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The Exodus
loco:
Good posts, BayGBM! I still believe that they were natural disasters initiated by divine intervention as the Bible says, but your posts are very interesting!
As for archaeological evidence of Exodus, we may find such very soon. There is an Israeli archaeologist already working on it. It takes time. For example, it took an Israeli archaeologist 30 years of searching before he found king Herod's tomb in Palestine, and that's with the help of Josephus' ancient works.
BayGBM:
Loco, critics and skeptics would dismiss you as a religious nut for seeing the “hand of god” in any of this, but the fact that you are able conceptualize the plagues as natural disasters indicates that you are not simply a religious nut. Faith and rational thought are not always incompatible. I think this episode in the Bible is one such instance.
The story of the rainbow is another. You will recall that god gave Noah the rainbow sign; no more water, but the fire next time. That is to say, the rainbow is intended to remind mankind of god’s promise that he will never again destroy the earth with a great flood. We will certainly experience rain, storms, regional or compartalized flooding but never again will all of mankind be destroyed with a deluge. Appropriately, the rainbow sign always appears in conjunction with water. It makes sense that after the Flood, rain and water were seen as terrible threats. The rainbow was meant to allay the fears people associated with water.
btw, in addition to heavy and light rain, rainbows can appear in mist created by a waterfall or the mist from waves at a beach.
Skeptics rightfully point out, however, that rainbow mythology is not limited to Biblical canon. Many faiths and belief systems have an explanation for the rainbow, where it comes from, and what it signifies.
That said, I think most of the scientific community agrees that the earth was once flooded/covered with water.
BayGBM:
Back to the plagues of Egypt.
The order in which they occur supports the veracity of the story. In the Ancient world, people didn’t have the knowledge base to connect these dots but today we do . . .
Think about it. It makes sense that after the river became toxic, frogs would leave the river and die (for lack of water), then the number of insects would swell to unprecedented numbers because their natural predators (frogs) were gone. Tainted with disease these insects bite livestock, infecting them and killing them off. People, too, are bitten resulting in boils, etc. I don’t remember over what period of time these plagues are said to have occurred. Obviously, it wasn’t one or two days, but over a period of weeks or months it is not hard to imagine these events unfolding.
Even for a modern atheist, the outline of this narrative makes too much sense for it not to be true. Scary! :-\
Nordic Superman:
BayGBM, do you have any religious affiliation?
Butterbean:
Interesting thread Bay, and beautiful pics thanks :)
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