Noah's Ark & Ron Wyatt:
1.) The orthodox view on Noah's ark has always been that the story describes a factual, historic event.
2.) If the ark story describes a factual, historic event, does that also obligate the Christian to accept any PARTICULAR claim a person makes regarding that event?
3.) Surely not.
4.) So, although the orthodox view of the ark story is that it describes an historic, factual event, and Christians should therefore accept it as an historic event, that still fails to leave us with an obligation, or a necessity, to accept any PARTICULAR set of external claims regarding the event.
5.) Ron Wyatt:
If we take Ron Wyatt's claims, and hold them up to the scrutiny of genuine scholars and archaeologists, both secular and Christian, we might find his claims to be deficient.
6.) However, even if we examine Wyatt's claims, and we should find them deficient when held up to scholarly scrutiny, that would still have no bearing, whatsoever, on the authenticity of the Bible.
7.) The Bible is still true.
The Bible is true whether or not Wyatt turns out to be a good archaeologist.
The Bible is true whether or not we find a boat.
The Bible is true because it is "God breathed"... not because we locate some particular thing.
I encourage everyone to do their own study.
God Bless.
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