Lost in the Desert
Nov 22, 2021 11:47:24 #
lowkick wrote:
Kind of makes you wonder.
That's what can happen when you stubbornly refuse to consult Google
Nov 22, 2021 12:06:27 #
Floyd wrote:
You are reading the wrong stuff. A large amount of wheels have been found in the Red Sea where the crossing had to take place. Read the Biblical account. Second, what evidence would have been left by a nomadic group? The old "myth" dismissal has been set aside by many proofs that serious Jewish and non-Jewish scientists accept.
I have read the Bible many times.
Nonetheless, Israel archeology has officially concluded ...it never happened.
The Bible is not a history book. No one wrote that way back then...they were fables...allegories.
Do you actually think...starving slaves lost in the Sinai desert for 40 years built a golden calf to worship while at the same time crying for food and water? Carrying all this gold around for 40 years? Think about it objectively and it becomes clear the stories of the Torah and the NT are not meant to be taken literally.
Here: From the horses mouth...and believe me...they wanted to find it to be true.
Israel Finkelstein, chairman of the Archaeology Department at Tel Aviv University, with archaeology historian Neil Asher Silberman, has just published a book called "The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Text."
"The Israelites were never in Egypt, did not wander in the desert, did not conquer the land [of Canaan] in a military campaign and did not pass it on to the twelve tribes of Israel. Perhaps even harder to swallow is the fact that the united kingdom of David and Solomon, described in the Bible as a regional power, was at most a small tribal kingdom."
Nov 22, 2021 12:54:22 #
Alafoto
Loc: Montgomery, AL
Longshadow wrote:
Maybe they wondered why they were wandering.
God told them why.
Nov 22, 2021 13:17:03 #
Nov 22, 2021 13:30:52 #
RightOnPhotography
Loc: Quebec,QC
tramsey wrote:
Why did they wonder in the desert for forty years?? Or didn't you bother reading that part and just took this out of context?
Moses led slaves out of Egipt. The purpose of these 40 years of wandering was to let the generation of slaves to die and the new generation to be raised as free people in their own land.
Nov 22, 2021 14:11:34 #
Nov 22, 2021 16:45:39 #
Frank Lloyd Webber summed it up well with his song lyric, "Israel in 4BC had no mass communication." He just did not include that there were no GPS satellites. Add to that the fact nearly everyone had to travel on foot, it sure did slow them down a lot. Said with a hint of humor.
Nov 22, 2021 19:29:48 #
RightOnPhotography wrote:
Moses led slaves out of Egipt. The purpose of these 40 years of wandering was to let the generation of slaves to die and the new generation to be raised as free people in their own land.
Lol...ridiculous.
Nov 22, 2021 20:35:43 #
tramsey wrote:
Why did they wonder in the desert for forty years?? Or didn't you bother reading that part and just took this out of context?
They wandered becuz they didn't have Google maps.
Nov 22, 2021 21:36:37 #
Alafoto
Loc: Montgomery, AL
fantom wrote:
They wandered becuz they didn't have Google maps.
Or maybe because they did.
Nov 22, 2021 22:13:43 #
Alafoto wrote:
Or maybe because they did.
You're right, quite possibly, it seems you've used them too.
Nov 22, 2021 23:37:57 #
Alafoto
Loc: Montgomery, AL
Ashamed to admit it, but I have. The Israelites would have been wiser to continue following the pillars of cloud and fire. Seems that every time that they ventured off on their own, they got into trouble.
Nov 23, 2021 07:48:07 #
Nov 23, 2021 11:10:48 #
Floyd wrote:
One person can always move faster than approximately 1.8 million people and almost as many animals. Plus, that time was punishment for their many, many complaints about God's commands. "I swear none of you will enter the land I promised to settle you in."
You got that right. I heard the Number of men, women, children, & animals was over 2 mil. We may find out some day,
Nov 27, 2021 20:02:07 #
Actually the whole Moses story is fiction, so 40 years or 6 days, the duration is just what the fiction writer wanted it to be to get his message across.
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