Is the passover a true story?

[Southtown]

As 'food-for-thought', I think it is a good show. I really do. I would just recommend a critical mind while watching it.

 

-modest

Yes, of course. As always. :hyper:

[Southtown]

Another good one that I have only seen a part of, which was my previous favorite and running a close second is exodus revealed http://www.amazon.com/Exodus-Revealed-Searching-Red-Crossing/dp/B00005AUE2. This one relates more toward the actual sea crossing but has quite a bit more evidence.

[jedaisoul]

Getting back to "is the passover a true story?", it depends on what you mean by true.

 

If we accept as historic fact that the Israelites were enslaved in Egypt for a time, then it would have taken some compelling event(s) or threat(s) to cause the Egyptians to free them. It is unlikely that they simply decided that slavery was immoral. So there may be some factual basis for the account. Just as there could be some factual basis for the story of the parting of the Red Sea, or the battle of Jerico.

 

However, I would hasten to add that a "factual basis" would not necessarily make the stories in their present form literally true. It just means that there may have been events that the description that has been passsed down to us is, to some extent, based on.

[UncleAl]

Where was Yahweh when 6 million Jews were exterminated in Hitler's camps - most of them being rural fundie Hasids who walked to their deaths like sheep while singing Yahweh's praises as the Schma? Hindus have 36 crores of gods - 360 million deities. How is India doing?

 

Can God make a collection plate so vast that even He cannot fill it? Sure! ALL OF THEM. You have a choice:

 

1) Empiricism. Remember the Eleventh Commandment and keep it Wholly: Thou shalt not get caught.

2) Faith. If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

 

Choose wisely.

[Southtown]

lol. Not necessarily ignorant comments, al.

[Tolouse]

plus, there was that loaf that was on e-bay a few months ago

[Southtown]

1) Empiricism. Remember the Eleventh Commandment and keep it Wholly: Thou shalt not get caught.

2) Faith. If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

 

Choose wisely.

1) Kill,

2) or be killed.

 

Remember your ethics. wwjd

[Boerseun]

WWJD? Yes, but WWSD*?

 

:)

 

 

 

* (What would Scooby Do?)

[Southtown]

WWJD? Yes, but WWSD*?

 

:shrug:

 

 

 

* (What would Scooby Do?)

Remember your topics. WWTD?*

 

*What Would Tormod Do?

 

PS http://hypography.com/forums/theology-forum/6230-feasts-lord-part-1-a.html#post98271