Melodie Kelley
Praise God I wasn't made for this place, and God will be coming for His Church soon. This is a current picture.Profile
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- TX, US
Passionate
- Widowed
- (53) September 19, 1956
- Straight
- Virgo
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- Graduate/Professional School
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- Christian
- Proud Parent
- Conservative
- White/Caucasian
- Average
- 5 feet 8 inches
About Me
I love the Lord with all my heart and soul. I strive to be like Jesus everyday, but we all fall short of being perfect. I know, and believe that Jesus is the perfect sacrifice for my sins, and our sins held Him on the cross, and that He died and came back to life as described in the Bible. He is alive today. Before He left us, He left us a helper, the "Holy Spirit." No one knows that day or the hour of His return, but He told us to look up when we read the signs of the times. I think He is coming soon, and I can't wait to be with Him. We are meant to rejoice, and share the Lord with others. I hope and pray that I reflect the Lord in my life everyday, that those who do not know Him, may see Him in me, and want to know how they can attain this happiness that I have, for themselves.
Someone who shares the same interest as I do. A Godly man. Nice sense of humor, but not the life of the party. He knows when to be serious, and when to joke around. A man who will pray over his life and others. A man who will love me as much as I will love him. A man who is confident in himself, and his decision making, who goes to God first for his questions to be answered. A man who is Loving, Passionate, Respectful, Caring, Sharing himself, Loyal, Trustworthy, Understanding, etc.
Involved in Church activities, Yard work, House work, Taking care of animals, road trips, walking, Movies, Theater, Garage Sales, Antiques, having good clean fun with friends, etc.
I like to drive around to discover what is on the other side of the hill, road, etc. I am a photographer (armature) I like to take pictures of everything and everyone. I like to window shop. Walk around and just talk to people in the stores down town. I like to go to the trades days in different cities, or go garage sailing. Just walking around, doing nothing in particular. I love working on my house, doing yard work, planting things. Working on my car. Sewing, singing, painting, drawing, trying to play one of my instruments.
Classical, Jazz, anything as long as is has no cursing, reference to sex or drinking., any kind of Christian Music
CSI, Animal Planet, History Chanel, HGTV.
Ben Hurr, A Tale of the Christ, Ten Commandments w/Charlton Heston, The Bishop's Wife
Bible, The Forth Riecht(fiction), anything to do with the Bible, or about the Bible.
Jesus, Billy Graham, Dad, Mom, Brothers, and Sons.
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The first witness or evidence for the Bible’s trustworthiness is...
1. FULFILLED PROPHECY
Fulfilled prophecy is something that sets the Bible apart from every other religious book. There are 26 other religious books that people of faith believe are divinely inspired (the Vedas, the Bhagavad-Gita, the Mahabharata, the Upanishads, the Qur'an, the Book of Mormon, the Tripitaka, etc.). Of these twenty-six books, none of them, not a single one, contains any specific, fulfilled prophecies!
The Bible, however, is filled with hundreds of specific, detailed prophecies that were written hundreds of years before their fulfillment! In fact, an amazing 27% of the Bible (more than 1 out of every 4 verses) contains what was predictive prophecy at the time that it was written. And the authors of the Bible did not just predict some vague things like Nostradamus or Jeanne Dixon (who by the way, have proven to be wrong over and over again), they were very specific. Consider some of the more than 100 different and very specific prophecies made concerning the Messiah, who the Old Testament prophesied would come.
The Old Testament foretold, hundreds of years in advance, very specific details about: the Messiah's ancestry, that He’d be born of the seed of Abraham (Gen. 12:1-3, 22:18), of the tribe of Judah (Gen 49:10), of the house of David (2 Samuel 7:12f), etc. The city in which He would be born (Micah 5:2), that He’d come while the temple was still standing (Malachi 3:1), that He would be born of a virgin (Isaiah 7:14), that He would perform miracles (Isaiah 35:5-6), that He’d be rejected by His own people (Psalm 118:22; 1 Peter 2:7), the precise time in history when He would die (Daniel 9:24-26; 483 years after the declaration to reconstruct the city of Jerusalem in 444 B.C. This was fulfilled to the very year.), how He would die (Psalm 22:16-18, Isaiah 53; Zech 12:10), that He would rise from the dead (Psalm 16:10; Acts 2:27-32), and there are many more. All of these prophecies and hudreds others have been literally fulfilled.
The skeptic says: “Maybe Christians inserted those prophecies back into the Old Testament after Jesus lived.”
Not a chance. How do we know? There exists today hundreds of manuscript copies of the Old Testament that predate the time of Christ’s birth. These ancient copies of the Old Testament, dating back to the third century B.C., verify that these prophecies concerning the Messiah were already in place. In 1947 a shepherd boy tending his father’s sheep in Qumran, north and to the west of the Dead Sea in Israel, made an amazing discovery while looking for a lost sheep. There in Qumran, in a hillside cave that had laid untouched for nearly two thousand years, he discovered an ancient collection of hand written copies of the Old Testament. These scrolls had been hidden in caves by the Essenes, a Jewish sect living in Qumran, 2,000 years ago. These scrolls and writings (now known as the Dead Sea Scrolls) represented every book of the Old Testament except the Book of Esther, and are considered one of the greatest discoveries in modern times. It’s manuscript evidence like this Isaiah scroll that dates back to about 100 B.C. that proves, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the Old Testament, and its many prophecies concerning the Messiah, was finished long before Jesus was even born.
The skeptic says: “How do you know that the Dead Sea Scrolls date back to before Christ?”
Teams of scholars determined the scrolls age by examining 1. The pottery that housed the manuscripts 2. The weave and pattern of the manuscript cloths 3. The form of the characters 4. The spelling of the words 5. The coins found alongside the manuscripts.
The skeptic says: “Perhaps Jesus was not the Messiah, but just accidentally or even deliberately set out to fulfill these prophecies.”
First, it’s hard to think of any person deliberately setting out to fulfill prophecies that would result in a short life and an excruciating drawn out death on a cross. Secondly, how does a man deliberately choose the lineage he is born into, the time period in which he is born, -the city in which he is born? Was the fulfillment of these prophecies an accident? Peter Stoner, a mathematician, and Professor Emeritus of Science at Westmont College, in his book Science Speaks (Moody 1963) calculated the odds of a single man fulfilling just eight of the prophecies that Jesus fulfilled as the mathematical improbability of 1 in 10 to the 17th. That is a HUGE number. One in ten to the seventeenth power. That's a one with seventeen zeros after it (100,000,000,000,000,000). If we had 100 quadrillion 1” x 1.5” tiles we could cover every square inch of dry land on planet Earth. The fact that these prophecies and hundreds of others have been fulfilled, even though they were spoken hundreds and even thousands of years before their fulfillment, is strong evidence that a God, who is all-knowing and all-powerful, orchestrated the Bible’s completion.
A great book that discusses these fulfilled prophecies is Every Prophecy of the Bible by Dr. John Walvoord. It discusses the fulfillment of nearly 1,000 of the Bible’s prophecies.
So evidence number one: fulfilled prophecy. It is an amazing testimony to the divine origin and trustworthiness of the Bible. No other religious writing is able to substantiate its claims to be divinely inspired with this kind of supernatural evidence.
Only the God of the Bible knows the end from the beginning: “I am God, and there is none like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done" (Isaiah 46:9-10).
2. ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES
For the past 150 years archaeologists have been verifying the exact truthfulness of the Bible's detailed records of various events, customs, persons, cities, nations, and geographical locations. Dr. Nelson Glueck probably the greatest modern authority on Israeli archeology, has said, “No archeological discovery has ever controverted [overturned] a Biblical reference. Scores of archeological findings have been made which confirm in clear outline or in exact detail historical statements in the Bible. And, by the same token, proper evaluation of Biblical descriptions has often led to amazing discoveries.”
In every instance where the Bible can be, or has been checked out archaeologically, it has been found to be 100% accurate. The Bible has proven so accurate that archaeologists often refer to it as a reliable guide when they go to dig in new areas. In fact, even though less than 1% of the material available to excavate in the tells in Israel has been excavated, there have been more than 25,000 discoveries within the region known as the "Bible Lands” that have confirmed the truthfulness of the Bible. Entire books have been written on this topic. Allow me to give you three examples.
A. Pontius Pilate
The Bible says that he was the Roman governor of Judea and the man who issued the official order for Jesus to be sentenced to death by crucifixion (Matthew 27; Mark 15; Luke 23; John 18-19). In June of 1961 a team of Italian archaeologists, led by Dr. Antonio Frova, were excavating the Mediterranean port city of Caesarea that had at one time served as the Roman capital of Palestine. It was there in the jumbled ruins of an ancient Roman theater that they uncovered a large 2’ x 3’, 5” or so thick, limestone rock. The inscription on the rock amazed the archaeologists. It read in: “Pontius Pilate, Prefect of Judea, has presented the Tiberium to the Caesareans.” (Scholars believe that the Tiberium refers to a temple or some other kind of public structure named after the Roman emperor Tiberius, who reigned from 14–37 A.D.) This stone is on display today in the Israel Museum as a testimony to the reliability of the Bible.
B. Caiaphas
Caiaphas, the Bible tells us, was the Jewish high priest at the time of Jesus crucifixion. Was he a make believe character? Some thought so, that is until 1990, when the Caiaphas family tomb was accidentally discovered by workers constructing a water park just south of Jerusalem. Archaeologists were hastily called to the scene. When they examined the tomb they found 12 ossuaries (limestone bone boxes) containing the remains of 63 individuals. On the outside of the most beautifully decorated of the ossuaries was inscribed the words: “Joseph son of Caiaphas.” What’s incredible is that Josephus (that Jewish historian of the first century A.D.) in his writings (Antiquities 18: 2, 2; 4, 3) documents that that was actually the full name of the high priest who arrested Jesus, “Joseph son of Caiaphas.” (Saying “son of” was a way of referring to the family name). Inside the ossuary archaeologists found the remains of a someone approximately 60-years-old at the time of his death...the actual bones of Caiaphas, the high priest mentioned in the Bible. Today Caiaphas’ ossuary is also on display in the Israel Museum as a testimony of the Bible’s trustworthiness! (more) -
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