(July 31, 2011 at 4:28 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(July 31, 2011 at 3:32 pm)Hannah Wrote: Midian was in North-Western Saudi Arabia....the land to the East of the Gulf of Aqaba.
And the nearest volcano is well down the Arabian peninsula...so what? If you go to Philadelphia it does not mean that you are also in Pittsburgh at the same time even though you are in Pennsylvania.
If you are going to suggest that there was a "magic" volcano that appeared because the stupid bible says so, well, what can I say. I'm not discussing magic. I'm discussing history/archaeology and geology.
Galatians 4:24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. 25For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. 26But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Funny that isn't it?