Since the topic has shifted from how we as skeptics see the Bible to details on whether or not the exodus from Egypt really happened, here's a fun Bible fact to consider:
When the Jews entered Egypt to live, there were seventy of them.
They lived in Egypt for four generations, from Jacob's sons to Moses.
To sum up: Levi -> Kohath -> Amram -> Moses. This is four generations.
When Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, their men numbered 600K, not counting women and children.
So assuming a 1:1 ration of men to women (generous since the male babies of Moses' generation were put to the sword), that's a population of 1.2 million.
So in four generations, the Egyptian-Jewish population went from 70 to 1.2 million in just four generations. This is a figure that only makes sense if every Jewish female from 15-40 were constantly pregnant with twins.
When the Jews entered Egypt to live, there were seventy of them.
Quote:Exodus 1:5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
They lived in Egypt for four generations, from Jacob's sons to Moses.
Quote:Exodus 1:1 Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.
Exodus 1:2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
Exodus 6:16 And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari:
Exodus 6:18 And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel:
Exodus 6:20 And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses:
To sum up: Levi -> Kohath -> Amram -> Moses. This is four generations.
When Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, their men numbered 600K, not counting women and children.
Quote:Exodus 12:37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
So assuming a 1:1 ration of men to women (generous since the male babies of Moses' generation were put to the sword), that's a population of 1.2 million.
So in four generations, the Egyptian-Jewish population went from 70 to 1.2 million in just four generations. This is a figure that only makes sense if every Jewish female from 15-40 were constantly pregnant with twins.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
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... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
