Comments by "Madam Vaudelune" (@madamvaudelune3298) on "Excavated Canaanite High Place: \"the sin of the Amorites\"" video.

@deuteroniusz9222 Exactly The Bible is not inerrant. But it surprises me that peole do not realize how often it has proved an accurate source. One good example was the Hittite civilization. Until the time of Champollion it was considered 'mythhical'- until Egyptian diplomatic correspondence from the Tel El Amarna library was deciphered. Although most archeologists doubt that Israel was in captivity to Egypt, it is strange that, in the Exodus story, the sons of Aaron have Egyptian names.
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@berenlevia8486 I have no interest in discrediting anything. I am myself an observant Roman Catholic and hold the Bible in reverence. But you are filling in holes and gaps with conjectures and maybes, and that is not what a careful scholar does. I am a lover of history. And Dr. David Rohl ( Pharoahs And Kings) certainly points out that the DIPLOMATIC language in that part of the world was cuneiform writing. The Rosetta Stone makes this clear. But there are NO examples of written Hebrew dating from this time. The oldest example of Hebrew writing ever discovered is the Isaiah scroll and that a mere 200 years BCE. Conjecture is not a substitute for evidrnce.
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@deuteroniusz9222 I agree that the captivity story lacks evidence. But it is striking that Aaron's sons-Hophni and Phinehas- have Egyptian names. This happens a great deal when cultures meld and a wealthier or more socially 'dominant" ( or perceived as such) stars providing names, fashions and inroads to a less dominant culture. I think it is possible that a segment of Israeli-Canaanite tribespeople may have been an oppressed minority in Egypt but surely not in the numbers the Bible portrays.
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@shoeshineboy5869 The man who found this "evidence' also claimed that he found Noahs Ark ( far from the Mountains of Ararat where the Bible says it is ) and the Ark of the Covenant ( you can see it clearly depicted on the Arch of Titus bring carried by 2 centurions out of the temple of Jerusalem). This person, a seventh day Adventist, was not an archeologist. Not a historian. A man named Heinrich Schlieman found Troy. He wasnt an archeologist either. But he turned his work over to people who were to have it confirmed as history. If the truth is the truth then you can prove it as a fact.
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@denisswe Scoliosis is a birth defect of the spine. My daughter has it. Why would you need it healed more than once?
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@denisswe Might I suggest that you stop trolling and find a good orthopedist?
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@berenlevia8486 The earliest example of protoHebrew ever found dates back to 700-800 BCE. The Exodus is purported to have happened around 1400 BCE. What evidence can you provide that Hebrew was a written language that far back? If Moses was reared in the Egyptian court as a foster grandchild of Pharoah then certainly he could have learned to write in Hieroglyphics but you aren't suggesting thatGod wrote the 10 commandments in Egyptian writing?
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@berenlevia8486 But there are NO ecamples of Hebrew writing dating back to that time! Can you produce any?
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@berenlevia8486 ? Thats odd. It is read TWICE at every mass, an OT and NT passage. But that does not affect the efficacy or factuality of our discussion in the least.
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@MittiMaten Thatwas actuallyworked out sometime in the 17th century by a bishop named Usher using whatever info he could garner from the OT. So no, the Bible does not claim this. I am a Roman Catholic and we acknowledge evolution as fact. We realize that this was the truth of the Hebrew people. God CREATES in man the desire to love Him as the ultimate Good and his fellowman as himself, with empathy and understanding. That is what matters.
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