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RE: Christians: Please explain the Exodus
September 30, 2014 at 1:36 pm
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(September 30, 2014 at 1:25 pm)C4RM5 Wrote: If a group of people were camping in the middle of the desert only a few days ago I think it would be difficult to spot. If is like footprints in snow hey dissappear quickly. So trying to find out if people were camping in a desert 1000s of years ago I expect would be hard to do.
Except....it's not a little group of people.
According to the Bible narrative, it was a GROUP somewhere in size between the metro populations of Portland and Seattle - 2-3 million people. Complete with animals and all the attendant garbage a population of that size would produce.
Now, I don't know if you'v been to either, but you can drive a LOOOONG, time to go from one end of Seattle to the other. Portland too for that matter.
There is virtually NO possibility the story can be true as told in the Bible. There would be evidence. Lots and lots of it.
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RE: Christians: Please explain the Exodus
September 30, 2014 at 1:36 pm
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What I am saying is there are winds in the desert covering tracks
Where I am from if I drive any longer than two hours I end up in the Atlantic, is it longer than that.
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RE: Christians: Please explain the Exodus
September 30, 2014 at 1:37 pm
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And yet those winds couldn't cover the tracks of a handful of camels -when viewed from space - even with a vast intervening span of time.
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RE: Christians: Please explain the Exodus
September 30, 2014 at 1:40 pm
I know this point sounds stupid but there were not any satellites at the time.
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RE: Christians: Please explain the Exodus
September 30, 2014 at 1:42 pm
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There are now. That doesn't just sound stupid........
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RE: Christians: Please explain the Exodus
September 30, 2014 at 1:43 pm
...it is stupid
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RE: Christians: Please explain the Exodus
September 30, 2014 at 1:44 pm
(September 30, 2014 at 1:36 pm)C4RM5 Wrote: What I am saying is there are winds in the desert covering tracks
Where I am from if I drive any longer than two hours I end up in the Atlantic, is it longer than that.
Finding "tracks" is one aspect. What about the massive amounts of pottery, bones, fire debris, building materials and garbage?
Remember: a population larger than the Portland metro area. Here's just a tiny slice:
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RE: Christians: Please explain the Exodus
September 30, 2014 at 1:44 pm
(September 30, 2014 at 12:02 pm)Aractus Wrote: (September 30, 2014 at 11:54 am)vorlon13 Wrote: Also noted elsewhere, with average life span less than 40 years, the wandering in the desert implies damn few of the original crew of the exodus actually reached the promised land. Virtually all of them died enroute.
Hell, even Moses didn't make it.
What did they do with all the bodies ??
(Moses excepted, he flitted away) Actually the Bible says they didn't make it to Canaan, all 2-3 million of the original fleeing Jews died in the Sinai peninsula, and were buried there so god could let the next generation into Canaan. Where are the graves? Where is the pottery?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/09/...es_sahara/
There are whole cities that have been lost to time in the desert of that region. the only thing left are the foundations and even so are only known to us by satalite. (Where are the graves? Where is the pottery?)
So if a whole city/several cities 1000 to 1500 years after the fact can completley disappear then what chance does a a campsite have after 3500 years?
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RE: Christians: Please explain the Exodus
September 30, 2014 at 1:45 pm
How many live in Portland?
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RE: Christians: Please explain the Exodus
September 30, 2014 at 1:47 pm
(September 30, 2014 at 1:32 pm)Rhythm Wrote: It actually isn't, even when people try to hide it. That's why we can find people trying to flee through the wilderness. How many wanderers and campers do you think the exodus is referring to, one, two?
how long ago do you this this happened 2 years?
Show me a camp site used by a native american 350 years ago in the desert.
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