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Biblical Plagues and Parting of Red Sea caused by Volcano
News.telegraph.co.uk ^
| 11/11/02
| John Petre
Posted on 11/11/2002 12:44:06 PM PST by Betty Jane
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If what happened the Lord said it would happen that is a miracle. God has control over all of nature.
To: blam
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To: Betty Jane
The Lord often uses whatever is at hand to get the job done.
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posted on
11/11/2002 12:46:13 PM PST
by
Junior
To: Betty Jane
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?
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posted on
11/11/2002 12:47:25 PM PST
by
per loin
To: Junior
If all this devistation was noticed in Egypt, wouldn't it have been noticed closer to the source?
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posted on
11/11/2002 12:50:49 PM PST
by
js1138
To: per loin
I think he is referring to when Moses stuck his staff in the river and turned it to blood.
To: Betty Jane
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.
To: Betty Jane
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!"
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posted on
11/11/2002 12:54:35 PM PST
by
My2Cents
To: js1138
Well... It did wipe out the Minoan civilization, so I guess the answer would be "yes." {;^)>
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posted on
11/11/2002 12:55:34 PM PST
by
Junior
To: Betty Jane
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.
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posted on
11/11/2002 12:57:37 PM PST
by
KeyWest
To: Betty Jane
To: Junior
One should always be suspicious when the sea recedes suddenly.
One of the most unlikely-to-be-useful of the worst case scenerio survival tips is to start running if you are near a shoreline and this happens.
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posted on
11/11/2002 1:00:37 PM PST
by
js1138
To: Betty Jane
presented in a new BBC documentary.
Do they have film and some good interviews.
To: Betty Jane
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.
To: js1138
One should always be suspicious when the sea recedes suddenly. Or when it decides to pile up unnaturally like dirt, and leave a dry path in front of you.
One should be even more suspicious when the last Israelite's feet leave the riverbed in front of you.
To: Betty Jane
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..."
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posted on
11/11/2002 1:13:15 PM PST
by
Preech1
To: Betty Jane
I was wondering about the reference to the river in America.
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posted on
11/11/2002 1:17:01 PM PST
by
per loin
To: Betty Jane
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.
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posted on
11/11/2002 1:18:57 PM PST
by
Salman
To: Betty Jane
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.
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posted on
11/11/2002 1:21:06 PM PST
by
Guyin4Os
To: Hanging Chad; L.N. Smithee; My2Cents; Junior; Betty Jane; LostTribe; RightWhale
I have been working on this idea myself (idea originated with Mike Baillie) for the last few years trying to connect 'tidbits' of information to this Exodus event. The 1628BC explosion of Santorini/akatori/Thera,
in my opinion, provided all the fireworks for the Exodus saga.
Freeper LostTribe and I have been fussing about the 1628BC date for the Exodus for a couple of years now. He subscribes to a less ancient date.
1. The ash from Santorini has been found all over Egypt.
2. The Red Sea was landlocked during the Ice Age, go here and see that it is so and that the Persian Gulf was completely dry, another 'flood story?'
Earthquakes or tidal waves from Santorini could have breached the dam seperating the Red Sea from the world's oceans and swept the Egyptians away.The Red Sea was reconnected at some point, why not then?
3. One account has Santorini erupting due to an asteroid/comet impact
4. The bibical 'staff by day, torch by night' quote could be from the erupting plume of Santorini. The plume would need to be thirty miles high to be seen in Egypt. The recent Pinatubo volcano was 26 miles high.
5. The rubble from the destruction of Jerico is appropriately dated (charred wheat) just above the Santorini ash layer.
There are other 'tidbits' that I cannot remember presently but will add later on to the thread if/as I remember them.
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posted on
11/11/2002 2:03:51 PM PST
by
blam
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