Quote:oh wow, you'd think even jewish slaves in egypt would have more sense than that...
There's no evidence that there were ever any appreciable numbers of "jewish" slaves in Egypt.
God created the world in 7 days. Define "Day"
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Quote:oh wow, you'd think even jewish slaves in egypt would have more sense than that... There's no evidence that there were ever any appreciable numbers of "jewish" slaves in Egypt. (September 18, 2010 at 7:22 pm)Minimalist Wrote: There's no evidence that there were ever any appreciable numbers of "jewish" slaves in Egypt. I'm sure that, just as with the modern day slavery, slavery back during the days of the egyption empire was just as equal opportunity as it is today. (Except possibly the sex trade industry, which has a predilection for women and children).
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
It does not appear as if there were any "Jews" at all until sometime after the return from the alleged "exile" in Babylon.
The fantasies in their silly books notwithstanding Judaism is at best a mid-first millenium invention rather than a second or third millenium invention.
How the hell did god keep his time before our system was set up (the solar system). And what planet's day? Surely not GODS day as he is everywhere. My mom has brought this up with me before, "maybe one day or year in the bible isn't the same as the current earth's day or year". IMO it shows that God was man made.
RE: God created the world in 7 days. Define "Day"
September 19, 2010 at 12:35 am
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Quote:Why does something all powerful need to rest? Especially after doing just six days of work after sitting around for an eternity doing fuck all. The polish have got a better work ethic. God doesnt need to rest: http://biologos.org/resources/john-walto...g-genesis/ Quote:What i mean is, how exactly is an immortal God, who is immune to the effects of time, and is suppose to be outside of time... able to be measured by time? Perhaps our understanding of God is wrong. Quote:VideoDeist Pladadin, your video should be more thoroughly researched, do some reading of credible scholars about Genesis, like John Walton... Quote:It still is odd to me that God took longer to create the Earth than the Universe according to the Bible..... http://biologos.org/resources/john-walto...d-meaning/ Quote:There's no evidence that there were ever any appreciable numbers of "jewish" slaves in Egypt. Every civilisation old and new have slaves, why would Egypt be an exception?
Its ok to have doubt, just dont let that doubt become the answers.
You dont hate God, you hate the church game. "God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed." Saint Augustine Your mind works very simply: you are either trying to find out what are God's laws in order to follow them; or you are trying to outsmart Him. -Martin H. Fischer
What he said was that there is no evidence that Egypt had a large amount of Hebrew slaves -.-
Correct, KK.
It is evident that the Egyptians DID have slaves... Not for sure Hebrew.
But not mass slavery on the later scale of the Greco-Romans.
Egypt used a corvee labor system. They employed their own citizens for building projects when the fields were flooded. Sort of an Egyptian WPA. (September 19, 2010 at 3:28 am)Minimalist Wrote: But not mass slavery on the later scale of the Greco-Romans. The Egyptians were pretty tame when it came to slavery, I read that in one of the later conquests of the Nubians by the Lower Kingdom the victorious egyptians laid out their demands that Nubia should provide 1 slave for everyday of the year at the end of the year that they had conquered the territory. So the powerful kingdom of Egypt took only 365 (give or take a few days) slaves after a massive military campaign, which shows that the Egyptians didn't seem concerned with obtaining vast numbers of slaves at all. That leads me to assume that Egypt wasn't an evil empire bent on enslaving the rest of the world as they're made out to be, if they were, using that Nubian Conquest example they could've taken thousands of slaves. The source for that ^ by the way was taken from either a scroll or a tablet made as an assessment by the egyptians at the time, like a tax record I suppose. (September 18, 2010 at 1:26 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Nice videos, you ever done one on this? http://atheistforums.org/thread-4684.html |
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