{"id":41802,"date":"2014-02-06T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=41802"},"modified":"2022-01-11T19:47:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T01:47:42","slug":"what-about-the-claim-that-camels-were-not-used-during-abrahams-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/what-about-the-claim-that-camels-were-not-used-during-abrahams-time\/","title":{"rendered":"What about the claim that camels were not used during Abraham&#8217;s time?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>All these links keep popping up on my Facebook feed due to atheistic friends. Could you explain this one to me as well? It&#8217;s got me stumped, not enough to discredit the Bible or anything, but another to make me feel confused.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceworldreport.com\/articles\/12695\/20140206\/carbon-dating-on-camel-bones-contradict-bibles-accuracy.htm\">Carbon Dating on Camel Bones Contradicts Bible&#8217;s Accuracy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks.<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>The claim is that because they dated some camel bones to a time period after the Bible mentions camels being used as domestic beasts of burden; therefore, the claim is that Bible is wrong. But notice this is a claim based on a\u00a0<em>lack<\/em> of evidence &#8212; such does not constitute proof. They only know that camels were used in the ninth century B.C. They did not\u00a0<em>prove<\/em> that camels were never used before this time.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apologeticspress.org\/apcontent.aspx?category=6&amp;article=858\">Camels and the Composition of Genesis<\/a> where evidence is cited of camels being used in that region of the world prior to the time of Abraham.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: All these links keep popping up on my Facebook feed due to atheistic friends. Could you explain this one to me as well? It&#8217;s got me stumped, not enough to discredit the Bible or anything, but another to make me feel confused.\u00a0 Carbon Dating on Camel Bones Contradicts Bible&#8217;s Accuracy Thanks. Answer: The claim&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[23,568,189,279],"class_list":["post-41802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-abraham","tag-accuracy-of-the-bible","tag-genesis","tag-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13823,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/does-a-camel-bone-disprove-the-bible\/","url_meta":{"origin":41802,"position":0},"title":"Does a Camel Bone Disprove the Bible?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 26, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"by Terry Partain Fox News, Yahoo News, Forbes, Duke University, and of course the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0have jumped on a story from Tel Aviv University that claims they have finally found evidence that the Bible made a mistake. Could be they think Bill Nye the Science Guy needs a little help.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Article&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Camel-300x275.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3638,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/notes-on-animals\/","url_meta":{"origin":41802,"position":1},"title":"Notes on Animals","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"December 18, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"General References Genesis 1:24-25 Genesis 9:2 1 Kings 4:33 Job 12:7 1 Corinthians 15:39 Apes 1 Kings 10:22 For the king had merchant ships at sea with the fleet of Hiram. Once every three years the merchant ships came bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and monkeys. 2 Chronicles 9:21 For\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Notes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Notes","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/notes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":86273,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/gnats-and-camels\/","url_meta":{"origin":41802,"position":2},"title":"Gnats and Camels","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"April 3, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"by Zeke Flores You must admit, some of Jesus' word pictures are pretty funny. It's humorous to imagine someone trying to filter out a tiny insect so their food will be clean, but open their mouth wide for a whole camel! But the lesson in that funny image isn't funny\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Article&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3974,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/is-god-limited\/","url_meta":{"origin":41802,"position":3},"title":"Is God limited?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"February 11, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Hello, I just read your sermon on \"The Eternal God.\"\u00a0 I have some questions that I hope you can answer for me.\u00a0 I am a Christian and I believe that Christ died for my sins.\u00a0 I believe that the Bible is God's word to us. 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