Replies

Boy do you know how to misread everything. Like you got a chip or something waiting on it to be knocked off.

Misread what? This? It points to a single class of people who appear to have arrived as free people, overstayed their welcome, and ended up as slaves.

I don't recall reading in the Bible that the Isrealites/Jews overstayed their welcome. Could you please refresh my memory, and inform me where that exact text is located?

The Isrealites/Jews moved to Egypt, were accepted there and lived there peacably. A new ruler came to power that didn't like the Jews. We've seen that happen in modern times too. Should we just reference the modern day Jews as overstaying their welcome too? Just how long should Israelites/Jews be able to stay in a region before they have to move on to avoid hardship, slavery, persecution, and death? I'm sure modern day Jews would appreciate the heads-up.

Don't get into a contest with anyone on the net about who is more Jewish BTW. You'd be surprised.

My biggest surprise would be, that someone doesn't know didly about their ancestry. Where did you come up with this tripe?

In a lightly populated world where you could just run down the river a few miles and totally disappear slavery would be a difficult institution to maintain. Imagining that Egypt could be run as a gigantic slave camp is bizarre.

And yet, the pharoh was told to 'let my people go', and he didn't. In fact he became so angy with them that he cut in half the supply of straw for the making of bricks, and demanded they keep up production levels or else. So how easy was it in those days for people to just run down the river a few miles and totally disappear? Evidently, your glib comments and the reality of the day don't match up.

The basic story is the Hebrews went to Egypt. They stayed 400 some years. They ended up enslaved. They rebelled. They left. Pharoah drowned.

Well, I may not be Jewish, but the story of Joseph, his success at winning the Pharoh and God's favor, Moses, the plagues, the Passover night, a Pharoh's promise to let God's children go, and a renegging of that promise, and God Himself interceeded on behalf of his chosen people wouldn't get such short shrift in my non-revisionist version.

Judaism begins with MOSES according to some, yet others argue that it begins with ABRAHAM. Take your pick.

Whether Judasim officialy begins at either point, it's still God's people we're talking about here. I'm not going to talk about them overstaying their welcome. That is just ridiculous.

NOBODY ELSE in Egypt is identified as having been enslaved at that time.

Yep, that's right.

Nothing short of God's personal intervention could break the Isrealites free from Egypt. That's why I read your comment with such dismay. Some of them are unhinged from the Biblical account.

The only record we have of the Israelites actually leaving, led to the army of Egypt led by the Pharoh following in hot persuit after them. Thus, your account of how easy it would be to escape slavery in ancient Egypt left my jaw on the floor.

You and I probably have a lot closer understanding of what took place than our conversation here intimates, but wow fella, you're comments sure don't reflect it.