RE: Do Christians really believe most of us are going to hell?
July 4, 2014 at 3:35 pm
(This post was last modified: July 4, 2014 at 3:57 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 4, 2014 at 11:46 am)Lek Wrote: There's no records of most people who existed back then. Other nations didn't care about the patriarchs. They meant nothing to them, but they were important to the Jewish nation to whom the old testament was written. Egyptian pharaohs and other monarchs of the time weren't fond of people who wrote derogatory things about them.-This is absurd! You don't think that egypt might have noticed a "moses"? Rip Van Winkle is important to me - guess he's legit too? No, wait, maybe they didn't write about "moses" because they didn't like him?
Let me give you simpler explanation. There was no Moses - and it really doesn't matter to anyone that there wasn't. It's a foundational legend - we all tell them, the truth of the narrative is not measured by the existence of the character but by the existence of the narrator.
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