[Betty Jane]

If what happened the Lord said it would happen that is a miracle. God has control over all of nature.

[Hanging Chad]

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[Junior]

The Lord often uses whatever is at hand to get the job done.

[per loin]

The cloud could have also reduced the rainfall, causing a drought. If the Nile had then been poisoned by the effects of the eruption, pollution could have turned it red, as happened in a recent environmental disaster in America.

Anyone know what this is a reference to?

[L.N. Smithee]

I can't wait to hear how they explain that Moses et al heard a blast that was a thousand times more powerful than a nuclear bomb, and didn't make mention of it as such.

[My2Cents]

Reminds me of the claim a number of years ago by a skeptic that the Red Sea (or "Sea of Reeds") may at times recede to a depth of a couple of inches, thereby allowing the people of Israel to cross it and only get their feet wet. This prompted another to proclaim: "The whole Egyptian army drown in two inches of water?! It's a miracle!"

[KeyWest]

What is most important is that science continues to confim the truthfulness of the Bible. In the 1850s the Bible was proclaimed to be all myth and science put more stock in Homer than the Bible. Around 1950 scientists started using the Bible as a source and set to see if what was in it could be confirmed. It has been the source of the discovery of many civilizations/tribes that were once thought not to have existed. So this is just one more confirmation.

[billorites]

It gets better.

Weekly World News reports Three More Commandments Found.

[aardvark1]

presented in a new BBC documentary.

Do they have film and some good interviews.

[Alex Murphy]

So instead of attributing the event to God, we're supposed to just believe the Israelites and Moses just had really incredible timing.

Funny the article didn't offer any explanation about the death of the firstborn, or any of the other plagues that only afflicted the Egyptians, despite the Israelites living within their midst.

[Preech1]

Besides...this "explanation" is not new, it is at least 50 years old, and I expect much older than that. Anyone who has seen "The Ten Commandments" with Charlton Heston should remember the part where Pharoah Ramses II (played by Yul Brenner) put forth the same exact "explanation" to explain away the waters being turned to blood...unfortunately this does not explain the water in their barrels and vessels turning to blood (Exodus 7:19)

"Let God be true and every man a liar..."

[Salman]

So he made a computer animation? The computer said so, then it must be true?

It's one thing to be sceptical, but this is just plain silly.

Nowhere near as amusing as Velikovsky's theory that the Exodus were caused by the planet Venus erupting from Jupiter and passing close to the Earth.

That one "explains" the manna as well. Carbohyrates condensed from the Venusian atmosphere, of course.

[Guyin4Os]

The dates don't coorrespond. Also, the location for the Red Sea crossing was likely in a much different location than the Bitter Lakes... more likely the Gulf of Aqaba, which was considered part of the "Yam Suph" or Red Sea. Check out the BASE institute's website for a different perspective.

[Sophie]

God will be so glad to know this! Thank you for sharing.

[Cicero]

What a bunch of pseudoscientific nonsense. Has anybody seen a plague of frogs or a plague of locusts accompany any volcanic eruption in the past five hundred years? Or staffs turn into serpents? What morons these secular sons of the Enlightenment can be.

[Lurking Libertarian]

It repeats the theory that "Red Sea" is a mistranslation of the Sea of Reeds, a much shallower swamp.

Well, that part at least is correct; the Hebrew is yam suf, the sea of reeds; "Red Sea" originally appeared in English not as a mistranslation, but simply as a typo for "Reed Sea."

[#3Fan]

Exd 14:21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go [back] by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry [land], and the waters were divided.

Exd 14:22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry [ground]: and the waters [were] a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

A volcano causes walls of water to the right and left side for hours. Sure, happens all the time.

[N. Theknow]

It repeats the theory that "Red Sea" is a mistranslation of the Sea of Reeds, a much shallower swamp.

What a miracle! Praise The Lord!

The Egyptian Army drowned in a foot of water!

[sheik yerbouty]

Doesn't it say "the lord caused an east wind to blow"? Doesn't sound like a volcano to me.

[grania]

I did a term paper for a theology course in 1964 in which I argued that all of the events on Moses's journey could have been caused by that volcanic eruption. It's just fascinating; in my mind the timing proved that a greater being must have had a hand in creating a situation which made the biblical events possible.

The professor gave me a "D" for the paper, for being outside accepted thought patterns for religion class. I thought it was pretty funny, since it was actually a research project I enjoyed and learned something from!

There are theories around that the island that was destroyed by the volcano was the basis for Atlantis legends, and its eruption caused the migration of Mediterranean seafaring people all over the world.

[LostTribe]

>... the Biblical plagues and the parting of the Red Sea were natural events...

Sure they were. Whatever works...