The spring emerged from the large cave which became the center of pagan worship. Beginning in the 3rd century B.C., sacrifices were cast into the cave as offerings to the god Pan.
Pan, the half-man half-goat god of fright (thus “panic”), is often depicted playing the flute. This city known as Panias has been corrupted in the Arabic language to its modern name of Banias.
Biblical History
Apparently known as Baal Hermon and Baal Gad in the Old Testament period, this site later was named Panias after the Greek god Pan who was worshiped here.
There is no record of Jesus entering the city, but the great confession and the transfiguration both occurred in the vicinity of the city (Matt 16:13), then known as Caesarea Philippi.
This great city is where the “Great Confession”  and the transfiguration both occurred in the vicinity of the city
Matthew 16
17Â And Jesus said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.
18Â “I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.
19Â “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.
Situated 25 miles north of the Sea of Galilee and at the base of Mt. Hermon, Caesarea Philippi is the location of one of the largest springs feeding the Jordan River.
This abundant water supply has made the area very fertile and attractive for religious worship. Numerous temples were built at this city in the Hellenistic and Roman periods.
Shared from Scott in DallasÂ
Q: What is the shortest chapter in the Bible?Â
A: Psalms 117
Q: What is the longest chapter in the Bible?
A: Psalms 119
Q: Which chapter is in the center of the Bible?
A: Psalms 118
Fact: There are 594 chapters before Psalms 118
Fact: There are 594 chapters after Psalms 118
Add these numbers up and you get 1188.
Q:? What is the center verse in the Bible?
A: Psalms 118:8
Q:? Does this verse say something significant about God’s perfect will for our lives?
The next time someone says they would like to find God’s perfect will for their lives and that they want to be in the center of His will, just send them to the center of His Word!
Psalms 118:8
“It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.”
Now isn’t that odd how this worked out (or was God in the center of it)?
When things get tough, always remember..
Faith doesn’t get you around trouble, it gets you through it !
God Bless You All !
What theologians call “General Revelation” leaves men Without ExcuseRomans 1:20
Theology has been downgraded in the minds of secularized people, which is most of what we call the western world now. Â Theology being the study of the God and things related to the Creator is thought of as inferior to what is called “science”. Â Never mind that things which are often called “science” do not even fit under their own definition of science. Â As a result “Theologians” are disrespected and largely disregarded by the by the many millions of us who have been indoctrinated with secular thought. God declares to us however that this study of “Him” i.e. “Theology” is in fact the most important study of all and that He has given us more than enough information to get started on the path. BiteByte on this piece of truth: The key word to consider in this secular vs theological thought comparison is the word EVIDENCE. Paul asserts that God’s invisible attributes are clearly perceived by EVIDENCE that is not invisible. The attributes include His eternal power and divine nature, two aspects of God available to every person since the creation of the world. How were these attributes seen? Â The needed evidence is in the things that have been made. Ps. 19:1-4 1Â The heavens declare the glory of God, 3Â There is no speech, nor are there words, The created universe reveals there is a Creator, plain and simple, and the argument every “Atheist” or “Agnostic” will ultimately have to make is an argument with the Creator Himself. Â Included in this general revelation is also a conscience which is a built-in, intrinsic sense of right and wrong but we will leave that discussion for another BiteByte. The assertion here is that all people are without excuse for at the very least failing to recognize that God IS and that they should seek Him.
The natural, visible, tangible world is what scripture asserts here will the be the FIRST BASIS of EVIDENCE which God will judge ALL HUMAN BEINGS by. Â This primary evidence is part of what theologians call “general revelation“. Â This is EVIDENCE that available to ALL PEOPLE everywhere which the Creator expects some recognition of and some action based upon. Â The expected action is to SEEK HIM. Evidence is given to all people that there is a Creator who is by clear inference of what we can see and observe EXTREMELY POWERFUL and OUTRAGEOUSLY intelligent. Â We should also infer that the Creator is worthy of worship before we even move on to investigate special revelation which indeed we should investigate. Selah
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Simply put, the Septuagint is the Ancient Greek translation of the even more Ancient original Hebrew Old Testament scriptures.
Many times the quotes of the New Testament Apostles are from the Septuigint translation of the Old Testament.
Source: GotQuestions.org
Question: “What is the Septuagint?”
Answer: The Septuagint (also known as the LXX) is a translation of the Hebrew Bible into the Greek language. The name “Septuagint” comes from the Latin word for seventy. The tradition is that 70 (or 72) Jewish scholars were the translators behind the Septuagint. The Septuagint was translated in the third and second centuries B.C. in Alexandria, Egypt. As Israel was under the authority of Greece for several centuries, the Greek language became more and more common. By the 2nd and 1st centuries B.C., most people in Israel spoke Greek as their primary language. That is why the effort was made to translate the Hebrew Bible into Greek – so that those who did not understand Hebrew could have the Scriptures in a language they could understand. The Septuagint represents the first major effort at translating a significant religious text from one language into another.
It is interesting to note that many of the New Testament quotes from the Hebrew Bible are taken from the Septuagint. As faithful as the Septuagint translators strived to be in accurately rendering the Hebrew text into Greek, some translational differences arose. In comparing the New Testament quotations of the Hebrew Bible, it is clear that the Septuagint was often used. This is the result of the fact that by the late 1st century B.C., and especially the 1st century A.D. – the Septuagint had “replaced” the Hebrew Bible as the Scriptures most people used. Since most people spoke and read Greek as their primary language, and the Greek authorities strongly encouraged the use of Greek, the Septuagint became much more common than the Hebrew Old Testament. The fact that the Apostles and New Testament authors felt comfortable, under the direction of the Holy Spirit, in using the Septuagint should give us assurance that a translation of the original languages of the Bible is still the authoritative Word of God.
2 Samuel 5:20Â is a great scripture for meditation and memorization:
 And David came to Baalperazim, and David smote them there, and said, The Lord hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baalperazim.
18Â The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
19Â And David enquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the Lord said unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thine hand.
20Â And David came to Baalperazim, and David smote them there, and said, TheLord hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baalperazim.
21Â And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.
22Â And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
23Â And when David enquired of the Lord, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.
24Â And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the Lord go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.
25Â And David did so, as the Lord had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer.
T-REX Skull – archaeological discovery
BST BiteByte: Bible believers should have the best view of both Science & History because they add to their knowledge information accessed by Spiritual Revelation. Â The secular person is blinded and oblivious to this entire paradigm of truth and reality.
As we have seen in this series the existence of Dinosaurs were recognized and revealed in the oldest manuscript of the Bible, the book of Job.
We have also seen here on BiteSizedTruth.com that the Bible does not definitively state anything about how old the earth itself is, only the relative age of the Adam of Eve Generation can be estimated from scripture along with historical and archaeological observation.
It ranks first among the works of God! Â Job 40:19 ESV
15 “Behold, Behemoth, Â
3  which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox. Â
16 Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly.Â
17Â He makes his tail stiff like a cedar;Â the sinews of his thighs are knit together.Â
18 His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron.Â
19 “He is the first of the works of God; let him who made him bring near his sword!Job 40:15-19 ESV
The Hebrew word tanniyn, which is translated a few different ways in our English Bibles. Sometimes it’s “sea monster,” and sometimes it’s “serpent.” It is most commonly translated “dragon.”  SOURCE
The tanniyn appear to have been some sort of giant reptile. These creatures are mentioned nearly thirty times in the Old Testament and were found both on land and in the water.
In addition to mentioning these giant reptiles, the Bible describes a couple of creatures in such a way that some scholars believe the writers may have been describing dinosaurs. The behemoth is said to be the mightiest of all God’s creatures, a giant whose tail isÂ
See also: Dinosaurs & Forbidden History
Archaeology is a branch of historical research that seeks to reveal the past.  It is the study of activity in the past and environmental data especially that left behind by past human populations
It ranks first among the works of God! Â Job 40:19 ESV
15 “Behold, Behemoth, Â
3  which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox. Â
16 Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly.Â
17Â He makes his tail stiff like a cedar;Â the sinews of his thighs are knit together.Â
18 His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron.Â
19 “He is the first of the works of God; let him who made him bring near his sword!Job 40:15-19 ESV
The Hebrew word tanniyn, which is translated a few different ways in our English Bibles. Sometimes it’s “sea monster,” and sometimes it’s “serpent.” It is most commonly translated “dragon.”  SOURCE
The tanniyn appear to have been some sort of giant reptile. These creatures are mentioned nearly thirty times in the Old Testament and were found both on land and in the water.
In addition to mentioning these giant reptiles, the Bible describes a couple of creatures in such a way that some scholars believe the writers may have been describing dinosaurs. The behemoth is said to be the mightiest of all God’s creatures, a giant whose tail is likened to a cedar tree (Job 40:15).
Some scholars have tried to identify the behemoth as either an elephant or a hippopotamus. Others point out that elephants and hippopotamuses have very thin tails, nothing comparable to a cedar tree.
Dinosaurs like the brachiosaurus and the diplodocus, on the other hand, had huge tails which could easily be compared to a cedar tree.
Nearly every ancient civilization has some sort of art depicting giant reptilian creatures. Petroglyphs, artifacts, and even little clay figurines found in North America resemble modern depictions of dinosaurs.
Rock carvings in South America depict men riding diplodocus-like creatures and, amazingly, bear the familiar images of triceratops-like, pterodactyl-like, and tyrannosaurus rex-like creatures. Roman mosaics, Mayan pottery, and Babylonian city walls all testify to man’s trans-cultural, geographically unbounded fascination with these creatures.
Sober accounts like those of Marco Polo’s Il Milione mingle with fantastic tales of treasure-hoarding beasts. In addition to the substantial amount of anthropic and historical evidences for the coexistence of dinosaurs and man, there are physical evidences, like the fossilized footprints of humans and dinosaurs found together at places in North America and West-Central Asia.
A Restoring Genesis Film
The Secret History of Dinosaurs
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Archaeology is a branch of historical research that seeks to reveal the past.  It is the study of activity in the past and environmental data especially that left behind by past human populations
Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. Thearchaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, and cultural landscapes.
