40 Years of Wandering and the Exodus Population

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 AVATAR
 I have a solution to this trivial problem:  The next time you get the
 chance to see 15,000 "rows" of soldiers marching past you, and you are
 facing the same direction, looking at their backs as they are marching
 by, try turning 90 degrees towards them.  Miraculously, the 15,000
 "rows" have just become 15,000 "columns".  Gotta love it!
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Joe Alward:

Don't gotta.  From the 90 degree perspective, one is looking at "waves" of 
rows.  Marching columns are always parallel to the direction of motion.  

Let me summarize my views on Till's analysis of the Hebrew's sojourn in the 
desert:

First, he said the men were marcing 200 abreash in 15,000 columns, and that's 
ridiculous; he said "column" twice, when he should have said "row"; this is 
no longer important, and it's clear that he knows he made a mistake, else he 
would have attempted effective rebuttal long before now.

Second, Till has not made his case that the Hebrew's were "lost", not merely 
wandering by choice.  Until he does that, he has no basis for asserting that 
the Hebrews' alleged failure to find Canaan is proof of Bible error.  Has 
anyone yet shown where the Bible says that the Hebrews were lost, that they 
tried, and tried, and tried, but couldn't find the promised land?  Can anyone 
definitively show that the Hebrews were not just wandering by choice?  Until 
that is done, then any allegation of Bible error by Till in this matter will 
be regarded by inerrantists as just one more in a long succession of attempts 
by him to create a "how-it-could-have-been-a-contradiction" scenario.


  

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