Read Sea Crossing

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oldhermit

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r1xlx said:
Isn't the depth of the crossing about 60 to 200 feet?
And the width of the crossing about 1.86 miles.
So as water weighs about one ton per cubic yard my calculator says GOD only needed to make one million tons of water pile up and stay behind an invisible force wall.
Of course by looking at dam wall forces the amount of water must be many multiples of that. Ten million tons?
No problem for the Creator of all the water?
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Actually the place for the crossing that is described in detail in scripture is about 1,000 ft.
 
Dan_473

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oldhermit said:
Alright, question. What wind velocity would be required to push that amount of water apart and hold it in place for hours while 3,000,000 plus people transverse the distance to the opposite bank. I am afraid I am not mathematically efficient to calculate such as answer.
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Wine at that velocity would probably kill everyone in the vicinity.
 
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oldhermit said:
Of course this is true. One cannot appeal to natural process to explain a non-natural event.
However if we accept it took about four hours for the Israelites and animals to cross they would have needed a lot wider path.
600,000 men plus several times that many women and children and all the animals full of the jewellery and goods the Egyptians forced on them.
And the path needed to be dry so no bogging down in mud?
GOD must have moved 100, 250, 500 million, one billions tons of water?
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Aerials1978 said:
Huh? What parable?
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The whole event the Exodus is a parable. .using the things seen the temporal to signify the things not seen the eternal, supernatural.

That law of interpretation that informs us without parables the Holy Spirit of Christ spoke not is not limited to the new testament.

Dry land called good as God approval is one of the metaphors.

The supernatural what I will call a parable converter must be applied .

2 Corinthians 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
 
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Kavik said:
I don't recall if the Read Sea is actually just a fresh water lake or if a tidal lake.
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It is sea water, it is larger than one might expect just looking at the map.
 
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oldhermit said:
Actually the place for the crossing that is described in detail in scripture is about 1,000 ft.
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OK then multiply my figures by ten.
Ten billion tons of water?
 
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garee said:
The whole event the Exodus is a parable. .ul.
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Your friend Satan is delighetd you are so easily fooled.
Go away and look for a Satanists forum where you will be welcome to call GOD a liar.
 
oldhermit

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garee said:
The whole event the Exodus is a parable. .using the things seen the temporal to signify the things not seen the eternal, supernatural.

That law of interpretation that informs us without parables the Holy Spirit of Christ spoke not is not limited to the new testament.

Dry land called good as God approval is one of the metaphors.

The supernatural what I will call a parable converter must be applied .

2 Corinthians 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
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NONSENSE!
 
oldhermit

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r1xlx said:
OK then multiply my figures by ten.
Ten billion tons of water?
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That boggles the mind. How would one calculate the wind velocity required to displace that amount of water in the way described in the narrative?
 
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oldhermit said:
The Red Sea has a maximum depth of 8,200 ft, and an estimated average depth of 1,640 ft. The point of crossing described in scripture is about 1000 ft.
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There are several proposed sites. I’m sure all are believed to be in agreement with scripture by those who hold them. The Reed Sea Hypothesis has been the main traditional view. The Western side of the Sinai Peninsula, north of the Gulf of Suez. It surprises me if it is that deep there.
 
oldhermit

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Lucy-Pevensie said:
There are several proposed sites. I’m sure all are believed to be in agreement with scripture by those who hold them. The Reed Sea Hypothesis has been the main traditional view. The Western side of the Sinai Peninsula, north of the Gulf of Suez. It surprises me if it is that deep there.
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Yes, I am well aware of Reed Sea Hypothesis, and it bears absolutely no resemblance to the route described in Exodus.
 
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oldhermit said:
That boggles the mind. How would one calculate the wind velocity required to displace that amount of water in the way described in the narrative?
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How could a person calculate the supernatural things of God not seen, from the things of men seen?

Can't find God through a wind viscosity meter (anemometer ) or under a microscope.

I would think the right tools for the job would be necessary to rightly divide. 2 Corinthians 4:18 would be a good place to start .

What does the dry ground represent in that parable found in the signified language the tongue of God.?.

2 Corinthians 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
 
oldhermit

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garee said:
How could a person calculate the supernatural things of God not seen, from the things of men seen?

Can't find God through a wind viscosity meter (anemometer ) or under a microscope.

I would think the right tools for the job would be necessary to rightly divide. 2 Corinthians 4:18 would be a good place to start .

What does the dry ground represent in that parable found in the signified language the tongue of God.?.

2 Corinthians 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
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I am afraid I have no patience for those who attempt to trivialize the text. Please find someone else to annoy.
 
Dino246

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OH, what is your view on the idea that the crossing point was Nuweiba? There is a large beach and a natural bridge that is much shallower than most of the Red Sea.
 
oldhermit

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Dino246 said:
OH, what is your view on the idea that the crossing point was Nuweiba? There is a large beach and a natural bridge that is much shallower than most of the Red Sea.
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It does not agree with the rout described in Exodus.
 
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