According to the Book of Numbers there were 603,550 military age men while the Hebrews were in the desert?

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Just doubling that to account for an even male to female ratio gives a population of 1,207,100, plus those under military age and those too old.

How does the entire population of a major city stay mobile in a tiny, tiny desert for forty years without leaving a single trace?

It takes less than two weeks to cross that entire desert on foot, and yet these million plus people walked in circles for forty years and couldn't find their way out, hardly ever encountered anyone else even though Egypt was only a few miles behind them and never left a single piece of evidence that they had been there, not even a pottery shard or a latrine?

Do you have any idea how much garbage and waste is produced over the course of forty years by over one million people?

Not THAT takes FAITH to believe in.

Not to mention a complete lack of education and a surprising degree of gullibility.

Schneb, It sounds like you have been suckered.

According to Tom, 1.2 million people died in that desert, and the surrounding mountains, and left no trace.

Ridiculous.

Answer 1

Another anomaly: Where did all those people they get their drinking water and food.........and thusly, where was the bathroom, that number would make for a lot of fertilizer. Even 6000 would have been hard put to survive 40 days much less forty years.

Answer 2

It was a desert war. They went back and forth. Many died. It makes a lot more sense, if you realize that the Hebrews from Egypt were the Hyksos, the losers of a bitter civil war between two long time Egyptian factions. They differed from the Hebrews that were already in Judea culturally, but shared the same 70 generation ancestry. (They shared it with Pharaoh as well). Hyksos means shephard.

Answer 3

Check out what's going on in Arabia. They have a mount that is said to have writings and markings from Moses and his people. It is kept under heavy guard and inadmissible by commoners (tourists). I have seen secreted photos and it looks like it could be the mount in the Bible. Where does that leave the whole subject of debate?

Answer 4

What's will all these numbers in the Bible? Did they have nothing else to do but count noses? I am not so sure they were counting everyone, maybe just the ones they could count on - so to say? Besides that, It seems to me most of these numbers are too high. Yes, I am all mixed up??

Of course, what do you expect from me, I am just a dumb Orangutan locked up here in a cage???

Answer 5

Your information was not correct. First, the people numbered more than what you say. Second, they were not in a desert but in a mountainess wasteland. (similar to where Ben Laden is hiding today). It was a true wilderness where no one in their right mind would choose to stay if they had a choice. The people were not wondering in an attempt to "find" the promised land. They were instructed by God to remain there and to trust in Him to provide them with food and water (which he did by the way). God was not going to allow them to go to the land he promised for them until such time that they proved themselves. Not any different than what he asks of us today.

Answer 6

Your analysis is correct...but remember Moses is an aristocrat, the hebrews are all slaves who have a slave mentality. "3 meals a day, a roof over their head and steady employment"

A new generation would be needed who were raised in the desert and were warriors.

Just a guess.

Answer 7

They were not just "wandering" in the desert.. they were staying there following God's instructions because they had made idols of gold and they had to show their repentance (plus the generations that were alive had to die before their children could go into the promised land)...

They were being taught a lesson.. to trust in God.. He fed them and took care of them.. and taught them (or more their children) what it was like to grow up in freedom instead of slavery (where they were ALWAYS told what to do)

Answer 8

The Mother Ship came back for them, silly.

Answer 9

Priesthood titles are not "earned." The Bible says "No guy taketh this honour unto himself yet he it quite is termed OF GOD as grow to be Aaron" (Hebrews 5:4). EDIT: ok, once you're pertaining to skills for being given the priesthood...I genuinely won't be able to endure in options the questions i grow to be requested after I had my interview, yet in truth you should stay the commandments, you should desire the priesthood, you'll have a sworn statement, etc. There are not quite any "extra" criteria for acquire diverse "titles"...you in basic terms ought to save doing the failings that made your worth contained in the first position, it truly is area of why it truly is no longer precise to say we "earn" the titles. If we are residing the gospel, there is no longer something we quite desire to regulate after we bypass from one "identify" to a special. We acquire a diverse "identify" at the same time as our leaders, with the help of thought, be certain that it truly is proper. EDIT: it variety of appears like the heart of your question remains...why do not women human beings carry the priesthood in the experience that they are in basic terms as worth as adult adult males. God has diverse roles for adult adult males and women human beings in his plan...neither is extra helpful or worse than the different. It does no longer problem me if God printed that women human beings might want to now carry the priesthood, yet God hasn't. as far because the example in which an human being male may receive the priesthood on the instantaneous after baptism...certain, that takes position from time to time. it in a large number of cases takes position at the same time as he's being baptized at the same time with his kinfolk. he's given the Aaronic Priesthood and ordained to the workplace of Priest, so as that he has the authority to baptize his kinfolk. His receiving the priesthood isn't arbitrary, despite the indisputable fact that. He grow to be nevertheless interviewed by the Bishop and the Bishop stumbled on him worth. also word that the fellow male in basic terms received the Aaronic Priesthood. there's a larger priesthood referred to as the Melchizedek priesthood, and that i have not heard of an human being male receiving the Melchizedek priesthood on the instantaneous after baptism.

Answer 10

It takes a lack of faith not to believe it.So please quit asking questions that try to break our faith because it will never work.