That Evil ... Pharaoh? ...

[pasithea]

4:21 And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into
Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have
put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let
the people go.

Um... So God gives Moe these parlour tricks to perform then says, "But I'm going to make Pharaoh hate your act. Why? Oh, because I've got an itch to do some smiting and this makes a good excuse."


And what's so bad about a plague of frogs exactly? Frogs are good eatin' and they eat bugs. Wouldn't that help your crops?

Also, we have a gazillion artifacts from that time period, and many tombs that were not discovered until modern times were already in place by then. Why isn't there evidence the water in the vessels turned to blood? Why isn't it in the geological record? Why doesn't anyone else remember it? And shouldn't we find some evidence of the corpses of all those dead stinky fish, frogs, lice, flies, and exploding cattle?

Come on guys. This doesn't pass the lightest examination.

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[ataramos.livejournal.com]

Oh! I know this! Well, sort of. I saw a program somewhere, likely the Hitler Channel, where they were speculating that the 'blood' in the river was actually volcanic runoff from a volcano down in Africa somewhere going off, and the ash and other delightful things managed to turn the Nile reddish brown. Or it was an infestation of red alge, which is highly toxic and not so fun. (But if I recall correctly there is some sort of geological record for the volcano idea, just not much due to the desert on one side, and the Nile flooding all the time on the other) Both of these could have been toxic to the fish and frogs, and killed off thousands of them. There wouldn't really be any evidence of the corpses because well, they're fish and frogs. Not exactly the hardiest of skeletons and it's not been nearly enough time for it to form into a fossil. And the Nile's shifted course a few times, not always flowing in the same bed. Oh, and there's some mild theory but not terribly popular or evidential proof that Moses might have actually been worshiping that one Egyptian sun god, the solitary one that the one Pharaoh pissed everyone off with because he said all the other gods didn't count and it was just this one and he left Luxor and all the high priesets were irritated. I can't remember names as it's quarter to three and Im exhausted. XD

There's likely -some- truth to Exodus, just, like all myth, it's been blown way way way out of proportion.

[kyhwana.livejournal.com]

There was an Egyptian sun god called Ra, that the one you're thinking of?

[schlake.livejournal.com]

Mithra, born on December 25th. Symbolised by a phallus, just like the phalluses worshiped so often in Genesis.

[moonscream.livejournal.com]

No, she's talking about Akhenaton, and the god's name was Aton (also spelled Aten). His wife was Nefertiti, and the finding of her wooden head is one of the few artifacts from the city they built, which was pulverized after Tutankamun (who's original name may have been Tutankaton) was convinced to return the rule of Egypt to one of the other cities. Its unknown for certain what relation he was to Akhenaton and Nefertiti - possibly son or brother.

--Zhora