Well I don’t know that I’ve got it 'figured out" but I’ve read the “shallow sea” theory with the observation that Pharoah’s chariots would have bogged down on a saturated bottom that the Israelites on foot would have been able to cross. And if the water were 8 feet deep instead of 4 or 5 that would certainly be enough to drown in.The parting of the Red Sea is definitely a historical event. However, there are some things about it that need to be cleared up.
Some translations call it the Reed Sea instead of the Red Sea. They argue that this body of water is much more shallow and can be parted by a strong wind. They don’t explain, however, how Pharoah’s armey drowned in two feet of water. The Hebrew which we translate as Red Sea literally means Reed Sea. (‘Sea,’ in this case, refers to any large body of water, salty or fresh.)
Just to make things more complicated, what we call the Reed Sea is to the south of the Red Sea and, for the Hebrews to have crossed it would have meant that they purposefully went way too far out of their way. Going to the Promised Land would have taken them farther north.
Notice I used the phrase “what we call” because they could very well have used “Reed Sea” to refer to what we now call the “Red Sea.” Also, what we call the Reed Sea may very well have been much deeper back then.
If you manage to figure all this out, please explain it to me.
Gary
Possible but it still doesn’t explain why they went out of their way which would have been the case if the Reed Sea of Exodus is the same as today. Also, we’re talking about 3 1/2 millenia ago. Geography changes.
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Chances are it DID.
One thing to note, in the actual Red sea, there is a big Land Bridge, Big enough for a couple million people to cross, In the gulf of Aga…Agg, gosh i dont know how to spell it, and it goes all the way across to Nuweiba or how ever you spell it. Back in the bible days when God parted the sea the Jews could have crossed on this, as it was right there in the sea. It would have made it easy for a whole nation to cross at once and then when pharaoh thinking he could have gotten across too, the waters came back and splat… they de.ad.
Careful - Ron Wyatt the guy who did the research and videos has a bit of a reputation apparently. I just went through 26 or so utube videos I found associated with your link on the discovery of the arc of the covenant that he claims (he seems to have quite a few stunning biblical finds and miracles etc. - funny no one reports on him in the media). It’s a pretty stunning and convincing claim actually that seems too well integrated to be contrived. Apparently he claims to find the arc of the covenant right under the crucifixation site (another sensational find
) that itself is marked with the 14 ton stone wheel that links the burial site (Joseph of Arimathea’s personal tomb) to the crucifixation site (apparently heaved by force?). He claimed that the earth quake at Jesus’ death cracked the earth through some 20’ feet below where the arc was discovered and dripped blood down through the rock onto the arc – apparently that was hidden there 600 years earlier when Jerusalem was about be to overrun – right on the mercy seat. Its an amazing story actually even if it does turn out to be a complete fraud/fiction. He is a 7th Day Adventists and talking about conspiracy theories to cover it all up to bring a one world order religion etc. etc. so I take it all with a grain of salt. Anyway be suspicious of what they report here. This site refutes him: tentmaker.org/WAR/We do need to be careful, I agree. What do you thing of the Exodus and Crossing video?Careful - Ron Wyatt the guy who did the research and videos has a bit of a reputation apparently. I just went through 26 or so utube videos I found associated with your link on the discovery of the arc of the covenant that he claims (he seems to have quite a few stunning biblical finds and miracles etc. - funny no one reports on him in the media). It’s a pretty stunning and convincing claim actually that seems too well integrated to be contrived. Apparently he claims to find the arc of the covenant right under the crucifixation site (another sensational find
James
It was a stunning video actually. But this is the problem with utube - every hoax imaginable is put on that site. Wyatt died in 1999 apparently.
The giveaway is he mixes a lot of religious spin on everything and is pushing an agenda which appears to me to be subtly anti-Jewish and anti-Catholic and anti-Muslim (he claims these all had officials who tried to block his research but God punished them - killing a non cooperative Bishop and other miracalous events etc. etc.). Of course all the photos of the arc are “blurred by God” since its not time to reveal it yet and all we have are artists depictions and the Jewish gov is covering up the find since it means they really did kill the messiah and they will create a civil war etc. etc. I don’t want to waste anymore time looking at faked videos.
I thought the underwater video, the altar stones, pillars to be compelling. Does the Red Sea have this crossing feature or not?It was a stunning video actually. But this is the problem with utube - every hoax imaginable is put on that site. Wyatt died in 1999 apparently.
Here is more info on Wyatt’s amazing claims - quite a lot of amazing discoveries for a man who was just an amatuer architect. If we believed everything he says then Wyatt has single handed proofed every fundamentalist’s claim of what the bible says in many different topic areas in a single lifetime that no one else has been able to do in a single topic area over many generations.
I don’t want to waste anymore time looking at faked videos.
James
I don’t know where you live but around here we have miles and miles of walls that are about 2-3 feet high and pretty lumpy. Good for keeping cows in, though . . .
I think there really is a Land Bridge there, Many other source confirm there is one there, but whether or not it is where that crack head says it is, is up for debate. the Crossing could not have been at such a small place, it had to be huge, in order to get all the people across quickly and safely, Other wise it would have take for ever to get a whole nation across on a small spot. Besides It had to happen fast, because the Pillar of fire blocked Pharaoh and he was Hell bent on killing them, I bet his hardened heart would have found a way around the pillar to reach them, maybe, Also i think it had to happen at night, I am not saying that God could have let the pillar come down during the day, but he did say, Cloud by day Pillar by night, and the Pillar of Fire was blocking them, Indication the crossing happened at Night. But to be quite honest. It is in God’s word, all Scripture is God Breathed, so If God said it happened I believe it.Same with the Flood, Same with making the Earth stop spinning around the sun and no one flew off or died because, God in his power still made Gravity work, That a dead man got up from the grave, then Jesus got up from the grave, that a world Flood happened, that we all came from two people, that God Changed the molecules in a stick belonging to Moses and changed it into a Snake, that the magic men of Pharaoh did the same (Probably because of Demons) that a man walked on water, that Two angels disguised as men, walked into Lot’s House and then struck a whole bunch of evil men deaf and blind and then told lot to get out and then Blew up the cities, that one man ripped the gates of Gaza off their Hinges and walked to Hebron. Yep God said it happened I believe it.