Apologetics Without Apologies

1. Apologetics Without Apologies • Apologetics: Explaining and defending the reasons for belief in God and in the Bible. John Oakes, PhD

2. Jonathan Swift: “It is impossible to reason a person out of a thing which they were not reasoned into in the first place.” William of Ockham: Nothing is assumed as evident unless it is known per se, is evident by experience, or is proved by authority of scripture. Epistomology

3. Michael Faraday; “The man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong; and he has the additional misfortune of inevitably remaining so.”

4. Medical Evidence

5. Papyrus Ebers

6. The Ebers Papyrus: “To prevent hair from turning gray, anoint it with the blood of a calf which has been boiled in oil or with the fat of a rattlesnake.” “A mixture of six fats, namely those of the horse, the hippopotamus, the crocodile, the cat, the snake and the ibex.... to prevent hair loss.”

7. Why on the eighth day? “For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised.” (Genesis 17: 12)

8. Here is How it Works • Blood Clotting Proteins (Prothrombin) are continually produced in the liver. • The Liver needs Vitamin K to make clotting proteins. • Vitamin K is produced in our intestinal tract. • When a baby is born the Vitamin K levels are similar to that of the mother.

9. Infants are born without the required bacteria in their intestines to produce Vitamin K It takes about five days for the bacteria to build up in order for the baby to start producing its own Vitamin K As a result Prothrombin drops to 30 percent of normal

10. Clotting Protein Peaks on Day Eight Available Prothrombin

11. Abraham’s Experiment

12. A Jewish medical text: “The snail trailing a moist streak after it as it crawls, and so using up its vitality serves as a remedy for boils.” “The sting of a hornet is healed by the house-fly, crushed and applied to the wound.” “The gnat, feeble creature, taking in food but never secreting it is a specific against the poison of the viper.” An ancient Hebrew medical manuscript.

13. “Whoever touches the dead body of anyone will be unclean for seven days. He must purify himself with the water on the third and seventh day...take some hyssop, dip it in the water and sprinkle the tent and furnishings and the people who were there.” Numbers 19

14. Semmelweiss

15. Death Rate falls from 18% to 1%

16. Thymol

17. Archaeological Evidence

18. The five-city league with Abraham: Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and Zoar (Genesis 14:2).

19. One of the Tel El Amarna Letters

20. From a Tel el Amarna Letter: “The Habiru plunder all lands of the king. If archers are here this year, then the lands of the king, the lord, will remain; but if the archers are not here, then the lands of the king, my lord, are lost.”

21. The Tel Dan Inscription Mentions “The House of David”

22. Messianic Prophecies Psalms 22 I can count all my bones They have pierced my hands and my feet Divided and cast lots

23. Zech 11:12,13 30 pieces of silver The potter Daniel 9:24-27 seventy sevens 458 – 490 = - 32

24. Typology: Prefigures Foreshadows Types and antitypes

25. Parallels Between Moses and Jesus Moses Jesus Pharaoh tried to kill him Herod tried to kill him Called by God to leave Egypt Carried out of Egypt Forty years in the wilderness to prepare for his ministry Forty days in the wilderness to prepare for his ministry Left his position with the king of Egypt to dwell with the Jews Left the right hand of the Father to life with the Jews Led Israel out of slavery in Egypt Leads Spiritual Israel out of sin Aaron prepared the way John the Baptist prepared the way Baptized Israel in the Red Sea in order to free them Commands baptism in water for freedom from sin Gave manna in the wilderness (sort of) Gives spiritual bread to all who hunger Gave water to the people in the desert Gives spiritual water: the Holy Spirit Spoke to God on Mt. Sinai Spoke to God on Mt. Hermon