What's the true story behind Exodus/Numbers/Joshua?
What's the true story behind Exodus/Numbers/Joshua?
Benjamin Bailey
Easton Reed
Who the fuck knows.
Benjamin Sanders
Jacob and his 12 sons moved to Egypt so as to not starve, Joseph being the third in command over Egypt by this time, and having prepared Egypt for the famine in prior years by saving and taxing the hell out of the Egyptians.
The Hebrews settled in the land of Goshen and prospered greatly, and had millions of kids. Eventually, seeing the demographic bomb, the Egyptians started killing Hebrew male babies after moving over the Hebrews and declaring them to be slaves.
The Hebrews worked as slaves for over 230 years before Moses came onto the scene. He was one of those babies marked for death, but his mother placed him in a bassinet and floated him down the Nile. The pharoah's daughter found him and adopted him, raising him as her own.
Moses lived with the Egyptians for 40 years before he became a revolutionary and killed an Egyptian overseer. He fled into the desert and lived there for 40 years, marrying a Midianite and having children with her while tending their sheep.
God appeared to Moses, long story short, Moses leads all the people out of Egypt after God wrecks each and every main god in Egypt with a plague, and the Hebrews leave loaded down with gold and fine cloth from the Egyptians who are by this time terrified of the living God.
Moses leads the people across al Aqaba into Saudi, and God kills the Egyptian army who tried to cross after them. They then send spies into the promised land, Canaan, but 10 of the spies are disheartened and give up hope. The land is infested with giants and they are small and weak people.
God curses them to wander around the desert for 40 years to kill off the slave mentality Egyptians, miraculously keeping them alive and provisioned the entire time. Finally, Moses dies and Joshua takes the people into the promised land, killing as they went.
The world feared the Hebrews because they had wrecked Egypt, and had the living God with them in the form of a pillar of fire by night, and a pillar of cloud by day.
Christian Jackson
The Bible isn't a true story, you delusional Christcuck.
Mason Ortiz
It absolutely is.
Wyatt Price
Henry Gomez
Good man. In open rebellion against God, without even knowing it.
If you have the Son, you have the Father; if you have not the Son, neither do you have the Father.
Mason Ortiz
The past several centuries of archaeological and scientific research says you're full of shit. Who do I believe? The greatest historical, archaeological, and scientific minds in the world? Or some stupid goat herders from 3,000 years ago and a retarded hillbilly from Alabama who believes them?
Noah Cooper
They actually back up each and every account of the bible, where it is relevant.
Samuel Phillips
>where it is relevant
What the fuck is that supposed to mean? "Only these specific parts are true but it's still a true book!" The authors of the Bible even fucking contradict themselves, you fucking moron. You fucking delusional Christcucks should all be decapitated so you can hurry up and meet your God while the rest of us continue advancing humanity.
Owen Sullivan
>What's the true story behind Exodus/Numbers/Joshua?
Some loser wanted a justification to be a psychopath so he invented one.
Nolan Rodriguez
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Chase Edwards
The Jews left the job site
They weren’t slaves by the way they were paid but they didn’t like the contract so they broke it off and left just like jews do
John Adams
>Who the fuck knows.
Eli Morgan
Exodus:
Second son of the pharaoh wanted his own kingdom. His brother had his back. They organize the slaves so when they go to their father, they have a bargaining chip. Pharaoh doesn't give in for a long time, but eventually terrorism by the slaves causes him to relent. He lets them go.
Second son leads his portion of the slaves through the deserts of Sinai and Arabia as nomads for a few decades, unable to find anywhere to settle, until they decide to conquer the Holy Land. By now this diverse group of slaves has started to consider itself one people, the 'Jews'.
Brody Hall
The Hyksos, who were Canaanites, conquered Egypt.
The Genesis portion deals with how a Canaanite slave moved his way up to vizier of Egypt and how the whole bureacratic class of Egypt became Canaanite.
Then they got ousted from that and ended up doing manual labor for the Egyptians. Then they left.
Then they wrote a book kvetching about the Egyptians making them do manual labor.
Ian Phillips
This:
Jews are the master race give all your energy to their patron war god Yahweh so he can give them power and success.
Jace Parker
It's a fictitious revenge story because Egypt conquered/enslaved Canaan a few times. Prove me wrong, bro.
Logan Perez
Some interesting things to consider
>there's no way ~2 million people spent 40 years wandering around without leaving a trace
>if the story is based on the escape of a smaller group of slaves, was all of Israel really descended from them, or was it just a group of Israelites?
>As far as the ethnic origins of the Israelites, Genesis claims they're as distantly related to the inhabitants of Canaan as possible (descended from different sons of Noah) but closely related to the Edomites and Ishmaelites, also that Abraham came from Mesopotamia
>Moses is an Egyptian name, but the story of him being an Israelite adopted by Pharoah's daughter isn't very believable. Was he an Egyptian who at some point acquired a fake Israelite backstory? It seems like a good explanation, but that's assuming there was a historical Moses.
>Yahweh seems to "live" on Mt. Horeb/Sinai. That's where Moses finds him and he often has to go up the mountain to talk to him until they build the ark of the covenant for God to reside in
>Joshua portrays the Israelites as going around conquering Canaan in a very short time, but it could have happened more gradually over generations
>in the Exodus story as in the rest of the OT, the Israelites as a whole seem to flip-flop wildly between being totally pious Yahweh worshipers and sinful idol worshipers. It seems more likely that exclusive Yahweh-worship was always competing with other beliefs and never achieved total dominance until sometime during or after the exile.
Easton Sanchez
The Bible does seem to have a lot of revenge fiction.
Parker Hernandez
>The Bible does seem to have a lot of revenge fiction.
Whomever wrote it was jealous they weren't the King - and they led billions of this species into destruction and hell in their covetousness.
Nicholas Perez
why do you post like this
Kayden Harris
>why do you post like this
What? You mean why do I tell you the truth?