From website: The Dunham Bible Museum, with its extensive collection of rare Bibles, is dedicated to telling the story of the most important book in the world. On public display are: ancient manuscripts decoratively illuminated medieval Scriptures examples of the earliest printed Bibles the earliest Bibles in English the earliest Bibles printed in America Bible translations from across the centuries Read more...
Modern creationism, the idea that God created the world in six literal days approximately 6,000 years ago, and following that, a worldwide flood occurred, was championed by George McCready Price, a Seventh Day Adventist, starting in 1902. Williams Jennings Bryan unsuccessfully recruited him as a witness for the Scopes Trial. The “flood geology” movement grew to include conservative Lutherans, and Read more...
From website: ANCIENT ARTIFACTS TSUMA features hundreds of ancient objects from the times of Abraham, Moses, David and Solomon, the Hebrew prophets, John the Baptizer and Jesus. Each artifact is linked to a Bible passage, lending a 3-dimensional, tangible reality to the text. Artifacts from the TSU excavation of biblical Sodom (Tall el-Hammam) are on display for the first time. Read more...
The lock and key belonging to the Culpeper Jail in the 1770s is a treasured relic preserved by the Virginia Baptist Historical Society in Richmond. Featured Image Credit: News and Events | Virginia Baptist Historical Society & Center for Baptist Heritage & Studies. baptistheritage.org/news-events. Read more...
Ye Olde Yellow Meeting House, located on Yellow Meetinghouse Road, off Route 526, dates to about 1737. Its earliest records, beginning in 1766, are in a 165-page handwritten “Church Book: Giving an Account of ye First Settlement & Progress of the Baptists at Crosswicks, or Upper Freehold.” In 1766, its forty-seven members organized into Crosswicks Baptist Church. In 1773, its Read more...
COLUMBIA FALLS – Even against a backdrop of scenery that draws millions of visitors from around the world, God’s Ten Commandments Park is hard to miss. “I tell people when they drive through the Ten Commandments Park they see the glory of God, and when they go into Glacier Park they see the majesty of God and his creation,” founder Read more...
George Bennard was born in Youngstown, Ohio, but his parents would move to Iowa. When he was a teenager, he was invited to a Salvation Army meeting at 176 South 1st Avenue, Canton, Illinois, where he knelt at the “mourner’s bench” and accepted Jesus Christ as his Savior. The Canton Salvation Army still has that mourner’s bench on display. After Read more...
In downtown Boston, MA, you can see where Dwight L. Moody was saved. Two years later found him in Chicago. When he wasn’t selling shoes, he ran a Sunday School class in an old saloon in a slum called The Sands, or Little Hell. In spite of his lack of education, he tried to teach the young children. He told Read more...
From website: Welcome to the Linda Byrd Smith Museum of Biblical Archaeology. With more than 100 artifacts displayed, the museum can be used as a resource for students to provide context and help them better understand their biblical studies. The museum has 10 sections that showcase items such as storage jars, perfume bottles, coins, weapons, wine skins and other artifacts Read more...
The focus of the Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology is on the excavation of Biblical Mizpah (Tell en-Nasbeh) from 1926 to 1935 under the British Mandate. Mizpah, named for the place where Jacob and Laban made a covenant after Jacob left Laban’s employment with his wives Rachel and Leah (Laban’s daughters) according to Genesis 31:49. It was made into a Read more...
From website: The highlight of any visit to the Biblical History Center is a walk through the Archaeological Replica Garden where full-scale reconstructions of structures relevant to daily life in Biblical times bring history to life. Four areas of ancient life are represented in our Archaeological Replica Garden: Life of the Shepherd, Life of the Farmer, Life of the Village, Read more...
Ken Ham was born in Australia, the son of a Christian educator. At the age of 10, John Whitcomb and Henry Morris published The Genesis Flood, that ignited the modern Young Earth Creation movement. After college, Ken Ham taught high school science, until he began a Creation ministry in Australia, and then later moved to the United States to work Read more...
In addition to the artifacts, it features many of the most significant Biblical replicas, including Siloam Inscription – the “completion marker” of Hezekiah’s Tunnel, chiseled into stone underneath Jerusalem where the two teams of diggers met during the Sennacherib siege Mesha Stele – discuses Omri, King of Israel and his relations with Mesha of Moab as recorded in 2 Kings Read more...
From AsburySeminary.edu: The Livingston Lab houses a collection of authentic archaeological artifacts from Bible lands dating from over 5000 years ago through the St. Augustine period around A.D. 400. The lab contains pieces from the times of Abraham, Moses, Gideon, David and the prophets, more than 10,000 high-resolution images of Bible lands, a library of historic and contemporary maps and Read more...
