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Would confirmation of the "Biblical Exodus" add any support for God

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frako
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12-07-2010 8:27 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by jar
12-07-2010 7:45 AM

If the exodus happened it would go a long way to the credibility of the Bible tough it would not provide much support for God.
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What would provide support would be:
-If one found the way the jews travled and found a sea that had evidence of being parted by the breth of god (wind) my guess is the flor would still show evidence of it being blown on by a high velocity wind.
- If all the 10 plagues happened in a relatively short time as the bible says and that at least a few natural causes could be explained away for instance in times of hunger Egyptians feed their firstborns double the ration of others in the family and if the grain was say moldy the firstborns would have a grater chance of dying from eating it because they ate more.
- A golden calf under a mountain and god residing on top of that mountain
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frako
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12-07-2010 11:23 AM 		Reply to: Message 5 by jar
12-07-2010 9:57 AM

Re: add credibility of the Bible?
The Bible is a collection of stories written by different authors, edited over thousands of years. If one part happened to be shown to be historically accurate, how would that add support for some other story?
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It would ad support in a way that not everything in the bible is totaly made up, and not everything got heavily distorted by time re telling and rewriting.
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It might get some serious archaeologist to follow some other stories to see what actually happened.
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frako
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12-07-2010 12:01 PM 		Reply to: Message 12 by bluescat48
12-07-2010 11:54 AM

Re: add credibility of the Bible?
One other point is how much of the story must be confirmed?
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For the exodus
- Moses a hieroglyph somewhere should be found
- That a large number left Egypt at the same time
- That the Pharaohs army god killed in the pursuit
- That all those plagues happened in a short time interval
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At least this much so we can talk about exodus being a possibility, anything more we could talk about the details that took place.
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12-07-2010 6:28 PM 		Reply to: Message 32 by PaulK
12-07-2010 6:11 PM

Re: What is the Exodus?
Perhaps we should be asking if the failure of the Exodus story is significant evidence against the Christian of Judaic God.
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Nope sadly one cannot disprove gods tough it would be/is grate evidence for the bible not being infallible, or wholly inspired by god.
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