Anyone watch The Exodus Decoded on the History Channel?

Question

My girlfriend is a blind faith church goer,
i tend to be more practical.. Even so much as to over analyze
situations. After watching 'The Exodus Decoded' on the history channel i found myself questioning my faith even more so.

Anyone else happen to catch this documentary?

If so, what were your thoughts?

Answer 1

I'm a devout non-believer. I believe natural events explain everything so I was really excited to see this. My 'theory' has always been that Bible stories have a shred of proof but were passed down verbally for so long that it's natural for events to have been distorted. I.E.- There's a story called 'Gilgamesh' that's very similiar to the Noah's Ark story-it's in the same area but was recorded a thousand years earlier by a different culture/society. Archeologists have found evidence of huge floods in every country but none at the same moment in history.
The Mayans/Aztecs also have a flood story and their creation story is similiar to the Egyptian version.
Back to the 'Exodus' story-I rolled my eyes when he claimed 'God' manipulated nature to do all these things. If you'll notice, for a large part of the OT, God insists he's the only God the Hebrews/Israelites should worship. He never says he's the only one. When his 'chosen' ones go to battle/war, the others are identified by their race-not as people he has anything to do with. In the Abraham story, when God is supposedly telling the Pharaoh to let Abrahams wife back to Abraham, at no point does he tell the Pharaoh to start denying the Egyptian pantheon and start worshipping him.
So, I see the Bible as a collection of stories that were recorded from that particular culture's viewpoint. Much like Egypt has their own tales about Egyptians-not about what the Vikings were up to.
I'm kinda/sorta reading this book called 'The Jesus Mysteries'. I love, love, love it. I don't think it would offend your gf but you'd know better so you might want to try it first. It explains the similarities between pagan myths, Gnosticism and the Christianity we're familiar with. I've got the attention span of a gnat-that's the only reason I haven't finished it. It's not a story and it has a lot of info about what was considered sacred at the time.

Answer 2

i've got no longer considered the documentary, yet i be attentive to that the college of Tel Aviv released a paper countless years in the past stating that when many years of examine into the area, they might locate 0 evidence of the Hebrews ever being in Egypt. no one ever has, regardless of all the Egyptology of the final 2 centuries. The paper states that the main in all probability subject is that the Hyksos rulers have been expelled from Egypt by an insurrection and then they have been chased as far as Canaan. truthfully Egyptian documents state this and the archaeological evidence backs it up. The memories have been then accompanied and changed by the encompassing way of existence, including the Israelites, who became the Monotheistic Egyptian ruler Akhenaten into Moses and accompanied the ten Commandments from the ten detrimental Pronouncements got here upon interior the Egyptian e book of The lifeless. because of fact the tale replaced into repeated, added aspects have been added, like the start narrative of Moses, lifted from a widespread pill describing the existence of Sargon the 1st. And no one has extra at stake in attempting to tutor the historic validity of the Bible than Israel.

Answer 3

Exodus Decoded History Channel