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Sincerity, Delusion, and Love For Truth

Is it possible for a person to be genuinely deluded and yet possess, at some level, a real love for the truth? Yes. That possibility is both pastorally important and biblically attested, and it calls for a posture of understanding rather than contempt toward those who reject arguments and information that conflict with their current […]

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Archaeology Divine Name

Earliest Discovered Use of the Name YHWH

Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology Did the Exodus really happen? If so, when? Scholars have long theorized about the historicity and dating of the Exodus. Some believe it happened in the mid-15th century b.c.e. (an “early” Exodus), based primarily on biblical information. Many believe it happened two or three centuries later, based more on select archaeological information. Many more believe […]

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Archaeology

The Ipuwer Papyrus-Eyewitness Account of the Ten Plagues?

Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology The Nile turned to blood. Pestilence. Blighted livestock. Destroyed crops. Darkness. Frustrated magicians. Widespread death and destruction—including the loss en masse of children of both the wealthy and poor. The emancipation of a slave population—oppressors becoming the oppressed, poor becoming rich, gods rendered impotent, and goods once used to worship them now […]