Episode 72

#72 How do historians determine Truth? . .why geography, archeology, artifacts, and documents matter

  • How do historians know what is true?
  • Do they write up whatever sounds good to them?
  • Or do they listen to legends or whatever do they do?

In a previous lesson, we talked about the importance of truth and how truth is that which corresponds to reality.

We then talked about how history is a useful way to determine what corresponds to reality and how this is foundational to determining if a religion is true. But how do historians go about figuring out what corresponds to reality? Obviously, we don’t have time machines. We can’t go back to the events themselves.

They do it through evidence and in this podcast we'll talk about the evidence of geography, archeology, artifacts, and documents.

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Yvon Prehn

Yvon Prehn is the founder and primary content creator for Bible805.com, a ministry is about helping you know, trust, apply, and teach the Bible.
No matter what else she was doing, (various jobs to support her ministry habit) Yvon has taught Bible classes pretty much all her life. She started teaching kindergartners in Sunday school when she was in third grade; had her own little class of fourth graders when she was in sixth grade, took over her high school youth group when she was 16-years-old when the sponsors at the little Presbyterian Church she was attending in Colorado Springs left town, and she’s never stopped teaching the Bible.
She’s taught in various situations in a variety of home studies and churches for many years and in addition to live classes, she currently has an extensive online Bible teaching ministry that includes classes, eBooks, training videos, podcasts, and the online Bible805 Academy (www.Bible805Academy.com), a totally free resource center that equips others to teach the Bible and an ever-growing YouTube channel, www.Youtube.com/Bible805. Links to her various resources are available at www.Bible805.com.
She currently attends Community Presbyterian Church in Ventura, CA.