God killed the firstborn of all Egypt?

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How do we know all the firstborn were wiped out in ancient Egypt how exactly is it possible if there’s absolutely no historical evidence or even a single record of that occurring. I’m pretty confident if all the firstborn of a country died that it would be recorded?
 
You should really watch Patterns of Evidence or Simcha Jacobovici’s “Exodus Decoded” before you say there is no evidence. They’re very interesting, at the very least.

There is a lot of telling evidence. The real problem is scholarship is operating on faulty timelines and therefore not ascribing the actual existing evidence to the right eras.
 
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I don’t think we’re even required to believe that part as literal. Basically, all the Pentatuch can be taken as a metaphor.
 
Nonsense. You make Jesus into a dupe, for he celebrated the Passover himself.
 
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There could be some historical weight beyond the event but it doesn’t have to be 100% historically accurate. It could very well be but there are Catholic scholars who don’t think it is. And even if it is and there is “no evidence” it doesn’t matter since God can do what He likes. I’d encourage OP to read this document about historical proof for a different Biblical event, one which unlike the Exodus we must affirm as 100% historical fact:
http://www.annunciation-ottawa.org/...n to Believe 20/The Resurrection of Jesus.pdf
 
That doesn’t tell me much. There are also countless patristic comments and saints who believed in the Passover. Are they all simply “quaint folk” in comparison to the lofty modernist Catholic scholars? Are these my new saints of the church… taking primacy over tradition, and even over Christ and the whole Jewish race who celebrates Passover to this day? Heck, even Muslims have more faith than this. They believe in the Exodus too. It’s pathetic.

There’s something to be said about metaphors… which is actually what the patristic writers excelled at. But they also believed in a historical basis. They just gleaned out more spiritual meaning in a Christian context. But to not have any history at all makes the metaphor worthless too. It’s no better than Aesop’s Fables.
 
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Tranquillo my friend. I’m simply trying to encourage OP. The historicity of the Exodus is not dogma and is not part of Sacred Tradition. Just like we aren’t forced to take Genesis literally, neither are we forced to take Exodus 100% literally and even if we do we don’t need to think it is 100% historically accurate. I personally swing between thinking it is an 100% historically account and thinking it is an imperfect historical account. I was not writing to tell you anything, I was writing for OP who is struggling with the faith.
 
I actually like Patterns of Evidence more for it’s timelines, but Jacobovici touches on the plagues more. Give it a gander (however, this version of the film is a bit chopped… but most of it seems to be there).
 
I’ll try to chill out a bit, but this got me a bit sparked up. 🙂

It’s the Word of God in Sacred Tradition. Sacred Tradition encompasses both Israel and the Church… the whole history of God’s revelation to humans. The church’s tradition doesn’t merely start at Pentecost, but it is the most important revelation. That said, it can’t be understood without first understanding why and how God dealt with people in the first place. And Jesus himself said he came not to abolish the Torah (this includes Exodus), but to complete it. This is divine. There isn’t anyone who can go against Jesus’ words. No pope, no council, etc.
 
Oh yes, I agree that Exodus is part of Scripture and divinely inspired and all. I also think that it is probably historical but if some scholar or somebody wants to argue it isn’t that’s fine by me, it doesn’t make it any less valid scripturally to me. I love it when people get sparked up by these sorts of stuff 🙂 so don’t worry.
 
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