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Originally Posted by towny
The problem is, you're looking at the parting of the Red Sea in isolation. The Bible is full of what it, and Christians, claim are 'miracles' - the biggest of which is the resurrection itself. Don't you think there are rather too many coincidences for this to be a credible explanation? Floods, seas parting and crashing in again, plagues, cites destroyed, entire armies raised from the dead, a virgin gives birth to a baby ... the list is endless. Eventually, the cries of 'coincidence!', 'natural causes!' or 'it never happened!' really do start to sound tired.
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I can totally see the logic behind your argument. However, it still leaves the possibility that some of these events were due to natural causes that have been interpreted in a specific manner. If, for the sake of argument, we take the resurrection to be literal truth, it does not automatically mean that a given instance of flooding cannot be attributed to natural causes.
You're right, I am taking this one incident in isolation, but it's not supposed to be an argument attempting to demolish the Christian faith in its entirety, merely an observation that one specific event that could be interpreted as a miracle now has a possible explanation in nature.