(November 8, 2014 at 4:08 pm)His_Majesty Wrote: Above you accused me of making "unsupported assertions and claims", and here you are down here making the assertion that the Exodus never happened. That is an unsupported claim, sir.
This is far from unsupported. ALL the evidence, or lack thereof, points to an Exodus as portrayed in the Bible, never happened.
1. There were never over 1.2 million Hebrews living in Egypt.
2. There is no evidence that Hebrews were ever slaves in Egypt.
3. Over a million people wandering around the desert for 40 years would have left a lot of evidence. None has ever been found.
4. The evidence points to the Hebrews being Canaanites. Not people that came from somewhere else and conquered the Canaanites.
There, supported.
And that's only a fraction of the evidence.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.