[QUOTE=SBD;24975150]Or maybe the 'parting of the water' was just a metaphor for Moses leading his peeps through the Sea of Reeds, where Egyptian chariots couldn't go, as my yr 9 RE teacher said may have been possible. The entire bible is just a big book of metaphors and parables.[/QUOTE]
you mean lies and absurdities?
[QUOTE=Savaril;24979865]you mean lies and absurdities?[/QUOTE]
No, metaphors and parables.
[QUOTE=Sir Muffin;24979339]No, not really. Except for Revelation, most of the Bible isn't actually written in metaphorical language.
Which is another reason why the vast gaps between denominations makes little to no sense.[/QUOTE]
Fictional book.
I like how scientists are on about disproving Jesus' doings, all the while trying to prove things like the Red Sea parting from the Old Testatement. I sense some... Logical fallacies here. :v:
Take that you believers.
[QUOTE=SBD;24975150]Or maybe the 'parting of the water' was just a metaphor for Moses leading his peeps through the Sea of Reeds, where Egyptian chariots couldn't go, as my yr 9 RE teacher said may have been possible. The entire bible is just a big book of metaphors and parables.[/QUOTE]
They also suggested a sand bank that would be walkable during certain times of the day.
Multiple possibilities really. But i agree on the fact that it's not to be taken literally.
Exodus 14:21 - Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove the sea back with a [b]strong east wind[/b] and turned it into dry land.
We already knew it was wind.
[QUOTE=Lonestriper;24975094]Sounds unlikely. I appreciate a scientific explaination to parting the sea but it is more likely they just made it up[/QUOTE]
Since Moses never existed I'm gonna go a step further and say the whole story is made up.
[QUOTE=Thom12255;24981650]Exodus 14:21 - Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove the sea back with a [b]strong east wind[/b] and turned it into dry land.
We already knew it was wind.[/QUOTE]
how come the LORD gets credit? Aren't there strong east winds every single god damn day?
[QUOTE=Lonestriper;24975094]Sounds unlikely. I appreciate a scientific explaination to parting the sea but it is more likely they just made it up[/QUOTE]
Not only that but why study the causes of an event in christian mythology that's mainly just a lullaby in the same way as the tooth fairy and Easter bunny for kids anymore.
They should have spent time adding to the mountain of evidence for evolution :v:
Pathetic scientists grasping at straws on a fucking 3500 years old philosophic legend. don't they have an America to save?
[QUOTE=Bomimo;24995251]Pathetic scientists grasping at straws on a fucking 3500 years old philosophic legend. don't they have an America to save?[/QUOTE]
why are you on the internet.
don't you have pedophiles to hunt.
[QUOTE=Ishmael12;24991699]Not only that but why study the causes of an event in christian mythology that's mainly just a lullaby in the same way as the tooth fairy and Easter bunny for kids anymore.[/QUOTE]
They are trying to find scientific explanations for the "miracles" in the Bible in order to add to the mountain of evidence against the Christian god.
[QUOTE=lil_n00blett;25013233]They are trying to find scientific explanations for the "miracles" in the Bible in order to add to the mountain of evidence against the Christian god.[/QUOTE]
it would take a hell of a lot of luck for the wind to work in the jews' favour like that
[QUOTE=SBD;24975150]Or maybe the 'parting of the water' was just a metaphor for Moses leading his peeps through the Sea of Reeds, where Egyptian chariots couldn't go, as my yr 9 RE teacher said may have been possible. The entire bible is just a big book of metaphors and parables.[/QUOTE]
or it could be allegory
[QUOTE=SBD;24975150]Or maybe the 'parting of the water' was just a metaphor for Moses leading his peeps through the Sea of Reeds, where Egyptian chariots couldn't go, as my yr 9 RE teacher said may have been possible. The entire bible is just a big book of metaphors and parables.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Sea[/url]
Typo
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[QUOTE=Fire Kracker;25013591]or it could be allegory[/QUOTE]
Moses got out of egypt somehow. It's undeniable that moses freed the jews. HOW he did it is the question
[QUOTE=Archy;25013566]it would take a hell of a lot of luck for the wind to work in the jews' favour like that[/QUOTE]
Which is exactly why it probably never happened literally, but was just another of many metaphors written into the Bible and interpreted as completely serious.
Oh for gods sake [I]There are Christians on this forum such as myself[/I]
This isnt religious discussion ya'know :colbert:
[QUOTE=Phoenix Ashes;24976728]God parted the red sea for Moses.[/QUOTE]
You had better not be serious
I thought the theory was that all the plagues and miracles could have been caused by a volcanic eruption and good timing.
[QUOTE=NateDude;25014051]Oh for gods sake [I]There are Christians on this forum such as myself[/I]
This isnt religious discussion ya'know :colbert:[/QUOTE]
You should be thankful the atheists in this thread aren't being militant a flaming. I, myself, am giving completely legitimate reasons as to why the events in the Bible can be explained without miracles. For example, Jonah didn't actually spend 3 days in the belly of the whale, but instead spent 3 days sailing under a constellation that was thought to give bad luck to sailors, and to sail under it was to be "in the belly of the whale."
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