Thread: Jesus was a fraud - The parting of the Red sea

Originally Posted by good2bhappy

the miracle is in the timing

Not sure about that and I can't see many people believing in what the ancients called miracles.

I read somewhere that the 'plagues' started with heavier than normal red silt (first plague: water turns to blood) that periodically flows down the Nile from Upper Egypt, which brought along and increased the number of frogs, whose carcasses led to lice, pestilence and various other effects in a plausible progression. So, a heavier than usual start leading to irregular phenomenon probably in small doses, which time and the need for legends exaggerated to create 'devastating' miracles.

Keep in mind that we modern day folks try to account for oddities of the past, but also logically one either goes with blind faith or with the 'less unlikely'.

As for the Red Sea trick, apparently there are still parts of it where the tide is known to sometimes go out very far indeed, so it may have been possible to wade across. Unlikely? I don't know but it sure seems more likely than divine intervention or that Jesus was involved.