Theory: Why The Exodus Myth Exists

There is a right to beliefs of your choice. This is to protect minority religions (such as yours). However, why you would want to extend this to things that are outside the bounds of the supernatural and the religious I don't know.When things are deteminable from natural evidence then why would we cling to "belief"? It demeans the place of faith in those places where it is understood to be a right.

It is in the case, more than belief, Mike.All you do is make yourself look foolish and by assoication the words you worship. This is a place for debate and discussion based on evidence and reason. A final answer to such evidence that is simply ignoring it doesn't belong here.

The exodus happening or not is a minor little tiny detail in the story that the bible is really trying to tell.If you had really powerful powers of persuasion and managed to convince lots and lots of Christians that your view was correct what would happen to the faith as more and more evidence of this type is uncovered. More and more it would damage the faith you profess.Get used to it. The Bible is NOT a history book, it is NOT a science text. If you insist on that you only do damage not good.Real theologians and most Christians would tell you that you have the wrong approach. You approach is dangerous to the faith. Do NOT insist that it says things which are demonstrably untrue. If you wish to stick to those interpretations you only set it up to be proven wrong. Not that I care much at all but it is beyond me why you would want to do that.

See, why would you do that?You are carefully constructing an interpretation of the Bible that is tied to an historic event. You try to construct a logical argument that says if the history is wrong then the whole of Christianity is bunk.You sound just like some of the more militant atheists here.Now you might use that logic to convince a number of people. Then they finally see enough evidence (maybe more is discoverd) and see that some of the history IS in fact wrong. What have you done?
What are you risking here?The commandments can stand on their own. The story around them is saying they are given directly by the hand of God. There doesn't have to be anymore than that. THAT is the important message. The rest is just pretty wrapping for the folks millennia ago.

You really believe all that don't you?

Well Buz? Have you read over the Christian sites which think Wyatt was a fraud?
What do you conclude from that information?

You could ask him if you could post it?