That figure is a figment of your assumptions---I only stated as the scriptures indicated---"a mixted multitude" came out with the Israelites.
It was you that gave the figure of 1 million. Obviously if all of Egypt was estimated to be 2million that is half.
Why are you accusing me of the assumption that you were responsible for ?
Why? Pharaoh had denied GOD existed, should he have recorded the fact, that would admit him being wrong----concerning the living GOD of the Israelites; the years of enslavement of the Israelites,The plagues which GOD brought upon the Egyptians for their disobedience, etc.
The Egyptian belief in God would have nothing to do with recording that 1/2 the population left ?
Call a miracle--"magic"--if you will, but an allusion doesn't fill an empty stomach for 40 years nor actually part the waters so one walks upon dry land.
Both events were recorded for/as our examples of Faith in the Events produced and the power of the Almighty Creator COD.
Do you believe that story that has been recorded throughout history is true ?
Why do you say things that you yourself do not believe.
I suggest that you take your advice. GOD was neither tricking the people with "parlor magic" nor "deluding" the people in any manner. Their Freedom of choice to disbelieve who HE IS and HIS MOTIVES continues to be choice the majority of the people exhibit today.
The recored events reveal that Aaron took a lot of molding by GOD to believe as did Moses.
What are you talking about ? It is the recorded events that I am referring to.
If a "Real God" had shown up .. parted the Red Sea and sent food from heaven .. there is no way these people would be looking for a new God a few weeks after Moses leaves.
Especially not his Brother Aaron.
That's because you do not want it to "make sense". The people were not rebelling against Moses---- the rebelling was against GOD---in the making of a "god" to return them to Egypt/slavery.
Of course I want things to "make sense" dont you ?
That these people would "rebel" against a "REAL all powerfull God" is absolutely absurd.
The mental delusion some will go to to maintain their beliefs is amazing.
It was Aaron .. Moses's own brother that made the God. Even if we assume that after a short period of time the people "forgot" about this God or think that this God had abandoned them ..
There is no way once Moses (the conduit to all powerfull God) shows back up again that these people are going to Rebel.
You are completely ignoring human nature.
That would be 100 times my guesstamation, but I see you understand the how that 1 million would be very possible. Again, that was The Israelites and the "Mixed multitude".
I have told you three times now that it is not about the math. It is about providing food, shelter, and water for 1 million wandering through the desert.
How many times do we have to go over this ? It is human to make a mistake .. however it is the fool who tries to maintain that mistake in the face of correction.
As far as Magic .. which is what would have been required .. If God had been performing all these miraculous miracles then the people would not have ran to another God who had performed zero miracles only a few weeks after Moses left .. and they certainly would not have rebelled onces Moses came back.
Your reading comprehension is lacking, Or you are deliberately distorting what I have posted.
GOD revealed it; Moses recorded it. GOD is seen and referred to by many nmes it the Scriptures. Over a period of over 400 years, why the non-belief of that fact?
I have no idea what you are talking about here ? What are all these names of God that were revealed.
400 years ? not sure where you get this number or what it refers to.
GOD wrote on the tablets of stone the Decalogue---Are you claiming that GOD was writing in the language of the Egyptians?? Moses recorded in the language of the Israelites. What's so odd concerning that fact?
Moses was raised Egyptian and that would have been his primary language. If he was educated then he would have also learned to write Akkadian.
I have no idea what language God would have written on the stones ?
What do you think the language of the Israelites was ?
Your source is ignoring the fact that from Moses to the end of the Babylonian captivity was roughly 1000 years.
Your source ignores that All Of the Israelite HISTORY; writings of the Prophets and GOD'S dealings with the Israelites and their surrounding neighbors, could NOT be done by the Israelites---but had to be from those who Denied the Creator GOD for their own hand made "gods"/beliefs.
Apparently, since you believe that the "nations" about the Israelites contributed to the "Beliefs" found in the Israelites "Writings"/Bible/Scriptures then it is your belief that the "editing" at that time has little to do with the instructions/principles given by GOD from Genesis until that day in Persia.
Obviously if Moses primary language was Egyptian .. that would have been the language he wrote in .. that or Akkadian which was the language of commerce.
Abraham .. being from Sumeria would have spoken this language and written in Akkadian.
1400 years later, when the OT was put to paper in any kind of coherent form, the language the Israelites were speaking was different.
There is no way that the language Moses was writing in was the same as the the language the Bible was written during the time of the Persians.
Sumerian (Elamite) and Sumerian were ideogramatic languages (Symbol for an idea) .. Phonetic languages (symbol for a sound) were not yet invented during the Israelite captivity.
Akkadian remained the language of commerce until fall of the Babylonian Empire around 500 BC. It was the Persians who introduced Phoenetics into the mainstream.
It was after the Persians (who detested human sacrifice and whose religion, Zoroastrianism was monotheistic) that Israel stopped sacrificing humans and worshiping multiple Gods.
Google Zoroastrianism/Judaism . and you can find out much about the similarities between the two .. right down to the Creation story.
Isaiah claims that King Cyrus was annointed by God. It was the Israelites that adopted Persian customs .. and not the reverse.
Again, that isn't what I wrote nor the scriptures expressed. What do you know about genetics? that would answer your question. Remember the human race began with two people---not Eight(those eight were on the Ark.). There was a lapse of 100 years from the landing of the Ark to the scattering from the tower of Babel
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I know enough about Genetics to know that from 8 people from the same family, you do not get countries full of Chinese, Blacks, South Americans, Europeans, Greeks, Egyptians, in a couple of decades.
NOt that tis matters because these cutures existed continuously before and after any possible Biblical dates for the flood.
The Scriptures do not say. But you and the doubling of 13 generations in 400 years proved that over 100 million persons was possible.
For the 5th time .. population growth does not work like that. Even if it did 13 Generations is at least 325 years using 25 years as a generation.
The second thing is that I started with a population of 10,000 !
First off .. if a couple has 2 children all they do is maintain the current population.
Every woman would have to have 4 kids to get a doubling.. then there could be no death .. lack of food and so forth.
Infant mortality rates in Ancient Egypt were 30%
This is ok for the first few Generations but as the populations grow the doubling is not sustainable.
8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192 = 11 Generations of doubling to get to 10,000 .. approx 225 years. To get to 1 million from 10,000 takes another 7 doublings.
18 Generations = 450 years.
SO??? The Flood was over by approx. 156 years when Sargon of Akkad started his empire. Again, plenty of time to populate the area.
The big problem with your theory is in the Old Kingdom in Egypt the population was already well over 1 million people in 2800 BC and there was no sudden stop and rebuilding.
Your math is flawed .. and the earliest Biblical date of the flood is around the same time as Sargon was wandering around conquering the already existing city states of Sumeria/mesopotamia... Cities that had already been in existence for over 1000 years in some cases.
In the case of the link I gave you .. Abraham is dated 1950 to 1750.
That puts the flood at 2350 at the earliest and as late as 2150.
Sargon was wandering the Earth in 2350 and as you can see from the above Math that even after 10 generations (250 years) of doubling after the Ark made ground there would only have been 8000 people on the earth.
This would put the Flood back to 2600 BC and even then there would not be eough people for Sargon to Conquer in 2350 BC ... nevermind the fact that there were thriving civilizations in Egypt , China, Africa, Europe and South America at that time.
How do you figure the South Americans made it to South America with a global population of roughly 8000 people ?
That is scriptural(Rom.1:18-23) and no different from that seen in the peoples of the world today
That you would quote writings of Paul in relation to the OT is truly amazing.
