The Pharaoh, Exodus, God, and the Meme that started an argument

[Dill]

(10-07-2016, 11:49 AM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: I don't believe the Bible because I've read the Bible. It is inconsistent, contradictary, and illogical. 

I have read the Bible, first, as a collection of translated, ancient documents which track something of tribal movements and cultural practices the first Millenium BC Palstine. It's histories are not "history" though. E.g., the Exodus story is pieced together hundreds of years after the supposed fact and shaped by doctrinal needs of 9-7th century BC Jews. Those needs are what it tells us about. Not about the actual deeds of some dude named "Moshe" and an historical Pharoah.

Second I read it because so much written and done over the last 2,000 years has been based upon or inflected by it. Can't understand our (Western) history or current U.S. politics while remaining ignorant of that book and the denominations dividing over it.