By whose judgment “should” all these things be available to be found? Where in the Bible does it say, “This book is true because you can identify various historical places in it where the characters claim to have been.”
Here I thought the Bible was true because it was true, and not because you could vacation in Palestine.
The bible is neither true or false, as MEN describe it.
Men have made certain claims about it,and archeologial EVIKDENCE tends to back up those claims.
MEN have made certain claims about the BoM; but, there is NOTHING found in the record to back up those claims.
"In the beginning GOD...." is a claim.
MEN either 'believe' it or they do not, for, so far, nothing has been found in the 'record' to either prove or disprove it.
A few verses later, 4 rivers are mentioned. There are two rivers today that have those names, and the area around them have yield literally TONS of artifacts that speak to the FACT that things described in the bible were truly where it calaimed they were.
The bible has been used to FIND some places - the BoM cannot be 'used' to find anything.