"...to this day"

Genesis 22:14

Abraham named the place Yahweh-Yireh (which means “the Lord will provide”). To this day, people still use that name as a proverb: “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”

There are about sixty times in the Bible when the phrase "to this day" is used. Most often it's for things like, "and they call it that to this day". I've heard skeptics try to use those verses to discredit the Bible, because alot of the time, nobody calls that place what the Bible says they call it "to this day".

1 Kings 8:8

These poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Holy Place, which is in front of the Most Holy Place, but not from the outside. They are still there to this day.

Take, for instance, the above verse. which describes the poles of the Ark of the Covenant as being so long that their ends could be seen from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from outside. Scripture says they are still there "to this day". Obviously that is false, because nobody officially knows where the Ark of the Covenant is. So is Scripture lying?

Of course not! A modern equivalent would be "at the time of this writing" some publications add when describing something.. As in, at the time of writing, the poles of the Ark of the Covenant were visible from the Holy Place. That is not the case today, but the verse doesn't say, "From now until the end of time". Therefore, Scripture is not lying. It accurately recorded what was currently true at the time of writing.