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