'''Dr. Walter Kaiser:''' Thank you very much.
It’s a delight to talk to you on archaeology.
Some people think that archaeologists are
people who just try to dig up dirt on other
people.
And in some ways, that is true.
But there’s much more to archaeology than
just sort of going and getting something under
your fingernails.
After a while, it gets under your skin because
here comes evidence that has been buried in
the ground for all this period of time but,
nevertheless, I think introduces us to some
of the wonderf ul discoveries and evidence
that demonstrates the reliability of the Word
of God.
What is archaeology attempting to do?
I think we need, first of all, some real understanding
about the purpose of archaeology.
Is it basically to prove the Bible?
Well, now, if you’re going to use that word
in a very limited sense, actually we can only
give an enormously high weight of evidence
and probability that you are morally forced
and obligated to go in the direction of the
evidence.
But prove?
If I could prove it in that sense, I would
think there would be no one who would be outside
the Christian faith.
Why, I could just sort of bring down the weight
of the evidence and say, “Bend.
Repent.”
And, you know, just put the pressure on them.
But as you know, it’s a little bit more
complicated than that.
So, given a high degree of such a high weight
of evidence so that it becomes so overwhelmingly
disproportionate in favor of the thesis that
the Bible is what it claims to be and comes
from the God who has given it, I think, is
clear.
