Welcome to a breakpoint, a daily look in an ever-changing culture through the lens of

unchanging truth. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Recent article in the Britain's daily mail suggested that the prophets Amos and Zachariah

might have gotten something right. Here's how the writer put it.

Quote, a scientific breakthrough has exposed the truth about a site in ancient Jerusalem,

overturning expert opinion and vindicating the Bible's

account. Until now experts believed a stretch of wall in the original heart of the

city was built by Hezekiah King of Judah whose reign straddled the seventh and eighth centuries

BC. But now an almost decade-long study has revealed it was built by his

great grandfather, Yuziah, after a huge earthquake echoing the account in the Bible, end quote,

echoing the account of the Bible.

Well that story reminds me of a scene from Pirates of the Caribbean when a character

says to Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow, quote,

you actually were telling the truth.

To which Captain Jack replied,

I do that quite a lot, yet people are always surprised.

Time after time throughout the last century and especially in the last few decades,

the scholarly world has been surprised to find that the biblical authors were actually telling the truth.

Skeptics have long assumed that the content of the

Bible is more pious fraud than history, a kind of well-intentioned story to inspire the faithful.

And yet, the reliability of the word of God has been repeatedly affirmed.

As more biblical archaeological sites are discovered and more extra-biblical sources,

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