AndiGravity
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By all accounts, the Egyptian culture began to flourish several hundred years before "The Flood" was supposed to have happened, and it continued uninterrupted through the time period established for Noah's flood, with no evidence or mention of a flood even happening being recorded in their history.
If this flood was worldwide and killed every last human on the planet except Noah and his family, how was the Egyptian culture able to weather the flood (no pun intended) with no ill effects?
Shouldn't we see a sudden, inexplicable die-off in Egypt, followed by a protracted period where their Empire stood deserted until it was eventually reinhabited by Noah's descendents?
For that matter, shouldn't the new inhabitants (being descendants of righteous Noah and guided by the Hebrew god) not have picked up the same religion that was already in use before the Flood was supposed to have taken place?
No, Lil G... we're very certain Egyptian culture is far older than the Flood. Even the Jews will admit Egyptian culture predates the Flood by quite a sight. In fact, if you get right down to it, they'll admit Egyptian culture far predates Hebrew culture since their own chronology puts the covenant between God and Abraham at somewhere around 1750 BC or so, Noah's flood at about 2300 BC or so, and the Old Kingdom existing by at least 2700 BC, though we know Egypt was settled by at least 6,000 BC.
Egyptian society was quite old when Noah's flood supposedly happened, and there was no interruption where everyone died off. When I say "no one wrote anything down", I don't mean "no one in Egypt wrote anything". The Egyptians were always sticklers for record keeping, so there's a constant stream of documents coming from Egypt throughout that time period. It's just that none of the documents mention a flood.
V-- I wasn't really concerned with what happened to the Pharaoh pursuing the Jews out of Egypt. However, I did check Tuthmosis out, and none of the Pharaohs named that seem to have come to such an end.
If this flood was worldwide and killed every last human on the planet except Noah and his family, how was the Egyptian culture able to weather the flood (no pun intended) with no ill effects?
Shouldn't we see a sudden, inexplicable die-off in Egypt, followed by a protracted period where their Empire stood deserted until it was eventually reinhabited by Noah's descendents?
For that matter, shouldn't the new inhabitants (being descendants of righteous Noah and guided by the Hebrew god) not have picked up the same religion that was already in use before the Flood was supposed to have taken place?
No, Lil G... we're very certain Egyptian culture is far older than the Flood. Even the Jews will admit Egyptian culture predates the Flood by quite a sight. In fact, if you get right down to it, they'll admit Egyptian culture far predates Hebrew culture since their own chronology puts the covenant between God and Abraham at somewhere around 1750 BC or so, Noah's flood at about 2300 BC or so, and the Old Kingdom existing by at least 2700 BC, though we know Egypt was settled by at least 6,000 BC.
Egyptian society was quite old when Noah's flood supposedly happened, and there was no interruption where everyone died off. When I say "no one wrote anything down", I don't mean "no one in Egypt wrote anything". The Egyptians were always sticklers for record keeping, so there's a constant stream of documents coming from Egypt throughout that time period. It's just that none of the documents mention a flood.
V-- I wasn't really concerned with what happened to the Pharaoh pursuing the Jews out of Egypt. However, I did check Tuthmosis out, and none of the Pharaohs named that seem to have come to such an end.