Searching for Paul's Shipwreck on Malta - CBN.com

The Mediterranean island has a strong Christian heritage that many believe dates back to the apostle Paul... The Christian Broadcasting Network CBN http://www.cbn.com

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[diasdms]

it shows again how the bible is so accurate.

[fivestarsist]

This is one of my favorite bible story.

[CarmxFromMalta]

I used to read this Bible story over and over again when I was small. I am now 55 years old and still love it. On one occasion when I visited my father's home a few years ago, Rabat, Malta, I searched for that book in my old room amongst all sorts of old stuff but could not find it; it was like a comic, with many illustrations of the story. A4 size. I am proud to have been born and grown up at Rabat and routinely went to St Paul's Church, where the catacombs and relics are.

[MrJppisani]

Fascinating theory , I wonder what the real events were , who knows , I guess St. Thomas would have had to see it to believe it :) Maybe that's why they named the Bay after him and not St. Paul , to commemorate his defiance ... lol

[zrieqi58]

So why was St Paul's Bay and St Paul's Island in the bay called so???? Mind you I always wondered if it was winter (February) and dark - how on earth could 300 people swim to St Paul's Island - anyone who has seen it or climbed it knows how steep the rock is!!!! So maybe these places were called after the great man some centuries later in commemoration - and the name stuck and people down the ages believed that was the place he landed!!! Who knows??? Intriging video

[330472]

A fascinating news item. Sheds real light on this ancient story.

[koledy123]

(Acts of the Apostles 28,1-6)Once we had come safely through, we discovered that the island was called Malta.

The inhabitants treated us with unusual kindness. They made us all welcome by lighting a huge fire because it had started to rain and the weather was cold.

Paul had collected a bundle of sticks and was putting them on the fire when a viper brought out by the heat attached itself to his hand

[koledy123]

When the inhabitants saw the creature hanging from his hand they said to one another, 'That man must be a murderer; he may have escaped the sea, but divine justice would not let him live.'

However, he shook the creature off into the fire and came to no harm, although they were expecting him at any moment to swell up or drop dead on the spot. After they had waited a long time without seeing anything out of the ordinary happen to him, they changed their minds and began to say he was a god.

[Indy1489]

This is great. Now this is one reason I got into Archaeology. I remember the time I met Robert Cornuke at a convention he was speaking at.