RE: If the Exodus didn't happen, the Jews wouldn't put themselves under the Mosaic law
November 4, 2014 at 5:34 am
(October 28, 2014 at 10:41 am)Dolorian Wrote: From an exchange...
Quote:Did tens of thousands of Israelites conspire to fabricate the history of the Exodus? If those events did not occur, and those recorded miracles were not experienced by tens of thousands of Israelites, why would they subject themselves to such a burdensome legal code and hard life?
The person in question doesn't seems interested in there being or not archeological evidence for the event.
Are there any examples of people in other religions doing something similar? I know he would reject such accounts but it would be nice to point it to him to show him why I reject the Bible account
Consider that the Israelites had supposedly been locked up in Egypt for about four hundred years. Moses sprung them and they had been flopping around in the desert for over five months when Moses chipped out the Ten Commandments (Exodus chapter 34).
So why did Moses think that it was a good idea to include two annual agricultural feast days as a Commandment (Exodus 34:22) when they had no way of growing crops in the desert? What made it even worse was that they were going to spend the next forty years flopping around in the desert. Were they supposed to imagine that they were growing wheat and other crops?
