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Past centuries of everyday life have created thousands of legends and stories that have quickened the imagination, wondering what is true and what is only the fantasy of wandering thoughts. How is it possible to even begin to know what really happened centuries ago?? Well, in many instances it is much more possible than we could have believed! There are several particularly important things to know when doing ancient research.
First, in the 17th-18th centuries several self-proclaimed atheists and agnostics declared many, many documents and historians to be invalid, seeming to think those in the distant past were less intelligent than themselves and merely made up stories. These men had no authority to declare history false, and even less to publish their thoughts which persist even to our own school textbook. These men also had little to work with compared to today and the many sciences we now have used to explore the past; we have computers to analyze the findings of etymologists, those who study the evolution of languages; archeaologists have uncovered a tremendous amount of ancient information and much that has surprised and delighted us; geologists have also learned a great deal about the areas in which people worked and lived; the list goes on to several more and different sciences the 17th-18th century scholars had no access with which to prove their ideas. It is highly unfortunate that the ideas these men put forth are stiil great affecting our culture and world view.
Why? So why did these self-proclaimed atheists persist with these thoughts? Because(gasp!)the stories and ancient genealogies pointed directly back to Noah! Proving Noah was a real living,breathing human being and not a mere fable. And so proving the Bible true!
Next time we will explore the historians and documents, and after that, stories more thrilling than fiction and setting the heart beating to want to know more!