Francis Schaeffer and Dr. C. Everett Koop
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In the past on my blog I have spent a lot of time on the subject of Biblical Archaeology and I got that habit from Francis Schaeffer who put a lot of that in the extensive footnotes in chapter 5 of WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE HUMAN RACE? In fact, I have included much of that evidence from that chapter in several letters I have written to skeptics.
On 1-19-15 I emailed Professor Elie Wiesel and I gave him this following sentence to read with the links included:
You can get a ticket by going to this website at this link and putting in your zip code to find a theater near you. It stars Israel Finkelstein, Benjamin Netanyahu, Shimon Peres, and many more and they will be discussing if the Exodus took place or not with only scientific facts. I have posted several very good reviews of the major motion picture on my blog.
One of this links would have led him to the following post:
I am going to see this film at a local theater on Monday January 19, 2015 and you can too by going to this website at this link and putting in your zip code to find a theater near you. It will only be out on that one day. It stars Charles Alin,Manfred Bietak,John Bimson,Mansour Boraik,Israel Finkelstein,Norma Franklin,Manis Friedman,David Hartman,James Hoffmeier,Tim Mahoney,Michael Medved,,Benjamin Netanyahu,Shimon Peres,Maarten Rave,David Rohl, Kent Weeks,David Wolpe,Bryant Wood, and I have posted several very good reviews of the major motion picture on my blog. Here is a review below:
One Night Movie Event Coming: Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus
A big event is soon to arrive for Christians and for those simply interested in archaeological examinations and historical events of the past. A one night screening of Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus, a documentary, is being shown nationwide in select theaters Monday, January 19. It will be screened at Celebration Cinema North and River Town Crossings in Grand Rapids at 7 pm. And it will screen as well in Benton Harbor at the Celebration Cinema. It is directed by Timothy P. Mahoney.“Did the Exodus really happen?” asks Mahoney in a short video on the website, FathomEvents.com. “That’s a question that led me on an incredible 12-year investigation.” We are not certain of Mahoney’s conclusions, but we do know that he wanted to examine the “physical evidence from a scientific perspective.” Referring to the audience of this film, he said, “We let them make up their own mind.” The documentary features a panel of experts sharing their point of view.Mahoney added that “new evidence” will be scrutinized, including evidence involving Joseph, the Israelites, the 10 plagues and the Exodus from Egypt. He stated too that certain practices that were not Egyptian were found in their archaeological digs, practices that were Hebrew in nature and in history. One scholar in a trailer about the movie states that when the Biblical account and the archaeological findings are lined up side by side, the two “match up very well.”
From the website, patternsofevidence.com this description of the film is given:
For more than 50 years, the vast majority of the world’s most prominent archaeologists and historians have proclaimed that there is no hard evidence to support the Exodus story found in the Bible. In fact, they say that the archaeological record is completely opposed to the Bible’s account. This view of extreme skepticism has spread from academia to the world. The case against the Exodus appears to be so strong that even some religious leaders are labeling this ancient account as historical fiction.
Filmmaker Tim Mahoney begins with the question, “Is the Bible just a myth, or did the archaeologists get it wrong?” He decides to tackle this issue with a deliberate scientific approach. After examining the details in the biblical text, he journeys across the globe to search for patterns of evidence firsthand. The result is the most in-depth archaeological investigation into the Exodus from Egypt ever captured on film.
A few of the expert panelists include Charles Aling, Egypologist, University of Northwestern, St. Paul, Minnesota, Manfred Bietak, Egyptologist, University of Vienna, John Bimson, Tutor in Old Testament, Trinity College, Bristol, and Israel Finkelstein, Archaeologist, Tel Aviv University.
The film will be preceded by a pre-show starting at 6:30 pm and will be followed by a half hour panel discussion dealing with the important issues brought up in the film. The running time of the film is 115 minutes.
Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus Trailer Update 121714
A FEATURE DOCUMENTARY COMING THEATERS ACROSS AMERICA, MONDAY JANUARY 19. 2015
For more information, follow:
http://www.patternsofevidence.com
Directed and Produced by Timothy P. Mahoney
Executive Producer David Wessner
Co-Producers Peter Windahl and Diane Walker
Thinking Man Films
The Bible and Archaeology – Is the Bible from God? (Kyle Butt 42 min)
You want some evidence that indicates that the Bible is true? Here is a good place to start and that is taking a closer look at the archaeology of the Old Testament times. Is the Bible historically accurate? Here are some of the posts I have done in the past on the subject: 1. The Babylonian Chronicle, of Nebuchadnezzars Siege of Jerusalem, 2. Hezekiah’s Siloam Tunnel Inscription. 3. Taylor Prism (Sennacherib Hexagonal Prism), 4. Biblical Cities Attested Archaeologically. 5. The Discovery of the Hittites, 6.Shishak Smiting His Captives, 7. Moabite Stone, 8. Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III, 9A Verification of places in Gospel of John and Book of Acts., 9B Discovery of Ebla Tablets. 10. Cyrus Cylinder, 11. Puru “The lot of Yahali” 9th Century B.C.E., 12. The Uzziah Tablet Inscription, 13. The Pilate Inscription, 14. Caiaphas Ossuary, 14 B Pontius Pilate Part 2, 14c. Three greatest American Archaeologists moved to accept Bible’s accuracy through archaeology.,
Featured artist today is Jon Anderson of Biola
[ARTS 315] The Fully Present Object: Minimalism – Jon Anderson
Published on Jul 9, 2012
Contemporary Art Trends [ARTS 315], Jon Anderson
The Fully Present Object: Minimalism
September 16, 2011
Featured Artist: Jonathan Anderson
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Jim Watkins– 28/10/2011Posted in: Artists, Featured Artist, Painters
Construction (no. 6). 2009. Oil on oak panel. 48″x72″.
Jonathan Anderson was born in 1977 in Denver, Colorado and currently lives and works in Long Beach, California. He holds an MFA in drawing and painting from California State University Long Beach, and he is Assistant Professor of Art at Biola University. One of his paintings is currently being exhibited in the travelling exhibition Curse or Calling?, curated by CIVA. You can view much of Jonathan’s work at his website.
I was initially drawn to the way that Jonathan’s paintings play with the relationship between the flat canvas and the “window-like” artificial space of the painting. I won’t pretend that I don’t have a penchant for what might broadly be termed “realism,” and I am fascinated by questions about the nature of human perception. So, really, finding Jonathan’s paintings was strangely like returning to an old friend. For example, I love the minty green smear overlaid upon a deeply recessing alley in Ways and Means. I also love his use of barriers, as in Curtains, which reminds the viewer that the power to create artificial worlds in a painting comes along with certain necessary limitations and obstructions. A painting both invites us in and stops us in our tracks; it opens some possibilities and forecloses others.
He also sometimes repeats his images (again, in Curtains). I have never tried repeating a painting before, but I imagine that it would be a bit tiresome. Nevertheless, these copies seem, to me at least, to emphasize the artificiality of the paintings themselves. Can a viewer really become lost in a realistic depiction of a scene when there is another exactly like it sitting next to it?
The theme of artificiality is brought to the fore in his recent series, aptly named, Constructions. While these paintings also stretch and play with the relationship between flatness and depth, they seem to point more specifically to the relationship between the artificial and the natural. Many of these paintings depict a house, mid-construction, in the midst of its natural surroundings. The complex wooden frames of these stuctures become the lens through which we view nature, or, as in The Rift, the fence that contains nature. To what extent does human making distance us from or draw us more deeply into nature? The constant theme of lumber and trees in these paintings is fascinating because it suggests that, ultimately, human making and nature are intimately bound together.
I commend Jonathan’s paintings to you, and I hope that you will have a look at his website. Until then, please scroll down through a few of his paintings:
Curtains. 2006-7. Oil on Canvas. 61″x75.5″.
Ways and Means. 2007. Oil on Panel. 16″x12″.
The Rift. 2011. Oil on Birch Panel. 40″x24″.
Construction
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