doc58

They never taught me this in Sunday School.

1) That 3 million people plus livestock and camping gear cannot cross a dry seabed in one night.

2) That it makes no sense for plants to exist prior to the sun.

3) That 12 springs and 70 palm trees could not provide water and shade for 3 million people plus livestock.

4) That when I memorized the Lords prayer as ending in "for thine is the kigdom and the power and the glory forever", I was actually memorizing words that were added later and were not in the earliet manuscripts.

5) That when I used Mark 16:15,16 to defend the necessity of baptism for salvation, that I was again referring to words added later.

6) That God gave a law which said when a man rapes a nonengeged women, they are to be married to one another, never to be divorced.

7) That the teaching that all the apostles except John were martyred has no scriptural basis but is based on unreliable tradition.

8) That we really do not know who wrote Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John plus many other books.

9) That no contemporary historians mention NT events such as Herods slaughter of the children or dead men rising from graves at the resurrection.

10) That God gave a law saying that a slaveowner was exempt from punishment if he beat his slave not to death, but severely enough to keep him laid up for days.

11) That we have nothing close to original manuscripts many of them being several 100 years after the fact and that of the 1000's of manuscripts we have, no two of them are exactly the same except for short ones.

HallaK9

Heh! Good points, I guess I'll really have to read the Bible one of these days... Were there really three million of them (serious question)?

Antti

doc58

The Bible states there were 600,000 men so "scholars" guesstimate 3 million total including women and children.

IvanK

12) That Martin Luther was an anti-Semite who advocated Jews be burned out of their homes and their goods confiscated, or that he stated "Reason is a whore, you must pluck out her eyes" if you want to be saved.

I didn't expect them to teach me about his well-documented intestinal difficulties or his claim he had expelled the Devil mit einem Fertz, but it was a Lutheran Sunday school and we did hear an awful lot about the man. Which, after I learned more about Luther than the Lutherans wanted me to know, led me to add "religious education" to my growing list of oxymorons.

-DM-

Actually, it is ~600,000 men of fighting age. Thus allowing for older men, women, and children -- I come up with about 2,000,000 (to be on the conservative side).

[See EX 12:37 & NU 1:45-46]

--Don--

-DM-

For more on Luther, see my compilation of <a href="http://www.2think.org/hii/mlquotes.shtml" target="_blank">Luther Quotes</a>.

--Don--

I ate Pascal's Wafer

Even if you assume that "men" included women and children (as in mankind, perhaps), that is still a larger number. 12 springs and 70 palm trees could not provide for even 600,000 people. Even in this context it is illogical. Well, to me it's illogical, at least.

Nick