More About The Moses Fairy Tale
I've said before there is no archaeological evidence for the Exodus or the killing the Pharaoh's army or the Jew's 40 years in the desert. Believers scoff at this saying blowing sand buried the evidence.
That desert has varied terrain. There are only a few locations where three million people could have found water and grown food. These area have been excavated. And, could sand have buried the evidence of millions of people for 40 years? Sand is blown from one location to another. It blows back again. It both covers and uncovers what is underneath. There has not been an increase in the total amount of sand.
A further case for the Moses story as fiction is found in the Bible and in history recorded elsewhere. Piecing together what the Bible says, if the Exodus actually happened it would have happened about 1250 BCE. The story tells us a Pharaoh's army was completely destroyed.
It is known from other sources who the Pharaoh was. It was Raames III. His body has been preserved and is on display today. A lot is known about this leader but the loss of half his population and his entire army is not mentioned. Historians say if his army had been destroyed and population decimated other enemies would have moved quickly to conquer the fertile Nile Delta. It remained defended.
More recently, an engraved stone monument was discovered which scientific methods have dated to around the 1200's BCE. The engraved story tells of an invasion by Egyptians of Israel between 1213 and 1203 BCE. A complete victory is bragged about. This was only a few decades after the Bible's claim that Moses destroyed the entire Egyptian army.
The Bible tells us of an army of Jews 600,000 strong. This would mean a population of Jews in Egypt of three or so million. Estimates of the population of Egypt at the time were 2-4 million.
The Old Testament is a foundation for the New Testament. When the foundation of a building crumbles we know what happens next.
B.C. - Before Christ.
ReplyDeleteA.D. - Anon Domini or anno Domini nostri Jesu Christi - In the Year of Our Lord or In the Year of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
The terms B.C.E. and C.E. started to be used about 1200 years after B.C. and A.D., an apparent change in terms to satisfy certain elements in the advent of accelerated science; created by a religious scientist, no less.
Nonetheless, history favors the B.C. and A.D. usage for obvious reasons.
"B.C.- Before Christ" 1.) No one knows there was a birth of someone called Jesus Christ. 2.) If there was such a birth, no one knows when it took place, neither the year nor the day. Your happiness seems to depend on hanging onto the old and rejecting the modern. I advise you to stick with that. Stay with the old medicines and medical practices, drive really old cars. And, computers, they are modern. Have nothing to do with them. Computer generated information has given us even more reasons to doubt the Moses myth. And, goodness, don't allow accurate terms like "Before Common Era" replace questionable terms like "Before Christ." We do not want an unhappy Matt.
DeleteIn that vein, I should replace Aristotle with Ilhan Omar, replace Albert Einstein with Bill Nye, replace Dr. Frederic E. Mohs with Dr. Christopher Duntsch, etc.
DeleteI was referring to facts. We don't know there when "B.C" was. We know computers contribute to challenges of the faith.
DeleteTo be consistent, you need to determine a point in time when earth was born. Start numbering everything from that day. Perhaps we are in the year 6,347,208,123. Well, it turns out something happened at 0 A.D., or 0 C.E, if you wish. Humanity, up until about 1715 A.D. was fine using B.C. and A.D. Johanes Kepler initiated the use of B.C.E and C.E. but he pegged the beginning of the common era to be 0 A.D. Kepler was a professor at a seminary. As for computers contributing to challenges of the faith, I am perplexed. Computers contribute to evangelization as well as atheism. Challenges are conducted by faith and by people. Computers are tools. One might as well say Amazon.com challenges faith or challenges atheism. "... there when ..."?
ReplyDelete"As for computers contribution to challenges of the faith, I am perplexed." I don't know why you are perplexed. Computers make it easier to get abortions. The harder it is to get an abortion the helpful computers will be to arrange one. If God hates abortions, as you have said here, then God must hate people who work in a field that makes abortions easier to obtain. If I recall, you are a professional in that field.
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