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? asked in TravelAfrica & Middle EastEgypt · 7 years ago

Jews were never slaves in Egypt!?

For a very long time archeologists have searched Egypt for evidence of the Jews slavery to the Pharisee. But none has ever been found nor any Jewish DNA in Egyptians. The Jews were never slaves in Egypt!

Does this destroy your belief or does it not affect it in anyway? Can you still find value or lessons in that story?

I'm spiritual btw.

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  • 7 years ago
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    How is it different than any other story in the bible that has never been proven to be true? If one has blind faith then they will selectively believe what suits them.

    What would be the value derived from the story in any case? An all powerful god could have simply made Pharaoh allow to Moses' people to leave, instead he chose to smite him with plague after plaque, each time hardening Pharaoh's heart and making him refuse. All this in order for god to show how powerful he is by killing all the helpless animals (several times over apparently), killing all the first-borns (including innocent children) and wiping out the entire Egyptian army. Please explain to me the moral of this story aside from being a show of force and to instill fear in believers?

  • 7 years ago

    The fact is that the Egyptians NEVER owned any slaves. No one worked of the pyamids but the Egypitans. The stories are allegory and medifore. Of course the Egyptians, Ethiopians and Cannanite did actually live, and their DNA are readily available. So if there were Israelites you would expect them to have the same DNA as the Egyptians, Ethiopians, and the Cannanites. They would have been first cousins of each other. Ashkazim and Sefardim do not test positive for the the DNA of the Egyptians , Ethiopians or the Cannanites who did actually live. In fact, these sets of people never knew each other! The point of the story is the birth of freedom.

  • 6 years ago

    If you take the Torah or the old testament in the bible literally than God is a petty thug that likes to torture his followers for his or its own amusement. But these are just stories designed to get people to believe so that the priests can extort money from them as priests had been doing for thousands of years before Judaism and Christianity came along. Truth is the stories in the bible and Torah are the same stories humanity has been telling for countless millennia only the names of the people and places change. But hey, if you want to believe these stories it's fine with me as long as you keep to yourself and don't try to force it on me.

  • 7 years ago

    It doesn't affect my belief in any way, I believe that Jews were slaves in Egypt because it says so in the Torah (jewish bible) and even tho there is no evidence of this being true there is evidence of other things that happend that are written in the Torah ( I don't believe that half of what is written in the Torah is real and the other half is fake just because there is no evidence of everything )

    Source(s): I'm Jewish :)
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