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ManusJustus said:
Timmah! said:
ManusJustus said:

If every first born child in Iran was killed by some astounding miracle, I'm sure we in America find out about it and bother to record it.

I LOL'd when I read this. Yes, with the 24/7 news cycle and the internet, I'm sure we would hear about this. However, in ancient Egyptian times, nations were very isolated, so Egypt's neighbor would likely not even know about the plagues, or maybe just hear romors.

Your knowledge of the matter is way off.  Egypt was a trading power in ancient times, there was a major trade route through the Sinai Peninsula connecting Egypt with Asia.  Travelers and traders visited Egypt and other nations quite often.  There are numerous records of nations making records of other people during this time, the Armana letters of Egypt (around the suspected time of Moses) gave precise details about Egypt's neighbors.  The Habiru people, expected to be the Hebrews, were talked about and recorded by several ancient civiliations.

Its utterly ridiculous to think that other people would not heear about the Nile River would run red with blood and over a hundred thousand people first born children dying.  The Bablyonians recorded how much grain they traded with Egypt and and what characteristics a group of nomads had in the desert, but you claim that they and other civilizations didn't bother or even heard about such a huge supernatural event.

Besides what amount of Grain they traded with Egypt (something they kept for their own records), what great interest did these other nations have of recording the history of their neighbors?? We have incomplete records of all these civilizations, so the nonexsistence of this event in these civilization's records does not disprove it. you still fail to prove your point.

And I still don't understand why you keep cutting parts of what I say out of your replies, kind of annoying.

EDIT: If you're going to keep cutting up what I say so you only have to reply to 10% of it, you're not worth my time. I honestly don't know why I even bothered replying to you on this.