Today, people see things that are part of the supernatural and they go crazy trying to explain it away. It’s so easy to create a video that shows someone doing something supposedly impossible now, everyone is a super-skeptic.
Which is fine. There’s not a lot of “supernatural” to work with anymore, anyway, thanks to entities such as the roman catholic church.
You have probably seen supernatural workings or events before, but your mind refused to consider that it was anything but a trick - someone was trying to take advantage of you, undoubtedly. Harumph. And you weren’t born yesterday.
So belief is still the problem. Some people want to believe that a person endowed with special powers by Nob, at some point in the past, walked on water. You want to believe that some day everyone will wake up to the fact that “none of that stuff ever happened.”
I like to examine my beliefs every so often and discard as many of them as possible. Belief has never helped me understand anything: You start with a hypothesis and reach a conclusion based on evidence; the conclusion may form the basis for future hypotheses. Belief is kinda where you stall out looking for the truth.
Also, movies suck. All of them.
The Israelites followed Moses out of Egypt because of his and his brother’s magic tricks - which they had for the most learned, incidentially, from their Egyptian masters.
Instead of trying to explain how those things could have happened via normal physical means - or explain that they never happened and all these people were just nuts - read the story and ask yourself how the Israelites could have managed to survive a two-generation-long trek in through the desert without something really extraordinary helping them. Yes, Moses and Aaron had leadership skills. But Nob wasn’t just sitting there giving them sage advice. He endowed them with the ability to perform miracles so that belief in their leadership would be a whole lot easier.
The Egyptians had magic, too - they’re pretty much the bosses of magic, even today. But Moses and Aaron had Nob on their side, too. So their magic won.
I’m not saying “you have to believe” - I’m saying “Don’t stall out while searching for the truth.”
Did I mention that all movies suck, yet? Just in case I didn’t...
Have you seen The Chosen?