Are the 10 plagues of Moses really possible?

Question

Saw a preview today for 'The Reaping' which uses all of the same plagues in a modern Southern bayou town which looked interesting. Under the right circumstances (whatever that might be), could something like that happen? In Ancient Egypt though it seems like it would be something that would be very hard to miss. Yet no known records of that time have documented anything of the sort.

Not to mention there is no record anywhere of a massive group of people, slaves no less, leaving Ancient Egypt all at once.

Answer 1

1. the Egyptians have left no record of any plagues or even the Israelites. funny that they seemed to record everything else.
2. if the Hebrews had ever been slaves in Egypt for such a length of time it would be reflected in their language. the African slave returned to Liberia from America spoke only English after less than 100 years of slavery, their descendants in Liberia still speak English. the language of slaves is always modified, either into a patois taking on major parts of the vocabulary and syntax of the enslaving race, or wholesale adoption of their masters language. as far as i know there has never been an exception to this. one telling fact that the only definite loan word from ancient Egyptian in Hebrew, the word for cygnet ring, is also in Canaanite and Phoenician, suggesting the word was brought to them rather than acquiring it whilst enslaved.

Answer 2

actually I'm pretty sure if yo look at it from the right angle the 10 plagues not only could be real, but could happen from entirely natural circumstances.

Blood= I believe that there is some phenomena like red tide or some clay erosion or something that can happen in the area that makes the water appear blood red and be unusable.

Frogs: well if you have an area like that that is suddenly hit with something that makes the water uninhabitable, all the frogs and such would likely evaguate onto the drier area, thus be in huge abundance.

Gnats/lice/fleas: breakouts of such things happened during that time, I mean it doesn't entirely not happen now.

flies: feeding on all the dead frogs.

Pestilence, side effect of the increased bugs feeding on the abundance of dead frogs and fish and such from the bad water. combined with the fleas and such,

see the pestilence part, but spreading to humans.

hail, well thats a bit trickier. but a matter of timing more than anything. maybe a volcano erruption or something?

Locusts, this is a natural event too, maybe perpetuated by all the dead livestock, and everyone being distracted from harvesting, ect.

Darkness, well, if the hail was from a volcano, or something, maybe the ash darkening the sky? or a bizzare form of eclipse,

first born, bad water, pestilent cattle, locusts eating everything... its obvious some will die. its not that hard to imagine a little bit of particular luck and dramatasized lore making it especially specific...

Answer 3

The best answer I can give is two links
http://www.bidstrup.com/bible.htm (3rd paragraph I think)
http://www.bibleorigins.net/ExodusJosephusVSManetho.html

No records of such events exist because they never happened.
The slavery story is bogus as well. Archaeology is very clear from the recovered writings and the excavations of the pyramid builder's towns that they were all hired workers, Egyptians, free and not slaves.
The Egyptians likely never did use slaves(economic reasons) for anything. Egypt had an unemployment problem. An excess of workers, not a shortage. The pyramids were as much a make work project as anything.

I hope you look those two sites over and start looking at more links related to studies of the bible. It is an interesting collection of literature.
But if you are trying to see it as a historical record that would be like watching Hollywood movies to figure out how the western states were settled.

PS I hope you enjoy the movie, 10 Plagues on Georgia, hmmm, sounds almost like a theme park.

Answer 4

Yes, in fact, they all really can be explained by major tectonic activity. Frogs follow volcanic eruptions, see Mt. ST. Helens as an example. Amphibians were everywhere after that eruption.

Here's a breakdown:
1.Rivers turned to blood - Silt falling into the river due to earthquakes near Lake Victoria (where the earth is red)
2. Frogs - Amphibian populations explode after volcanic activity, additionally, frogs flee from water polluted by silt and would come on land.
3. Lice - People and animals would likely be kept indoors, huddled closely together.
4. Insects or beasts - the natural predators of insects may have been killed or the creatures could be migrating, seeking available food after ash covered the land.
5. Diseased livestock - Increases in lice and insects, lack of proper food
6. Sores on the skin - ash burns, bed sores, louse bites, etc.
7. Hail mixed with fire - ash falling from the sky
8. Locusts - same as #4, not to mention that Africa has frequent locust plagues as it is.
9. Darkness - sun blocked out by ash
10. Death of the first born - First born sons were the only ones who slept in beds on the ground floor of homes. It was a special honor. Massive carbon dioxide releases from earthquakes would kill those closest to the ground.

There was also a contraversial, but rather intriguing documentary on this called Exodus Decoded that aired on the History Channel. It explained all of them and showed archeological evidence of mass burials of young men and almost exclusively young men, in Egypt at the time when the Hyksos left Egypt. It also showed ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics that tell a story of a number of these plagues, one of which was one of the steles of Ahmose that were discovered at Karnak.

Answer 5

Yes most of those things could have happened, and still do naturally, (red tides, locusts etc) Scientists who are sympathetic to the Bible have certainly demonstrated that some of these things could have happened by natural causes. But do they NEED to. Is there any historical or archeological evidence outside of the bible that an event like the plagues actually happened. No.

In fact, they aren't really that spectacular when you think about it. A muddy river, frogs, locusts. Kind of mundane actually

And the last one...well, if the first born male of every Egyptian family just DIED...there would be a record of it. They were meticulous record keepers and they were very religious and superstitious.. Such and event would be HUGE !!!!!

uhm ...no record.

The truth is, it is an allegorical tale. Moses never existed, he is a Hebrew "hero" figure, like Robin Hood is to us.

Answer 6

After massive volcanic eruptions of inactive volcanoes, all of the plagues happen, even the locusts. The first born son thing was because the first born sons would sleep on the floor (a place of honor) the rest had beds of sorts. The heavy toxic gases after an eruption would have choked anyone sleeping on the floor.

Answer 7

If those mess ups have been brought about via Santorini`s volcanic beginning, definite, a brilliant adventure and inflicting geographical fall out, having had no power given to it via God, then each and all of the inhabitants of Egypt could have suffered!. yet for this reason Goshen which lies in the Nile Delta and not too some distance south became 'immune' to the fallout!! In a superb style of the plagues that's written that God risk-free his human beings in the land of Goshen from receiving the plagues and the fallout which surrounded them in the rustic. the region of Goshen would not have been unquestionably remoted except it became risk-free via the Lord. regardless of if there's a hyperlink to the volcanic eruption at Santorini and the plagues of Egypt we could continuously not do away with the ability of the Lord to guard His human beings.! i in my view won't be able to see the firstborn slaughter as being something different than in basic terms from the Lord. dying of the firstborn and basically the firstborn won't be able to be a organic reason from any polluted water, loss of flowers or affliction inflicting boils. dying basically got here to those firstborn and the firstborn of the livestock which remained alive because of the Egyptians loss of heeding Gods warning!.they could have been saved too! that's going to be pronounced that the extra God`s power witnessed via adult males of God, performed by using adult males of God is defined away via mess ups, (and the comparable is going for the marshy sea of reeds crossing,) we are on a steep slippery slope downwards. Chip away at one element of scripture and save on with it to earlthy explantions, we'd discover there is not something left of Gods be conscious. very directly! And jointly as that would delight many atheists among us, it may rally the believers between us to assert.... NO GOD IS AND became on top of issues. If we dont.... the place does that go away the Torah? (for the Jewish readers) Unreliable? as a result the place does that go away the Scriptures as an entire and the NT for the Christians, the existence of Christ? His supplies you? All dirt?

Answer 8

Yes. There was a documentary on a long time ago which showed archaeological and scientific proof that the 10 plagues of moses really did happen.

Answer 9

Yes it happened. Yes it could happen. Science has even proved that it could happen. And there is a record of the ten plagues happening.

Answer 10

listen to more news sweetie. Famine & plagues, floods... earthquakes, where ya been lately, watching MTV?