"and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing."
John 9:7
CAN WE CONSIDER factual whatever we read in the Bible even if it is not verified by history? Take for example the notion of some that the Pool Siloam in John 9 didn't actually exist in Jesus day. But then something happened to confirm the veracity of the biblical story.
When workers were digging up a sewer line in the old City of Jerusalem, they surprisingly uncovered two steps. The Israel Antiquities Authority was called in, and archaeologists started excavating in that location. As archaeologist Eli Shukron cleared the rubble, he was 100% certain that this spot had to be the pool of Siloam where the blind man was healed by Jesus.
Worker who constructed the original pool had buried four coin in the plaster. All bore images of Alexander Jannaeus, the Jewish king who ruled Jerusalem from103 to 76 BC. Archaeologists also found another dozen coins dating from the period of the Jewish revolt again Rome from 66 to 70 AD. The presence of the two sets of coin demonstrated that the pool had been silted in or filled up during that time in the first century.
Can you accept the Bible as factual history? Scholar might have been denying historical facts of scripture, yet archaeologists have been making discoveries that confirm the biblical data.
The anti-factual bias of the secular world is nothing that should come as a surprise. No wonder Paul wrote, "The man without the spirit does not accept the things that come from the spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned" (1Corinthians 2:14).
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