Timeless Truth in Ancient Greece
Biblical Archaeology Brings the Word to Life
By Justin Lonas

Secular culture has a hard time with the Bible. Scholars desperately try to disprove and devalue it by claiming that it is neither historical nor literal because there are severe implications for those who don't believe if this book is truly the Word of God.

Unbelievers often cling to these arguments to avoid encountering the God who convicts of sin and even Christians are tempted to doubt that God indeed said and meant what we have recorded in Scripture. For skeptics and believers alike, biblical archaeology can offer a “Thomas experience”, putting our hands and feet in the words of Scripture and turning faith in their truth into sight.

Nowhere does Scripture more readily spring to life than in the excavated ruins of Greek cities. Corinth and Phillipi are particular sites of interest because of their extensive and relatively well-preserved Roman structures from New Testament times and lack of classical Greek ruins (Greek Corinth was destroyed by the Romans in 146 B.C and rebuilt as a Roman city in 44 B.C.; Philippi was re-founded as a Roman colony in 30 B.C.).