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Old 08-06-2006, 10:15 AM   #1
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Default James Cameron--Moses got help from volcano

Cameron believes the parting of the Red Sea may have been a tsunami that destroyed the pharaoh’s army as it pursued the escaping Jews. The documentary claims the episode occurred not at the Red Sea but at the smaller Sea of Reeds, a marshy area at the northern end of the Gulf of Suez. An underwater earthquake may have released poisonous gases that turned the waters red.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...300569,00.html

What do you folks think of this? Sounds like an awful lot of assumptions to me.
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I don't get it. Why do people always try to come up with these far flung, real world explanations for stories that have "fiction" stamped all over them?

Apart from the absurdity of it all, if this explanation were true, it would make it even more incredible that no traces of this story show up in the Egyptian records, but only in those of the Hebrew nation.
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I don't get it. Why do people always try to come up with these far flung, real world explanations for stories that have "fiction" stamped all over them?
Perhaps because folklore often has an historical kernal.
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Cameron believes the parting of the Red Sea may have been a tsunami that destroyed the pharaoh’s army as it pursued the escaping Jews. The documentary claims the episode occurred not at the Red Sea but at the smaller Sea of Reeds, a marshy area at the northern end of the Gulf of Suez. An underwater earthquake may have released poisonous gases that turned the waters red.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...300569,00.html

What do you folks think of this? Sounds like an awful lot of assumptions to me.

Christians who think that by providing rational explanations for the miracles that occur in the Bible don't realize that they're actually doing their faith a disservice. If there truly isn't anything miraculous in the Bible and all the miracles that are ever mentionned in it have perfectly rational explanations, then what reason does anyone have to believe in it?

Not that I disagree with them completely. None of those miracles were actual miracles. They either just didn't happen and were made up, or they are exagerrated accounts of events that had perfectly scientific explanations that people back then were just completely unaware of, and naturally of course attributed to the supernatural.

I keep saying it, though its very disheartening, but when it comes to Biblical interpretation the fundies have it right. No God would have written a book that needed a guy with a PhD to figure it out.
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I don't get it. Why do people always try to come up with these far flung, real world explanations for stories that have "fiction" stamped all over them?
The book called Exodus has already shown the fable of the 'red sea' to be false. Pharoah had no horses, they were already dead during the 'ten plagues', not even the grass or a single tree was spared.

Exodus 9:3, Behold the hand of the Lord is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a great murrain.

Exodus 9:19, 'Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all thou hast in the field: for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come upon them, and they shall die.

Exodus 9:25, 'And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast: and the hail smote every herb of the field of the field, and break every tree of the field'.
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Take a historical myth, make up another event to match what the myth says.. and presto, its fact..!!

Sure..
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