The Exodus

[capleton]

... and I don't have to show how the stories are not a myth...

Nope. You don't have to.
But, you made a claim. You claimed that everything in the bible was a myth. And now you're saying you don't have to defend that statement.

Do you happen to see the hypocrisy?

If someone attempts to defend the bible, (which I do not), you demand the show you evidence. But you claim it is completely false then go on to say you don't need to defend your statement.

I just feel that if you're going to demand evidence from believers when they make claims, you should also be willing to defend your position when you take one.
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As for your other questions. I have never read any books on the history of that area of the world. I probably should though. Would be a good read. I don't really feel I need to reaffirm my position on the validity of the bible though as I already don't believe it's based on true story.

I don 't really feel compelled to reply to this because you completely failed to address anything I said. The Bible is myth because it fails at reality and is against every scientific discipline that is known as I explained above, they are fantastical stories that makes absurd claims. You mays as well ask me to show how the Greek stories aren't myths.

[Glacier]

[capleton]

Where's the evidence for the Exodus again? I didn't see any. Mays as well say that talking snakes and donkeys are part of reality.

[Glacier]

There's no evidence for 99.9% of what happened in the past. "No evidence" is a pretty lame argument. Do better.

[capleton]

viewtopic.php?f=16&t=21553 Read this before post again.

[sobrohusfat]

*removed*

[capleton]

There's no evidence for 99.9% of what happened in the past. "No evidence" is a pretty lame argument. Do better.

One way we know that the Exodus didn't happen is the complete lack of any type of archaeological evidence and no records of it whatsoever. Do you know how much material evidence 500 000 people would have left? A lot. There no other sources for it either so it's just a claim from a book. We have ways to establish whether something is actual history and the Exodus fails at being any kind of history.

[Glacier]

One way we know that the Exodus didn't happen is the complete lack of any type of archaeological evidence and no records of it whatsoever. Do you know how much material evidence 500 000 people would have left? A lot. There no other sources for it either so it's just a claim from a book. We have ways to establish whether something is actual history and the Exodus fails at being any kind of history.

Nomads in tents don't leave a trace. We have no evidence of the 100s of thousands of First Nations from 1000 years ago let alone 3000 years ago. The only evidence is carvings in stone.

I'm not even claiming that The Exodus story happened as literally interpreted. I am just saying that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

[1nick]

Hitchen’s Razor.

[youjustcomplain]

I'm not even claiming that The Exodus story happened as literally interpreted. I am just saying that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

thank you. Well said.

Just because there may be no known evidence, that only supports a hypothesis that the exodus didn't happen. You can't know something based on a lack of evidence against it.

Currently we have no evidence of extra terrestrial life. We really can't say that we know there isn't/wasn't ever any.

[capleton]

One way we know that the Exodus didn't happen is the complete lack of any type of archaeological evidence and no records of it whatsoever. Do you know how much material evidence 500 000 people would have left? A lot. There no other sources for it either so it's just a claim from a book. We have ways to establish whether something is actual history and the Exodus fails at being any kind of history.

Nomads in tents don't leave a trace. We have no evidence of the 100s of thousands of First Nations from 1000 years ago let alone 3000 years ago. The only evidence is carvings in stone.

I'm not even claiming that The Exodus story happened as literally interpreted. I am just saying that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

I see you don't know much about archaeology. That many people would have left fire pits, garbage pits and burial sites and we just don't see that in the Sinai area and I see you ignored where I said there is no sources for it whatsoever besides one book. What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. The Iliad says that the gods live on top of Mt Olympus, am I supposed to believe that just because it is written down? Nah you need actual evidence and you don't have any.

[capleton]

I'm not even claiming that The Exodus story happened as literally interpreted. I am just saying that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

thank you. Well said.

Just because there may be no known evidence, that only supports a hypothesis that the exodus didn't happen. You can't know something based on a lack of evidence against it.

Currently we have no evidence of extra terrestrial life. We really can't say that we know there isn't/wasn't ever any.

You need more then just a claim from a book. Oh so I should believe that Hogwarts exists because it just written somewhere?

[youjustcomplain]

One way we know that the Exodus didn't happen is the complete lack of any type of archaeological evidence and no records of it whatsoever. Do you know how much material evidence 500 000 people would have left? A lot. There no other sources for it either so it's just a claim from a book. We have ways to establish whether something is actual history and the Exodus fails at being any kind of history.

You need more then just a claim from a book. Oh so I should believe that Hogwarts exists because it just written somewhere?

Nice try. Like you, I also don't believe anything from the bible, but we can't know something isn't true just because we don't have evidence for it.

You expect people to provide evidence to support their claims. But you make claims of your own without evidence. I'm sure you feel that the lack of evidence is sufficient evidence to know something didn't happen, but that's not how it works.

You can't point to a lack of ancient fire pits as a way to know that no firepits existed. You can use the lack of ancient fire pits as evidence to support your hypothesis that there was no firepit there, but even still you won't know.

Bottom line, we agree that the exodus didn't happen, at least not in the way the bible writes about. There just isn't sufficient evidence to support it. However neither of us can know it.

[averagejoe]

These Pillars were placed there by King Solomon honoring his Israelite forefathers....

[averagejoe]

DECLARATION OF ARBROATH 1320 ~ 2020

1st four lines of the Scottish Declaration of Independence

Most Holy Father and Lord, we know and from the chronicles and books of the ancients we find that among other famous nations our own, the Scots, has been graced with widespread renown.

They journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage tribes, but nowhere could they be subdued by any race, however barbarous.

Thence they came, twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea, to their home in the west where they still live today.

The Britons they first drove out, the Picts they utterly destroyed, and, even though very often assailed by the Norwegians, the Danes and the English, they took possession of that home with many victories and untold efforts; and, as the historians of old time bear witness, they have held it free of all bondage

https://declaration.scot/