Re: Seven Encampments (to Farrell)
Ian Dorion (dorioni@intellinet.com)
Tue, 22 Apr 1997 19:07:58 -0600
Ralph Nielsen wrote:
>
> FARRELL
> >You like to ask "how" with reference to the origin of the universe, so I
> >will return the favor. HOW could the Israelites have broken camp and
> >traveled on seven times and still have been in a geographical region known
> >as Moserah that was located on a Penninsula that was only about 100 miles
> >wide at its widest part?
> >
> >(DAVE 4/22) Farrell: No one is suggesting this is the case, although,
> >without knowing Moserath's location, I can't see how you can make any valid
> >point whatsoever. I suggested that they could have returned to whatever
> >Moserath was. On what grounds are you suggesting that they should or would
> >have gone in a straight line?
> >Still waiting for you to show this as a true contradiction.
> >
> FARRELL
> > It's ridiculous to think that 2.5 to 3 million
> >people could wander in a region like this for 40 years without accidentally
> >finding their way out.
> >
> >(DAVE 4/22) Farrell: "Ridiculous"? Why is that? How fast do you suppose
> >a group like this would have moved? What was their "mission" in the desert?
> > Did they know where they were going? If not, how could they have known
> >where to go? What were there circumstances in this desert? Were they
> >avoiding enemies? Did they go where there was food or water or safety or
> >easy passage..., and not necessarily in a regimented path? A lot of valid
> >questions as to why they could possibly have been in the desert for so long
> >a period of time. Until we know the answers and address these questions
> >satisfactorily, it isn't necessarily "ridiculous".
>
> RALPH NIELSEN
> Now I know why Dave snipped the Bible quotation in my other posting. I
> quoted a reference that appears frequently throughout the book of Exodus.
> But Dave pretends that 3 million people, the Children of Israel, wandered
> around and around in a 100 mile wide desert for 40 years before they found
> their way across. That's 2 1/2 miles per year, when a normal person has no
> trouble walking 2 1/2 miles per hour! But Dave naively asks, "How could
> they have known where to go?"
>
> Because "Yahweh went in front of them in a pillar of cloud by day, to lead
> them along the way, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light,
> so that they might travel by day and by night. Neither the pillar of cloud
> by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the
> people" (Exodus 13:21-22).
>
> That is what Dave snipped out of my other posting. He doesn't want you to
> know that the whole Exodus tale is nothing but a cock and bull story.
(Ian 4/22) Hey guys, Give Dave a break. He can't help it the Hebrew
Horde were a bunch of dummies due to inbreeding. And when you consider
all the errors in the bible, their God wasn't any smarter. Sure I
believe those dummies could have wandered around that desert for forty
years, don't you?