steve_bank
Diabetic retinopathy and poor eyesight. Typos ...
There are contemporaneous independent accounts of Mohamed. Not so for any biblical accounts, like the Exodus. I don't think there are any Egyptian records of a Jewish enslavement.
The idea that large group of people wandered the desert between say Cairo and Jerusalem r for 40 yeras without leaving any trace or being noticed is laughable. It is only about 300 or 400 miles as the crow flies.
From an archoogy show the Exodus tale as written is probably a conflation of multiple events at different times.o
There are no contemporaneous accounts for Jesus, nothing in Roman records.
In my senior apartment biding rumors and gossip spread. Events end up being told quite differently by different people as time passes.
The ancient Jews were minor players in a world dominated by the likes of Egypt. amd Babolon. Myths of power and greatness grow over time. Myth crtion an justification by divine right grnated and backed by a god was the rue not the exception.
Christians in the USA have always believed the USA was ordained by god. Not biblical by a myth creted by a culture to create the image and feeling of power.
Henry 8th set himself up as the word of god.
Conservative Israelis like Netanyahu justify seizing land for modern Israel and the ongoing colonization of the West Bank via biblical divine right. Ine bible god gave it to Jews exclusively.
Because some historical events can be correlated to the bible does not serve as a proof of god.
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The idea that large group of people wandered the desert between say Cairo and Jerusalem r for 40 yeras without leaving any trace or being noticed is laughable. It is only about 300 or 400 miles as the crow flies.
From an archoogy show the Exodus tale as written is probably a conflation of multiple events at different times.o
There are no contemporaneous accounts for Jesus, nothing in Roman records.
In my senior apartment biding rumors and gossip spread. Events end up being told quite differently by different people as time passes.
The ancient Jews were minor players in a world dominated by the likes of Egypt. amd Babolon. Myths of power and greatness grow over time. Myth crtion an justification by divine right grnated and backed by a god was the rue not the exception.
Christians in the USA have always believed the USA was ordained by god. Not biblical by a myth creted by a culture to create the image and feeling of power.
Henry 8th set himself up as the word of god.
Conservative Israelis like Netanyahu justify seizing land for modern Israel and the ongoing colonization of the West Bank via biblical divine right. Ine bible god gave it to Jews exclusively.
Because some historical events can be correlated to the bible does not serve as a proof of god.
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