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RE: Was the Exodus natural or supernatural, fact or fiction?
February 4, 2013 at 2:12 pm
The events of the exodus could be down to the eruption of the super volcanoe at Santorini.
The Red sea could be a miss translation of Reed Sea which is a marshy area filled with reeds.
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RE: Was the Exodus natural or supernatural, fact or fiction?
February 4, 2013 at 3:02 pm
If God is the God of the Natural universe then why is He only limited to moving in supernatural ways?
Doesn't make more since that the God who put into places all of the governing laws of nature, use said nature to accomplish what He will?
What attributes the events in Exodus to God is not how they came to happen, but that God fortold of them, and used them to as a means to accomplish His end goals.
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RE: Was the Exodus natural or supernatural, fact or fiction?
February 4, 2013 at 3:04 pm
As far as the archaeological evidence is concerned it didn't happen. Nor is there any mention of Jews living as slaves in Egypt anywhere in any of the writtren records the Egyptians kept. But there are two things of interest.
1) Moses is an Egyptian not a Hebrew name.
2) The very first monotheistic religion originated in ancient Egypt.
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RE: Was the Exodus natural or supernatural, fact or fiction?
February 4, 2013 at 3:13 pm
There is no evidence that a slave force escaped from Egypt. Really, the idea of it goes against everything we know about Egyptian culture. Egypt kept to itself and took care of it's citizens. Slaves didn't build the pyramids, workers did during the flood season. They were fed and clothed. Even women enjoyed a lot of freedoms in those days. The Exodus doesn't make sense and seeing how it wasn't even written down by the Hebrews until Babylon held their leaders as hostages during the Neo-Babylonian era, I doubt it's accurate.
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RE: Was the Exodus natural or supernatural, fact or fiction?
February 4, 2013 at 4:24 pm
I dont care if it happend or if it didnt happen.
How the hell would it have any effect on my daily life?
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RE: Was the Exodus natural or supernatural, fact or fiction?
February 4, 2013 at 7:13 pm
I would like to see how far it goes in peer review.
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RE: Was the Exodus natural or supernatural, fact or fiction?
February 4, 2013 at 7:25 pm
Bullshit from the word "go."
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