Is The Bible Authentic?

The Old Testament, written hundreds of years before Jesus’ birth, contains over 300 prophecies that Jesus fulfilled through His life, death and resurrection. Mathematically speaking, the odds of anyone fulfilling this amount of prophecy are staggering. Mathematicians put it this way: 1 person fulfilling 8 prophecies: 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000. 1 person fulfilling 48 prophecies: 1 chance in 10 to the 157th power 1 person fulfilling 300+ prophecies: Only Jesus! It is the magnificent detail of these prophecies that mark the Bible as the inspired Word of God. Only God could foreknow and accomplish all that was written about the Christ. This historical accuracy and reliability sets the Bible apart from any other book or record. 

There are 2,500+ prophecies in The Bible. One wrong domino falls (one wrong prophecy) and the complete prophecy timeline, falls flat on its claim of being the only Holy Book from God Almighty. That's a dangerous claim for the Bible isn't it? 

[DANIEL WRITTEN 6 CEN BC]:
But as for you, Daniel, conceal these words and seal up the scroll until the end of time. Many will go back and forth and search anxiously [through the scroll], and knowledge [of the purpose of God as revealed by His prophets] will [greatly] increase.” (Daniel 12:4 AMP).

Nearly 2,000 years later:
The Dead Sea Scrolls, also called the Qumran Caves Scrolls, are a set of ancient Jewish manuscripts from the Second Temple period. They were discovered over a period of 10 years, between [1946 and 1956], at the Qumran Caves near Ein Feshkha in the West Bank, on the northern shore of the Dead Sea. Dating from the 3rd century BCE to the 1st century CE, the Dead Sea Scrolls include the oldest surviving manuscripts of entire books later included in the biblical canons, along with extra-biblical and deuterocanonical manuscripts from late Second Temple Judaism. At the same time, they cast new light on the emergence of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism. Almost all of the 15,000 scrolls and scroll fragments are held in the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum, located in Jerusalem. Amazing.

10 Crucial Archaeological Discoveries Related to the Bible: 

1. Rosetta Stone dated to the period of Ptolemy V (204–180 BC).
2. Dead Sea Scrolls.
3. Tel Dan Inscription. The word means “house of David” and dates to the ninth century BC. The inscription had been sealed by a later Assyrian destruction layer firmly dated to 733/722 BC.  
4. Ketef Hinnom Scrolls.  The tomb was a typical Late Iron Age (c. late 7th century BC) burial structure.  Silver scrolls contained the priestly benediction from (Numbers 6).
5. Moabite Stone. On the tablet is a text written in Moabite dating to the ninth century BC. It was perhaps a victory stone erected by King Mesha to commemorate his military achievements. The text begins, “I am Mesha son of Chemosh, king of Moab.”
6. Lachish Letters. J.L. Starkey unearthed eighteen ostrac, dealing with Nebuchadnezzar in 589/588 BC.
7. Epic of Gilgamesh. In 1872, George Smith discovered an Assyrian account of a flood among tablets, from mid-seventh-century-BC Nineveh, the epic in some respects is nearly identical to the biblical narrative of Noah in (Genesis 6–9).
8. Hezekiah’s Tunnel. In 1867, explorer Charles Warren, found a shaft built originally by the Jebusites and may be how David’s soldiers captured the city from them (2 Sam. 5:6–8).
9. Crucified Man at Givat Hamivtar. Roman methods of crucifixion of the first century AD. 10. Ugaritic Texts. 15-13 Can BC. A great majority of Canaanite texts come from Syria. Ugarit was a prominent Canaanite city-state of the second millennium BC.
(Dr. John Currid and Dr. David Chapman).

Recovery of ancient Israelite DNA from the First Temple period. Genetic material extracted from two individuals whose remains found in a family tomb west of Jerusalem, dating to around 750–650 B.C. The achievement was described as “a Holy Grail in the study of lost civilization”.

Excavations at the site of Khirbet Balu‘a, revealed one of the largest Moabite sites ever discovered. 2024. Archaeological evidence 2024, confirms Solomon fortified the royal City of Gezer as the Hebrew Bible claims in (1 Kings 9).