If according to proof the passover was created 5th century BCE, how accurate is the Bible?

Question

According to the clear and uncontestable archeological proof of the "passover letter" from the oldest continuous Jewish Temple complex, Elephantine Island, Egypt, (419 BCE), the Passover Ceremony only came into effect under the reign of prophet/governor Nehemiah under the Persians from at least 430-420 BCE.

See;
http://one-faith-of-god.org/old_testament/apocrypha/passover/passover_0010.htm

If this is the case, then the story about Moses and the Passover meal in Egypt cannot possibly be historically true. How historically accurate therefore is the Bible? Is your answer based on more than just faith and hearsay?

Answer 1

Hey, stop it, the Bible is all they have. The texts that the Church left out even contradict the Cannon. You're going to make them start spewing nonsense about it being written by the hand of God or something. Their heads are going to fall clean off if they think that hard.

Answer 2

Archaeologists have discovered stone carvings depicting the escape of the Israelites across the Sea of Reeds. It is dated to the time of Ramses. So Moses and his escape out of Egypt are historical. (History Channel). The Passover meal was not mentioned. It was only a ceremony added on by the Israelites to commemorate the escape from Pharoah hundreds if not years ago. One cannot take the Bible as historically pinpoint accurate. Remember that it was an oral tradition before it was written down on papyrus. Many accurate incidents may have been altered. but the message is the more important lesson. God saved his people from bondage.

Answer 3

the claim that the bible is 100% accurate is of course nonsense, but many of the myths in the bible have some historical background.
as for the Passover, there are several customs included in the ceremonies of this holiday that indicate a much earlier origin, probably as early as the period when the ancient Hebrews were nomads, in the desert areas south and east of the present land of Israel, and that, according to Egyptian data, was in the 14-13 Century BC.
But certainly the customs of the Passover were modified at least until the 2nd century AD

Answer 4

If you base your belief in on God on the historical and factual accuracy of the bible you are doing it wrong. The bible is not a book of true stories as we think of them today. The bible is meant to contain Truth. The stories may or may not describe actual events, but the bible is about a deeper, spiritual truth, enlightened by the stories. In fact, even the catholic church does not argue for the exact historicity of the bible, seeing that it exists as a book of Truth, not truth.

Answer 5

Not very. The bible has been translated, retranslated and changed so many times. King James was actually excommunicated because he changed the bible so much. The closest documents we have to the original text are the Torah and the dead sea scrolls.

Answer 6

You said it yourself...if this is the case. It's not. Christians have equal proof also historically documented.

Answer 7

we just need to trust that God in all his great wisdom, made sure that what we needed to have in the bible, our operations manual is there. the rest he has guided us through tradition.