Haven't you ever wondered why their isn't any proof of the "Exodus"? They've searched and searched but not 1 single piece of evidence has been found;, no droppings, broken pottery...nada. Did Satan come along and hide it all? So, if that is not true then how can you believe anything the book says. You sir have a bad case of brianwashing. You want to have faith then fine, just keep it to yourself and quit trying to control the reproduction system of women, stop sending missionaries to Africa and telling those people that it's a sin to wear a condom even in the middle of an aids epidemic and keep your insanity out of our government and schools...
Does anyone know a country where they have a law, "if you don't want to listen then the penalty is lifetime jail". What the Christian zealots insist, "if you don't want to listen to our stupid barking mad shit you get eternal hell."
God who loooooves you soooooo much will pack a shitty, slam down the hammer in His kangaroo court room and boot you in with Satan as your cell mate - Eternally. Nice father!
In any country, one is expected to conform to the customs of the country, road rules and decency etc. In the christian world, one is expected to conform to a minority cult with its roots in Israel. Make sense?
Lets live in the real world...... Imagine you earn $1000 a week gross, (before tax), that means give out weekly to the church $100 after tax. What do you get for $100/week? Waste an hour and a half of your weekend listening to a doddery sermon, sing some simple junior grade school level hymns. After several years you hear the same spiel preached, sung the same verses thousands of times, get to hang out with other freaks. Sounds like value for money because you get nothing else besides that?
Once sucked into the church you are right royally fucked! Placed into a situation of worshipping the cult, worshipping this airy fairy figure you read in a book. Made to believe all the bullshit from a pulpit. Forced by guilt to pay 10% of your income. Made to feel guilty for your mistakes. Made to feel guilty for being human, born into sin. Made guilty if you wish to leave the cult. Brainwashed, fill your head with nonsense. Sing their stupid fucking hymns. Wear a fucking suit ffs on Sundays. Obligated every Sunday to attend church for more brainwashing sessions. Meanwhile the church organisation snake oil salesmen, in order to keep you interested and motivated, plan their programs to 'entertain you' by whatever means. The scam of the millennium for any mug sheeple who enter.
I posted this on one of my threads and rather than writing it all out again, I'm just going to copy and paste, although I am updating it with the you tube link to the full documentary of "Patters of Evidence: The Exodus." There are scholars who believe there is some evidence backing the Israelites living in Egypt and sudden departure from there. David Rohl is one of those scholars. Interestingly, he is an agnostic. He treats the Bible as a history book and has done much research on the Israelites in Egypt and the Exodus. I’m not sure if I agree with all of his interpretations and his timeline, but he does present a good case for the Exodus in his books and when appearing in the documentary Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus. http://davidrohl.blogspot.com/2012/01/about-david-rohl.html With degrees in Egyptology, Ancient History, Mycenaean Archaeology and Levantine Archaeology, Rohl is a genuine scholar with a full list of academic credentials, but, at the same time, is seen as a highly original thinker. The Kirkus Review called his best-selling first book ‘a ground breaking analysis of archaeological evidence for the historicity of the early books of the Old Testament … a work with profound implications for both Biblical and Egyptian history … a breathtaking archaeological tour de force.’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Chronology_(Rohl) has a lot of information on David Rohl’s work. Patterns of Evidence Trailer Patterns of Evidence review: https://www.icr.org/article/encore-presentation-patterns-evidence Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus discusses many interesting archaeological artifacts and site excavations that can be interpreted as supporting the biblical account. I really enjoyed watching it. PATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: THE EXODUS FULL DOCUMENTARY 00:29:00 David Rohl discussed 12 tombs that could belong to Joseph and his brothers as well as a possible statue of Joseph 00:31:00 Dr. Charles Aling, Egyptologist, University of Northwestern, St. Pau, discusses the likelihood of the statue being of Joseph 00:40:00 What could have been Joseph’s tomb was empty, which corresponds with the biblical account that the Israelites took his body with them in the Exodus 00:50:00 Discussion about an egyptian papyrus from the 13th Dynasty, the middle kingdom, called the “Brooklyn Document” naming asiatic slaves. Some of those names are the same as Hebrew names also found in the Bible. 01:05:00 “Admonitions of an Egyptian Sage” - similarities between an ancient Egyption document and the 10 plagues (01:13:00 date of Middle Kingdom is given for document) 01:21:30 David Rohl discusses evidence of rapid burial and sudden abandonment 01:23:00 Egyptian tradition that God smote the Egyptians before they were conquered. Hyskos were likely the conquerors. 01:30:00 Summary of evidence of Jericho 01:37:00 Archaeological report detailing evidence of houses matching the description of Rahab’s house. 01:50:00 Timeline Excerpt from an interview with David Rohl: https://popular-archaeology.com/article/the-exodus-myth-or-history/ Question 6: So basically, if we look several centuries further back in time from the reign of Ramesses everything begins to fit together? David Rohl: That is not quite the right way to see it. Ramesses II’s dates are now lower, shifting down by three centuries. He is now a king of the tenth century BC and therefore a contemporary of Solomon (whose dates have not shifted). It is then interesting to discover that Ramesses had a hypocoristicon or short-form of his name used throughout Canaan. He was called Shisha … does that remind you of a certain pharaoh who plundered the Temple of Solomon in 925 BC? Looking further back in time, the biblical Exodus date of 1447 BC now falls in what Egyptologists call the Second Intermediate Period, which is the archaeological period known as the Middle Bronze IIA-IIB. It was at this time that we find a huge city, lying underneath the 19th Dynasty capital of Pi Ramesse (biblical Raamses), known in the contemporary texts as Avaris. And this Middle Bronze Age city, located in the land of Goshen, was teaming with Semites who had initially migrated from Canaan into the Egyptian delta. They then abruptly abandon the city and disappear. About half a century later the city of Jericho is violently destroyed, its walls falling down in an apparent earthquake. Jericho is then burnt to the ground and abandoned for nearly 600 years. All the cities described in the Book of Joshua as being ‘placed under the curse of destruction’ are also destroyed at this time.