Crossing the Red Sea
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The summer before my family first went to Canada to fish, the road to the cabins had an avalanche that destroyed a section of the road. It was cool to run in the middle of a road with no traffic. I was there after first grade. (I must have been 6.)
The last time I walked along that area, I took my husband. I was 25. The only way you can tell there used to be a road there was if you kicked the rubble around the weeds. It was asphalt. Other than that what was a road was then a meadow. Nature takes over quickly.
When Mt St. Helena blew in 1980, scientist were sure it would take at least a century to recover. Nothing left but burnt trees and ash. The lake was a sixth of it's original size and, literally, covered in trees and debris. They'd be lucky to detect single-celled organisms in 20 years. Too much ash for lake life to survive.
Within 30 years, trees are back, mountain flowers are back, animals are back and fish are plentiful in that lake. (Men brought fish back to the lake, so it wasn't all God working it out alone.)
God landing on the mountain to talk to Moses was 3600 years ago. You can't explain burn marks as 3600 year old burn marks that are still there, unless you have no idea how quickly nature works. Sorry.
The last time I walked along that area, I took my husband. I was 25. The only way you can tell there used to be a road there was if you kicked the rubble around the weeds. It was asphalt. Other than that what was a road was then a meadow. Nature takes over quickly.
When Mt St. Helena blew in 1980, scientist were sure it would take at least a century to recover. Nothing left but burnt trees and ash. The lake was a sixth of it's original size and, literally, covered in trees and debris. They'd be lucky to detect single-celled organisms in 20 years. Too much ash for lake life to survive.
Within 30 years, trees are back, mountain flowers are back, animals are back and fish are plentiful in that lake. (Men brought fish back to the lake, so it wasn't all God working it out alone.)
God landing on the mountain to talk to Moses was 3600 years ago. You can't explain burn marks as 3600 year old burn marks that are still there, unless you have no idea how quickly nature works. Sorry.
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I've been in Christian book stores -- no pictures of Christ. (Tends to kill off that second commandment, and we have no idea what he looked like to paint him.) I've watched both kinds of movies on Christ -- the use-whoever-we-can afford and the accurate ones. No purpose in Googling Jesus. No one took his photo and the Bible is purposely void of specifics. I also haven't been on forums where people post his picture. Am I deprived? lol
remarkable biblical account of the feasts --- absolutely accurate by yahweh ....
The Prophecy is written so that those who seek a place in heaven may find it.
The Prophecy is written so that those who seek a place in heaven may find it.
Really? All the ones I have been to have them. I have seen them in several different states.
Don't know what you mean by this? Are you saying it is okay to have white or European images of Jesus?
Most movies I seen on Jesus are played by parts where the actor is white or European.
It doesn't matter if you Google pictures of Jesus. Doesn't change the reality of Christians today falely creating a wrong image of Him.
God's Laws are pretty serious and they are no laughing matter. We are told not to make an image of anything up in Heaven. Jesus is up in Heaven.
Don't know what you mean by this? Are you saying it is okay to have white or European images of Jesus?
Most movies I seen on Jesus are played by parts where the actor is white or European.
It doesn't matter if you Google pictures of Jesus. Doesn't change the reality of Christians today falely creating a wrong image of Him.
God's Laws are pretty serious and they are no laughing matter. We are told not to make an image of anything up in Heaven. Jesus is up in Heaven.
It does not match Gal 4. Paul used the first century AD Roman concept of Arabia in this passage. The Sinai Peninsula did not become part of Arabia until centuries later. In the first century AD, based on the prior use by Herodotus, Pliny and Strabo, Arabia extended from the Persian Gulf to the Nile Delta, thus including the Sinai Peninsula in Arabia. Paul would be perfectly correct in placing Mt. Sinai in the Sinai Peninsula because the Sinai Peninsula was part of Arabia of his day. But in the days of the exodus the Sinai Peninsula was not part of Arabia.
I totally agree with you...some have tried to correlate this event with a huge volcanic explosion in the Meditteranean Sea at the same time, sending locusts, pestilences, darkness, diseases, colored water and such downward to the south, hitting EGYPT. This would tend to completely eradicate GOD out of the equation, sadly.
Keep in mind..it is against all physics and scientifically impossible for a fat little Bumble bee to fly, much less houver, yet, nobody has told the Bumble Bee...except GOD.
Keep in mind..it is against all physics and scientifically impossible for a fat little Bumble bee to fly, much less houver, yet, nobody has told the Bumble Bee...except GOD.
In Galatians 4, Sarai/Isaac is paralleled with Jerusalem (Representing Faith and Freedom) and Hagar/Ishmael is paralleled with Mt. Sinai of Arabia (Representing Law and Bondage). I believe Mt. Sinai is Mt. Jabal al Lawz in Saudi Arabia - Which lines up with Paul essentially sayng, Jerusalem is above Mount Sinai in Abrabia (i.e. Saudi Arabia)).
The phrase, “Jerusalem, which is above [Mount Sinai],” clarified that Jerusalem and Mount Sinai corresponded to the same line of longitude. “Above” is translated from the Greekano, a word that can also mean “upward” or “on the top” (ibid., #507). It appears in the NT nine times. Of chief interest here is its specific geographical meaning of “on the north” or “northward.” The word was used in this manner by the notable Greek historian Herodotus (Liddell and Scott 1889, 83-84). Paul’s inclusion of ano defined Jerusalem as being north of Mount Sinai on his line of sustoicheo.With these observations in mind, the geographical concepts in Galatians 4:25-26 can be summarized as follows:
1) Mount Sinai was in the Arabia of Paul’s day.
2) Sustoicheo: Jerusalem and Mount Sinai were on the same line of latitude or longitude.
3) Ano: Jerusalem was north of Mount Sinai.
4) The north-south relationship puts Jerusalem and Mount Sinai on a similar meridian of longitude.
Plotting Paul’s location for Mount Sinai
The map in Figure 4 shows the 35-15’E longitude meridian that passes just east of the Old City of Jerusalem. Moving southward, the line crosses the mountains of western Jordan, the ancient place of Mount Seir. Long before the Exodus, this region was synonymous withEdom, land that had been divinely granted to Esau, the brother of Jacob (Israel). Several arguments exist for not placing Mount Sinai in Edom, among them the biblical injunction that Esau’s territory was not to be violated by the Israelites
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Source:
Mount Sinai and the Apostle Paul | Ancient Exodus
The phrase, “Jerusalem, which is above [Mount Sinai],” clarified that Jerusalem and Mount Sinai corresponded to the same line of longitude. “Above” is translated from the Greekano, a word that can also mean “upward” or “on the top” (ibid., #507). It appears in the NT nine times. Of chief interest here is its specific geographical meaning of “on the north” or “northward.” The word was used in this manner by the notable Greek historian Herodotus (Liddell and Scott 1889, 83-84). Paul’s inclusion of ano defined Jerusalem as being north of Mount Sinai on his line of sustoicheo.With these observations in mind, the geographical concepts in Galatians 4:25-26 can be summarized as follows:
1) Mount Sinai was in the Arabia of Paul’s day.
2) Sustoicheo: Jerusalem and Mount Sinai were on the same line of latitude or longitude.
3) Ano: Jerusalem was north of Mount Sinai.
4) The north-south relationship puts Jerusalem and Mount Sinai on a similar meridian of longitude.
Plotting Paul’s location for Mount Sinai
The map in Figure 4 shows the 35-15’E longitude meridian that passes just east of the Old City of Jerusalem. Moving southward, the line crosses the mountains of western Jordan, the ancient place of Mount Seir. Long before the Exodus, this region was synonymous withEdom, land that had been divinely granted to Esau, the brother of Jacob (Israel). Several arguments exist for not placing Mount Sinai in Edom, among them the biblical injunction that Esau’s territory was not to be violated by the Israelites
.
Source:
Mount Sinai and the Apostle Paul | Ancient Exodus
In Galatians 4, Sarai/Isaac is paralleled with Jerusalem (Representing Faith and Freedom) and Hagar/Ishmael is paralleled with Mt. Sinai of Arabia (Representing Law and Bondage). I believe Mt. Sinai is Mt. Jabal al Lawz in Saudi Arabia - Which lines up with Paul essentially sayng, Jerusalem is above Mount Sinai in Abrabia (i.e. Saudi Arabia)).
The phrase, “Jerusalem, which is above [Mount Sinai],” clarified that Jerusalem and Mount Sinai corresponded to the same line of longitude. “Above” is translated from the Greekano, a word that can also mean “upward” or “on the top” (ibid., #507). It appears in the NT nine times. Of chief interest here is its specific geographical meaning of “on the north” or “northward.” The word was used in this manner by the notable Greek historian Herodotus (Liddell and Scott 1889, 83-84). Paul’s inclusion of ano defined Jerusalem as being north of Mount Sinai on his line of sustoicheo.With these observations in mind, the geographical concepts in Galatians 4:25-26 can be summarized as follows:
1) Mount Sinai was in the Arabia of Paul’s day.
2) Sustoicheo: Jerusalem and Mount Sinai were on the same line of latitude or longitude.
3) Ano: Jerusalem was north of Mount Sinai.
4) The north-south relationship puts Jerusalem and Mount Sinai on a similar meridian of longitude.
Plotting Paul’s location for Mount Sinai
The map in Figure 4 shows the 35-15’E longitude meridian that passes just east of the Old City of Jerusalem. Moving southward, the line crosses the mountains of western Jordan, the ancient place of Mount Seir. Long before the Exodus, this region was synonymous withEdom, land that had been divinely granted to Esau, the brother of Jacob (Israel). Several arguments exist for not placing Mount Sinai in Edom, among them the biblical injunction that Esau’s territory was not to be violated by the Israelites
.
Source:
Mount Sinai and the Apostle Paul | Ancient Exodus
The phrase, “Jerusalem, which is above [Mount Sinai],” clarified that Jerusalem and Mount Sinai corresponded to the same line of longitude. “Above” is translated from the Greekano, a word that can also mean “upward” or “on the top” (ibid., #507). It appears in the NT nine times. Of chief interest here is its specific geographical meaning of “on the north” or “northward.” The word was used in this manner by the notable Greek historian Herodotus (Liddell and Scott 1889, 83-84). Paul’s inclusion of ano defined Jerusalem as being north of Mount Sinai on his line of sustoicheo.With these observations in mind, the geographical concepts in Galatians 4:25-26 can be summarized as follows:
1) Mount Sinai was in the Arabia of Paul’s day.
2) Sustoicheo: Jerusalem and Mount Sinai were on the same line of latitude or longitude.
3) Ano: Jerusalem was north of Mount Sinai.
4) The north-south relationship puts Jerusalem and Mount Sinai on a similar meridian of longitude.
Plotting Paul’s location for Mount Sinai
The map in Figure 4 shows the 35-15’E longitude meridian that passes just east of the Old City of Jerusalem. Moving southward, the line crosses the mountains of western Jordan, the ancient place of Mount Seir. Long before the Exodus, this region was synonymous withEdom, land that had been divinely granted to Esau, the brother of Jacob (Israel). Several arguments exist for not placing Mount Sinai in Edom, among them the biblical injunction that Esau’s territory was not to be violated by the Israelites
.
Source:
Mount Sinai and the Apostle Paul | Ancient Exodus