Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 991 | Jase Wins Craziest Wager He’s Ever Made & How Do We Know the Bible Is Valid?
Wed, 13 Nov 2024
Jase recounts one of the craziest wagers he ever won, and he swears he didn’t even think about cheating. Al is excited about a recent discovery of ancient stone tablets in Israel, and Zach points out that the Bible has been historically proven accurate many times over, more so than any other book from antiquity. The guys focus on the struggle that inevitably comes in life with following Jesus, but even that shouldn’t keep us from sharing Jesus with passion. In this episode: Colossians 1; Colossians 2; Luke 13, verse 24; John 18, verse 36; Philippians 1, verse 27; Hebrews 12, verse 1; 1 Timothy 6, verses 11-12; Philemon 1, verse 6 -- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What crazy wager did Jase win?
I am unashamed. What about you? Welcome back to unashamed. Um, still in our different locations, uh, coming to you, but, uh, we're excited about it. We're still waiting on dad to get, uh, get that back lined out, but hopefully we'll get him back on here soon. Uh, keep him in your prayers for sure. Um, I sent y'all, uh,
Jason, Zach, an interesting article that I ran across about an archaeological find in the Judean desert. And it was really, it was interesting because it's dated back, I think, around the 5th century. There were some monks that were there, these Byzantine monks, and it was written in Koine Greek, and it was the first two verses, kind of a translation of the first two verses from Psalm 86.
But this thing was written in stone, which was really interesting because most of the stuff they find up in that desert are on papyrus or different kind of writing things, and they don't find it very often in stone. But I thought it was really interesting that the verses say, Hear me, Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy. Guard my life, for I am faithful to you.
Save your servant who trusts in you. You are my God. And it was written in the same Koine Greek that the New Testament comes from as well. And so it was really encouraging and inspiring to me because you think about it like – that we wouldn't still be finding stuff, but there's so much there.
And the guy that was describing it says like, uh, he felt like Indiana Jones, you know, cause there's all these caves and, you know, there's places that just still haven't been looked at in depth. And so they're going back in, you know, like this year they're planning another three week trip. And so I just, I find it interesting that every time something is found, uh,
It just deepens our understanding of this whole thing. The Bible, our belief system, all of you know, there was not finding something that says, oh, no, that's true. They continue to give evidences that all this is real. And, you know, we're talking about going back. what, 1,500 years to find this. So it was really fascinating to me.
And you can look that up because it just happened this last week. And so I ran across that on X. But it's just encouraging, Zach. I mean, you think about that. We talk about apologetics, but it's really just discovering things that continue to point to who God is.
Oh, no question. If you apply the same standard, the same academic standards, to the Bible that we do other books of antiquity, there's not really any other book that comes close in terms of the validity of the historicity of it. There's so many copies and so much that testifies to the validity of just its accuracy.
So I think that's true, but the problem is people want to interpret it and they don't want to apply the same standard. They want to use some other standard. that doesn't exist in the world to somehow validate it. But for me, the greatest evidence, though, is honestly just seeing lives change, seeing my own life change, seeing the transformation that I see in people.
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Chapter 2: What recent archaeological find was discussed?
Oh, I'm going one day. I'm going to do it. I like their laws on metal detecting. I mean, they don't mind you finding stuff. You've got to turn it in to the government, which I'm perfectly fine with that, and then they'll give you a cash value of it that they deem appropriate. Because I just like finding. I mean, most of the stuff I find, I give away.
It would be nice if it had a big treasure, though, wouldn't it?
Well, in our technological age, it's all about the picture anyway.
Yeah.
So you find something, I take a picture, and then give it to the landowner. Okay. What am I going to do with it? Put it in a box in a drawer? So if you come try to rob my house and get all my treasures, you're going to be disappointed. Most of them are no longer with us. You know, I just... Because it's like, what are you going to do with it? I mean, I don't want to sell it.
And most of the stuff I find is not of great value because it's too old. I mean, most of the stuff you find has to be in pristine condition. But I got news for you. Looting is still going on via treasure hunters going where they shouldn't go. Or I've had to run people off at my place. I'm like, hey, go somewhere else. The earth is huge.
Well, I mean, you know, it was like I was telling you that time I was up in Oklahoma and there's we were staying on a lake and the lake had dropped like. I mean, probably six or eight feet. And so it was just mud banks everywhere. There was a couple out there, and they were metal detected all around that area because it had been a place where people would stay.
But they were looking for things they could sell.
Well, right. I mean, if you do – Necklaces. There's a code of ethics that you should follow, and they actually have it. You look it up. Yeah. If you have permission or whatever, it's perfectly fine. But I'm just not doing it for monetary value. I like the thrill of finding it. In the spirit of, I mean, what convinced me to go do it was reading the Gospels.
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