Posted on 10/05/2021 3:23:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Yam suf, not red sea
That was a possibility also.
This mountain has been off limits for several decades. But it lies within boundaries of Saudi’s “Neom” project. One thing they hope to do is turn the area into a tourism destination. So I wonder if they will finally open the mountain to the public.
Pretty interesting...
Made a lot of sense to me.....
1971
“Reed Sea, not Red Sea. Mistranslated.”
Google maps?
I wasn't too concerned about it being up to date or not, just showing Egypt, Red Sea, and Saudi Arabia as those were what I was focusing on anyway.
Actually Sinai is still a part of Egypt which is why I ignored that land mass. But it’s still a possibility I guess. I was really going more by what the article was talking about. 🙂
Mistranslated or not, Red Sea is what it has been called as long as I have been alive. 🙂
So the Mount Sinai I climbed in 1986 was the wrong one?
“Coincidentally (smirk) this happens to be what [Christians] have been claiming all along.”
If that is really Mount Sinai, it, and the surrounding area looks exactly like I’ve always pictures it in my mind.
5his was supposedly foukd years ago, right?
In the Bible the Holy Mountain is in Midian which would be Northeast present day Arabia. In the history of the travels of the Israelites out of Egypt no actual location is given for Mt Sinai. The assumption is made partially because of the name given the Holy Mountain is the same as the Peninsula. Washington, the city, has the same name as Washington the State but they do not share the same geography.
Funny. it looks nothing LIKE a hospital…
But I wish they had pictures of this:
“Also nearby is a graveyard – which Mauro theorizes is the site where the worshippers of the golden calf were struck down by Moses for idolatry.
“Close to the mountain, we have this site covered with depictions of people worshipping bulls and cows,” Mauro told the Sun. “And what’s really significant is that these petroglyphs are isolated to this area. It’s not like they’re carved all over the mountain.”
That was a popular theory 40 years ago. But now they aren't so sure it was mistranslated.
Hang in there and you’ll manage to disabuse yourself of that error. The parting of the Red Sea was a magnificent public miracle incapable of being attributed to any natural cause.
A friend prides himself on denying the validity of all such miracles, including Lourdes and Fatima, based on a theory that there is no such thing as the supernatural and divine for which anything is possible. He is an atheist. I feel badly for him but his unswerving belief in the capacity of the human mind alone to develop answers for anything and everything important in life is certainly at the level of religious belief. Ultimately, it will not serve him. He will learn that there is no such thing as soul annihilation. I just hope he does not learn too late.
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