I was on the National Geographic website, and a portion of their pages about the pyramids seemed to go against a well-accepted (I thought) portion of the Old Testament. I'm wondering what evidence there is that the plagues of Egypt actually existed.
If the ten plagues from the Old Testament really happened, wouldn't it be the most written about thing in Egypt, ever? This was a culture that wrote everything down in stone, after all. Wouldn't there be copious records that an entire race of people was enslaved? And yet
the most recent evidence out of Egypt seems to indicate that the masses of laborers who toiled in ancient Egypt were not slaves at all.
If the entire land of Egypt was covered in frogs, wouldn't someone have mentioned that, too?
And finally, if all the first born of the people
and the livestock died on the same day, wouldn't it be mentioned SOMEWHERE other than the Bible? In fact, wouldn't it be mentioned pretty much EVERYWHERE?
I wonder why that is? Maybe, just maybe, the Bible is a compendium of historical fiction. Maybe it's meant to teach through parable instead of being taken literally. And maybe (here's where the rubber hits the road) some of the fundamentalists out there should cool off a bit. Because maybe it's more about being a good person than it is about blindly obeying every line of the Scripture word for word.
Or maybe there's a bunch of evidence out there and I'm just phenomenally ignorant. I did a
Google search and I don't think ignorance is the case, but the TFP has enlightened me on far too many occasions for me to rule it out.