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Did the Nile River really turn to blood?
« on: November 29, 2012, 01:35:42 AM »
Exodus 7:

 15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he goes out to the water. Wait on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake.

16 Then say to him, 'The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to say to you: Let my people go, so that they may worship me in the desert. But until now you have not listened.

17 This is what the LORD says: By this you will know that I am the LORD: With the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will be changed into blood.

18 The fish in the Nile will die, and the river will stink; the Egyptians will not be able to drink its water.'"

19 The LORD said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt - over the streams and canals, over the ponds and all the reservoirs' -  and they will turn to blood. Blood will be everywhere in Egypt, even in the wooden buckets and stone jars."

20 Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded. He raised his staff in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was changed into blood.

21 The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. Blood was everywhere in Egypt.

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Re: Did the Nile River really turn to blood?
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2012, 01:36:21 AM »

from the movie The Ten Commandments (1956)

Did the Nile River Really Turn to Blood?

By Wayne Jackson

“A college professor says that the Bible contains much that is ‘myth.’ An example given is when the Bible says that the Nile River was turned into blood (Exodus 7:14-25). It is claimed that this was merely a case of red-colored ‘silt’ that churned into the water of the Nile during the flooding season of that river. How might the Christian respond to this?”

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Re: Did the Nile River really turn to blood?
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2012, 01:38:03 AM »
There is nothing new about this rationalistic approach to the supernatural events of sacred Scripture. For example one writer says: “Deposits from the Abyssinian lakes often color the flood waters a dark reddish brown, especially in the Upper Nile. That might well be said to look like ‘blood’” (Werner Keller, The Bible As History, New York, NY: Bantam, 1956, p. 120).

Misguided attempts to “befriend” the Bible, by helping to provide “natural” explanations for such events as the “plagues” are seriously in error, no matter how well-intentioned the commentator may be. And quite frankly, most of the time such objections are skeptically motivated. The following brief points may be offered in rebuttal.

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Re: Did the Nile River really turn to blood?
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2012, 01:41:00 AM »
1.  The divine account plainly says that the waters of Egypt “turned to blood” (vv. 17-20). While it is true that the term “blood” may be employed at times in a figurative sense (cf. Joel 2:31), the context must require it. There is no such necessity in Exodus 7. What does the term “blood” signify in connection with the tenth plague (Exodus 12:7)? Certainly not “muddy water.”

2.  The biblical record conveys the impression that the waters of Egypt changed immediately when Moses smote the water of the Nile with his rod. Pharaoh and his servants saw the water change color (vv. 17,20), whereas silting gradually discolors rivers.

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Re: Did the Nile River really turn to blood?
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2012, 01:43:13 AM »
3.  Ordinarily the silt influx of the Nile, in late summer and fall, was considered a blessing by the Egyptians, yet the “blood” phenomenon was a curse (“foul,” “loathsome,” and “undrinkable”) from which they sought relief (vv. 18,21).

4.  Normally, silting does not cause the death of fish, yet the fish of the Nile died when the waters turned to blood (vv. 18,21).

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Re: Did the Nile River really turn to blood?
« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2012, 01:44:34 AM »
5.  Silting was common to the Nile, yet this did not produce a distinct “stink” (v. 18), such as occurred on this occasion. In fact, a pagan “Hymn to the Nile” (one of Egypt’s gods) declares that the river is “sweet of fragrance” (James Pritchard, ed., Ancient Near-Eastern Texts, Princeton, NJ: University Press, 1969, p. 272).

6.  Silting cannot account for the fact that the water in their pools, ponds, and even in their household vessels of wood and stone, changed to blood (v. 19).

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Re: Did the Nile River really turn to blood?
« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2012, 01:45:53 AM »
7.  The plague was clearly an assault upon some of the “gods” of Egypt; they worshipped both the Nile and some species of fish. If this were an ordinary silting discoloration, the event would hardly have functioned as an apologetic in favor of Israel’s God, since the Nile was “colored” frequently.

8.  The text specifically says that this plague was of God. “And seven days were fulfilled, after that Jehovah had smitten the river” (v. 25).

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Re: Did the Nile River really turn to blood?
« Reply #7 on: November 29, 2012, 01:50:20 AM »
9.  Dr. Joseph Free contended that the plagues were demonstrated to be miraculous in at least five different ways.

    Intensification — they were far beyond any ordinary occurrence;

    Prediction — specific times were indicated by the arrival and
    cessation of some of the plagues;

    Discrimination — some of the disasters affected the Egyptians, but
    not the Israelites;

    Orderliness — there was an orderly increase in severity, from the
    water-to-blood to the death-of-the-firstborn;

    Spiritual Purpose — discrediting of the gods of Egypt and revealing
    Jehovah as Israel’s Savior (Archaeology and Bible History, Wheaton, IL: Van
    Kampen Press, 1950, p. 95).

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Re: Did the Nile River really turn to blood?
« Reply #8 on: November 29, 2012, 01:56:14 AM »

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In summary, we must note that the Old Testament text does not even remotely suggest that the Nile merely took on the “color” of blood. There was biblical language to express that concept when necessary (cf. 2 Kings 3:22, “water. . . red as blood”). Rather, scripture says the water “turned to blood” (v. 17), it “[became] blood” and was blood (vv. 19-20). George Rawlinson, Camden Professor of Ancient History at Oxford, wrote:

    “It is idle to ask whether the water would have answered to all the modern tests, microscopic and other, by which blood is known. The question cannot be answered. All that we are entitled to conclude from the words of the text is, that the water had all the physical appearance — the look, taste, smell, texture of blood; and hence, that it was certainly not merely discolored by the red soil of Abyssinia, nor by cryptogamic plants and infusoria. Water thus changed would neither kill fish, nor ‘stink,’ nor be utterly undrinkable” (“The Book of Exodus,” Pulpit Commentary, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1961 Reprint, p. 171).

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Re: Did the Nile River really turn to blood?
« Reply #9 on: November 29, 2012, 02:02:01 AM »
Even though some fairly conservative writers have adopted the “silt” view, and suggest that the “miracle” was one of “timing” (cf. Walter Kaiser, “Exodus,” The Expositor’s Bible Commentary, Grand Rapids: Zondervan, Vol. 2, p. 350), the devout student of the Bible has no need to resort to fanciful rationalizations of the sacred text in order to placate the theories of skepticism — which are vested with motives of self-interest. A.B. Davidson, the famous Scottish scholar (Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Exegesis, Free College, Edinburgh), characterized the attempt to identify the “blood” of the first plague, with the natural redness of the Nile at its rising, as “quite absurd” (The Imperial Bible Dictionary, Patrick Fairbairn, Ed., London: Blackie & Son, 1876, Vol. 5, p. 270).

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Wayne Jackson has written for and edited the Christian Courier since its inception in 1965. He has also written several books on a variety of biblical topics including The Bible and Science, Creation, Evolution, and the Age of the Earth, The Bible on Trial, and a number of commentaries. He lives in Stockton, California with his dear wife and life-long partner, Betty.

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Re: Did the Nile River really turn to blood?
« Reply #12 on: November 29, 2012, 06:06:15 AM »
"Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded. He raised his staff in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was changed into blood.

Why is it so hard for some of us to understand that the water really turn into blood? what the bible says is unrefutable. What is written according to the scriptures holds true because it is inspired by God. only non-believers will disagree..and no matter how you put it, even our own reasoning will not bear weight because God himself let these things happen.


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Re: Did the Nile River really turn to blood?
« Reply #13 on: November 29, 2012, 03:41:37 PM »
By the power of the Will of God, all things are possible. For what is impossible for man, is possible for God, who alone is Holy, Perfect and Just. Glory to God in the Highest and Peace to His people on earth...

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