[PIF]

Reed Sea, not Red Sea. Mistranslated.

[RaceBannon]

Yam suf, not red sea

[Ancesthntr]

“Reed Sea, not Red Sea. Mistranslated.”

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As are many other things...about which I will not comment at this time, given that it WILL take this thread way off topic. But suffice it to say that the Bible should be read and understood in its original language, and in the context of both the times in which it was written and in the context of those passages around any particular passage being analyzed or studied.

[Robert DeLong]

Mistranslated or not, Red Sea is what it has been called as long as I have been alive. 🙂

[gundog]

Maybe it was Mooses that parted it.

[DannyTN]

Reed Sea, not Red Sea. Mistranslated.

That was a popular theory 40 years ago. But now they aren't so sure it was mistranslated.

The Bible and Archaeology The Red Sea or the Reed Sea?

[one guy in new jersey]

Hang in there and you’ll manage to disabuse yourself of that error. The parting of the Red Sea was a magnificent public miracle incapable of being attributed to any natural cause.

A friend prides himself on denying the validity of all such miracles, including Lourdes and Fatima, based on a theory that there is no such thing as the supernatural and divine for which anything is possible. He is an atheist. I feel badly for him but his unswerving belief in the capacity of the human mind alone to develop answers for anything and everything important in life is certainly at the level of religious belief. Ultimately, it will not serve him. He will learn that there is no such thing as soul annihilation. I just hope he does not learn too late.