A man has raised doubts about the location where St Paul’s boat was actually wrecked.   Bob Cornuke, an ex-police investigator turned biblical archaeologist, thinks St. Pauls boat was wrecked off a reef along the southern shore of Malta, rather than in a bay on the northern shore.

55-year-old Cornuke was drawn into archaeology by Apollo 15 astronaut Jim Irwin who asked him to join his High Flight Foundation and the search for Noah's Ark. "I learned I had a skill - researching and collecting little scraps of evidence," The Orlando Sentinel reports him saying, "God just gave me this ability. It was a gift."

The Bible-believing archaeologist who "proves" the truth of the Bible and searches for biblical sites, has attracted many.   Author Tim LaHaye has launched a successful new series with a fictional character, called Babylon Rising.

Cornuke, himself the author of half a dozen books chronicling his adventures, has sparked controversy because his conclusions are often at odds with those of traditional archaeologists.

Among other doubts that Cornuck has raised are that rather than the Sinai peninsula , he thinks the sacred peak of the Exodus is in Saudi Arabia . Noah's Ark , he thinks, came to rest on a mountain in Iran , rather than on Mount Ararat in Turkey . And he thinks the Ark of the Covenant does exist and might be in the Ethiopian highlands.

The Orlando Sentinel reported author James Hoffmeier saying that Cornuke is a dilettante, "he wraps himself in the banner of taking the Bible literally when it's convenient to his theory, and in other places he does not take it literally."

Cornuke is planning to move his ministry, the Base Archaeology Search and Exploration Institute from Coloradoto Orlando, where he will be a "minister-at-large" with the Holy Land. Ironically, Cornuke who never went to church until he was 12, was transformed by a spiritual experience during his search for Mount Sinai in Saudi Arabia in 1988, The Orlando Sentinel reported.

It also brought Cornuke into the spotlight. He and Montana millionaire Larry Williams had slipped into the country using forged documents, claiming a connection with the Saudi royal family. When they were captured and imprisoned by soldiers, who suspected them of being Israeli spies, Cornuke pretended to be a doctor.

Source: The Orlando Sentinel