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My friend said he saw a show on Discovery channel where some dude was heading to the bottem of the Red Sea to see if there were any remains of the Egyptian troops that died there and see if the Bible story was true. My friend said he saw the show a few nights ago. NOTE: The man actually didn’t do it yet but he said he was going to.

For those of u who don’t knwo supposedly God helped Moses open the sea to allow the Hebrews to get through the sea while escaping the egyptians. Once the hebrews made it through God closed the sea casuing all the Egyptian troops to drown.

I personally think taht after the thousands of years since then the currents would’ve moved many of the remains but i may be wrong. Or mabye it never happened and nothign is down there. I beleieve taht if he doesn’t find anything there than it can be two things. Either it wasn’t a true story, or the currents moved the bodies. But if he does find it...then that’d be a remarkable find.


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it is impossible for humans to cross the red sea in matter of minutes

the story also says that half way the Egyptians caught u to them and then in minutes they end up crossing

honestly I don’t believe in this

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half way? i thought they caught up to em in the end but by then the sea was closing. And it wasn’t a matter a minutes. I think i remember reading that it said it took em a whole day or something like that...

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I think that even if the Red Sea was parted, it would be pretty damn hard to walk through it with all that mud at the bottom.

Also, scientists have said that it is the possible that the wind could part the Red Sea in certain areas that aren’t that deep.

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It wasnt the red sea because, quite frankly, the Red sea is FUCKING HUGE!!




I forget which river it was, but its somewhere on the Sinai peninsula.



Just pointing this out from what teh science sez.

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Well the Red Sea parted recently because of earthquakes, and we have satellite images to prove it. Who’s to say this didn’t happen before?

And the fact that there is so evidence that would suggest that Jews were ever used as slaves for the Egyptians takes a hit against the claim that god parted the Red Sea for them to cross.

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Not to mention that the Bible was most likely referring to the Reed Sea in that particular myth.

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just thought i might wanna add that supposedly Moses crossed the “Sea of Reefs” and not the red Sea, from Egypt to a certain point in the northern half of the Sinai Pen.


also note on the map Moses’s journey is the red line...i’m not sure what the blue line shows.

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Not to mention everyone back than was tripping balls from a fungus or mold or something that grew on their bread.

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who cares just learn the moral of the story

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yeah...i nvr rlly read the story...i just know the main ideas and soem minor things in it...

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Which is... what?

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Ahhh... The moon even have split to two... NASA has confirmed that and Al Quran Stated that before... you guys will believe in that anyway...

If the wind can do that... why we never see that anymore...???
Moses story was true...

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No, moses' story wasn’t true because

1. There isn’t a shred of evidence that would suggest Jews were used as slaves in Egypt

2. There isn’t any geological or any other physical evidence that we would expect to find if the Red Sea was once parted by supernatural forces.

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They were slaves in Egypt...

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Ramunematt that was back around 1650 BC, there are relatively little reliable documents dating that far back, and almost none that can be translated into a language that we can understand. So yes it isn’t technically proven that the jewish people are slaves. But if you look in the Torah there are many referances to Roman society.

The Roman’s were obsessed with the dead, there greatest book being the Book of the Dead. As a revulting reflex to this history of slavery by those obsessed with the afterlife, they created many laws the prohibit any contact with the dead. In fact there is a law that priests are unable to touch dead bodies, which seems to be the pinacle of how the jewish people tried to juxtapose themselves against there old captors.

As for the actual question at hand. Yes the Red Sea is a large body of water, now. But 3.6 thousand years ago it might not have been the same. Believe it or not over long periods of time, bodies of water shift due to rain patterns, currents, ect. There is a good chance that what is now a large sea was nothing more than a pond 'back in the day'. And if that is true the jewish people could easily have crossed.

Now I don’t want to get into the supernatural too much so I will offer up two explainations. First, you mentioned that wind has been shown to be able to part the Red Sea. Well 'back in the day' the Red Sea was surrounded by a dessert that could reach incredibly high temperatures, if a stray gust happened to part the sea, it would also be warm enough to dry out the land it had just revealed in a matter of moments. This would allow for quick travel by the jewish people.

Secondly, if this is truely divine intervention at work, then the laws of physics don’t really apply now do they? A being with the ability to single handedly summon the universe probably wouldn’t have too much trouble parting the Red Sea so that his people can cross it. Assuming he exists of course.

I guess what I’m trying to say is. It is actually very possible for these things to happen.

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How about you go with the real lesson behind the story? Listen and do not question the authory of man or of God and you will be saved from your transgressions and those who would wish to transgress against you.

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y u telling me? goddamn it tell it to the so called “atheist”

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Because you make christians look bad, so I figure I might as well inform you, that way in the future when you make your arguements, they won’t embarress me or others who might have found you to be an authoritive figure on the matter, only to realize that most of your thoughts and idea’s were unfounded.