Reading Time: 3 minutes A recent comment by WCB on a thread today reminded me of the Exodus claim of Moses’ staff: The Staff of Moses is a staff mentioned in the Bible and Quran as a walking stick used by Moses. According to the Book of Exodus in the Bible, the staff (Hebrew: מַטֶּה matteh, translated “rod” in the King James Bible) was used to produce water from a rock, was transformed […]
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Exodus Sidebar: More on Moses and Sargon
Reading Time: 9 minutes I think that Dave Armstrong believes that the purpose of my existence is merely to answer his articles that he writes against me. I hate to burst his bubble, but I have other things to do with my life that take something of a priority over responding to him. On the rare occasion that I do […]
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Exodus Sidebar: Refuting Armstrong’s “Refutation” on Pitch (but Oddly Not Sargon…)
Reading Time: 12 minutes Oh David, David, David. David “I love science as much as any atheist” Armstrong likes to see himself as the white knight, tackling my “screeds” articles and refuting them. Except, this is rarely what actually happens. He recently claimed to have refuted me on camels but after further inspection, er, hadn’t. In my last piece […]
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Debunking the Exodus V: Moses’ Birth
Reading Time: 10 minutes The Exodus is a story that is hugely important to Christians (and Jews), as can be seen by some comments by Christians on the previous articles in this series. I want to continue my claims that the Exodus never happened because of both historical issues and theological/philosophical ones by getting onto some philosophy before returning […]
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Debunking the Exodus IV: Hardening of Hearts
Reading Time: 12 minutes The Exodus is a story that is hugely important to Christians (and Jews), as can be seen by some comments by Christians on the previous articles in this series. I want to continue my claims that the Exodus never happened because of both historical issues and theological/philosophical ones by getting onto some philosophy before returning […]
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Exodus Sidebar: Replying to Armstrong about Camels
Reading Time: 8 minutes I recently posted my latest piece on the historicity of the Exodus accounts in the Bible, this time concerning the historical problems of the mentions of camels in the Old Testament. Catholic blogger and apologist Dave Armstrong has attempted to refute my claims with a post of his own, to which a couple of commenters […]
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Debunking the Exodus III: Camels
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Exodus account is one of the key stories of the Bible, creating a foundation upon which so much else in the Bible is built. Without the truth of the Exodus, the truth of Moses, the Mosaic Law and any number of other claims are brought into suspicion. Previously, I have shown you the problems with […]
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Debunking the Exodus II: A Ridiculous Story with Ridiculous Claims
Reading Time: 6 minutes The Exodus account is one of the key stories of the Bible, creating a foundation upon which so much else in the Bible is built. Without the truth of the Exodus, the truth of Moses, the Mosaic Law and any number of other claims are brought into suspicion. Previously, I have shown you the problems with […]
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Exodus Sidebar: Why Would You Believe That Chariot Wheel Nonsense? Oh, Right…
Reading Time: 8 minutes Confirmation bias comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes and is a ubiquitous thorn in the side of anyone chasing truth. In fact, more accurately, it is a sure sign that someone isn’t really chasing truth. That said, we are all victim to cognitive biases to varying degrees. Knowing this, though, should motivate us […]
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Debunking the Exodus I: Chronology
Reading Time: 13 minutes I am re-running my “Debunking the Exodus” series for some of my newer readers. “…In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which [is] the second month, that he began […]