The funniest thing about exidus us the claim they wandered the dessert for 40 years going between Egypt and Palestine but it's right next door a five minute walk
That is actually a very good point that I hadn't thought about. The Sinai peninsula is only 130 miles wide and I once walked 25 miles in a single night. Two million people took 40 years to walk 130 miles? Don't think so.
@@Shannon-ij1pmIt means they lived IN the desert for 40 years because they had no permanent home, NOT that it took them 40 years to travel 130 miles!😂 Up to you whether or not you believe the basic story of the wandering itself.
when i was a Kid i have many questions , about the bible, i read the bible but i did not find any spiritua;lity conection with the almighty God, neither saw his wisdom ,nor his compassion , but i could no say nothing against that, everybody around my could turn against me ,as a evil in person , so i kept it for myself , im glad that you have the guts to speak out,
In my early school days I went to a Roman Catholic primary school. I was beaten because I questioned Genesis & particularly 'The Flood'. I asked HOW did the millions of species we have today come from the very small sample that would have been on the ARK ? The Priest's answer ? 'They just did, because god made it happen' ! A short while later at the age of 9, I was an avowed atheist.
Same with me. I never found spiritual well being or understanding in that book or their silly services. Why would eating a bread wafer and drinking wine help anyone feel spiritual well being.
At the time the Egyptian empire stretched from the foothills of Ethiopia to the borders of Asia Minor so crossing the Red sea would simply have taken them into another province of Egypt, not much of an escape.
I loved the verbal artistry. You are right of course, but the verbal descriptions made this hilarious. I wish I could come up with such descriptive art. You are the Leonardo da Vinci of biblical put downs. Love it.
*Thank you, I subscribed.* I'm a life long atheist as my family is secular and from Sweden. Wishing y'all Holiday cheer. Thousands of years ago long before Jesus way back in the Neolithic, it is the Sun which is literally rebirthed in the passageway of an ancient tomb, the Grand Passage Tomb in the Boyne Valley, Newgrange Ireland. The three days of death is a representation of casual observation of the rising sun when it ceases to move along the horizon to the south and is observed rising in the same location for two to three days during the solstice. In this version the rebirth is when the rising sun begins moving back to the north along the horizon. In 1350 BCE Amenhotep the fourth created or invented the monotheistic god from the solar disk, then known as the Aten. Some of Amenhotep's work can be found in the bible as Psalm 104 also known as "The Great Hymn to the Aten". Christians pay homage to this man after a prayer, "Amen". Today, our hearts bring back the Light in a celebration from Scandinavia which lasts over several days during the winter solstice known as "Yule". Predating Christianity, Proto-Germanic Paganism originating thousands of years ago. Known as a Norse Pagan festival called "jol" named after the Norse god Odin. The Norse being the ancestors of Vikings with the ancestor of the Vikings dating back over 12000 years ago in Scandinavia. The Rebirth of the Sun being the oldest known Winter Solstice festival. We celebrate the Sun's rebirth and the warmth of the Sunshine (Love, Peace, Happiness, Goodwill to man)… Have a Wonderful Winter's Solstice. Songs about the sunshine; "ruclips.net/video/-bkl2cb3bfE/видео.html" Thanks again man.
The Bible specifically says God hardened Pharaoh's heart so, Exodus is saying all of Egypt was punished not because Pharaoh was an ass-hat...Egypt was punished because God wanted to watch it happen.
God hardened pharaoh's heart because pharaoh had been judged. Any Egyptian could have repented. They could have put the blood on the door too. They CHOSE not to. If some dude told me he speaks for GOD, and could do the stuff Moses did, I'd want to know how to stay on his good side.
The Bible refers to Palestina in the Book of Isaiah, written around 7/800 years before Christ. Early copies of the Bible show Palestine on their maps, from around 17/1800, yet it's constantly claimed that Palestine never existed. And as for everything else mentioned in this video, there is more evidence than made out by the narrator. Sounds like yet more devil's work.
ISIS. Ra. El. ISIS the goddess. Ra the sun god amen. El the elohim gods. Home of the deities of the universe. Nothing to do with chosen people of today.
Wandering around in circles in the Sinai desert for 40 years, but claiming to be led by all powerful, all knowing God of the Universe. Google Maps has Cairo to Jerusalem walking directions at 164 hours. So 7 days. Say 8 hours of walking a day, it should take about 3 weeks to get there.
The purpose of walking around the mountain was to allow the people who were too set in their ways to die off. That way the only people entering the promised land would be of a mindset that would utilize said land in a proper way. If it had not been done that way, they would have made the same mistakes, that got them into Egyptian bondage in the first place.
Interesting that we still see the same drama and exaggeration today from Israel, that may be the only bible trait that can be described as accurate. DNA certainty gives the game away.
They weren't "lost" or wandering around (trade routes between Egypt and Mesopotamia were well known)...according to the story they were banned by God from entering Canaan for a "generation" aka 40 years because of a lack of faith from an incident after the whole 10 Commandments/Golden Calf thing...
Well, the way things go. In 500 years, People will talk about the Mighty Fight of Ironman vs Thanos, who sacrificed himself, to bring back half the Universe. And they will say "Its true my Great,great,great,.....Grandfather saw it with his own Eyes, in the Holly Woods".
If Exodus, the 7 plagues etc had happened, the Egyptians would have turned it into a resounding Egyptian triumph, and there is no trace of that either.
It is mind boggling how many examples, details, archeology, and science that's being given and people STILL defend what's in the Bible. Talking snakes, 900 year old people...sounds like a bad movie.
The old testament preaches racism, misogyny and homophobia so how is it people who believe in this hate filled book of fairy tales still claim the moral high ground?
The entire Bible was written by the Hebs on behalf of what became the Catholic Church after the burning down of the Alexander Library. Then it got rewritten thousands of times over and still people beleieve every word!!
1600. They didn’t really exist en mass until about 100 AD, and they were quite nice until Rome adopted the religion as the official state religion in 313 and reorganized it in 380. It then took on the characteristics of the Roman State and has been on a vengeance tour ever since the 5th Century.
@@rjw8631 98% sure... the cadence seems mechanical and some words are off...and I'm pretty sure I've heard that voice on other channels.... as far as a link to AI stuff, I don't do AI ...
@@TheSarcasticSkeptic thanks for your response. maybe you could provide an answer to the debate raised in earlier comments to my post: is the voice in the video AI? or does AI write any of this? i say no to both questions
I like this interpretation. I've always thought the Old Testament and New Testament were written by lazy used car salesmen of that era. The only job back then was farming, that was serious hard work in those days. So, you either busted your ass in the fields, cutting down trees, removing stumps and boulders with hand tools or you told a story so good people would be willing to part with their cash. The first Bulls@itters were born. Who doesn't want to think, "hey when I die, at least it will get better on the other side. " Angels, Margaritas, Virgins, you name it, it's all waiting for you".... for a small fee.
You failed to mention that they spent forty years wandering from Egypt to, well, Egypt. If true, the magical land that they were led to was in the bad place that they left.
@@jennanail Clearly you've never met anyone that's christian and carrying on tradition. They are indoctrinated to not even THINK about consuming such material. Nothing that would challenge their beliefs. NOTHING.
You forgot to mention that there was a floating bakery above the Israelites that made 2,000,000 loaves of mannia daily, and doubled as a night light for them.
I mean, it’s God right why couldn’t he just tell all the Hebrews leave? And then he could just physically restrain all of the other Egyptians. I guess that would be too complicated. Let me split the waters in a sea instead. Even their stories are stupid. God’s all powerful but only to a limit.
Exactly, created the Earth in a few days but can't feed his supporters? Can't just get rid of enemies with a click of his fingers?? The bible is an elaboration of collected folk tales.
it wasnt even water it was tall grass that was parted the greeks mistranslated reed in hebrew to red and later fools said oh red sea there was a sea of reeds in the mouth of the nile then makes the 40 years in the sinai even more stupid on the coast road with food and water they turn right into miles of empty sand
@@steve08717 I often wondered if something was lost in translation, then I spoke to a rabi who can read ancient hebrew and aramaic and realized, yeah it really is nonsense.
So, at 1.6 million acres, if the "lost" nomads were spread out evenly, each would occupy 4/5 of an acre. If they walked single file, assuming each person occupied 2 feet (60 cm - which is probably less than each needed given they had all their belongings as well, but some would be unencumbered children and/or children being carried, so I think it's a fair estimate) then by the time the first person arrived in Israel, only approximately 384,000 people would have left the city of Cairo/Nile delta. So when the first person arrived in the "promised land" over 1.6 million people had yet to start the journey - that's assuming people left at a constant rate, i.e. night or day.
The Wandering in Sinai for 40 years wasn't because they were lost (trade routes between Egypt and the Levant were well established)... there was an incident after the whole 10 Commandments/Golden Calf thing in which spies were sent to Canaan to see what it was like. One group came back laden down with grape vines and talked about "it's great, Milk and Honey, man!!" The other group came back quaking in their sandals, "No, man! The Canaanite are big and strong and have armies! We should stay here in Sinai or better yet go back to Egypt" And God says "This is the thanks I get for 'delivering' you from the Egyptians?! Just for that ya'll are going to stay here in Sinai for a generation, that's 40 years btw! Eat manna you thankless camel turds!!"
First of all, the whole "40 years as punishment" thing still doesn't explain the utter lack of evidence. If 2 million people camped anywhere for a week, let alone 40 years, we'd find something-trash, tools, fire pits, anything. But archaeologists have found zilch. Nada. Sinai is a barren receipt for a non-existent shopping trip. Second, the Canaanite spies story is rich in drama but void of proof. Grapevines? Milk and honey? Amusing, but Canaan wasn't some ancient Costco. It was already populated by thriving civilisations. They'd have noticed a nomadic horde showing up for a divine real estate deal. Instead, no mention in any Canaanite or Egyptian records. Convenient, right? And God's tantrum-"You're ungrateful, so eat manna and wander!"-is classic insecure deity behaviour. What kind of omnipotent being needs constant validation? Sounds less like God and more like an overbearing parent throwing a fit because the kids didn't say thanks for dinner. Also, let's not ignore the absurd logistics here. Feeding and moving 2 million people in the desert for 40 years? With manna as their only food source? No agriculture, no trade, no infrastructure-just a celestial DoorDash or Deliveroo delivering crackers every morning. It doesn't add up. Bottom line: The Exodus story is an ancient morality tale, not history. Believing it happened requires ignoring archaeology, historical records, and basic common sense. But hey, if you're into bedtime stories, enjoy your manna-filled dreams.
Archeology has dug up the Mediterranean nations and city states engaged in trading during the late bronze and early iron ages. Israel doesn't show up as a civilization until ~ the 10th century BCE, nearly 200 years after the LBA began to collapse.
Exactly-there's no archaeological evidence of Israel as a major civilisation during the Late Bronze Age, which makes the Exodus story even more questionable. The lack of any significant presence in Egypt or the surrounding regions until the 10th century BCE suggests the biblical narrative is more myth than history. If the Israelites had been a prominent group, we'f expect to see some solid evidence from that time.
A person can be sarcastic without swearing. People swear spontaneously in our degenerate society from anger and frustration but to swear in retrospect is even more degenerate.☮
@@berniv7375well, not so much degenerate as just not having the skills of sarcasm without the "look at me! Look at me! I use naughty words!" attention grabbing...
Funniest part of this saga is that modern day Palestinians can trace their ancestry back to those original inhabitants of the region, unlike the current European overlords.
It likely got made up representing the cultural memory of when the area of Israel was under Egypt’s control. The closest thing (to Israelite slavery) that actually happened was Egypt demanding troops from those areas.
@Brandonhayhew wrote; "40 years walking on desert. the bible mentions 40 days and 40 years, 40 times" - the bible has been rewritten and retconned multiple times over the centuries.
@@christopherdixon4472 wrote; "Kinda like how frequently 6 million was mentioned in news articles before ww2?" - According to the World Union of Jewish Studies the Jewish global population in 1882 was 7.9 Million ( 6.2 Million according to the Encyclopedia Britannica ) So you do the math, how probable is it, considering that 2 million Jews migrated from Eastern Europe to the United States between 1882 and 1917 that there were 6 million Jews living in central Europe during WW2?
Canaan was a collection of city/state vassals. Egypt had a varying degree of influence over the years. Their presence in Canaan was no more then garissons without the man power to control much of anything. The largest being Beth Shean which had a population of 1000 and only half of them were soldiers. The next biggest, I believe, is Jaffa, which only had a population of 500... 250 soldiers. At the time of the conquest, the start of the Bronze Age Collapse was beginning which led to a significant loss of structural power throughout the entire region. Mereneptah had all but withdrawn from Canaan because he was at war with the Libyans on his western flank. He triumphed over them, but found that his Canaanite vassals had rebelled which was normal under these conditions, so he made a campaign into the area, and restored order, but even his push seemed to be minimized. This is around 1215. Guess who he mentions on his victory stele as being in the land?
I live in South Africa - a backward country where people still believe in the bible. It's agony. Most civilised countries have grown up and are post-religion. Bad education here! Enjoyed your 'sarcasm'. Keep it up.
There's a simple theory about the exodus , it happens during the hyksos time. Many semantic groups immigrated to Egypt by the 13th dynasty them Egypt was divided into two kingdoms, one semantic in the north ruled by a group called the Hyksos and one native in the south. King Ahmos I somehow Blitzkrieg the northern kingdom and chased the semantic group up to modern day Turkey but he didn't search in southern Sinai. Hyksos didn't document every dial like the Egyptians moreover their remainings were destroyed by the Egyptians. The theory is that Pharoah was the one of the last northern kings and his death with his army explains how Ahmos blitzkrieg win the war. The 40 year lost was in fact to avoid the native Egyptian army.
At it's narrowest, the Red Sea is 26 kilometres wide. Yet we're supposed to buy that 2 million refugees walked across there before the Egyptian army could catch them? Bear in mind that the Egyptians employed infantry 'runners' alongside their chariots.
2 million is a number that come from only 1 of 4 options. It isn't the likely option. The term "red sea" is "Yam Suph" Suph is an Egyptian word meaning "reed." The most likely correct translation is the "reed sea," which could work for both the red sea and a number of large lakes on the east side of the Delta. One, which is now extinct(filled entirely by sand) was actually labeled "The Reed Sea" by the Egyptians themselves.
@@andrewstrongman305 It just information. Do with it as you want. The crossing might be one of the large lakes instead of the Red Sea so that would cut the crossing to as little as 3 kilometers. The chariots would not have had runners with them in their pursuit and the Bible only tells us that the horseman and the chariots went after them and were drowned. 2 million people isn't likely the right number and that 2 million number is often used in all sorts of arguments. Do what you wish with that information. If all your going to do is roll on the floor laughing, then I imagine that you won't have the brain cells to know what to do with it. I hope I'm wrong.
@@blusheep2 It's not information, it's supposition. The myth speaks of a large number of men, women, and children fleeing captivity and closely pursued by an army. Saved at the last moment by a miracle... You argue that "the chariots would not have had runners" - why? Biblical nonsense? For a start, the Egyptians used chariots accompanied by infantry. They had no 'horsemen'. Then there's the 100's of thousands? Tens of thousands? of fleeing refugees, and you think they'd outpace an army?
A book of mythical tales for children written by mythical people. Most of it written between 1600-1800 CE. Their archeological claims are in fact from Palestine.
Why people give their minds & lives over to this absurd Bronze Age nonsense is maddening. There’s magic, wizardry, curses, demons, epic battles, genocide, incest and quests, bears mauling children, talking snakes and donkeys……the only thing missing is Shrek and Gandalf
At 5:14 "And then, as if scripted by an ancient soap opera writer..." is pretty accurate. It's all these literary tropes common at the time. Same with the Jesus stories. Fan fiction, we might call it today.
I believe that the Exodus myths were written while the Jews were enslaved by the Babylonians. It was a story to give them hope of one day returning home. That is just my opinion of course. The same goes for the story of Noah and the flood, it is plagiarized from a much older Babylonian story, the Epic Of Gilgamesh.
You're spot on about the Babylonian influence. The timing fits-many scholars actually think the Exodus story was written or edited during the Babylonian exile to inspire hope, as you say. And yeah, the Noah story definitely borrows from the Epic of Gilgamesh, especially the flood narrative-same plot, older source. This might also interest you. While the common image of animals entering Noah's Ark is two by two, Genesis 7 actually specifies additional details: Genesis 7:2-3 states that Noah was to take seven pairs of every clean animal, male and female, and one pair of every unclean animal, male and female. For birds, Noah was to take seven pairs of each kind, to preserve their species on earth. This distinction likely relates to later laws about clean and unclean animals in Leviticus, and the extra clean animals may have been for sacrifices (as seen in Genesis 8:20). So, it wasn't all just two by two! 🤓
I always thought Moses was Ahmose the first and Joshua was Thutmose the 3rd and the Jews the Hyksos/ Habaroo of YAHO ( Yahweh) the bible isn't written to record history in a literal sense like we do today 🫵🤣
I'm Not here to defend biblical fiction, but having looked at the titles of your videos, I notice a distinct absence of any reference to people rising from the dead.
I don't find this line of argument convincing. From what I've heard, the Egyptians didn't write down their defeats (or things that weren't flattering). So it would makes sense that if they wanted a record of inoccuous things and their glorifications, then that's up to them. What I think is a more convincing argument is that the Hebrew language and Israelite artifacts show no influence of Egyptian culture. If the Israelites had spent 400 years in Egypt, surely they'd have some cultural influences in their expressions, or pottery, or something. But you didn't cover anything like that.
I think the point is that even if one presumes they did not write down their defeats, at the minimum there would have to be mentions of Hebrew (or Habiru or something) slaves, especially if they lived as a recognized ethnic group in the country as the bible says. There's nothing. And even if one avoids mentioning defeats directly, the loss of an army is not something one can hide. There would have to be recruiting, equipment replaced, troops would have to be shifted to cover for the loss, etc. Again, nothing. For me, though, the weakest link in the Exodus story is the wandering in the desert. Two million bronze-age people, with metal tools, money, jewelry, and weapons, can't wander anywhere without leaving loads of artifacts behind. Nothing. Heck, divide it by ten and make it just two hundred thousand, or say it was just one hundredth of what the bible says and make it just 20,000. In the ancient world that is the population of a large city. According to the bible, they spent nearly all the "wandering" in one place - Kadesh Barnea. So there would be the equivalent of a major city there for decades...not a single trace of it. Nothing. That by itself proves Exodus is a myth.
Most of what we know about Egypt comes from the walls of their temples and palaces. These were designed to honor the gods and kings. They aren't going to record embarassing details on those kinds of walls. That being said, the Egyptians were notorious record keepers. They had a very large supply of papyrus and they recorded their day to day administrations on what we call Egyptian Day Scrolls. The problem is that papyrus only lasts about 100 years unless kept in a very stable climate and even then they undergo quite a bit of deterioration.... see the Dead Sea Scrolls. I believe that the archeology supports a late date to the Exodus putting the Exodus in the middle of Rameses II's reign. Rameses II is one of the longest reigning kings in Egyptian history. He reigned around 65 years. Guess how many Day Scrolls we have from his reign? ..... thats right..... ZERO. So, its not a matter of us not having any Egyptian records of the Exodus, but rather not having any Egyptian records from that time at all. njhoepner makes a few points that should be addressed as well, since I'm hear. There are actually mentions of slaves and slaves making bricks as the Hebrews are said to do in the Bible. There was a large group of Semites in Egypt, and the name Hebrew wasn't probably known. They were just another Canaanite or Semitic people. We do have records from other reigns of slaves with Hebrew names. What we know from history is that the Hyksos ruled Egypt for 200 years from the city of Avaris and they were Semites. When Egypt got their act together and pushed them out those left behind the fleeing Hyksos army, were enslaved. We have that information from the biography of the General in charge himself who speaks of dividing up the slaves. We know that Avaris remained a large Semitic city even after the Hyksos dynasty was removed and guess what? We know that the entire city became a ghost town for some reason in the middle of Rameses II's reign. The Egyptians turned the whole site into a graveyard. There are 4 options for the notoriously difficult word to interpret, which leads to the figure of 2 million people. The next closet estimate is 100,000 followed by the least at around 25,000. The Sinai is 25,000 sq. miles and contrary to what njhoepner wrote, the Bible doesn't say that the Israelites spent the majority of their time in Kadesh Barnea. It says they were there right before they began the final trek to Canaan. It was a place they passed through. The Sinai itself has seen quite a bit of climate change. It is now a desert yet it was more of a Savannah in the days of Abraham or Moses. A 50' lake the Egyptians called "the Reed Sea" is now entirely extinct because of that erosion. It is filled completely with sand and the shore of the Med is nearly 30 miles further out to sea. Archeologists don't dig unless they know something is there to dig for. Archeology is very expensive. Even identifying their finds often requires multiple fields and site context. So if you found a gold ring then you might be able to date it but you wouldn't likely know who it belonged to. Have a good day.
@@blusheep2 "So, its not a matter of us not having any Egyptian records of the Exodus, but rather not having any Egyptian records from that time at all." Not true. Records, including papyri, survive from that time and even earlier. Not only is there no clear mention anywhere for anything remotely resembling the Exodus story, there is no indication of any such significant unrest inside Egypt during the reign of Ramesses II. A disaster of the magnitude depicted in Exodus would be impossible to hide. For it to leave not even a minor trace is pretty telling. One can take 2 million, 100,000, or 25,000, it does not matter. That many people using the normal materials of the time could not just vanish with no trace, whether the Sinai were a desert or a savannah. As for where they were - the biblical chronology is admittedly sketchy (for obvious reasons) but it seems clear enough that Kadesh Barnea was their main location...they wander around for a year or two, camp there, send out the spies, decide not to invade, return to Kadesh, then a lot of information about rituals and laws, then about 38 years later they set out from Kadesh again towards the "promised land." Even if not the full 38 years (which seems a pretty common interpretation), even a year or two in any location would leave a lot of remains...tools, weapons, jewelry, and especially pottery, would have to be left behind in large amounts. There would be significant numbers of graves as well. Yet, to this day, nothing. An article in the July/August 1984 issue of Biblical Archeological Review states clearly "Nowhere in Sinai did we or our colleagues find any concrete remains of the stations on the Exodus route, nor even small encampments that could be attributed to the relevant period. Neither did we discover anything that would help us identify the Mountain of God." This includes multiple years of excavation at Kadesh Barnea among other places. Nothing. "But as a result of the intensive surveys conducted in the high mountains of south-central Sinai (the traditional location of Mount Sinai), we must conclude that no new ethnic element arrived there during the Late Bronze Age." The fact is that the only evidence for the Exodus is the Bible, in texts written centuries later without even a clear chronology. To date there is nothing to back it up.
Let's entertain the idea that all of exodus actually happened and Pheroh pursposefully and successfully erased all the record. Still, Egyst is devastated by 10 plagues: all their crops are gone, multiple epidemics sweeping across the nation, a large part of the next generation dead, the king dead, a large part of the army destroyed, a large part of labor force gone. With all that Egypt will fall and within a few years every nearby powers curve a piece of it. But there's no record of such in the entire history of Egypt. Instead, we get Egypt being the only survivor or Bronze age collapse! But if you have the intellect or honesty to learn and accept all those, will you be a religious person?
Our Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus has declared all of Himself that we need to know. 1. He demands righteousness and justice 2. He will destroy the wicked and the oppressor and the unjust 3. He will show mercy and forgiveness and kindness for countless who seek forgiveness and are repentant. Yes, America and "garden europe" have their constitution. The Lord Christ Jesus also has His!
It was all about making believers. The deeper people believe the easier was to fool them. The Bible is a guidance how to rule over human race.Just change a word God into leader or president etc.
@joshuaezekiel6157 when you talk about atheist and communist atrocities does this include the murdering of priests, nuns and the destruction of Catholic churches and libraries in Russia, France and Spain?
People can't commit atrocities based on atheist beliefs because atheism is absence of belief in a certain deity ( or deities). You are an atheist. You reject belief in thousands of other gods, besides your own.
@@cockyrustler I am not a fervent theist by any means but atheists can and have committed atrocities based on the belief that god does not exist. Anything that cannot be proven is a belief. Thus atheism is not entirely nihilistic. If you are an atheist you must provide a logical argument for your belief if anyone is to take you seriously.
Claiming that there isnt a single papyrus scroll relevant to the exodus is a bold faced lie. One the ipuwer papyrus scroll clearly refers to the events of the ten plagues and the destruction it caused egypt. Also there was a slave list found in Egypt in which the majority of the names on the listing where people with Hebrew names. As well as the well known collapse of Egypt during the time of the old kingdom.
Firaun's body though was found in the Red Sea and carbon dated. This matches what was promised of Firaun in the Qur'an. Although, archeologists followed by National Geographic tried to debunk it as being Firaun's son. Also, hindsight ended up clarifying that this was before the Pharaohic era, so they had a different monarchy system at the time. A, being direct descendants of Canaanites, I doubt there were millions of Hebrews in Egypt at the time, but probably just thousands.
There's no verified evidence that the body of the Pharaoh mentioned in the Qur'an or the Bible has been found in the Red Sea. The mummies of Ramses II and other pharaohs have been carbon-dated, but there's no conclusive link to the Exodus story, which lacks corroborating archaeological evidence. Also, the idea of millions of Hebrews in Egypt is widely doubted by historians due to the lack of records and evidence from that period. Most scholars believe the Exodus narrative is a mythological origin story rather than a historical account.
isreal is the land of mythical beings. just like all the mythical beings in every religion that had passed on and even those still alive today. and why the buddha had to do what he did to prove them as myths. but pressure from his peers made him not speak about that truth. but to just help people become enlightened in their own ways without any peer pressure. and why its the only religion that spread so far and so wide without a need for bloodshed to make people become a part of that way of life.
I laughing so so hard !!!😂maybe is because I have ALWAYS believe/d in it but at the same time I refuse to accept I don't actually believe in it . I don't know why I REFUSE to let it go😢 I was stil yong when I asked The people wondered 40 years in the desert , 3 million I think was the number , even single person died apart from 2/3 guys ...where are all those bonés???? Second question was , if pharaoh animals died by the plagues ...wheel did all that vast armie will.cavalry came from ???? I was told , don't worry about that , all we must know is that God make miracles. Só I shut up😂😂😂😂😂
There's no evidence they were mercenaries either. Ancient Egyptian records mention various groups, but nothing shows the Hebrews as an organised mercenary force. The idea they were mercenaries is just a guess to try and explain the lack of evidence for the biblical slave story. Archaeology and history don't back up either claim-so we're still left with a story, not facts.
@@SMDoktorPepperClaiming the Hebrews were mercenaries might feel more plausible than the Exodus myth, but there's no evidence for that either. It's just swapping one baseless idea for another. Without historical or archaeological proof, it's all just speculation dressed up as 'sense.'
The funniest thing about exidus us the claim they wandered the dessert for 40 years going between Egypt and Palestine but it's right next door a five minute walk
That is actually a very good point that I hadn't thought about. The Sinai peninsula is only 130 miles wide and I once walked 25 miles in a single night. Two million people took 40 years to walk 130 miles? Don't think so.
@@Shannon-ij1pm there is no infrastructure to feed 2 million people in the desert. Not even for a month
@@Shannon-ij1pmIt means they lived IN the desert for 40 years because they had no permanent home, NOT that it took them 40 years to travel 130 miles!😂
Up to you whether or not you believe the basic story of the wandering itself.
@darcyperkins7041 no moron. It's up to you believe nonsense with no evidence.
@@darcyperkins7041 that does put a different twist on it😂
They will call you an antisemite but never a liar !!
This has nothing to do with antisemitism, child
Except antisemitism is based on lies, the video has nothing to do with antisemitism, child
@@Mayan_88694 LOL, the holocaust ? How do you feel about the Gaza Holocaust ?
What woke planet did you come from?
@@tareksaba1ify you just lied, abdool
when i was a Kid i have many questions , about the bible, i read the bible but i did not find any spiritua;lity conection with the almighty God, neither saw his wisdom ,nor his compassion , but i could no say nothing against that, everybody around my could turn against me ,as a evil in person , so i kept it for myself , im glad that you have the guts to speak out,
In my early school days I went to a Roman Catholic primary school.
I was beaten because I questioned Genesis & particularly 'The Flood'.
I asked HOW did the millions of species we have today come from the very small sample that would have been on the ARK ?
The Priest's answer ? 'They just did, because god made it happen' !
A short while later at the age of 9, I was an avowed atheist.
Same with me. I never found spiritual well being or understanding in that book or their silly services. Why would eating a bread wafer and drinking wine help anyone feel spiritual well being.
Same question . No convinced answers..but we had to say nothing .or the church could send us straight to hell.!!!
@@AnyProofOfTheseClaims I fell relaxed when I drink my wine .or my tequila for sure!!!
Now that's sarcastic AF, and very well done. George Carlin would have loved this.
@jeffreygoldstein6808
Wow, high praise there. Thank you!
Aye!, I strongly concur.
Exactly
And Christopher Hitchens as well!
I freaking love this site!!! Finally someone speaking in plain english!
Except I’m pretty sure it’s an AI voice.
At the time the Egyptian empire stretched from the foothills of Ethiopia to the borders of Asia Minor so crossing the Red sea would simply have taken them into another province of Egypt, not much of an escape.
yes , it was Egypt that eventually left Canaan
Condensing a history of 2000 years of lies and fictions and deceiving into only a 9 minute video is a mastery.
No, it's stupid and obnoxious. Everyone with minimal intelligence and access to the internet knows the Bible isn't literally true.
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I loved the verbal artistry. You are right of course, but the verbal descriptions made this hilarious. I wish I could come up with such descriptive art. You are the Leonardo da Vinci of biblical put downs. Love it.
For some reason he got me at “God too busy smiting random goats” 😂
*Thank you, I subscribed.* I'm a life long atheist as my family is secular and from Sweden. Wishing y'all Holiday cheer.
Thousands of years ago long before Jesus way back in the Neolithic, it is the Sun which is literally rebirthed in the passageway of an ancient tomb, the Grand Passage Tomb in the Boyne Valley, Newgrange Ireland.
The three days of death is a representation of casual observation of the rising sun when it ceases to move along the horizon to the south and is observed rising in the same location for two to three days during the solstice. In this version the rebirth is when the rising sun begins moving back to the north along the horizon.
In 1350 BCE Amenhotep the fourth created or invented the monotheistic god from the solar disk, then known as the Aten. Some of Amenhotep's work can be found in the bible as Psalm 104 also known as "The Great Hymn to the Aten". Christians pay homage to this man after a prayer, "Amen".
Today, our hearts bring back the Light in a celebration from Scandinavia which lasts over several days during the winter solstice known as "Yule". Predating Christianity, Proto-Germanic Paganism originating thousands of years ago. Known as a Norse Pagan festival called "jol" named after the Norse god Odin. The Norse being the ancestors of Vikings with the ancestor of the Vikings dating back over 12000 years ago in Scandinavia.
The Rebirth of the Sun being the oldest known Winter Solstice festival. We celebrate the Sun's rebirth and the warmth of the Sunshine (Love, Peace, Happiness, Goodwill to man)…
Have a Wonderful Winter's Solstice.
Songs about the sunshine;
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Thanks again man.
The Bible specifically says God hardened Pharaoh's heart so, Exodus is saying all of Egypt was punished not because Pharaoh was an ass-hat...Egypt was punished because God wanted to watch it happen.
Yeah you're a Low IQ knob
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Learn to Read, Comprehend AND understand Context.
Derp mofo
I never looked at it like that, but it sounds good
@RobKHere it's kinda horrifying. I genuinely hope that a sadistic God cannot exist.
God hardened pharaoh's heart because pharaoh had been judged. Any Egyptian could have repented. They could have put the blood on the door too. They CHOSE not to. If some dude told me he speaks for GOD, and could do the stuff Moses did, I'd want to know how to stay on his good side.
I think that makes god an arse-hat actually
"Cruel to be Kind."
@chevyvandweller2706 wrote; "Cruel to be Kind." - sounds like the mantra of someone trying to justify their sadistic behaviour.
This night be my new favorite skeptic channel
This was the story that was #1 in deconverting me from 25+ years of Christianity.
The bible said the jews land was called Israel.
Herodotus called the same land Palestine 400 BC.
Who to believe?
Well... it has to be kosher, otherwise you shall be outlawed and...
herodotus of course
The Bible refers to Palestina in the Book of Isaiah, written around 7/800 years before Christ. Early copies of the Bible show Palestine on their maps, from around 17/1800, yet it's constantly claimed that Palestine never existed. And as for everything else mentioned in this video, there is more evidence than made out by the narrator. Sounds like yet more devil's work.
ISIS. Ra. El. ISIS the goddess. Ra the sun god amen. El the elohim gods. Home of the deities of the universe. Nothing to do with chosen people of today.
I believe the multiple Pharaohs who recorded trade with the neighbouring land of Palast.
Wandering around in circles in the Sinai desert for 40 years, but claiming to be led by all powerful, all knowing God of the Universe.
Google Maps has Cairo to Jerusalem walking directions at 164 hours. So 7 days. Say 8 hours of walking a day, it should take about 3 weeks to get there.
The purpose of walking around the mountain was to allow the people who were too set in their ways to die off. That way the only people entering the promised land would be of a mindset that would utilize said land in a proper way. If it had not been done that way, they would have made the same mistakes, that got them into Egyptian bondage in the first place.
@Skyfire-x but if Moses was as incompetent as Netanyahu I can see why it took 40 years.
Interesting that we still see the same drama and exaggeration today from Israel, that may be the only bible trait that can be described as accurate. DNA certainty gives the game away.
They weren't "lost" or wandering around (trade routes between Egypt and Mesopotamia were well known)...according to the story they were banned by God from entering Canaan for a "generation" aka 40 years because of a lack of faith from an incident after the whole 10 Commandments/Golden Calf thing...
What's that word used for people like you. It starts with an "A"
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History without the boring scholarship..... just sarcastic facts & scholarship in the vernacular.
Love it!
Well, the way things go. In 500 years, People will talk about the Mighty Fight of Ironman vs Thanos, who sacrificed himself, to bring back half the Universe. And they will say "Its true my Great,great,great,.....Grandfather saw it with his own Eyes, in the Holly Woods".
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If Exodus, the 7 plagues etc had happened, the Egyptians would have turned it into a resounding Egyptian triumph, and there is no trace of that either.
Liked after hearing "fucknugget".
Another day of finding out how my family lied to me. 😠
It is mind boggling how many examples, details, archeology, and science that's being given and people STILL defend what's in the Bible. Talking snakes, 900 year old people...sounds like a bad movie.
The old testament preaches racism, misogyny and homophobia so how is it people who believe in this hate filled book of fairy tales still claim the moral high ground?
Its worse than a bad movie, it is a manifesto for apartheid and ethnic cleansing.
Just found this channel, lol! Informative and funny! Subbed!
@vegasflyboy67
Thanks! Welcome aboard!
The entire Bible was written by the Hebs on behalf of what became the Catholic Church after the burning down of the Alexander Library. Then it got rewritten thousands of times over and still people beleieve every word!!
The "Old Testament" was written by the jews and translated with several errors into Latin and Greek
About the 40 years, I've wondered if the scribe writing it down meant "it took 40 days, but felt like 40 years."
Just found your channel and this is GREAT!!!
FINALLY Someone not afraid to speak some truth on YT
@meatloafhead
Thanks! I appreciate that, stay tuned for more truth bombs
Blisteringly refreshing. Logical. Oddly, comforting.
I like your tone. Christians have been immune from this abuse and ridicule for 2000 years. Give it to them :)
😂😂 True!!
1600. They didn’t really exist en mass until about 100 AD, and they were quite nice until Rome adopted the religion as the official state religion in 313 and reorganized it in 380. It then took on the characteristics of the Roman State and has been on a vengeance tour ever since the 5th Century.
Every knee shall bend before me and confess that I am God.
You had me with the "pyromaniac shrub". I laughed my ass off
😂 yeah, me too !
this guy is like an articulate lewis black. priceless wisdom. outstanding sarcasm
The audio is AI.... there's no "narrator" irate or otherwise...
@@hurdygurdyguy1 are you sure? in any case, i assume it wasn't written by Ai. otherwise, send me a link to the AI so i can try it out
@@rjw8631 98% sure... the cadence seems mechanical and some words are off...and I'm pretty sure I've heard that voice on other channels.... as far as a link to AI stuff, I don't do AI ...
High praise there! Thanks for the compliment
@@TheSarcasticSkeptic thanks for your response. maybe you could provide an answer to the debate raised in earlier comments to my post: is the voice in the video AI? or does AI write any of this? i say no to both questions
I like this interpretation. I've always thought the Old Testament and New Testament were written by lazy used car salesmen of that era. The only job back then was farming, that was serious hard work in those days. So, you either busted your ass in the fields, cutting down trees, removing stumps and boulders with hand tools or you told a story so good people would be willing to part with their cash. The first Bulls@itters were born. Who doesn't want to think, "hey when I die, at least it will get better on the other side. " Angels, Margaritas, Virgins, you name it, it's all waiting for you".... for a small fee.
You failed to mention that they spent forty years wandering from Egypt to, well, Egypt. If true, the magical land that they were led to was in the bad place that they left.
yep the Egyptians were already there, another piece of history left out of the story.
Love your new take on English in the vernacular
There are no gods, just a lot of fanciful stories. I feel like we live in a holographic simulation as in the matrix
If you only made versions of these videos without the actual cuss words, I could show some Christians that may actually listen to what you’re saying.
They won’t listen even without the cuss words. None of this info is new. The archaeology has been clear for decades. Plenty of documentaries about it.
There's plenty of channels already like that.
@@TheProphetofLogic Can you recommend some?
@@jennanail Clearly you've never met anyone that's christian and carrying on tradition. They are indoctrinated to not even THINK about consuming such material. Nothing that would challenge their beliefs. NOTHING.
Christians won't listen to truth bcz of cuss words? What kind of priority is that?
You forgot to mention that there was a floating bakery above the Israelites that made 2,000,000 loaves of mannia daily, and doubled as a night light for them.
I mean, it’s God right why couldn’t he just tell all the Hebrews leave? And then he could just physically restrain all of the other Egyptians. I guess that would be too complicated. Let me split the waters in a sea instead. Even their stories are stupid. God’s all powerful but only to a limit.
I guess you haven't read the book.
Many times it’s absolutely absurd and the fact that humans believe this absurd torture porn is beyond me !
Exactly, created the Earth in a few days but can't feed his supporters? Can't just get rid of enemies with a click of his fingers??
The bible is an elaboration of collected folk tales.
it wasnt even water it was tall grass that was parted the greeks mistranslated reed in hebrew to red and later fools said oh red sea there was a sea of reeds in the mouth of the nile then makes the 40 years in the sinai even more stupid on the coast road with food and water they turn right into miles of empty sand
@@steve08717 I often wondered if something was lost in translation, then I spoke to a rabi who can read ancient hebrew and aramaic and realized, yeah it really is nonsense.
So, at 1.6 million acres, if the "lost" nomads were spread out evenly, each would occupy 4/5 of an acre. If they walked single file, assuming each person occupied 2 feet (60 cm - which is probably less than each needed given they had all their belongings as well, but some would be unencumbered children and/or children being carried, so I think it's a fair estimate) then by the time the first person arrived in Israel, only approximately 384,000 people would have left the city of Cairo/Nile delta. So when the first person arrived in the "promised land" over 1.6 million people had yet to start the journey - that's assuming people left at a constant rate, i.e. night or day.
That assumes that people walked in single file and it assumes that there were 1.6 million people in the Exodus which is only 1 of 4 possible options.
The Wandering in Sinai for 40 years wasn't because they were lost (trade routes between Egypt and the Levant were well established)... there was an incident after the whole 10 Commandments/Golden Calf thing in which spies were sent to Canaan to see what it was like. One group came back laden down with grape vines and talked about "it's great, Milk and Honey, man!!" The other group came back quaking in their sandals, "No, man! The Canaanite are big and strong and have armies! We should stay here in Sinai or better yet go back to Egypt" And God says "This is the thanks I get for 'delivering' you from the Egyptians?! Just for that ya'll are going to stay here in Sinai for a generation, that's 40 years btw! Eat manna you thankless camel turds!!"
First of all, the whole "40 years as punishment" thing still doesn't explain the utter lack of evidence. If 2 million people camped anywhere for a week, let alone 40 years, we'd find something-trash, tools, fire pits, anything. But archaeologists have found zilch. Nada. Sinai is a barren receipt for a non-existent shopping trip.
Second, the Canaanite spies story is rich in drama but void of proof. Grapevines? Milk and honey? Amusing, but Canaan wasn't some ancient Costco. It was already populated by thriving civilisations. They'd have noticed a nomadic horde showing up for a divine real estate deal. Instead, no mention in any Canaanite or Egyptian records. Convenient, right?
And God's tantrum-"You're ungrateful, so eat manna and wander!"-is classic insecure deity behaviour. What kind of omnipotent being needs constant validation? Sounds less like God and more like an overbearing parent throwing a fit because the kids didn't say thanks for dinner.
Also, let's not ignore the absurd logistics here. Feeding and moving 2 million people in the desert for 40 years? With manna as their only food source? No agriculture, no trade, no infrastructure-just a celestial DoorDash or Deliveroo delivering crackers every morning. It doesn't add up.
Bottom line: The Exodus story is an ancient morality tale, not history. Believing it happened requires ignoring archaeology, historical records, and basic common sense. But hey, if you're into bedtime stories, enjoy your manna-filled dreams.
Archeology has dug up the Mediterranean nations and city states engaged in trading during the late bronze and early iron ages. Israel doesn't show up as a civilization until ~ the 10th century BCE, nearly 200 years after the LBA began to collapse.
Exactly-there's no archaeological evidence of Israel as a major civilisation during the Late Bronze Age, which makes the Exodus story even more questionable. The lack of any significant presence in Egypt or the surrounding regions until the 10th century BCE suggests the biblical narrative is more myth than history. If the Israelites had been a prominent group, we'f expect to see some solid evidence from that time.
I really appreciate your use of fowl language bravo man ✊power to Palestine ✊power to the Palestinian people
foul. Leave the chickens out of this.
A person can be sarcastic without swearing. People swear spontaneously in our degenerate society from anger and frustration but to swear in retrospect is even more degenerate.☮
@@berniv7375well, not so much degenerate as just not having the skills of sarcasm without the "look at me! Look at me! I use naughty words!" attention grabbing...
Funniest part of this saga is that modern day Palestinians can trace their ancestry back to those original inhabitants of the region, unlike the current European overlords.
It likely got made up representing the cultural memory of when the area of Israel was under Egypt’s control. The closest thing (to Israelite slavery) that actually happened was Egypt demanding troops from those areas.
Love the satire❤
"wankbadger" I lol'ed at that.
40 years walking on desert. the bible mentions 40 days and 40 years, 40 times
Kinda like how frequently 6 million was mentioned in news articles before ww2?
40 days is allegory to gestation time in the womb. The Bible is a mathematical code.
@Brandonhayhew wrote; "40 years walking on desert. the bible mentions 40 days and 40 years, 40 times" - the bible has been rewritten and retconned multiple times over the centuries.
@@christopherdixon4472 wrote; "Kinda like how frequently 6 million was mentioned in news articles before ww2?" - According to the World Union of Jewish Studies the Jewish global population in 1882 was 7.9 Million ( 6.2 Million according to the Encyclopedia Britannica ) So you do the math, how probable is it, considering that 2 million Jews migrated from Eastern Europe to the United States between 1882 and 1917 that there were 6 million Jews living in central Europe during WW2?
God needs a proofreader.
Brilliant! 😂 God will smite me!
better than semite you 😊
you didnt mentioned that Ancient Egypt used to send people in shadow realm
This should be part of a stand up comic act😂😂😂
Nice job I laughed 😂😂😂
Fun fact : when the Jews settled down in Palestine, it was Egyptian territory. Like duh, so we ran away from Egypt to settle down in... more Egypt ?
Canaan was a collection of city/state vassals. Egypt had a varying degree of influence over the years. Their presence in Canaan was no more then garissons without the man power to control much of anything. The largest being Beth Shean which had a population of 1000 and only half of them were soldiers. The next biggest, I believe, is Jaffa, which only had a population of 500... 250 soldiers.
At the time of the conquest, the start of the Bronze Age Collapse was beginning which led to a significant loss of structural power throughout the entire region. Mereneptah had all but withdrawn from Canaan because he was at war with the Libyans on his western flank. He triumphed over them, but found that his Canaanite vassals had rebelled which was normal under these conditions, so he made a campaign into the area, and restored order, but even his push seemed to be minimized. This is around 1215. Guess who he mentions on his victory stele as being in the land?
I live in South Africa - a backward country where people still believe in the bible. It's agony.
Most civilised countries have grown up and are post-religion. Bad education here!
Enjoyed your 'sarcasm'. Keep it up.
There's a simple theory about the exodus , it happens during the hyksos time. Many semantic groups immigrated to Egypt by the 13th dynasty them Egypt was divided into two kingdoms, one semantic in the north ruled by a group called the Hyksos and one native in the south. King Ahmos I somehow Blitzkrieg the northern kingdom and chased the semantic group up to modern day Turkey but he didn't search in southern Sinai. Hyksos didn't document every dial like the Egyptians moreover their remainings were destroyed by the Egyptians. The theory is that Pharoah was the one of the last northern kings and his death with his army explains how Ahmos blitzkrieg win the war. The 40 year lost was in fact to avoid the native Egyptian army.
At it's narrowest, the Red Sea is 26 kilometres wide. Yet we're supposed to buy that 2 million refugees walked across there before the Egyptian army could catch them? Bear in mind that the Egyptians employed infantry 'runners' alongside their chariots.
2 million is a number that come from only 1 of 4 options. It isn't the likely option. The term "red sea" is "Yam Suph" Suph is an Egyptian word meaning "reed." The most likely correct translation is the "reed sea," which could work for both the red sea and a number of large lakes on the east side of the Delta. One, which is now extinct(filled entirely by sand) was actually labeled "The Reed Sea" by the Egyptians themselves.
@@blusheep2 ROFL! How does any of that 'help'?
@@andrewstrongman305 It just information. Do with it as you want. The crossing might be one of the large lakes instead of the Red Sea so that would cut the crossing to as little as 3 kilometers. The chariots would not have had runners with them in their pursuit and the Bible only tells us that the horseman and the chariots went after them and were drowned. 2 million people isn't likely the right number and that 2 million number is often used in all sorts of arguments.
Do what you wish with that information. If all your going to do is roll on the floor laughing, then I imagine that you won't have the brain cells to know what to do with it. I hope I'm wrong.
@@blusheep2 It's not information, it's supposition.
The myth speaks of a large number of men, women, and children fleeing captivity and closely pursued by an army. Saved at the last moment by a miracle...
You argue that "the chariots would not have had runners" - why? Biblical nonsense? For a start, the Egyptians used chariots accompanied by infantry. They had no 'horsemen'. Then there's the 100's of thousands? Tens of thousands? of fleeing refugees, and you think they'd outpace an army?
@ so as far as you are concerned whatever is in the Old Testament is true and accurate!
It wasn't that Phaeaoh wouldn't let them go, it was god stopping him from letting them go.
This is an absolute classic! All history should be taught this way. 😂
This is perfection. Thank you 🎉
You have such a way with words!
lol...I was shock but love it
When you enjoy sarcasms and crude language: this is the beat ❤
Did not know god swore so much
How did so many cattles and humans walk cross the red sea in less than 8 hours?
Twot Waffles the World over love this kind of stuff, Histrionics written by Syphilis riddled primitives, the best kind of fiction.
Nice job i love this a lot! thanks! Finally, someone talks like me about this biblical manga 😊
Its 2024 and people still believe this nonsense. No matter how good your school system, some people insist on being ignorant.
OMFG this is FANTASTIC!
i wanna bet there's probably a more fascinating story involving both beer mugs and the phaeroes cat
Actually Bible did not say anything about pyramids at all.
Steve the Hebrew took a sick day! Your writing is awesome
That was the Stephen Miller guy?
A book of mythical tales for children written by mythical people. Most of it written between 1600-1800 CE. Their archeological claims are in fact from Palestine.
I like the story telling. That keeps it interesting. Good story.
Why people give their minds & lives over to this absurd Bronze Age nonsense is maddening. There’s magic, wizardry, curses, demons, epic battles, genocide, incest and quests, bears mauling children, talking snakes and donkeys……the only thing missing is Shrek and Gandalf
At 5:14 "And then, as if scripted by an ancient soap opera writer..." is pretty accurate. It's all these literary tropes common at the time. Same with the Jesus stories. Fan fiction, we might call it today.
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I believe that the Exodus myths were written while the Jews were enslaved by the Babylonians. It was a story to give them hope of one day returning home. That is just my opinion of course. The same goes for the story of Noah and the flood, it is plagiarized from a much older Babylonian story, the Epic Of Gilgamesh.
You're spot on about the Babylonian influence. The timing fits-many scholars actually think the Exodus story was written or edited during the Babylonian exile to inspire hope, as you say. And yeah, the Noah story definitely borrows from the Epic of Gilgamesh, especially the flood narrative-same plot, older source.
This might also interest you.
While the common image of animals entering Noah's Ark is two by two, Genesis 7 actually specifies additional details:
Genesis 7:2-3 states that Noah was to take seven pairs of every clean animal, male and female, and one pair of every unclean animal, male and female. For birds, Noah was to take seven pairs of each kind, to preserve their species on earth.
This distinction likely relates to later laws about clean and unclean animals in Leviticus, and the extra clean animals may have been for sacrifices (as seen in Genesis 8:20). So, it wasn't all just two by two! 🤓
I like your style💯
oh that isn't the funnies bit either, as the time this is supposed to have occurred, they would have still been in Egypt.
I always thought Moses was Ahmose the first and Joshua was Thutmose the 3rd and the Jews the Hyksos/ Habaroo of YAHO ( Yahweh) the bible isn't written to record history in a literal sense like we do today 🫵🤣
It’s not written to do anything but LIE.
I'm Not here to defend biblical fiction, but having looked at the titles of your videos, I notice a distinct absence of any reference to people rising from the dead.
I just absolutely loved the way "The Exodus" is broken down, I am laughing like a Mofo . 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
I don't find this line of argument convincing. From what I've heard, the Egyptians didn't write down their defeats (or things that weren't flattering). So it would makes sense that if they wanted a record of inoccuous things and their glorifications, then that's up to them. What I think is a more convincing argument is that the Hebrew language and Israelite artifacts show no influence of Egyptian culture. If the Israelites had spent 400 years in Egypt, surely they'd have some cultural influences in their expressions, or pottery, or something. But you didn't cover anything like that.
I think the point is that even if one presumes they did not write down their defeats, at the minimum there would have to be mentions of Hebrew (or Habiru or something) slaves, especially if they lived as a recognized ethnic group in the country as the bible says. There's nothing. And even if one avoids mentioning defeats directly, the loss of an army is not something one can hide. There would have to be recruiting, equipment replaced, troops would have to be shifted to cover for the loss, etc. Again, nothing.
For me, though, the weakest link in the Exodus story is the wandering in the desert. Two million bronze-age people, with metal tools, money, jewelry, and weapons, can't wander anywhere without leaving loads of artifacts behind. Nothing. Heck, divide it by ten and make it just two hundred thousand, or say it was just one hundredth of what the bible says and make it just 20,000. In the ancient world that is the population of a large city. According to the bible, they spent nearly all the "wandering" in one place - Kadesh Barnea. So there would be the equivalent of a major city there for decades...not a single trace of it. Nothing. That by itself proves Exodus is a myth.
Most of what we know about Egypt comes from the walls of their temples and palaces. These were designed to honor the gods and kings. They aren't going to record embarassing details on those kinds of walls. That being said, the Egyptians were notorious record keepers. They had a very large supply of papyrus and they recorded their day to day administrations on what we call Egyptian Day Scrolls. The problem is that papyrus only lasts about 100 years unless kept in a very stable climate and even then they undergo quite a bit of deterioration.... see the Dead Sea Scrolls.
I believe that the archeology supports a late date to the Exodus putting the Exodus in the middle of Rameses II's reign. Rameses II is one of the longest reigning kings in Egyptian history. He reigned around 65 years. Guess how many Day Scrolls we have from his reign? ..... thats right..... ZERO.
So, its not a matter of us not having any Egyptian records of the Exodus, but rather not having any Egyptian records from that time at all.
njhoepner makes a few points that should be addressed as well, since I'm hear.
There are actually mentions of slaves and slaves making bricks as the Hebrews are said to do in the Bible. There was a large group of Semites in Egypt, and the name Hebrew wasn't probably known. They were just another Canaanite or Semitic people. We do have records from other reigns of slaves with Hebrew names. What we know from history is that the Hyksos ruled Egypt for 200 years from the city of Avaris and they were Semites. When Egypt got their act together and pushed them out those left behind the fleeing Hyksos army, were enslaved. We have that information from the biography of the General in charge himself who speaks of dividing up the slaves. We know that Avaris remained a large Semitic city even after the Hyksos dynasty was removed and guess what? We know that the entire city became a ghost town for some reason in the middle of Rameses II's reign. The Egyptians turned the whole site into a graveyard.
There are 4 options for the notoriously difficult word to interpret, which leads to the figure of 2 million people. The next closet estimate is 100,000 followed by the least at around 25,000. The Sinai is 25,000 sq. miles and contrary to what njhoepner wrote, the Bible doesn't say that the Israelites spent the majority of their time in Kadesh Barnea. It says they were there right before they began the final trek to Canaan. It was a place they passed through.
The Sinai itself has seen quite a bit of climate change. It is now a desert yet it was more of a Savannah in the days of Abraham or Moses. A 50' lake the Egyptians called "the Reed Sea" is now entirely extinct because of that erosion. It is filled completely with sand and the shore of the Med is nearly 30 miles further out to sea.
Archeologists don't dig unless they know something is there to dig for. Archeology is very expensive. Even identifying their finds often requires multiple fields and site context. So if you found a gold ring then you might be able to date it but you wouldn't likely know who it belonged to.
Have a good day.
@@blusheep2 "So, its not a matter of us not having any Egyptian records of the Exodus, but rather not having any Egyptian records from that time at all." Not true. Records, including papyri, survive from that time and even earlier. Not only is there no clear mention anywhere for anything remotely resembling the Exodus story, there is no indication of any such significant unrest inside Egypt during the reign of Ramesses II. A disaster of the magnitude depicted in Exodus would be impossible to hide. For it to leave not even a minor trace is pretty telling.
One can take 2 million, 100,000, or 25,000, it does not matter. That many people using the normal materials of the time could not just vanish with no trace, whether the Sinai were a desert or a savannah. As for where they were - the biblical chronology is admittedly sketchy (for obvious reasons) but it seems clear enough that Kadesh Barnea was their main location...they wander around for a year or two, camp there, send out the spies, decide not to invade, return to Kadesh, then a lot of information about rituals and laws, then about 38 years later they set out from Kadesh again towards the "promised land."
Even if not the full 38 years (which seems a pretty common interpretation), even a year or two in any location would leave a lot of remains...tools, weapons, jewelry, and especially pottery, would have to be left behind in large amounts. There would be significant numbers of graves as well. Yet, to this day, nothing. An article in the July/August 1984 issue of Biblical Archeological Review states clearly "Nowhere in Sinai did we or our colleagues find any concrete remains of the stations on the Exodus route, nor even small encampments that could be attributed to the relevant period. Neither did we discover anything that would help us identify the Mountain of God." This includes multiple years of excavation at Kadesh Barnea among other places. Nothing. "But as a result of the intensive surveys conducted in the high mountains of south-central Sinai (the traditional location of Mount Sinai), we must conclude that no new ethnic element arrived there during the Late Bronze Age."
The fact is that the only evidence for the Exodus is the Bible, in texts written centuries later without even a clear chronology. To date there is nothing to back it up.
Let's entertain the idea that all of exodus actually happened and Pheroh pursposefully and successfully erased all the record.
Still, Egyst is devastated by 10 plagues: all their crops are gone, multiple epidemics sweeping across the nation, a large part of the next generation dead, the king dead, a large part of the army destroyed, a large part of labor force gone. With all that Egypt will fall and within a few years every nearby powers curve a piece of it. But there's no record of such in the entire history of Egypt. Instead, we get Egypt being the only survivor or Bronze age collapse! But if you have the intellect or honesty to learn and accept all those, will you be a religious person?
Now do one on the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and Scientology
I think he already has.
If God wanted to give his fav people a block of land in the far future, you'd think he would fence it off so tribes would not take occupation?
Our Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus has declared all of Himself that we need to know.
1. He demands righteousness and justice
2. He will destroy the wicked and the oppressor and the unjust
3. He will show mercy and forgiveness and kindness for countless who seek forgiveness and are repentant.
Yes, America and "garden europe" have their constitution.
The Lord Christ Jesus also has His!
Hilariously awesome!
It was all about making believers. The deeper people believe the easier was to fool them. The Bible is a guidance how to rule over human race.Just change a word God into leader or president etc.
Cute show here. For your next presentation, could you talk about the myth of Darwinism and eugenics? Or how about atheism and communist atrocities?
What 'myth' of Darwinism?
@joshuaezekiel6157 when you talk about atheist and communist atrocities does this include the murdering of priests, nuns and the destruction of Catholic churches and libraries in Russia, France and Spain?
Well your very question (not to mention moniker) proves you can't tell myth from reality, maybe a lesson in deductive thinking first?
People can't commit atrocities based on atheist beliefs because atheism is absence of belief in a certain deity ( or deities). You are an atheist. You reject belief in thousands of other gods, besides your own.
@@cockyrustler I am not a fervent theist by any means but atheists can and have committed atrocities based on the belief that god does not exist. Anything that cannot be proven is a belief. Thus atheism is not entirely nihilistic. If you are an atheist you must provide a logical argument for your belief if anyone is to take you seriously.
These are fables meant to teach a lesson not be taken as historical documents.
And the lesson is the Bible is full of shit.
Except that large numbers of Jews and Christians view them as factually accurate histories.
Except when it's not, right.
And you are the only Christian doing it correctly. Yea yea
So you slander everyone else. I get it.
@mickymiller6130 making fun of a magic book, is not slander. What a brain washed pathetic excuse.
Claiming that there isnt a single papyrus scroll relevant to the exodus is a bold faced lie. One the ipuwer papyrus scroll clearly refers to the events of the ten plagues and the destruction it caused egypt. Also there was a slave list found in Egypt in which the majority of the names on the listing where people with Hebrew names. As well as the well known collapse of Egypt during the time of the old kingdom.
BS. Links to the docs or you are full of s&&t. I dare you to post.
Brutal!! LMFAO
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Why is buying a gotdang microphone too much for some people, this AI garbage should not be tolerated especially regarding such an important issue.
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Firaun's body though was found in the Red Sea and carbon dated. This matches what was promised of Firaun in the Qur'an. Although, archeologists followed by National Geographic tried to debunk it as being Firaun's son.
Also, hindsight ended up clarifying that this was before the Pharaohic era, so they had a different monarchy system at the time. A, being direct descendants of Canaanites, I doubt there were millions of Hebrews in Egypt at the time, but probably just thousands.
There's no verified evidence that the body of the Pharaoh mentioned in the Qur'an or the Bible has been found in the Red Sea. The mummies of Ramses II and other pharaohs have been carbon-dated, but there's no conclusive link to the Exodus story, which lacks corroborating archaeological evidence. Also, the idea of millions of Hebrews in Egypt is widely doubted by historians due to the lack of records and evidence from that period. Most scholars believe the Exodus narrative is a mythological origin story rather than a historical account.
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Love it!
isreal is the land of mythical beings. just like all the mythical beings in every religion that had passed on and even those still alive today. and why the buddha had to do what he did to prove them as myths. but pressure from his peers made him not speak about that truth. but to just help people become enlightened in their own ways without any peer pressure. and why its the only religion that spread so far and so wide without a need for bloodshed to make people become a part of that way of life.
I laughing so so hard !!!😂maybe is because I have ALWAYS believe/d in it but at the same time I refuse to accept I don't actually believe in it . I don't know why I REFUSE to let it go😢
I was stil yong when I asked
The people wondered 40 years in the desert , 3 million I think was the number , even single person died apart from 2/3 guys ...where are all those bonés????
Second question was , if pharaoh animals died by the plagues ...wheel did all that vast armie will.cavalry came from ????
I was told , don't worry about that , all we must know is that God make miracles. Só I shut up😂😂😂😂😂
They were never slaves..they were mercenaries
There's no evidence they were mercenaries either. Ancient Egyptian records mention various groups, but nothing shows the Hebrews as an organised mercenary force. The idea they were mercenaries is just a guess to try and explain the lack of evidence for the biblical slave story. Archaeology and history don't back up either claim-so we're still left with a story, not facts.
@seanpol9863 except..it makes MUCH more sense than the myth of Exidous
@@SMDoktorPepperClaiming the Hebrews were mercenaries might feel more plausible than the Exodus myth, but there's no evidence for that either. It's just swapping one baseless idea for another. Without historical or archaeological proof, it's all just speculation dressed up as 'sense.'
That was funny 😂
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