What if Exodus never happened?
What would it mean to you if the story were entirely fabricated?
http://www.raceandhistory.com/historicalviews/doubtingexodus.htm
Does Existence of Jehovah Hinge on Exodus?
by cameo-d 10 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Witness 007
Exodus is fake and Iam devastated....and need booze.
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JosephMalik
cameo-d
No! The name Jehovah (or Yahweh, spelling dependent upon translation) appears some 141 times in Genesis. Translators normally render it LORD in all caps but it is not dependent upon Exodus. Ge 2:4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD <03068> God made the earth and the heavens,
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cameo-d
No! The name Jehovah (or Yahweh, spelling dependent upon translation) appears some 141 times in Genesis.
Jehovah did not officially appear on the scene until Moses. Any name for this deity given in Genesis is due to much later translations and corrections.
Did you bother to read the link posted? Your comments seem to be based on a preconceived personal opinion and really do not reflect the subject of the article posted, imo.
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PrimateDave
In this case, Cameo-d, I believe that the Exodus never occurred as described in the Bible. Whether Jehovah exists outside the imaginations of some people is highly doubtful.
THE exodus is so wonderful, and so humanly impossible that its accomplishment by Providence deserves our especial attention. We will therefore attentively review its wonders, which are superlative if one Bible wonder may excel another; they differ rather in wonder as one star differeth from another star in glory.
From Chapter 4, THE WONDERS OF THE EXODUS, of the book Is It God's Word? by Joseph Wheless.
I will say right now that this book is not accurate or scholarly in any modern sense. Its conclusions are to be taken with a critical eye. However, it does illustrate some absurdities straight from the Bible itself. Add to that a complete lack of archeological evidence for a massive exodus through the desert at any time in history, and you have pretty good reason to doubt Fundamentalist religious ideology.
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Jeremy C
For me, the question of Exodus was a non-issue. As far as I am concerned, there were other Old Testament mythological miracles and curses which were even more fantastical than the Exodus.
Stories like the global flood, the confusion of the languages, and Yahweh’s active involvement in military campaigns was more than enough evidence for me that Yahweh was no more real than Zeus, Poseidon, or Vulcan.
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PrimateDave
Quote from the very informative article linked by Cameo-d:
Some scholars, of course, still maintain that the Exodus story is basically factual. Bryant Wood, director of the Associates for Biblical Research in Maryland, argued that the evidence falls into place if the story is dated back to 1450 BC. ... But Wood said he can't get his research published in serious archeological journals.
"There's a definite anti-Bible bias," Wood said.
This is really funny considering how incoherently the Bible itself presents the whole account. Those who have carefully considered the numbers and logistics of the Exodus account have suspected it is not factual long before archeological evidence became available. The whole basis of resistance to the facts is because Judeo-Christian culture has an emotional investment in these stories.
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jaguarbass
What if Exodus never happened?
What would it mean to you if the story were entirely fabricated?
It's just part of one big long journey starting out with realizing the troof was not the truth.
The Witnesses lied to us.
And pretty much lies make the world go round.
When you jump out of the frying pan of the Jehovahs witnesses try not to jump into the fire of biblical religious deciet if you do jump out as fast as you can.
This is the information age. If you can get to JWD you should be able to get to google.
The bible and religion is a tool to controll the masses and get them to work and give up their energy.
If Exodus never happened ,which I doubt it did, you have options.
Atheistim, Hindu, Buddah, New age. Meditation, spiritism. Football, baseball, alcohol, psychiatry, drugs, pills, books, the list goes on and on.
Remember this because at some point you or your parents did not know what to do with their life,
You got caught in the tower.
When you escape the tower try not to get trapped in something else.
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Jeremy C
"There's a definite anti-Bible bias," Wood said.
Those kinds of statements make me laugh. As if there is some global conspiracy within academia to discredit Old Testament accounts purely out of a bias. The Watchtower has made the same assertions in response to all of the archeological findings that clearly prove that the human race is older than 6,000 years. If dating methods do not provide answers that agree with Genesis, then ergo; there must be an "anti-Bible bias" on the part of the scientists involved.
Yes sir, it was the Devil himself who fabricated those Lucy fossils.
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MissingLink
Yea, it's a "factual bias".
"Oh, you're biased because you only accept facts, and don't give equal credit to myths."