Akin for the Truth

Welcome to Akin for the Truth. Some of these technical podcasts are helped significantly by visual aids. I've posted video supplements on our new YouTube channel to provide that extra layer of context. Click here to subscribe to the Akin for the Truth YouTube Channel and stay updated as we add new videos to the library.

Welcome to Akin for the Truth. Some of these technical podcasts are helped significantly by visual aids. I've posted video supplements on our new YouTube channel to provide that extra layer of context. Click here to subscribe to the Akin for the Truth YouTube Channel and stay updated as we add new videos to the library.

Just like an engineer is trained to alter habitat beneficially, beavers alter their habitats. If the beaver's habitat doesn't have enough water, they'll build a dam, canals, and more. Welcome to Akin for the Truth. Some of these technical podcasts are helped significantly by visual aids. I've posted video supplements on our new YouTube channel to provide that extra layer of context. Click here to subscribe to the Akin for the Truth YouTube Channel and stay updated as we add new videos to the library.

Welcome to Akin for the Truth. Some of these technical podcasts are helped significantly by visual aids. I've posted video supplements on our new YouTube channel to provide that extra layer of context. Click here to subscribe to the Akin for the Truth YouTube Channel and stay updated as we add new videos to the library.

For more information and sources you could check out http://akinforthetruth.net. For myself, I have not found criticisms of the central themes of this research very compelling. For example, perhaps one of the more notable argument sets I have found is that produced by the group authoring the article series "Debunking Christianity". At their website they enlist SEVEN Criticisms of Wyatt's Claim that he discovered and photographed a 3,500 year old "Egyptian Chariot Wheel" . On another website, a critic claims to have attempted to reproduce the route traveled by Moller and his group, a journey in which he claims that "none of the discoveries claimed in the movie "The Exodus Revealed" were observed. Unfortunately, to date, and unlike Moller and his group, they themselves produced no photographed or video documentation of their research. Therefore, to date, despite accusations of poor research and outright fraud by his critics, I personally have found no reason to doubt his findings, or his documentation. The following, regardless, seems very clearly true to me: 1) Those settlements in Goshen are clearly non-Egyptian, ancient Hebrew-like settlements; 2) Paul states clearly in Galatians that Mt. Sinai is in Arabia; 3) Paul's statement is in concert with those of all respected historians, Christian or not; 4) The land of Midian, and the uncovered city of Madian, is in Saudi Arabia, not in the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula; 5) The crossings proposed across the Suez are not reasonable or believable, for many reasons; 6) The route proposed to have been taken by Moses when escaping from Pharaoh the first time, and then some forty years later by he and Israel, the existence of mining operations in the south and existence of dangerous nations in the north, and the geographic facts enlisted by the movie, are quite convincing to me; 7) The existence of a large beachhead at the end of the proposed route that the Israelis and Moses took, the existence of a land bridge with from the Peninsula to Saudi Arabia, and the belief by Solomon some four hundred years after the event that this point was in fact that of the crossing are powerful arguments; 8) The un-natural formations of coral to form the shapes of chariot wheels and chariot axles shown on photographs are very compelling, and seem difficult to impossible to fake; 9) Forging or faking the archaeological documentation presented in this movie seems to me difficult and unlikely. I have seen many "facts" put forth by others, supported by far more flimsy archaeological backing (e.g. Leakey's Austalopithecus, Homo habilis, and the evolution of the whale, just to name a very few).

For more information and sources you could check out http://akinforthetruth.net. Previous theories portraying the path of the Exodus and location of Mt. Horeb, or Sinai, have not been supported by any research of Jewish tradition or archaeological discovery, and so have reflected poorly on the viability, in the opinion of the scientific community, on the accuracy of the Biblical account of the Exodus. However, fresh research has been accomplished, shedding new light, beginning with the discovery Israeli settlements in Goshen dated to Joseph's time, the appearance centuries later of the Hebrews, and the nation of Israel in Canaan, location of the Mountain of God via historical evidence and archaeological inference in Northwestern Arabia by ancient Midian, and a trade route through a system of dried riverbeds terminating at the only possible campsite west of the Gulf of Aqaba, referred to as the Red Sea, the Nuweiba Peninsula, under which has been found chariot wheel-base looking coral and metallic debris structures resembling 18th dynasty Egyptian chariot wheels, and a sand-silt underwater pathway connecting the Peninsula with the Arabian shore line eleven miles due east. And so, as is clearly stated in Exodus 14:29, "They went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left. That day the Lord saved Israel."

For more information and sources you could check out http://akinforthetruth.net. In our effort to trace the Exodus, we can produce an outline of what we have learned so far as follows: 1) As stated in Galatians 4:25, and confirmed by ancient historians and modern archaeology, Mt. Sinai, or Mt. Horab, is in Arabia, near the ancient, recently discovered city of Midian, not near the southern Sinai Peninsula of Christian lore; 2) the Biblically asserted times and location of Joseph and the Hebrews is archaeologically supported to be in Goshen (Tel El Daba); 3) the location of these two, even if approximate, along with the geography of the land and knowledge of other nations and where they were located during those times; 4) the enslavement of the Joseph's family sometime after his death, the forced labor of these people by the Egyptians to make bricks for Egyptian building projects is archaeologically supported, for example by wall paintings showing Semites engaged in brick-making from the tomb of Rekhmire, vizier to Pharaoh Amenhotep I; 5) at least some of these Hebrew settlements were destroyed, covered at some locations by Hyksos buildings (eg the palace at Tel El Daba); 6) the early dates presented by these Scriptural assertions and archaeological finds implicate the Hyksos invaders, who ruled Egypt for about 108 years, were the ones who did not know Joseph and who initially enslaved the Israelites; 7) the presence of what was considered by the Egyptians and Canaanite nations as nomads, were in Canaan, and were threatening the very existence of the nations in Canaan, as documented by mid-1330s BC letters from Abdi-Heba, the Egyptian vassal ruler of Jerusalem in the Amarna period; 8) the nation of Israel is specifically named in the Israel stele, a 13th century tablet found in a 3200 year-old poem, written by Merneptah; 9) the gulf of Aquba, rather than the traditionally-held Gulf of Suez, is the better candidate by far for the Red Sea crossing, and Nuweiba Peninsula seems the only feasible crossing point along that Gulf; 10) Undersea research at the gulf where it extends beyond Nuweiba reveals a 5000 foot and more wide land-bridge, ancient Egyptian wagon-wheel and axle shaped coral formations, making a foot crossing, given a remarkable sea parting occurs first; 11) after locating Mt. Sinai and the Red Sea Crossing, the route from Goshen seems clearly to be along common trade routes used at the time, across the Sinai Penisula.

For more information and sources you could check out http://akinforthetruth.net. Last time we cited findings from remote operating vehicle video undersea camera at the Gulf of Aqaba, off the Nuweiba Peninsula. Looking southward underwater from this crossing ridge, a deep canyon, plunging deeper than the Grand Canyon, can be seen extending southward for over 50 miles. By the way, we could look at the reasonability of a presumed crossing of millions of people trying to cross this underwater crossing ridge. Assuming that 2 million Israelites left Egypt who had to cross the Red Sea within a single day, could such a feat be accomplished at Nuweiba Beach? Looking at the Admirality map, produced in 1995 in cooperation with the US Geological Survey, UK mapping and the Suadi Government, as well as other cooperative research data, it is observed that this underwater landbridge is quite wide, perhaps at least 3 miles of walkable surface.

For more information and sources you could check out http://akinforthetruth.net. Last time we looked at powerful inferences of discovered chariot-wheel and axle – shaped coral discovered, photographed and videoed, on the sea floor at the gulf of Aqaba, as it extends from the Nuweiba Peninsula. We noted that these formations exclude any recent site-seeding, or planting of evidence, because, though one could have dropped chariot wheels and axles into this area, no one can simulate coral shaped like chariot wheels and axles. The coral had to have been shaped over a very long time period. Additionally, the deterioration of the base materials beneath these coral formations is very compelling. It testifies to very old age. But this evidence, found undersea to confirm the reasoning, Scriptural inference and archaeological evidence that brought us to the Nuweiba Peninsula, does not exist in a vacuum. Further understanding is provided by other undersea observations. These observations help speak to the question "Even if the nearly inconceivable miracle of parting this sea happened, how could men, women, young and old, and children, with all their belongings, and wheeled carts, cross this sea floor". Nearly all of the Gulf of Aqaba's sea floors are thick with coral, craggy and/or sharp rock outcroppings, and very steep. As one should expect, the mountainous terrain surrounding the Gulf of Aqaba continues beneath the surface of the sea, and so the sea floor is treacherous and steep. So Moller decided to further investigate in the Spring of 2000.

For more information and sources you could check out http://akinforthetruth.net. As mentioned last discussion, when searching the Aqaba Gulf basin for any indications of the Exodus events recorded in the Bible, researchers knew exactly what they were searching for. Now the sea floor off the Nuweiba shoreline has coral, scattered about, making undersea research complicated. As a living organism that tends to adhere to solid objects, not sand or silt, coral, as it grows, will often do so along the lines of the object that it adheres to, defining the original shape of the object. So thereby the coral could preserve the look of the object, long after the object itself has deteriorated and disappeared in the sea water. In his undersea research in the area, and the video-tape documentation, Dr. Moller observed that the coral formations found off the Nuweiba Peninsula differed distinctly from that of corals elsewhere off the Gulf of Aqaba coast. For example, since the sea bed was mostly sand or silt where he was looking, he noted that coral was formed as one would expect when at a site of scattered debris and wreckage. Furthermore, very unique shapes, distinctly circular and attached to shaft-looking formations at right (90 degree) angles were seen at a number of spots on the sea floor. These formations contrast sharply with those found off the north and south coasts of Aqaba, which form dense reefs, often covering acres. The formations off Nuweiba are generally much smaller, and are scattered randomly along the sea floor.