To Nonbelievers - Did Moses really exist?

Question

I am referring to the Moses of Exodus. Do you believe that this man really existed? Did he really free the Jews from Egypt? Did he travel with them over the Red Sea into the land of Midian (modern day Saudi Arabia) into Israel? Did he recieve commandments on Mt. Sinai? Did the Jews create a Golden Calf? Did Moses break open a Giant Rock and have water pour out to the millions of Jews?

I'm curious if you think those things happened?

What if they found evidence of this events? Would it change your mind?

Red Sea Parting
http://www.arkdiscovery.com/red_sea_crossing.htm

Mt. Sinai
http://www.arkdiscovery.com/mt__sinai_found.htm

Golden Calf Altar and the Rock which flowed water.
http://www.arkdiscovery.com/mt_sinai_found_part_2.htm

There are other sites. But these show some scary findings!

Answer 1

Heck if I know.

I doubt he parted the Red Sea, though.

Answer 2

" Did he really free the Jews from Egypt? Did he travel with them over the Red Sea into the land of Midian (modern day Saudi Arabia) into Israel? Did he recieve commandments on Mt. Sinai? Did the Jews create a Golden Calf? Did Moses break open a Giant Rock and have water pour out to the millions of Jews?"

No, But I think a similar man existed

Answer 3

Did Moses Exist

Answer 4

Yes, Moses was a real person and did all those things the Bible says he did. More correctly, Moses was the instrument that God used to perform the miracles. As for the Red Sea actually being the Sea of Reeds and only being ankle deep water as I have read, that is an even greater miracle, since the Egyptian army drowned in ankle deep water. Don't confuse the Moses of the Bible with the Moses Heston played in The Ten Commandments. Quite a few liberties were taken with the Scripture in that movie.

Answer 5

I have no idea.

A man who filled the role of the biblical Moses probably existed. He probably led the Jews on the "exodus", he probably had some part in creating a set of rules now known as the 10 commandments. If the Jews did escape fromt eh Egyptians (which historically is unverifiable), then they would have leanings towards polytheism.

Finding a fresh water spring is also possible.

Answer 6

You're asking two things: 1) did a guy named Moses exist, and 2) did all of these stories really happen. Whether or not an historical guy named Moses existed, there is no evidence for any supernatural being handing out laws engraved on stone. Moses might have existed, therefore, but I don't think he had an inside relationship with an omnipotent being.

RE: Additional Details
Those are truely scary findings: scary in that one would consider them evidence of the supernatural. Is it not more likely that water erosion was caused by water during a period when the area was not a desert...

Answer 7

a million) Who is conscious? many various civilizations had flood thoughts of their mythology. My theory is that both it did not happen in any respect, or it did, yet handed off a lot longer in the past than the Bible states. 2) actual, Moses became one hundred and two decades previous at the same time as he died, not 600. there have been adult men that lived to be very previous, yet Moses wasn't one among them. Is there information that adult men once lived to be 1000's of years previous? No. regardless of the indisputable fact that the Sumerians recorded their kings residing to be 1000's of years previous. 3) The Bible would not say how previous the Earth is. 4) both the donkey talking became basically a delusion, or perchance Balaam became in a position to comprehend the donkey's braying. there are various human beings around the international who've sworn they were in a position to comprehend what an animal became declaring. perchance that's what occurred to Balaam. regardless of if aspects of the Bible are "pretend", it does not propose the full problem is. That'd be like throwing out the toddler with the bathtub-water.

Answer 8

"There are Known extra-Biblical references to Moses date from many centuries after his supposed lifetime, and contain significant departures from the Biblical account. In addition to the Judeo-Roman historians Flavius Josephus and Philo, a number of gentile historians including Polyhistor, Manetho and Tacitus make reference to him. The extent to which any of these accounts rely on earlier sources is unknown. Moses also features prominently in later traditions such as the Midrash, Mishna and Qur'an; these texts draw on and diverge from Biblical accounts. See the article on The Bible and history.

Currently, no other surviving written records from Egypt, Assyria, etc., indisputably referring to the stories of the Bible or its main characters before ca. 850 BC have been found.[26][27] Destruction of unfavorable records by unsympathetic Pharaohs, and even mass obliteration of cartouches from monuments, is known to have occurred at several epochs in Ancient Egyptian history."

Answer 9

This Moses person did not existed. There are no historical records to show this. The ancient Egyptians were known to document every significant event. If this Moses person did free the Jews from pharaoh (never named, just pharaoh), there would be hyroglyphics or some papyrus writting somewhere. As of yet, there are none. The parting of the Red Sea is a physical improbability. It has been proven by scientists. None of the other things happen. This is where you are supposed to suspend free thinking and logic to believe these stories.

Answer 10

I think it's probably that Moses existed, but I'd have to brush up on my Egyptology. Egyptians actually kept very good records of who their kings were, and since Moses was supposedly raised by a pharoah an "adopted" son should be somewhere in the records, even if he isn't specifically named. He may have even found a way to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. But the parting of the Red Sea? Not so sure about that.

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Answer 11

There is more than enough evidence to strongly suggest that the exodus never happened. There is no Egyptian record of this at all which would be EXTREMELY unlikely from a civilization that did keep records of those things. I think it is unlikely, but it could be a story based on a man that was admired as a hero for the Jews.