(July 18, 2011 at 12:39 pm)TheCarlisle Wrote: Yes that does seem a stretch.
Oh, did I mention zero infant mortality has to be part of the math? Plus we haven't factored in the Egyptian massacre of Jewish male babies at the time Moses was born?
Quote:However, there were more than just descendants of Jacob who left, there were other slaves and even Egyptians. Nowhere does it say that 600 000 Jews left Egypt.
So "children of Israel (Jacob)" =/= descendants of Jacob? Remember that "Israel" was Yahweh's name for Jacob.
Quote:Genesis 32:28 And he (Yahweh) said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
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... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
