Hi Darrell,

Thank you.

People get criticized for their religious beliefs: no, that religion is not moving into the next adult generation when I become an adult. So, we leave Sunday School, we leave weekday Bible Study class. We take an elective or two in religion. We buy a few books from the bookstore.

Rationalist: a person who bases their opinions and actions on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response.

The early critics think they have the intellectual higher ground. Scholars think they have the intellectual higher ground. Those who refuse the reality of higher ground establish their authority of acculturation.

What is accurate? That is what moves into the next adult generation.

Now, if you excuse me, I have to accept that the Bible pushed Moses into the future when, in fact, an exodus happened right before the Hyksos entered the Egyptian delta. The Bible misses this historical accuracy. Sure, the incoming Hyksos could have forced the exodus of the Avaris Israelites south into Sinai, during Egypt’s Middle Kingdom. An accumulation of 40 years was insufficient time for them to come out of Sinai to conquer Canaan.

Next, there was an 18th Dynasty of Egypt, historical figure who was a lawgiver known as Moses. He has the name and the role, so the Middle Kingdom exodus of Israelites got this add-on of Moses, lawgiver, and monotheism.

Bye for now.