Different Biblical characters made good use of powerful evidence in order to prove themselves to others -- from Jehovah God himself to Moses and finally Jehovah's Son Jesus Christ, the Messiah.
Going back to earliest parts of human history the use of water featured in many of their activities such as the Flood Jehovah God used to destroy a world during Noah's day that had become filled with violence and immorality. He left little doubt in the minds of the flood survivors and later readers of the account that he was a God who would not forever tolerate wickedness and was a God who lived up to what he said
It was so overwhelming in its scope and power that many different races have captured the story of this flood in their culture down to this day. And further evidence of its occurence comes to us in the remains of land creatures dug up -- in many cases almost intact with food still in their mouths -- by archaeologists and other explorers often looking for new sources of fossil fuels.
Other dramatic uses of powerful examples to prove the truthfulness of what they claimed included the time that Moses turned the Nile River into blood in his efforts to convince Pharaoh to let the Israelites leave Egypt described for in in Exodus 4: 1-9.
And then there is the stuff of Hollywood movies when on instruction from God Moses held out his rod the second time after all of the Israelites had safely crossed the Nile during their flight from Egyptian slavery . As soon as he did this the water abruptly started swirling over the Egyptian riders and drowning Pharaoh's entire army.
Later on Jesus Christ also made good use of irrefutable evidence to prove that was the Son of God first by turning water into wine during a wedding feast providing the wedding guests with an additional 6 clay water jars full of fresh wine, later by walking on the surface of the Sea of Galilee out to his disciples who thought at first that he was an apparition, as described at John 2: 1-1, 1and still later by calming the stormy Sea of Galilea by ordering the wind and the waves" to die down causing a great calm to set in over the sea enabling his apostles' fishing boat to make it safely to the other side
Of course Jesus also performed other miracles such as the healing of the sick and even the resurrection of the dead and all of this left little doubt in the mind of Apostles and others that he indeed was the promised Messiah and all of these instances are excellent examples of the effective presentation of ideas.
We could go on and on with this for the Bible is full of such stuff but you get the idea: Prove yourself with good solid evidence in your presentations and even follow that up with actions (as in the case of the Flood) that you are going to do what you say in some cases.
Of course you are never going to be anything so dramatic as illustrated by these Biblical accounts but they are excellent reminders of the need for good supporting material for what you say and do.
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