If the Exodus didn't happen, the Jews wouldn't put themselves under the Mosaic law

[Dolorian]

I have serious doubts that any religious narrative was ever experienced by anyone in the fist person to begin with (so no, tens of thousands of people didn't conspire to do anything at all "never attribute to malice" -lol).

Yeah that is something I pointed out to him, that it wasn't thousands of people who wrote the account. But then went ahead and ignored my points about there being a lack of evidence for the event outside the Bible and the modern scholarly consensus which doubts that it was such a huge number of people to begin with.

As per your exchange. -All- social constructs with religious underpinnings would be examples of the same. To allow the one on the grounds stated is to allow them all. The norse gods, for example, would be in. As would the egyptian gods (if those recorded "miracles" didn't occur, if pagans the world over had not experienced those events, why would they place themselves under those laws?). The answer to that question in the case of norse and egyptian pagans appears to be decidedly less than divine. It's entirely likely that whomever you are having this conversation with will agree on that point at least. What may (at first) seem to be a tidy line of reasoning for a preferred concept may ultimately become more messy than the user had ever wished for or concieved of. I doubt that your apologist wants to defend every pagan faith in this manner. Good luck btw.

Thanks. Yeah one can definitely make an argument for very much any religious event or text using that same reasoning. I mean, if we are going to ignore the evidence and rely solely on the claims of the book; we may as well accept as true every other account of the same nature.