Pedro de San Patricio
Gold Member
We know the creation of woman from man and man from dirt 6,000 years ago didn't actually happen. We know there wasn't a global flood that wiped out all life that wasn't put on a boat. We know that Hebrew isn't the mother of all other languages on the planet. We know the entire population of the Hebrew tribes weren't enslaved by the Egyptians to bake bricks. Assuming that there was an enslaved Hebrew population, or at least a population that escaped slavery and converted to their religion, we have better explanations for how they would have reached Canaan than parting a sea with a staff and a magic word. We know Canaan wasn't conquered by the Hebrews as a foreign invading force, partially because they were native to the region to begin with. We're pretty sure Judea/Israel was never more than a minor kingdom that answered to whichever was the dominant empire of the time. I'm unaware of any key story that may have actually happened, at least as recorded in the Bible. Even the clearly metaphorical fiction is surpassed by the Sumerian originals.