An archaeological discovery destroys the credibility of the Bible and destroys the story of Samson destroying the temple with his own hands

The Holy Bible is full of funny fairy tales, but in the Christian and Christian tradition they are true stories that are not open to debate or discussion. One of these stories is the story of Samson the mighty, who was able to destroy a large Palestinian temple with his bare hands:

23 Now the leaders of the Philistines gathered together to celebrate a great sacrifice to their god Dagon, saying, "Our God has given us victory over Samson our enemy."

24 And when the people saw Samson in his affliction, they glorified their God, saying, “Our God has given us victory over our enemy, who has laid waste our land and killed many of us.”

25 And when they were in a state of excitement, they shouted, “Call Samson, that he may entertain us.” So they brought Samson out of the prison, and he played before them, and they set him between the pillars.

26 Then Samson said to the young man who led him, “Place me where I can touch the pillars on which the temple stands, so that I can lean on them.”

27 Now the temple was crowded with men and women, besides the five lords of the Philistines. And on the roof were about three thousand men and women watching Samson play.

28 Then Samson prayed to the Lord, saying, “O Lord God, remember me and strengthen me just this once, so that I may take revenge on the Philistines for gouging out my eyes with one blow.”

29 Then Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the temple rested, and pressed one with his right hand and the other with his left,

30 saying, “Let me die with the Philistines!” And he pushed them with all his might, and the temple collapsed on the lords and on the people who were in it.

31 And his brothers and all his father's relatives came and carried his body, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. And Samson had judged the children of Israel twenty years.

Judges 16 (Arabic Life Application Bible)

Books 23-31

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/...6&version=ALAB

However, recent scientific discoveries have sought to expose these human stories falsely attributed to God Almighty:

Thursday, Sha’ban 17, 1431 AH - July 29, 2010 AD

An earthquake measuring 8 degrees on the Richter scale destroyed the temple 2,900 years ago

An archaeological discovery debunks the story of Samson’s destruction of a Palestinian temple with his own hands



A part of the archaeological site

London - Kamal Qubaisi

For hundreds of years, we have been hearing the story of “Samson the Mighty” and his friend Delilah, and his fame as a supernatural being who destroyed a Philistine temple with his own hands 2900 years ago in ancient Gaza, where he stood and cried out “Against me and my enemies, O Lord” before pushing two pillars in the temple, which collapsed and its stones fell on him and his Philistine enemies who were in it, thus recording the first suicide operation in history.

All of this very brief story above is blown away by what an Israeli archaeological mission announced on Thursday 7/28/2010, that it had found the famous “Temple of Dagon” and discovered that its destruction was the result of a violent earthquake that struck the region at that time. In addition, the temple was not in Gaza, as stated in the story of Samson, which is derived from chapters 13 to 16 of the Book of Judges in the Torah, but in another place entirely, according to what was stated on the website of the discovery mission and was covered by Israeli media today.


An imaginary image of the legend of Samson

and some of the important things about the discovery are that it was made by the head of the mission, an Israeli professor named Aren Meir from Bar-Ilan University, which was founded in 1955 and is located in the city of Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv. It is a university described by its Zionist and religious identity. The professor is proud to be a “biblical archaeologist and researcher,” according to what he said about himself on the website of the mission that discovered the temple of the god Dagon.

Professor Meir is from the school of researchers in Israel looking for ancient antiquities that can be linked to the historical presence of Jews in ancient Palestine, but to no avail every time. Therefore, he was forced to say in the statement announcing the discovery: “We are not saying that this is the same temple in which the story of Samson took place, but the discovery gives us a good idea of ​​what the image of the temples of the Philistines was in the mind of the writer of the story,” in an attempt to justify the contradiction between what is stated in the Torah and what was confirmed by the facts extracted from the remains of the discovered temple.

What has been confirmed is that an earthquake measuring 8 on the Richter scale, known to geologists in advance, struck the area 900 years before Christ and led to the destruction of the temple, not the mighty arms of Samson. Meir said: “A careful examination was conducted by geologists and seismologists on the destroyed remains of the temple, and it became clear that the destruction was caused by a violent earthquake. The evidence is the appearance of the brick walls that collapsed and their pieces were thrown to a place a little away from their original location,” he said.

The remains of the temple were discovered completely collapsed near the settlement of “Kiryat Gat,” adjacent to the Tel Safi area, or “Tel Zafit,” as the Israelis call it. It is 36 kilometers from Gaza, and the same is true of the city of Hebron, where previous discoveries confirmed that it was inhabited since the fifth millennium BC and was known a thousand years before Christ as the city of “Gath,” according to what the remains of the antiquities found there confirm. The city of "Gath" is also the home of Talut, who defeated the army of his opponent Goliath (the leader of the giants) according to what was mentioned about them in verses 248 to 252 of "Surat Al-Baqarah" in the Holy Quran.

As for the pagan god "Dagon", he had a popularity that extended from the Sinai Desert to Mesopotamia, and the peoples of that time competed to worship him because most of them had a god of fertility. However, the peoples of the region were groaning from hunger in a land that was described as the land that flows with milk and honey.

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