Click here to view the original video:
   • Life & BioDiversity  Part 16: Genea...  

Click here to buy Doug Woodward's book "Rebooting the Bible"
https://www.amazon.com/RebootingBibl...

Click here to view my other video "Were the Pyramids Built Before the Flood?" that deals more with this topic:
   • Were the Pyramids Built Before the Fl...  

Click here to read an article that Creation Ministries International wrote on William Lane Craig, including the comments he made in this video:
https://creation.com/craigflood



William Lane Craig says here that out of all the commentaries that he’s read (and he’s read quite a lot) he has never come across anyone who favors the genealogies in the Greek Septuagint over the Masoretic. They all seem to agree that the Septuagint’s numbers are altered and that the Hebrew Masoretic text is original.

That’s odd. I’m surprised that someone, as educated as William Lane Craig, has never read Josephus or Eusebius.

Josephus is a very prominent 1stcentury Jewish historian, and when he lists off the genealogies in his work called “The Antiquities of the Jews” Josephus includes the extra 100 years on 6 generations, which agrees with the Septuagint.

Eusebius is a very prominent 4thcentury church historian, and when he lists off the genealogies in his work called “The Chronicon” Eusebius favors the Septuagint, and includes the extra 650 years on the timeline. He condemns the Jewish Hebrew text, saying that it’s in error and that it is incorrect and unreliable. Eusebius says that the Septuagint is the most appropriate text to use due to being translated from old and accurate Hebrew copies.

But William Lane Craig says that he doesn’t know of anyone who favors the Septuagint’s chronology over the Hebrew Masoretic. Really? He’s never heard of Josephus or Eusebius?

Theophilus of Antioch and Julius Africanus were also early Christians from the 2nd and 3rd centuries, and they agree with the Septuagint too.

Never heard of them either?

It’s pretty tragic when our best scholars today don’t know what the early church taught, or what early Jewish historians taught.

••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Donate to NathanH83 channel: https://www.paypal.me/NathanH83