like planets are there? We know of one. Saying how many more depends on how many criteria it has to meet. If we are looking for a rocky planet at an appropriate distance from a star, then it also helps to know how large it is. If it is too large, then it is increasingly likely to be some form of water world… no land. They would be unlikely to have any of the environments that early forms of life might have found hospitable.

NASA and other astronomers believe that they have candidates, but how many? This article suggests that it is likely that they have overestimated the number that they have found. That means that the odds that any of these would actually meet any of the other criteria that would be clearly required for life to exist just went down.

Could any planet come to meet all of the criteria for advanced life by accident? That would require a lot of faith.

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For many years scholars have believed that the earliest clear reference to Jesus by a non-Christian was doctored to one degree or another. In a fresh scholarly look, Dr. T.C. Schmidt examined the quote from Josephus that many believe was tampered with to make more favorable to Jesus than it was originally. I watched an YouTube show where he was interviewed by Sean McDowell. He shows solid evidence that suggests that the entire quote is real. It is likely that one word was lost, suggesting that Josephus originally wrote that Jesus was thought to be the messiah, as opposed to that he was the messiah. Even this may not have been intentional.

Schmidt used computer databases that allowed him to find analogies in Josephus for every phrase in the key paragraph that reference Jesus, the “Testimonium Flavianum”. Every concern is addressed. This text is therefore confirmed to be a very early text from a person who knew well the views of Jesus’ enemies. Skeptics need to rethink their case.

https://jesusinhistoryandscience.com/?p=4373