2006-07-13 10:05:53 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The part where they allegedly crossed is NARROW and SHALLOW.
2006-07-13 10:13:53 · update #1
The wall of Jericho thing was caused by resonance of soldiers marching.
2006-07-13 10:24:44 · update #2
It well could have been. Timing is everything.
2006-07-13 10:07:22 · answer #1 · answered by Bill 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The account of the parting of the Red Sea is often misunderstood and misquoted. Since you have expressed an interest to learn where the account originally came from I will direct you to the first ever words recorded of the of the event. The writer was Moses, the setting was Egypt, and the year was 1513 BCE.You can pick up the account at Exodus 14:13-16 as Pharaohs war chariots were thundering toward Moses and the Israelites. God told them to "stand still" since He was going to save them.The miracle of the Red Sea parting is written at Exodus 21:22-28 where it states that God Himself caused the sea to become parted. This did not occur in a matter of hours but the bible explains that the event took around 24 hours So using the source of an eyewitness (Moses) the answer is... God parted the Red Sea and not a tsunami.
2006-07-13 11:38:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
lemme see if i got this straight... you mean....just as Pharouah army was closing in the water 'fortuitousously' opened and they escaped the next day while the pillar of fire seperated them from the Egyptian army... and as they reached the other side .. it fortuitously collapsed drowning Pharoahs army...
hmmm...
now what did you say the pillar of fire by night was that stuck with em for 40 years... and changed to a cloud in the day
in any case not possible it was merely fortuitous
given the string of miracles they cannot be dismissed by a natural attempt at explaination
Consider
- The 10 plauges of Egypt
- Pharoah-s army still drown in the same water
- The manna that lasted 40 years and stopped when they entered the promised land on the Passover
- The promision of shoes and cloths that didnt wear out
- the waters of the Jordan parted at flood time to let them enter the promised land
oh yes, one more thing, the walls of Jericho fortuitously fell after they marched around it the seventh time?????
I have to conclud ecan't be explained by merely fotuitous circumstnce
by the way there is some evidense there is a historical interpretation problem where two dynastries overlap in Egypt rather than were consecutive, this places the Exodus in a credible time and many would argue good reason to believe it did happen...
I believe ther e is a book on this called the Gold of Egypt
and I recommend the tape series on Exodus by Chuck Swindoll which I think was excellent (although his sister Lucy is a riot and a half to listen to as well)
anyhow see
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v14/i4/archaeologist.asp
where archeologist Clifford Wilson addresses the question of the Exoud and dating
Q: Do you encounter that attitude in archaeology, too?
A: Sometimes. For instance, in the excavations at Gezer to which I have referred, on the last day of two particular digs, we actually found a cache of Philistine pots, which were about 150 years out, based on the argument that the Exodus took place about 1290-1270 BC (which is the date taken by many modern scholars). They are plain wrong, by the way. The evidence from Dr Bryant Wood today is being taken very seriously these days: he has done a great deal of work to show that Jericho fell about 1400 BC, which gives you an Exodus date of about 1440 BC. So these particular Philistine pots just shouldn’t have been there on this accepted theory. And they didn’t know what to do with it, so they just went quiet on it.
That’s what happens from time to time. My own experience is that if the Bible says something is accurate, well, be very slow to suggest otherwise, because it does have a habit of proving to be right after all.
2006-07-13 10:20:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ever heard of a tsunami lasting long enough for a million and half Jews varying in age from 0 to 120 years old carrying everything they own including the loot they got from the Egyptians across miles of sea bottom?
2006-07-13 10:11:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could have been. But does that make it any less of a miracle? It happened at the right time in the right place. Why couldn't God's method have been to cause a tsunami?
2006-07-13 10:08:24 · answer #5 · answered by Blunt Honesty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe tsusalami or bologna. I've always wondered why there isn't a single piece of evidence, of any sort, of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt - or even of their stay in Egypt. As gossipy as the Egyptians were with their hieroglyphics, you'd think there would be some reference.
2006-07-13 10:13:28 · answer #6 · answered by JAT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats asserting that Mosses is a real tale. perhaps it somewhat is, perhaps its no longer. yet no you are able to truly say that parting the purple sea somewhat occurred. if your going to make a competent argument you're able to desire to no longer use issues interior the bible, as a results of fact thats in question.
2016-12-10 06:17:41 · answer #7 · answered by ehiginator 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, there is no other explanation for Moses parting the red sea other than the fact that God did it.
2006-07-13 10:08:14 · answer #8 · answered by Geoff C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The water ''split''. How would a tsunami explain that?
2006-07-13 10:09:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
welcome to the power of God! The reason big things don't happen like that enough so that we notice them is because not nearly as many people have faith in God :(
2006-07-13 10:09:20 · answer #10 · answered by im that short person! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋