Evidences From Archaeology (1 of 6 notes)

Part Two
Bibliology: 10 BIBLE EVIDENCES- Continued
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker

Archeology cannot prove that the Bible is a divine revelation but it can prove the historical accuracy of the Bible. It is altogether unreasonable to suppose that a book which is a fraud, which was written hundreds of years after its purported date, should be accurate in its historical details. If the book of Acts, for example, had been written two centuries after the events transpired, as some destructive critics once contended, it would be most unlikely that the writer could have been accurate in his descriptions of Paul’s missionary journeys. The critics once claimed that the book of Acts was full of historical and geographical inaccuracies, but the work of W. M. Ramsey in Asia Minor has silenced all such claims. Ramsey began his archeological work apparently to prove a late date for Acts, but the facts which he unearthed convinced him otherwise. He states: “The present writer, starting with the confident assumption that the book was fabricated in the middle of the second century, and studying it to see what light it could throw on the state of society in Asia Minor, was gradually driven to the conclusion that it must have been written in the first century and with admirable knowledge.”¹

1             W. M. Ramsay, Pauline and Other Studies (New York: A. C. Armstrong and Sons, 1906), p. 199.

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