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Silver, Science, and Scripture
Published 2 years, 10 months ago
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What is silver? What is it used for? How long has it been used? Will it
have use in the future? There was an archaeological discovery that
concluded that silver was used as a form of payment 3,700 years ago in the
Levant (roughly the area of Israel, Lebanon, and Syria)--that was 500 years
earlier than many thought it had been used there. Was silver shown to be
used even a couple of centuries earlier than that by Abraham in the Bible?
What is dross? Did ancient Rome have dross coins? Did the USA switch to
dross coins instead of silver in 1965? Does the Bible teach against the use
of dross? …