Digging for Truth Podcast

Did Jesus exist? Setting aside whether Jesus is the son of God and savior of the world for a moment, is there real evidence that he existed as a human in history?

The short answer is yes, say historians, but there is a small movement out there that claims Jesus was a myth. Dr. Craig Evans refers to these people as mythicists, and talks with Henry Smith about what they claim, and the evidence against it.

CraigAEvans.com

Earliest reference describes Christ as 'magician' - Magic Cup

Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels

Jesus and the Remains of His Day

Morality… where does it come from? Where do good and evil come from? Do they come from God? Does God exist? Deep questions that shape our worldview, and the worldview of Western Civilization borrows heavily from the Judeo-Christian worldview.

Henry Smith and Dr. Josh Kline discuss these and other questions related to morality. Dr. Kline is an educator, teacher of world history and western Civ, and is an elder at Grace Gospel Church in Allentown, PA.

Biblical Worldview: Meaning and morality presentation

Worldview Foundation & Formation - DFT TV

In the 1880s an archive of clay tablets was discovered in Amarna Egypt. These tablets contain interesting correspondence from the kings of Canaan that were paying tribute to the pharoah in Egypt, and they take place during the early time of when the Israelites were conquering the promised land.

Henry Smith discusses the contents of these letters with Dr Scott Stripling, archaeoligist and director of excavations at the dig at Shiloh, Israel. And spoiler alert, Dr. Stripling has a new theory about a connection to Shiloh that might be mentioned in the Amarna Letters.

Genocide in Canaan (part 1) - DFT TV

Genocide in Canaan (part 2) - DFT TV

Tyre and the Tel El-Amarna Tablets

Articles on the Conquest of Canaan

Noah's Ark, the Ark of the Covenant, Mt. Sinai... Many have claimed to have found these things, but how can you know if they are right? Espcially if there are more than one location that has been found? And what about relics that have been found and are put on display in churches? Like pieces of the cross from Jesus' crusifixion, or the crown of thorns - You can see them, but are they the real thing? We discuss some of these claims and suggest caution when someone makes a claim that they have found something significant.

Fake News in Biblical Archaeology - Bible Archeaology Report

Shroud of Turin - DFT TV

Noah's Ark in the News 2010

Noah's Ark in Iran?

Pastor Bryan Windle joins Henry Smith to talk about some of the archaeology of the Christmas story, related to King Herod and the town of Bethlehem.

Unearthing the Prophecy of Jesus' Birthplace - Joel Kramer

The Christmas Story: How Well Do You Know It? - DFT TV

The Archaeology of Christmas - Bible Archaeology Report

For those interested in the Shiloh Excavation - DigShiloh.org

Why are genealogies in the Bible? And why are the genealogies in Genesis so weird? People don't live that long, so they couldn't possibly be literal numbers, right? Henry Smith discusses a bunch of these questions from his many years of study of Biblical genealogy.

Genesis 5 & 11 Project

Proposed Timeline of Earth's History according to Genesis (with Septuagint numbers)

Primeval Chronology Restored

The Grand Canyon in Arizona is a prime spot for geologists to research the layers of Earth's history. But if you're a Creationist, you might have a harder time getting permission to research there because your theroies don't conform to the mainstream thinking about how the world was formed, including ideas about a historical worldwide flood from the story of Noah's Ark.

Henry Smith chats with geologist Dr. Andrew Snelling from Answers in Genesis about his research in the Grand Canyon, and also his experience of worldview descrimination while attempting to gain permission to retrieve rock samples for geological study.

The Fight for 53 Rocks

News about upcoming documentary - The Mountains After the Flood

Music in this episode is from The Grand Canyon Suite, composed by Ferde Grofé

Do fossils and skeletons from Earth's past disprove the origins of man that are described in the Bible? Are Neanderthals human? What about the skeleton named Lucy? Henry Smith explores these questions and the evidence with Dr. Todd Wood, biologist and president of the Core Academy of Science.

Let's Talk Creation Podcast

Is Genesis History? - trailer

Todd's Blog

HumanGenesis.org - blog

Who was Pharaoh during the Exodus? Was it Rameses? Or was it Amenhotep II? Henry Smith talks with egyptologist and biblical scholar Dr Doug Petrovich about these and other pharaohs that ruled during the centuries when the Israelites lived in Egypt.

Origin of the Hebrews - book

Patterns of Evidence: Exodus - documentary

music in this episode is from The Ten Commandments soundtrack, composed by Elmer Bernstein

Scott Lanser and Henry Smith continue their discussion of Joshua and the Israelites conquest of the promised land, and look more specifically at the city of Ai and some the discoveries that have been made through archaeology at that site.

Taking Down Goliath (looking at sling stones) - Digging for Truth TV

Infant Burial Jar found

DigShiloh.org

The Khirbet el-Maqatir Excavations