Re: Egyptian records
Rick Chapman (rchap@en.com)
Fri, 02 May 1997 20:10:15 -0400
Rick Chapman wrote:
>
> IzzAtheist@AOL.COM wrote:
> >
> > Aaron 4/26
> > > Did the Egyptians keep any records that might corroberate the
> > > exodus story? You would think that if YHWH really did do
> > > all of those things to the Egyptians, at they would have made a
> > > not of it.
> > >
> > > As I understand it, no such records have been found.
> > >
> > > -Aaron O.
> > >
> >
> > Izz 4/29
> > Three million people leave Eygpt, and we have no records of it by the
> > Egyptians. Strong evidence that it simply did not happen, or that the
> > numbers are highly exaggerated. Maybe at one time 300 people left,
> > and the tale later grew in the telling. But we have already swallowed
> > greater miracles than believing in the size of the exodus. At the start,
> > we had to believe that sticks turned into snakes and rivers to blood.
> > And we had to believe in the slapstick story, that it was not enough
> > that Aaron created a plague of frogs; Pharaohs's magicians created
> > a plague of even more frogs! I bet that made Pharaoh happy:
> >
> > Exodus 8:6-7
> > So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt,
> > and the frogs came up and covered the land.
> >
> > But the magicians did the same things by their secret arts;
> > they also made frogs come up on the land of Egypt.
> >
> > Yoel has pointed out that the Bible was pornographic; here we see it also
> > invented comedy. Pharaoh probably lined up his magicians and slapped
> > them all at once, like in the "Three Stooges", for being idiots and making
> > more frogs.
> >
> > Izz
>
> Well actually, when Larry, Curly and Moses started performing miracles,
> the screwed it up the first time and they gave all of the frogs boils,
> instead of the egyptians. Yahweh got pissed,and called in W.C. from the
> fields, but he turned all the water in Egypt into Bloody Marys.
>
> Rick