RE: Disproving the Bible
July 9, 2014 at 1:41 pm
(This post was last modified: July 9, 2014 at 1:41 pm by Tonus.)
(July 9, 2014 at 1:30 pm)Jenny A Wrote: A body I do would not expect, but Moses is supposed to have: caused the death of the first born son of every Egyptian, escaped with 600,000 slaves, wiped out the Egyptian army, and wandered the desert with 600,000 people for 40 years. Yes I would expect some Egyptian record of that and some archeological record of the 40 years.Many more than that. Exodus 12:37 claims 600,000 men. The women and children weren't included in that number. If we assume that there was one woman and one child for each man, you now have 1,800,000 people. It's not a stretch to think that there may have been more than two million according to the story.
And they didn't leave a trace.
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