How come none of the stuff in the Bible about what god did to Egypt is mentioned in Egyptian writings?

Question

Like the thing about when God killed all the first-borns etc...

Why arent these event recorded anywhere in Egyptian hieroglyphics or writings?

Answer 1

It never happened.

And the comical thing is that Christians will tell you that the Egyptians were embarrassed, so they didn't record it. Four to six hundred years in Egypt and the only evidence is some hieroglyphs someone was too embarrassed to write down.

Christians have a strange view of history.

No wonder they can't find their Ark.

Answer 2

Good question. I seen a documentary on this. The three possible answers were -

1 - it did not happen

2 - Ramses ordered everyone to write a false story (highly unlikely)

3 - Hebrew slaves represented only a small portion of slaves being used (actually I seen a documentary recently that the great pyramids and temples were actually built by paid Egyptian workers and not slaves as previously believed due to the bible) that their leaving Egypt was not worth noting.

Answer 3

There has been findings of writings in Eygpt about thousands of male babies dying. They were killed by sword but by unknown disease. There are many writings in Egypt of many deaths by disease, sores, murders by strangers from stranger lands, etc. And there are hieroglyphics that look like spaceships and cranes. So who knows what some of these really are to the ancient Egyptians. But the pharoahs didn't speak of the Israelite God, that I've read about yet. I just asked a question about if there are Egyptian writings about Moses.

Answer 4

The first historians were the Hebrews. Biblical archaeology continually confirms Biblical accounts of Old Testament narratives where evidence can be found. This is because their God was a God who worked through historical events to accomplish his purposes. The Egyptians did not write history as we know it. Their writings served to praise the deeds of pharaoh-gods. Much like Japanese textbooks which say little or nothing about their deeds during WW2.

Answer 5

The Egyptian Pharoah mysteriously switched to the worship of only one God, for only a single short reign, shortly after 1450 BC, which was the time of the Exodus.

When the next Pharoah came in, all monuments, documents, and other traces of the earlier Pharoah's reign were buried in the desert sands, and hidden away, supposedly forever.

The Egyptians didn't like to be embarassed. They didn't like their Pharoah and their gods to be upstaged. And fortunately, they didn't realize that burying things in the desert actually preserved them, rather than making them disappear, or we wouldn't even know about all this.

There is also documented archeological evidence of the likely cause many of the Egyptian plagues ... supernatural darkness, water turning to blood, wierd behavior of animals and frogs, and buring rain and hail.

Check it out and you'll be surprised at how well documented these things really are.

Answer 6

I watch alot of History and National Geographic channels. I don't remember the exact name of the show but there are some references to things that happened in Exodus though it had a different slant on the events than the Biblical version.

Answer 7

Why would an Egyptian King write about his own humiliating defeat at the hands of former slaves? And actually go into detail about it so that future generations can laugh at him?

His enemies can write about his defeats. Egyptian Kings only write about their triumphs. History is written by the victors, not the losers.

Answer 8

Because none of it HAPPENED. You see, the hebrews got this GREAT IDEA, to conjure up a way to get back at Egyptians FROM an event that took place around the 13 century b.c. An ENORMOUS volcanic eruption occurred at this time which darkened the skies over Egypt and spewed ash and stones. Remember the hailstones of FIRE. None of this in hebrew literature was from their GOD. It was USING an actual event of a volcano eruption to SUIT their delusional STORY.....Much of everything else they wrote as the "wrath" of their God is proven to be nothing more than natural events which occur in Egypt from time to time.........As for the first born, it is pretty certain they got this from Akhenaton's son who died during his reign and THIS Pharaoh out of his mental illness probably was the one who "released" the hebrews. TIME LINE fits everything the hebrews wrote but NOT as TRUTH but "lies........"

Answer 9

I refer you to this current urban legend. I'm saying that these things do happen. Some people say that they don't. History is variable depending on what people are willing to admit to.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/urbanft.htm

I have a different version of events. It goes something like this: The whole world is run by cults. This is how cults work:

http://www.blgoldberg.com/Marriage.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_ancient_Rome

This is why the Bible talks about enslavement to men.
2 Corinthians 11:20
In fact, you even put up with any who enslave you or exploit you or take advantage of you or push themselves forward or slap you in the face.

In any event, why do people write?
Life is a game. Cults play complex games. Marriage is gamos in New Testament Greek. Marriage is sacred to God and this is not supposed to be part of the complex games that cults play, but then, they don't leave anything untouched. Isaiah 57:8 says: "Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered [thyself to another] than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee [a covenant] with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest [it]." The word for "remembrance" here is zikrown, which also appears in Esther 6:1. "On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records [zikrown] of the chronicles; and they were read before the king." It's got to do with loving other people's beds. That's why cults write things down. They're trying to get into those beds. I think that it is ambiguous whether they actually want to have sex there. This could have to do with the fascination with dying well. People really don't get treated very well in life and that's the same for rich and poor. Ecclesiastes 2:16 says: "For [there is] no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now [is] in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise [man]? as the fool." In fact, people like to pretend that their fathers have died well apparently (2 Peter 3:4). The word for "died" here has to do with sleeping peacefully and perhaps being buried on the side of a hill or covering it as of a village. It seems to be the idea of a blood covering for sin as well, as if blood coverings are necessary for building works to occur. This could explain how loss of life is disregarded in historical records in favour of explanations about building works. It depends which element of society holds sway at the time.

Answer 10

The writers of the bible didn't get the rewrites to the egyptian writers before the deadline. Same reason newspapers in the same town don't have the same stories.