Just pick a direction and stick with it.
2007-03-15 07:42:27 · 19 answers · asked by hot carl sagan: ninja for hire 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I've wondered about that, too. Forty years!?! I could have walked out of North America in that ammount of time.
2007-03-15 07:46:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
That's one of the stories that struck me as absurd as a 9 year old.
If one walked just 5 miles a day, one would be able to circle the earth in less than 14 years.
Okay, that may require walking in a straight line on the Equator, which isn't possible. But, how bad was their sense of direction? They were just trying to cross a desert!
2007-03-15 07:55:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anthony Stark 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Especially since that same journey takes less than two weeks on foot, even packed for it.
40 years = 14610 days.
2 weeks = 14 days.
It took over a thousand times longer to get from Egypt to Israel than it should have. Even if they had walked in a perfect row-scan pattern, so that they never stepped in the same spot twice and covered all the space in between, they'd have made it long before 40 years passed.
2007-03-15 07:47:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
You know men - won't stop to ask for directions or listen to anyone else in the group!
2007-03-15 07:58:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Studies have shown that it would have been impossible to wonder for 40yrs in that area. It's not that big. Just goes to show you ppl will believe anything.
Christians thinking with their hearts, not their heads.
2007-03-15 07:47:53 · answer #5 · answered by plferia 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
when you hear in the bible things like 40 years or 40 days and nights it's the writers sawing "were not sure how long it took but it took a hellava long time"
2007-03-15 07:48:47 · answer #6 · answered by simon 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the Israelites were being punished fro disobedience to god that is why they wondered for 40 years.
2007-03-15 07:51:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It seems that the desert was the Hebrew version of Wonderland.
2007-03-15 07:45:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
Because they were lead by a man, they refused to stop for directions. (Being a guy, I can make that joke.)
2007-03-15 07:46:58 · answer #9 · answered by comicards 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
You know that men don't ask for directions! If a woman was in charge they would have arrived early AND had time to stop for gifts.
2007-03-15 07:45:43 · answer #10 · answered by Aileen C 3 · 6⤊ 3⤋