[enat]

“You can deny it, but until such time as something is found we just have to assume that Exodus did not happen because evidence shows that it didn’t”

I found it; God said it was true.

Jhn 3:14 “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up”

[Forest Keeper]

Kosta: “You can deny it, but until such time as something is found we just have to assume that Exodus did not happen because evidence shows that it didn’t”

I found it; God said it was true. Jhn 3:14 “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up”

That's an excellent find. Ah, if only things such as plain-as-day quotes from scripture (Jesus even) served as proof for all Christians. :)

[kosta50]

I found it; God [sic] said it was true. Jhn 3:14 “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up”

Enat, it wasn't God, and it wasn't even Moses who said it. It was John, or whoever wrote this, who intentionally misquoted the Old Testament

"And Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on the standard; and it came about, that if a serpent bit any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived." [Numbers 21:9]

There is nothing in it about the Son of Man (be adam which, btw, has no special meaning in Hebrew). John' didn't misquote; either he altered the OT verse to make it "fit" Christan theology, or a scribe who copied it did. Late 1st century attempts at "correction."

Regardless of the (im)morality of altering the Bible which is too common an occurrence in it, the fact remains that John's (or whosoever) verse doesn't prove anything about Exodus.