Question 5 - Whats One or More Primary Sources for Christianity (outside of the Bible)

#5 What’s One or More Primary Sources to Prove Christianity?
This is a really good question and I am glad someone asked it. And obviously I can’t just spend 5 minutes on this to answer this question. Like I have told you it took me 2 years of studying and reading until I came to the conclusion that the best explanation for all the evidence is Christianity. But let me give you some examples..
The Bible is a unique book because it deals with Upper Story and Lower Story events. Upper story is the ethereal, supernatural aspects of the book that you can study but you cannot prove. For example the existence of Angels, God Creating the world, Jesus Christ Sacrificial atonement, etc. Lower Story are things you can study and prove to be true or false. Things like kings in power during a certain era, cities that have existed, geography, etc. Things you can study through Science and Archeology. And let me just give you a few examples of how this has been used.
I talked about a month ago how we can come to the conclusion that God created the universe through scientific study, but let me give you another study that I didn’t talk about. Now I think this is really cool but it might be over some heads so let me explain this. Astrology is an interesting science because it is the only science that actually lets you observe back in time. Astrology of course is the science of studying and looking at stars. And the distance a star is from the earth is measured in a light year. Meaning, traveling at the speed of light, that is how long it takes for that to be visible from our planet. Take the Big Dipper for example. The Big Dipper is a constellation with the closes star to us is 86 light years and the farthest is 360 light years. So when you look at the big dipper you are looking at stars the way they were 86 years ago.. You are actually looking back in time.. Your mind is blown isn’t it. In all actuality when you look at the stars in the sky there are several of those stars that have already supernova and no longer exist. So you are looking at a light that is actually not there. So the theory is. The farther the star you see the farther back in time you look. What scientists have found when they look farther back through the stars is the existence of not 4 but 11 dimensions... This is what I mean. We operate in 4 dimensions... Height, Length, Width and Time. Those are the 4 dimensions that we operate in... Scientist have discovered 11 dimensions with no explanation of them. Now think of this of the existence of God... This is cool. If God does exist that means that he can operate in not just 4 dimensions but in at least 11…. See there is so much that people say are impossible, like How can God be both 1 yet three at the same time? How can go be sovereign yet give man a choice? There are all of these “mysteries” out there that we cannot understand because we view them in 4 dimensions but God, based on science, has the ability to operate in at least 11… That’s pretty cool!
Alright any of you confused? Good deal! But let me say it like this…. Neither Science nor Archeology has disproven the Bible… Let me explain that again, neither Science nor Archeology has disproven the Bible in fact and that includes Evolution. Listen I do not believe in Evolution, but that’s not because I am Christian and I have to, I believe the Theory itself is fundamentally flawed, but even if it were true. Even if evolution was true, it doesn’t disprove the Bible. It is possible to be a Christian and believe in Evolution. But that is a different story for a different day….
Let me give you an example from Archeology... It was long believed that the Bible contained an error in Daniel 5. Daniel 5 talks about the invasion of the Medo-Persian Empire of Babylon and the Bible says that the King of Babylon at the time was Beltshazzer. However, all historic texts tell us that the King at the time of the fall of Babylon was King Nabonidus... So atheist and agnostics would use this and say, look your Bible is Wrong... Your precious inerrant Bible is wrong… That is until 30 years, when an archeological dig made a discovery and they found writings that said, 10 years before the fall of Babylon King Nabonidus got tired of being King so he gave the empire over to his son…. Beltshazzer…. So Nabonidus was still in power but Beltshazzer was the one ruling.. And you want to know something cool…. Because the Bible has proven to be so reliable.. Archeologist now uses the Bible and studies it and they know, where the Bible says something is… Start digging…