by Cardinal Fang 24 Replies latest watchtower bible
Here's one claim about Ron Wyatt, who died in 1999:"One of his more recent excavations led him to find the 'Ark of the Covenant' which is linked to actual site of the Crucifixion of Jesus. This included finding dried blood which when tested, was like no other blood ever found before on this earth. "LOL
In case anyone's interested, the thing he said was so peculiar about the blood is that the cells were still alive, and they had only 24 chromosomes. 23 from the mother, and one Y chromosome.
Ron Wyatt was a crackpot who has been thoroughly exposed by reputable scientists. As I recall, he was caught planting the "evidence" for the chariot wheels. Real evidence for such miracles would only be able to come from objective people, not "true believers" like Wyatt who came from the same bitch Millerite litter as did the WTS. Both will lie to defend their beliefs.
The Bible indicates there were approximately 600,000 Israelites who were in bondage in Egypt for over 400 years, yet there is not a shred of evidence to prove this. Nothing is found in Egyptian writings, yet unlike the Assyrians the Egyptians were scrupulous in documenting their history and even were candid when they lost battles. Imagine over a half million people camping every night for 40 years. There would have been over 14,000 campsites during that period. Yet not a trace of any such huge campsite has ever been discovered.
The most honest and scholarly even among the orthodox Jews today admit that most of the old testament was written hundreds of years after-the-fact and the miracles are all metaphors. In otherwords, the miracles are all bullshit. The real truth is that the Jews were a puny little group of wanderers who only wanted a puny little piece of dirt in the middle east. They made up much of their history and ALL of their miracles to make themselves look better than they really were. If there really were 600,000 Jews who left Egypt that would make their population one half the size of the estimated entire Roman Empire fifteen hundred years later!
As I said, it's all bullshit.
Farkel
The fact that Wyatt managed to make discoveries on just about every big biblical story the ark of Noah, the ark of the covenent, the route of the jews out of Egypt and mount Sinai, the cities of Sodom ang Gommora, etc show that he was a fraudster after his own glory much like Russell.
The Insight book explains the lack of evidence of Israel's presence in Egypt thusly:
Absence of information concerning Israel. This is not surprising, since the Egyptians not only refused to record matters uncomplimentary to themselves but also were not above effacing records of a previous monarch if the information in such records proved distasteful to the then reigning pharaoh. Thus, after the death of Queen Hatshepsut, Thutmose III had her name and representations chiseled out of the monumental reliefs. This practice doubtless explains why there is no known Egyptian record of the 215 years of Israelite residence in Egypt or of their Exodus.
Basically to demonstrate that Egyptians were good at effacing records, they tell us that Thutmose III had all record of Queen Hatshepsut erased. Apparently he didn't do a very good job <smirk>. I have read before (it was a while back and I don't have the source and can't attest to the accuracy), that much of the story of Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt was actually borrowed from previous Ethiopian stories.
Incidentally, the Insight book also says that the discrepancy between the Society's dates and Egyptian history "narrows down to about 20 years by Pharaoh Necho’s time" (607) - what a surprise.
You know, it might be interesting if someone actually looked up whether or not the chariot wheels were made entirely of wood or if the Egyptians used metal. I bet we could find out. If it was metal maybe one would expect to find some rusty remains, but if of wood, forget it, there would be nothing by this time.
Furthermore, where are all the other chariots down through time? Has a single chariot survived otherwise?
On the other end of the EVIDENCE, though, the dating for the Exodus per the Bible now coordinated with astronomical texts show the king who would have died in the Red Sea was Amenhotep III. His mummy is the most mangled of all the mummies even being beheaded and with a special process introduced with them in an effort to restore missing flesh. There were fractures of both legs beyond the beheading and a crushed in chest. Was this done by grave robbers or was the original recovered body traumatized? The net has information about the mummies and the details including Amenhotep III. The condition of Amenhotep III's body is not conclusive but consistent with his dying in the Red Sea.
Anthropologically, Akhenaton's focus on monotheism, perceiving a god that insisted on no image being made of him and outlawing all the gods of Egypt sounds like a post 10-plague "epiphany" if ever there was one, especially since we can reliably coordinate the dating via an astronomical text (KTU 1.78).
Did the chariots of Amenhotep III's time have metallic parts? Or were they all wood?
JC
