How do you deal with the fact there is no real evidence that the "parriarchs, prophets, and other holy men" in the Bible ever even existed? For sure, somebody told those stories in the Bible (and did it brilliantly IMHO or they wouldn't be so powerful) but even though archaeologists and others have been searching for years for the evidence they have found nothing except for now and then a previously unknown city or people named in the Bible that actually existed. How that proves anything I don't know. That makes it no more true than so many movies "based on a true story" that are total fabrications.murphy_p_t wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 1:07 pm A. The true religion was preserved from Adam till the coming of Christ by the patriarchs, prophets and other holy men whom God appointed and inspired to teach His Will and Revelations to the people, and to remind them of the promised Redeemer.
According to the Bible, around 2 million people led by Moses escaped from Egypt and wandered in the wilderness between Israel and Egypt for 40 years. That's the equivalent of the whole population of the Tampa Bay area, including Tampa and all of Pinellas country including Clearwater where I live. And yet no hard evidence has ever been found that all those people were in Egypt at that time or spent 40 years in the desert before killing or driving out most of the inhabitants of the promised land except for enough to continually cause trouble. With God, all things are possible, of course, including managing to hide all that evidence for whatever unfathomable reason He had in mind.
The Ten Commandments in Exodus starts with a pre-amble that declares the speaker as "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery".
Okay, what God was that exactly then?
And if you really want to have fun with the ten commandments, you can read Exodus and find out that Moses broke the original set and had to go up and get new ones. That second set is also in Exodus but it isn't the same as the first one. You can go and read it for yourself (chapter 23 maybe?). There are several differinces but the most striking one is that in between the two sets God decided it was important that kids aren't to be boiled in their mother's milk. He did have 40 days to have that constituonal convention with himself, of course, before deciding what really matters in his divine revelation of God's law. Poor Moses had to spend 80 days up there in total waiting for him to write with his own finger on the clay tablets.