Wind parts the Red Sea

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They said that wind at 60 mph would part water 6 feet deep.

Did it sayhow wide the water trough would have been?
 
Jesus,our Lords peace be whit You.
OK,this is a question I did not think would come,but it did. Short ansver,when we see a miracle that only God can do,why are we trying to find out a moore logical ansver? I know the Church is wery carefull about what is a miracel or not,and that is good,but I think we in this case can say [and this is my own opinion] that wind most likely did the trick but who made the wind blow?
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Totterman
 
Whenever I see articles such as this I always take it with a grain of salt. Finding out who is behind the research gives rise to the question of motives and with that the ablilty to make a judgement of reasonability.

Old Testament accounts of the Hebrews struggles have to be viewed with the knowledge that these were stories that come from a oral tradition, were embellished, written and re-written.

That being said, I agree that if you beleive (that truly God works in mysterious ways) phyical proof becomes an appendage.
 
God brought the wind, the duration of the wind, at the exact right time it was needed, and He directed Moses toward the opening.

Exodus 14:21

"Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD swept the sea with a strong east wind throughout the night and so turned it into dry land. When the water was thus divided, the Israelites marched into the midst of the sea on dry land, with the water like a wall to their right and to their left.

usccb.org/nab/bible/exodus/exodus14.htm
 
I posted this article on Steve Ray’s message board, and was asked by moderator : Why do you like to dig up dirt on God, and the Church?
 
mark_a said:
That’s all just fine and dandy, but here’s an article that claims Jesus walked on ice patches floating on water:

physorg.com/news63367761.html
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Yeah, cause that would have freaked the disciples out:rolleyes:
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I would more soon believe in rocks that only God knew about
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lol, that reminds me… I remember watching a Discovery Channel (or one of those channels) on the Bible/New Testament, and they were trying to explain the miracles of Jesus, and they had this one “scientists”

"I think Jesus walking on water, could have been one of those mirage phenomenons where you look on a road in the desert and the refraction causes it to look like water "

And I was thinking, um, I don’t think the disciples would be unfamiliar…and it doesn’t explain the fact that Peter fell in…the “mirage”
 
mark_a said:
That’s all just fine and dandy, but here’s an article that claims Jesus walked on ice patches floating on water:

physorg.com/news63367761.html
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AndrewA said:
Yeah, cause **that ** would have freaked the disciples out :rolleyes:

I would more soon believe in rocks that only God knew about 😛
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Veridical16 said:
lol, that reminds me… I remember watching a Discovery Channel (or one of those channels) on the Bible/New Testament, and they were trying to explain the miracles of Jesus, and they had this one “scientists”

"I think Jesus walking on water, could have been one of those mirage phenomenons where you look on a road in the desert and the refraction causes it to look like water "

And I was thinking, um, I don’t think the disciples would be unfamiliar…and it doesn’t explain the fact that Peter fell in…the “mirage”
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This is reminding me of C.S. Lewis’s book “Miracles”.
He points out in it the lengths people will go to in order to explain away miracles.
Although he wasn’t a Catholic, that book is worth a read.
 
This is just another attempt by the Bible Explanation Industry to deny God and turn His work into a natural event. I watched a TV special where the plagues sent against Egypt by God through Moses were explained away as natural events as well. Trust me, this has nothing to do with affirming the reality of God.

God bless,
Ed
 
The scripture says that the waters were parted by a strong wind. So I don’t see how this explanation makes it any more or less of a miracle. God sent a strong wind to part the waters, and this article explains how water would physically part water in an area near the red sea.
 
Here is my issue. The secular press has consistently portrayed miracles as coincidence and natural - nonGod - events.

My observation is that wind strong enough to produce a wall on their left and a wall on their right would have been problematic for walking.

I appreciate science but not when I see article after article offering the “natural” no-God required explanation, if it indeed can be called that. Has the Red Sea parted like that ever again? I’m sure it would have been a noteworthy event.

God bless,
Ed
 
Here is where being Catholic has an advantage. We do not deny science. Of course there is a physical explaination of miracles, God created the universe and uses it to perform them. Would he do it any other way?
 
So if a wind like that could occur naturally, how come we haven’t seen it reoccur since then? I can’t think of any natural phenomenon that has ever only happened once.
 
edwest2 said:
Here is my issue. The secular press has consistently portrayed miracles as coincidence and natural - nonGod - events.
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Isn’t that what so many miracles are? Co-incidences that the faithful believe are signs of God’s providence? Or is Divine Providence different from a miracle?

In this particular case, the bible specifically states that the miracle was caused by the wind.
 
Neil_Anthony said:
Isn’t that what so many miracles are? Co-incidences that the faithful believe are signs of God’s providence? Or is Divine Providence different from a miracle?

In this particular case, the bible specifically states that the miracle was caused by the wind.
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No. That’s not correct.

Jesus raised the dead.
Cleansed the lepers.
Gave sight to the blind.
Multiplied the loaves and fishes. He is the same God who created the Universe from nothing. So He can create more loaves and fishes from nothing.

He calmed the wind and storm with a few words. This was not a coincidence.

The miracle was not caused by the wind. God put the wind there at that specific time and at that specific place. And God allowed the waters to cover Pharaoh’s army at the right time.

God bless,
Ed
 
Exodus has been well documented, the only part of the book which isn’t authenticated is the Ark.

The Bible has been well covered in archaeology and geography. I haven’t seen anything reasearched yet thats been inacurate. The more one researchs the more one is amazed at its accuracy. Right down to storys like David and Goliath.

When so much has proven to be very accurate, I have no doubt about the rest, None.

God Bless, GT
 
You have to hand it to Moses. He clearly knew the topography of the Red Sea. He also knew precisely when the wind would blow to make it across. He also timed it just right to catch the Pharaoh’s army.

This was indeed a theory put out there a couple years ago on the HIstory Channel. Along with this nonsense was the theory that the Pillar of Fire was really just a military tactic wherein the Israelites carried a bunch of torches in such a pattern as to disorient armies at night and create the illusion of a much larger troop force.
 
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