http:\/\/formerthings.com\/kingdavid.htm<\/a>]\n 3. It is only a portion, but part of it mentions: “And I killed two [power]ful\nkin[gs], who harnessed two thou[sand cha-]riots and two thousand\nhorsemen. I killed Joram son of Ahab king of Israel, and I killed\n[Achaz]yahu son of [Joram kin]g of the House of David.”\n 4. Not only is there a mention of the House of David, but it also mention\nanother king, Joram, son of Ahab.\n![](\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Tel-Dan-Stele.jpg\")
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F. Sergius Paulus<\/p>\n
1. Acts 13:6-12<\/p>\n 2. For a long time, skeptics stated that Luke got the title wrong for the ruler\nin Cyprus. They contented that he should have been called “propraetor”\nwhich was the usual title in the Roman empire.\n a. Coins found in Cyprus, however, show that governors of Cyprus\nwere called proconsuls.\n b. One coin, found in Soli, Cyprus, is inscribed: “Paulus the\nProconsul”\n 3. More recently, a stone was found that has the name Sergius Paulus\ninscribed on it.\n a. In 1877, an inscription was found in Soli, bearing Sergius Paulus’s\nname and his title of proconsul.\n (1) “Apollonius to his father … consecrated this enclosure and\nmonument according to his family’s wishes … having\nfilled the offices of clerk of the market, prefect, town-clerk,\nhigh priest, and having been in charge as manager of the\nrecords office. Erected on the 25th of the month\nDemarchexusius in the 13th year [of Claudius]. He also\naltered the senate by means of assessors during the time of\nthe proconsul Paulus.”\n b. In 1887, a memorial stone was found in Rome that commemorates\nthat in AD 47 Sergius Paulus was appointed as one of the keepers\nof the banks and channel of the river Tiber. He held this office\nwhen he returned to Rome after his three years as governor of\nCyprus.\n c. In 1912, the name L. Sergius Paulus was found on a stone in\nPisidian, Antioch.\n 4. A Roman historian, Pliny, mentions, “There existed different groups of\nmagicians from the time of Moses such as Jannes and Lotape, of whom the\nJews had spoken of. And in fact many thousands yearly follow after\nZoroastrian ways especially during recent times on the Island of Cyprus.” \n a. Pliny also mentions that Sergius Paulus was one of his sources in\nhis work on Natural History. \n
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<\/p>\nIII. These are only a selection of numerous records where archaeological finds that confirm\nthe accuracy of the Bible.\n A. What you should consider is that if the historical comments within the text is that\naccurate, what about the main contents of the Bible?\n B. The evidence for God’s existence is clear. The question is whether you will\nbelieve it.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
by Jeffrey W. Hamilton Text: Isaiah 41:21-29 I. When we claim that the Bible is inspired, we are giving a vague notion that it uplifts a person (though it does) or that it is unique (though it is). A. Inspiration means it came from the mouth of God – II Timothy 3:16-17 B. But it is important…<\/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":[119,32],"tags":[568,725,219,709,279],"class_list":["post-42803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-sermon","tag-accuracy-of-the-bible","tag-archaeology","tag-bible","tag-evidence","tag-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14454,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/do-historians-and-the-bible-disagree\/","url_meta":{"origin":42803,"position":0},"title":"Do historians and the Bible disagree?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 26, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Do you think there is a conflict between the Bible and historians\u00a0regarding when man first existed on this earth? 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