Nothing Fails like Biblical History

[lapfog_1]

1. what is the point?

Lots of stories in the bible are demonstrably fiction (lets start with the fact that the earth is much much older than what the bible says... by orders of magnitude).

Maybe the Jews were not slaves in Egypt. Maybe they weren't nearly as numerous as the bible claims (and who can be surprised by that). Maybe they were a small tribe of people in Egypt and migrated to what is now Israel. There is plenty of evidence that they adopted "Jehovah" from a different tribe in the Sinai desert...

No one should take any religion as a factual history.

And the earth really doesn't reside on the back of a turtle... and, yes, it really isn't "Turtles all the way down" when one asks the question "On what does the turtle that carries the earth rest upon?"