The Red Sea parting

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What is your view as to what was the cause behind the parting of the Red Sea when Moses crossed it?

a) An act of God (which appeared one second after God threw a lightning bolt into the water)
b) An unusual low tide and land appeared so a temporary land crossing could be made safely
c) Other

Gee, pgd, someone might think you're biased!

C) Other. There is no indication that God threw a lightning bold into the water. I have no difficulty whatsoever in believing that God is powerful enough to work miracles and has no need to work through nature to accomplish His will (although you can't rule it out as a possibility, either). That's my answer until anyone knows absolutely for sure.

c) Other. For all we know it didn't actually happen, and there is some skepticism as to whether the Jews were even in Egypt. Beyond that though, barring some bizarre interpretation of the end of Deuteronomy and the writing style of the overall set of books known as the Pentateuch, our best knowledge of that time period is from a very long time after the fact, which would easily allow for none of the presented facts to have happened but still to have been a myth.

AngelRho wrote: Gee...someone might think you're biased!

C) Other. There is no indication that God threw a lightning bold into the water. I have no difficulty whatsoever in believing that God is powerful enough to work miracles and has no need to work through nature to accomplish His will (although you can't rule it out as a possibility, either). That's my answer until anyone knows absolutely for sure.

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AngelRho - Looks like you are looking for only certain kinds of answers and not others to me. So who's biased? Gee, AngelRho, someone might think you're biased!

The c) choice/option was provided so all points-of-view could be expressed.

http://www.beliefnet.com/

To me, the topic and question is only that - a question about one of the many thousands of non-profit religions on earth today.

I do not have any view, but that is what I have heard is most likely.

It wasn't the Red Sea. It was Yam Suf, the Sea of Reeds, a kind of bog or swamp that used to be in where the Suez Canal is now. It no longer exists. See the following maps:

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=se ... 80&bih=586


ruveyn

Last edited by ruveyn on 29 Jul 2010, 6:50 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Basically the Hebrews and Egyptians both wadded through a bog, and the Hebrews ,apparently, were better at this...

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Oh, so it is perhaps better called The Sea of Reeds vs the Red Sea. Thanks.

uh didnt you guys see that special on nat geo? much like everything else in the bible it was mistranslated and really means reed sea. they crossed ina shallow marshy place, no sea was parted. sorry to dash your wail tail of a story but yeah..

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Maybe Moses knew where the stepping stones were in the bog (so to speak) and the Pharoah of Egypt didn't?

Maybe Moses had spent time scouting out the bog and found a way through? The Pharoah was too busy with Egyptian politics to do this?

Walk on the rocks!

ruveyn

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ruveyn - This idea of walking on rocks below the waterline (Slough of Despond) was borrowed by John Bunyan in part 1 of Pilgrim's Progress.

John Bunyan, in part 1, also walked the reader through a museum at Palace Beautiful which contained the rod Moses used to lead the Israelites as well as the stone and sling used by David to slay giant Goliath.

Source: The Pilgrim's Progress book by John Bunyan written about 1678.

http://www.pilgrimsprogressthemovie.com/ (a religious science fiction movie)

http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/bunyan/index.htm (a religious science fiction book)

http://www.sacred-texts.com/

http://www.beliefnet.com/

Regardless of what actually happened, the Reed Sea story is a good tale (my view).

- pgd