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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org, Revdpickrel AT wmconnect.com
  • Subject: Re: Fwd: [b-hebrew] Re: g(r Psa. 106:9 - exorcism? (B. M. Rocine)
  • Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 22:56:49 +0000

On 16/12/2004 19:20, Jim West wrote:

At 02:14 PM 12/16/2004, you wrote:

Legends endure, and among the working cast and slaves Yam Soph really looked
like the end of the world from where the sit. Many thought of escape and the
reply was always "That's the end of the world.'" If you examine the southern
shores of the Great Sea you will see a bay at the beginning of the Red Sea,
many reeds grow there and it would be deep enough that God could have performed
the miracle and drowned the Egyptians. I lived near the Chesapeake Bay and
one year in the 70's a great wind blew all the water out of the bay so that one
could walk across. Boats were docked on mud. Three thousand five hundred
years ago the Great Sea had a much different shape then now.


The problem with this naturalistic explanation, of course, is that the author of Exodus makes it quite explicit that they walked across on dry ground. Dry ground, not mud. The event can't be explained by similar phenomena; Exodus makes sure of that.

The bottom of Chesapeake Bay was mud, at the point described. But if the bottom of the Yam Suph was rock, or gravel, or coral reef, or even firm sand, your objection fails. Don't argue from an incidental point in an imperfect analogy.

In fact Exodus makes it very clear that the surface that the Israelites walked on was the bottom of the Yam Suph, laid bare and dry by a strong wind. The timing was miraculous, of course, and perhaps the wind strength was as well. But there is no indication that there was anything miraculous about the surface, or that it was any drier than would be expected from the sea water receding from it.

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