Yahweh: The worshiping of a Volcano / fire GOD of War.

[TheJackel]

Many others have sighted Jebel al Lawz as Mt. Sinai,

Sadly based on Ron Wyatt's supposed theory to which is utter nonsense

there is no way that people of any number would be able to stay at the base of an erupting volcano, let lone live there for a year.

Wrong.. You don't know much about the Hawiian Islands do you? Or know much about volcanoes eh?

The ash which would be considerable according to your research would have killed all living creatures.

It can do that.. However, not every eruption is a MT Saint Hellens kind of eruption either.. And it really depends where you are in relation to the volcano.. I almost wonder if you have even bothered to watch the time lapse video of the Ice land volcano, or videos of other volcanoes from a relatively close distance.

The heat would have been unbearable especially in that climate. The threat of lava would have keep the people away.

Yep, that's why Hawaii and the Azores are barren wastelands of nobody living there.. oh wait... people live there! And the Hawaiian people live on the volcano and not at it's base to which is far below sea level. And why would people worshiping a volcano GOD keep away from their GOD? Did you bother to think about this? And it does state in the bible that during the supposed eruption that the people did stand afar as they watched it. This which probably means they weren't sitting at the very bottom of it... Also, people still live in that region. Yes there are still nomads in the area to this very day!

What about water, there is little rain fall in that area, at best one inch a year, so no surface water would have been available to them, and if there were any wells they would have been contaminated by the active volcano, the water would have been unfit to drink or any other uses for that matter

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Many people in that region were nomadic. The shasu for example were nomadic, and this has little bearing on whether or not they worshiped a volcano as a god. You're basically grasping at straws there. Also, you don't know which area they actually were in, or which Volcano they were at in the region as there are several volcanoes in the area at the northern tip of the Red Sea, and even more along the Eastern shore. MT Sinai could be any one of them, or all of them.. Chances are, all volcanoes in the region were likely considered the same GOD.

I don't know about you, but most people would have enough sense not to go up on a volcano as it was erupting, Moses would more than likely have been poisoned by the gases that the volcano would be releasing, you write as if one could just stroll up to an erupting volcano, as if strolling through a park on a clear spring day.

Firstly, these people had no idea what a volcano really was as these people thought it was GOD. Also, you are assuming Moses even existed or that anyone actually went up during a full on eruption. Volcanoes can smoke long before they erupt. And again you are ignoring over half the content I posted in my article that clearly outlines this GOD as a Volcano. The evidence I provide is quite overwhelming, and I have yet to post much of what I have on the subject. For example, I am still going through the Qur'an, and I have found more info on the Shasu ect..

I believe you have over looked the reality of such an adventure. Also how would people camp on volcanic fields, the cooled lava is extremely sharp and there leather sandals would not afford them much protection, and that would be for the ones who actually had sandals.

Again you are speaking from assumption and ignoring the evidence that suggests otherwise. This to which includes people whom have worshiped Pelee, and still do. Yep, these people make the trek all the time! They even burned incense, or various things for their GOD just like the Christians did for theirs!.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5myS40hkYJ0&

and:

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/vide...lcano-vin/

You are correct in saying Jebel al Lawz is not a volcano, yet the granite top of the mountain has been severally scorched, there has never been any vegetation growing on top of the mountain to burn, so how did it become that devastated.

Actually that proves literally nothing.. And suggesting people worship a brush fire is rather hilarious. And nor does a brush fire match the evidence and description in the bible what-so-ever.

By the way Ron Wyatt was not the first to claim Jebel al Lawz as Mt. Sinai, and in actuality his information came from others who were in country long before him, and they had to keep secret that they had studied al Lawz for years, because they were still in country and could have gone to prison for many years if caught.

I'm sure many people trying to attach MT Sinai to anything other than a volcano will... The problem is, the actual archeology and scripture tells us otherwise. You can either deal with that fact of reality, or you can't.

The Saudis are funny that way, they have fenced off many historic sites to keep people from discovering much of the history that area holds.

No, they fenced it off because it's a load of crap. It's been determined as such for quite a while now. Even the supposed cave of Mosses has been debunked as a Nabatean tomb.. It's a long since dead theory that no serious archeologist or scholar will bother with. The only ones that will, will likely be those with vested interest in the religion in order to protect it. And we haven't seen that going on where every archeological find was magically tagged to Christianity and the bible only later to be shown to having nothing to do with Christianity or the bible. Right?.. Nah.. So how about addressing the article vs clinging on to assumptions and already proven wrong theories about MT Sinai?