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Were  captive  Jews  in  Egypt ?
Were there ANY Jews in Egypt ?

Here is how it began...

I first met "Doc" at a winter solstice party. The conversation turned to the historicity of Jews in Egypt.  I said that the Bible story has no basis in history --  that there were never any Jews in captivity in Egypt. The reverend Doctor disagreed and said he would prove me wrong using non-scriptural sources.  As he did not know his facts offhand but he would look up his beliefs and send me the evidence.


 Ten days later I received a reply...
The Reverend's emails are in black;
mine,  [Ed],  are  shown  in
blue.
Emphasis, cartoons, links and decorations added by me.

Salt Lake Baptist College

Introducing... Christ's Servant in Utah and Administrative Vice President Author, educator and VP at Salt Lake Baptist College.

"I have Bachelor degree from Texas Baptist Bible College and a Master's and two Doctorates from Salt Lake Baptist College!  I am currently the Administrative Vice President as well as a professor in the college."

 

Dr. T.E. VanBuskirk
Salt Lake Baptist College
SLC  UT 84118
 (801) 964-2888     (801) 964-0763
email: "Dr. TERRY VANBUSKIRK" docvbk@msn.com>
docvbk@saltlakebiblecollege.org
docvbk@saltlakebaptistcollege.org 
saltlakebaptistcollege.org  ALUMNI

Similarly to Dr. Terry Jones (of "burn the Koran fame in 2010"), Dr. "Doc" Terry VanBuskirk does not understand much about the history of his Bible:

The Reverend's first letter to me...
Here is some of the info I promised to send to you.  There is a massive amount* more available on the internet from secular as well as religious sources.  But, here are just a few that I have had the time to dig out for you.

*  [Ed: If you want to read about this "massive amount", click here, but be advised it's all junk.]


We are having a Great Revival in the land.
God is pouring out the blessings.


 What can be asserted 
 without evidence
can also be 
 dismissed without evidence.
 ~ Christopher Hitchens

The Reverend Dr. VanBuskirk says "there are multiplied hundreds of more sites on these subjects" meaning many more web sites exist on this subject -- the historicity of Jews in Egypt.  Yet he only gave these few links... None address the question. In an email I told him so, after having looked at all these links. I thought he was being dishonest in using these links to fortify his claim that Jews existed in Egypt and I told him so.


 My email to him:   Thank you, but don't make this so too difficult and obtuse.  You sent me links to follow, yet they yield nothing pertaining to our quest -- evidence of JEWS in Egypt.  If you could gather all the good stuff, the real stuff, not just Wholly Babble (Holt Bible:) thumper's articles about these things, but the real things, that could be appreciated and it will be more honest -- and would not waste my time.  And PLEASE realize that sending Bible quotes doesn't count as evidence!  I'm going to ignore those because we want evidence from outside of religion -- from history, from archeology, yes?

I once made a claim claim [to a Mormon] that there is no evidence of iron or steel in Pre-Columbian America [as the Book of Mormon claims], and a friend offered to give me evidence of it.  He showed me a book about pre-Columbian copper fish hooks.  [That was dishonest. The reverend is doing the same here, it seems.]

I hope your evidence won't weasel out like that, I'd hate to think that you'd try dishonesty, what with being a man of the cloth and all.  I haven't read all of your material yet, and I'll wait for the winnowed down material.  I don't need a lot to believe your point, I need only one good piece of evidence for me to change my mind.

So please don't do to me more like your links, it's nothing.  Give me the meat only, OK?

Thanks in advance.

Ps: I have a link that's much more in the ballpark of this subject: moses-news.htm.
And this one:   You Tube: Penn & Teller; The Bible is Bullshit.


Buy one get two free -- or just pray for one!

Dear reverend Doc Van,
worm.gif (3649 bytes)I'm UNDERWHELMED, reverend.
I've looked at your material and I'm materially unimpressed. The lack of your honesty is abundant. Yes, we have an abundant lack here :) We have an abundant lack of integrity.
Mr. reverend!   It's not honest to give such drivel as what you sent me, as evidence for historicity of Jewish captivity in Egypt. There is nothing about that in any of your references. Yes, a Moses is mentioned, but nothing about that he's "our" Moses. And to boot, only your bible-thumping websites mention him, if we are to believe that one of the Tutmosis' or Tutmose's, is your Moses. *IF* you can do better, you should; as I am waiting for some real evidence.  We agreed that your evidence would be non-scriptural, yes? As it stands you are somewhat dishonest with me, I think, and also with yourself, to give this tripe as evidence for the historicity of Jews. There's more validity in a vile of Snake Oil, than in what you sent to me, Mr. Elmer Gantry. 
Happy new year, doc !  [2007]
 
The same to you.  And God bless you :>)
Doc


god
is Not
Great

How Religion
Poisons
 Everything

by Christopher Hitchens

At 06:22 PM 1/1/2007, you wrote:

No dishonesty meant nor exhibited.
I told you I would research it for you and I did.

---  I received NOTHING about Israelites in Egypt from you! That was the deal. That is what you said you'd send.  You found nothing, and I looked at every link you sent me.  Did you even read my email with annotations of your links??  Was I wrong? If you have something on the historicity of Jews in Egypt, or a single museum with even one MENORAH, Hebrew text from pharaonic Egypt, please let me see it soon.  It's not right to claim that you gave me anything like that. The fact remains that you didn't do it.

That was the material that I was able to find;

---  I saw nothing of historicity of Jews in Egypt; you ability to find is very poor, near zero, just as I though when I told you that in person.  You said you would look up your beliefs and send me that evidence.  You sent meaningless material -- if not, please correct me where I'm wrong.  Just merely saying "Moses" doesn't count, does it, when we are looking for a population of Jews in Egypt.  There is no trace of that, that's my claim and you thing the opposite.  Show me.

some of it archaeological and some of it historical, much of it from various secular sources.  Whether you receive it or not is up to you.

 ---  I received everything you sent and looked at everything.  If I missed something, please show me which of the items are important -- (most don't even mention Moses the thing you seem to hang your hat on,  and none say anything about Jews / Israelites in Egypt), yes or no?

To NOT do what I said I would do would have been dishonest!

 ---   Yes, so do it then please.  I think you will find nothing, but you told me you have something to produce to validate your belief in Jews in captivity (or in any state) in Egypt.  Where is this extra-biblical evidence.  Do you have it?

 

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But to spend several hours to do exactly what I said I WOULD do cannot be called dishonest by anyone that understands the meaning of the word.
[Hmmm... he said he was going to prove the existence of Israelites in Egypt.  I don't see a proof.  What / where is it?  Perhaps I should have my head examined.]
My relationship with God plus common decency dictates that I keep my word- and I have done so.
[Smug.]
Sorry if that is unacceptable to you that I did so.

---  I'll try this then:  I will pray that you will send this evidence tomorrow.   If praying works, you will find it in time to share it with me.  If praying doesn't work, then we'll know just that -- that praying doesn't work.


If I can be of further service, please let me know.

---   Yes, thanks.  But please remember just cobbling together a bunch of off-topic web pages with links on them that you didn't read -- does not count!  I need the MEAT.  Where are the cemeteries, the artifacts the Jewish oil lamps and bones, and the records of the Egyptians.  I have seen almost literally tons of Egyptian stone hieroglyphics, letters form Egyptian writers written on wood and papyrus covering a multitude of subjects from records of warfare, letters home, letters of complaint to the employers of paid pyramid workers, to just plain bragging of rulers.  It would be dishonest to say for sure that Jews were there, without having any evidence for that.  You might as well believe that Martians made the pyramids, as the evidence for that is equal to your "evidence", let alone proof of the existence of Jews in Egypt.  Correct me if I'm wrong.


RE: "No dishonesty meant nor exhibited."
---  I know you don't mean to be dishonest, but if you have no real archeological evidence of Jews in Egypt, no artifacts, no Hebrew or Egyptian writing, and you still think Jewish slaves built the pyramids, etc... then what should anyone think of your intellectual al honesty and that of the clergy?

It serves no purpose for you merely to say yes you did send evidence and me to say no you didn't send it.  That would be stupid. Many of the links were irrelevant (some are defunct).  I tried, honestly.  Please make it a bit easier and just send me the good stuff, the thing you want me to really pay attention to.  Thanks kindly in advance, Doc.  I will start to pray now as soon as I click the send button here, for this material evidence; let's see if praying works.  After all, you think that god is on Your side.

BTW, reverend, you are a doctor of divinity, yes?  Where did you go to school to earn this degree, I'm curious.  Happy New year and please say Happy new year to your lovely wife, I'm sorry I already forgot her name.  I'm stupid :(

At 11:05 AM 1/3/2007, you wrote:
What makes you think God would answer the prayers of an unbeliever?

---  well I now have some evidence that god answers prayers, your reply arrived in time, but I also prayed that your reply would contain the answer. It does not. Instead you refer me to "at least one of the links". Which one, for christ's sake ?

By the way, the Hebrews didn't build the pyramids.  They were simply slaves in Egypt, and that at a point in time of several thousand years after the pyramids were built.  The pyramids were built by Egyptian workers.
---  Yes. Many apologists don't know that.

At least one of the links I sent you, that I did have the time to check out, mentioned Canaanites, which would have included the Hebrews, in Egypt.  And they also referred to the term Ipuru, Hebrew, which was given to the Israelites by the Egyptians.
 
Sorry if the info did not meet with your approval.  But, what else could I have expected.  I get the feeling that nothing would except a time-traveling Egyptian
---  I'm very skeptical of time travel... and more so of your veracity.

...who would tell you face-to-face that he had Hebrews working under him in Egypt back then.  :>)
May God bless you- should He choose to do so
Doc

---  If I pray for His blessing and I receive none, then praying does not work, since he would have chosen to to bless me.
---  If I pray for your answer and I receive none, so here would be proof that praying does not work.
---  Please don't persist lazily and disingenuously. The Wholly Babble is wrong on this point of the historicity of Jews in Egypt... For the third time now, which ONE of your links (outside of biblical references) validates the notion that Jews were in Egypt, captive or not ???  I looked at everything you sent me and there was nothing.
--- If this business is so clear why do you weasel so?  Why not just show me the damn evidence ??
--- You told me that you would look up your beliefs and let me know, but you didn't, yet.
--- BTW, where did you graduate from... I asked before.

At 02:26 AM 1/4/2007, you wrote

I promised to look up what info I could find on the net. 
--- no, you promised to find extra-scriptural sources, not links on the Internet.

 And what I sent you is what I have found so far.  Some of it secular and some not. Some of the articles that I have read in the past, such as those in a magazine called "Biblical Archaeology", 

---  I don't think you limited your promise to do just a quick net search, Doc.  You said you had the answer for sure and you would send it to me via email.  You may have *thought* net search, Google, slam-dunk, etc,.but...

--- "Biblical Archaeology" is good on the Bible things but it's crap on Archaeology.  For example, in the late  seventies, I read an explanation in that rag abut the Shroud of Turin, where it hypothesized that during resurrections, a new sub-atomic particle is created -- and I'm not making this up -- the resurrectron -- and that that's what probably "burned in" a 3-D image of the Resurrecrtee's burial shroud.   Later I found a book in which it was admitted --in the first paragraph of the book -- that the shroud of Turin had bee dated to only the mid-14th century.  And the marks on it are only paint, for Christ's sake!   So, be skeptical.  Tread lightly when you read "Biblical Archaeology" as these people have an axe to grind.  Like you.

...which is a professional group that follows archaeological issues pertaining to biblical places, civilizations, and people, etc., as well as others by reputable groups are just simply not, as far as I have been able to ascertain so far, available on the net. I am not "weaseling" I just cannot source them through the net. I said I would try and I have.

-- You did not say only "try", bub -- you said that you would really DELIVER!  Net-or-noNet I don't care.  Show me the evidence!

"Even I am not satisfied
with the results so far
"

 
Dr. VanBuskirk

---  Have looked in your your "library"?  It's quite extensive judging from your pictures of it on the Net.  I can tell you that you may safely ignore searching the Louvre in Paris and the Hermitage in Skt. Petersburg and the British Museum in London.  These have probably the most extensive records of the period, especially for your search for the historicity of Moses / exodus.  You'd be wasting your time, there is nothing there, I know for sure.  I've not visited Cairo museum; no doubt if anything of this exists, it should be there.   Also, foundations of synagogues and of Jewish dwellings, streets, wells, hovels, should be physically present near Cairo today.  In the desert sand we should see literally tons of pottery shards.  Perhaps you might try that tack.   For your convenience, here it the link for the Egyptian Museum in Cairo:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Museum.


 
"However, even I am not satisfied with the connections and conclusions made and the proofs offered."

 Dr. VanBuskirk

 

Here is one you might want to look at first:  http://web.archive.org/web/*/http:/www.truthbeknown.com/exodus.htm [WayBackMachine]

--- On the other hand, if praying works why don't you just to that?  Pray to know where the evidence lies?  It's really exceedingly simple, if praying works.  As I have learned form you praying does not always work... for example I have it on your authority that it just won't work for people like me.  To bad, I'd be much more impressed if this praying business were more egalitarian.

I will try to obtain them some other way.  Perhaps through direct contact with the magazine.  Please don't perceive this as "weaseling"
---  OK

...because that is not my intent.  I promised to try to source them for you over the internet but have not been able to do so, so far.  Some of those I have found for you already are quite sound.  Especially the ones on the historicity of Jesus.  They were from Roman, not religious, sources. (Pliny the younger, etc.)

Testimony...

of historians and writers who
lived during Christ's lifetime
or within 100 years later

Famous Ancient Greeks & Romans who Wrote About Jesus

Apollonius
Appian
Arrian
Aulus Gellius
Colotes
Columella
Damis
Dio Chrysostom
Dion Pruseus
Epictetus
Favorinus

Florus Lucius
Fundanus
Hermogones
Josephus
Justus of Tiberius
Juvenal
Lucanus
Lucian
Lysias
Martial
Paterculus

Persius
Petronius
Phaedrus
Philo-Judaeus
Phlegon
Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Younger
Plutarch
Pompon Mela
Ptolemy
Quintilian

Quintius Curtius
Seneca the Elder
Seneca the Younger
Silius Italicus
Soscius Senecio
Statius
Suetonius
Tacitus
Theon of Smyran
Valerius Flaccus
Valerius Maximus

"Devastating to historians, there occurs not a single contemporary writing that mentions Jesus"...

Read more about it:  holysmoke.org/sdhok/jesus5.htm     by By Richard Smith


 
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 The  Jesus Mysteries:
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LINK: The 101 Book Atheism Library !

---  Well...Ahem... Pliny the Younger -- Wikipedia died more than 100 years after the alleged birth of our Saviour... so he might not be a convincing witness / source. 

Perhaps Julius Caesar or one of our Lord's other contemporaries, scholars, Rabbis, jotted something down of this important god, what with the crucifixion and all that King of the Jews business, and all. 

Perhaps He Himself, Jesus, the great teacher, philosopher and orator found time to scratch a few of his most important thoughts onto sheepskin, for posterity, while sitting around he campfire, mending fishing nets, chatting with His apostles.  This would be just so that there would be no misunderstanding and no VERSIONS of the Wholly Babble later.  And it would increase faith!   What a super idea this would have been! Something solid would have been really really convincing.  After all. lots of other documents from that time exist!  Don't blow me off.

I have already invested quite some hours in research on the net, and even I am not satisfied with the results so far,
---  THANK YOU!  That's honest.

---  Please don't come jammering now, my friend.  At the Winter Solstice Party you seemed quite glib and dismissive, (sometimes I'm mistaken) like oh, it's noting to give you this information.  Then you tried to trick me  into falsely thinking that all of your previous hyperlinks you emailed to me pertain to our subject here!   I wasted a lot of time following them.  Next you said that, oh well, at least one of those was good link. Now it seems that perhaps you have read that link yourself by now -- and not before -- and it turned out, unapologetically, like crap!  That's what I think; correct me of I'm wrong.

...but I will invest a bit more.  Duties here are currently extremely pressing (80-100 hour work weeks for the last couple of weeks- today has already been 15 hours) and the next two days I will be entirely involved in redesigning and rebuilding the entire sound system and sound station in the church building, so I can do nothing more concerning this current question until next week.  I will try to source more information for you then.

Please be patient.  I will do the best I can as I promised.
Doc
---  Ok. Suggestion:  Pray for a fixed sound system.  If praying works you should have one, like, yesterday. 

At 02:57 AM 1/4/2007, you wrote:
I have Bachelor degree from Texas Baptist Bible College and a Master's and two Doctorates from Salt Lake Baptist College.

---  Ahem... Have you any learning  form secular sources?  Can you tell punctuated equilibrium from pointilism?

I am currently the Administrative Vice President as well as a professor in the college.  On a side note -- your remarks about prayer.  God promises to answer the prayer of the believer.  With the non-believer He has never promised to answer their prayers.  But, even though He has not obligated himself to do so, He does sometimes answer their prayers,

---  So god sometimes answers the prayer of believers and god sometimes answer the prayers of nonbelievers.

---  God sometime does not answer the prayer of believers and sometimes does not  answer the prayers of nonbelievers. 

There's no distinction here. This seems stupid, reverend.  God treats both groups the same, for christ's sake!

Yet you tell me that if I pray for a SPEEDY resolution to your giving me [an un-believer] the Jew-answers, He will ignore me. You are either sanctimonious, joking or you know a lot, but not much about the historicity of Jew in Egypt -- at least not now [because as you tell me, you need to look up the foundation of your beliefs]. So, Dr., why don't you just pray for this answer and be dome with it? Praying only should take a second, especially since Mr. Omniscient up there already knows what's on your mind before you open your mid or your heart, whatever ya'll do; he's busy waiting for you to grovel and worship, to prove to someone that he is indeed the Ruler of the Universe.

---  If sometimes my car works and sometime my car does not work, I'd say that my car isn't working. But what do I know, I'm stupid.  If most of the time my car does not work, but only once in a blue moon, I'd say it's broken. What with all the people who pray and have prayed for a pleasant world in which to live, and look what we got -- I'd say for sure that praying does not work. But you have a different opinion, reverend. [why?]

I'm interested in the Historicity of the Jews in Egypt. Even a blind man can see that praying is as useless as tits on a boar. If praying works, I hold you , Dr. E.T. VanBuskirk PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE for all the bad shit going down now and in the past and in the future. And I chose my words carefully here, Reverend.

However, it is whenever He wants and according to His own will and plans.  The one prayer He has promised to always listen to, and answer, from the unbeliever is the one for Salvation. 

---  OK, lets try it, then. Please pray for my salvation. I will do nothing and thus fight God. Let's see if he's more powerful than I. Please reply that you have received this message, indicating that my salvation is imminent. Then I'll tell you if I have a salved feeling on my end!  If not, then we'll have shown your praying for salvation does not work.

On the other hand, the Omnipotent may not be able to change my salvation status because I don't need it!  I'm an atheist, for christ's sake. I have never sinned and can never sin. That's one of the cool things about not believing in god/s. Damn, I'm off the subject again.

Other than in the prayer for Salvation, which He has promised to always answer with a "Yes," He answers prayer in three ways- yes, no, or not yet. In this He is answerable to no one.  He will always do and answer in the way that is best and for the good of the one praying to Him.  Anyway, I will, as I said in the other e-mail I just sent you a few minutes ago, continue to do some research for you on the questions at hand.
 
I will also, if you would like, have my wife's e-mail
[I met his wife at the solstice party/  She said that she is an atheist!  -Ed] you the link to a site called "Ask Noah" which is handled by a Jewish man

---  No, that's OK. Thanks anyway. I'll look at your link, http://www.asknoah.org/ later -- I just took a peek now and I don't have a good feeling about it.
 
 ...who has been quite helpful to me on a major project I am currently working on- a video and series of ten lectures on the Ten Commandments.  I begin delivering them this coming Sunday
---  While you're there, you might bring it into context with the the parts of Exodus that condones slavery, manservants, how to treat them and that it's ok to have them. I've always wanted one.
 
...evening and will also be delivering them on the road this summer with the tour of Tent Meetings from Texas to Washington state.  I'm sure the man on the Ask Noah site has better access to info on Moses than I do at this time,
---  weasel! Postponement will not look good on your record, my friend :) And nobody cares about Moses; You promised me a horde of Egyptian Jews!
 
...after all Moses was their go-between when they received The Law,
---  Jews are much more entrenched in this belief in Moses than everyone else - they have a bigger axe to grind. Moses is much more important to them than he is to christians. To them he's like "our" jesus is to Crustians. After all that's all they have, more or less --  the equivalent of "our" Old Testament. Good luck on your lecture on the Ten Suggestions, though.
 
...and might be quite helpful to you in this matter.  Should you like to contact him, let me know and I will have my wife e-mail you the link. She has been handling the contact with him for my research, so she has the e-mail address.  I don't.  If you want it, I will have her send it to you.  Let me know.
--- No thanks and quit trying to palm this off on your wife and other experts.  It's you who made the promise, not they.

And I will look up the link you were asking about that I sent you before and let you know which one it was.  The one on Moses and/or the Jews in Egypt.  The one on Jesus is quite easy to find.  [I don't even dare now, to get involved with him on the historicity of Jesus - ed.] It was the one referring to the writings of Pliny the younger (a Roman) and Josephus, who was an employee of Rome commissioned to write an official history of the Jews for the Roman government.  It also quoted another Roman, I believe it was Tacitus but I am not 100% sure about the name.
Talk to you later,
Doc

At 03:38 AM 1/4/2007, you wrote:
This is the one that seemed the most informative about Semitic peoples from Palestine (Canaan) being in Egypt.  (By the Way, the Hebrews are a Semitic people from Palestine/Canaan.  In fact the very term Semitic comes from the biblical character, Shem.)  http://www.geocities.com/worldview_3/exodus.html:

"There is no archaeological evidence to confirm the account of God delivering the Israelates from Egypt..."
 

--- In this link, I found lots of material about the historicity of Attila the Hun, quickly and easily. Just one good (easy) source is Wikipedia. Attila the Hun existed! Jews in Egypt did not. I'm not going to slug thru that stuff on the net of the page, especially with the disclaimer in the first sentence that there is no evidence of habitation of Israelites in Egypt.  Why are you so lazy? If this evidence exists, please cut and paste the material on that page into a reply. Thanks in advance. [Eventually I did read that web page]

---  You know, having Archeological evidence would really be good. Some photos of the sites, pottery, and documents.
Where's the beef ?

 
The next link concerned Moses and was quite informative.  However, even I am not satisfied with the connections and conclusions made and the proofs offered.  Seemed a bit nebulous to me.  They draw possible conclusions but not definitive ones.  I would have to do some quite extensive research and try to contact some experts in Egyptology for confirmation and more evidence before I would accept that one and the conclusions they drew.  As I said, possible conclusions but not definitive ones.
 
I will continue doing a bit more research for you next week.  I am completely tied up with my duties here for the rest of this week.
I explained that situation in an earlier e-mail.
Doc

At 03:54 AM 1/5/2007, you wrote:
Look again at what I actually said, not what you think I said- God always answers the prayers of the believers.  In one of three ways, as I also said.

Prayer from an unbeliever is answered sometimes  - but only according to God's sovereign will.  He has not obligated himself to do so as He has with the believer.
 
God will answer a prayer for salvation from an unbeliever IF that person is making a sincere request from the heart.   The glib ramblings of someone who is only doing it to challenge Him in a spirit of unbelief and sarcasm will come back in the spirit with which they were offered- void. 

---  Now you say *IF*... before you did not say that.  Now you said "God will answer a prayer for salvation from an unbeliever IF that person is making sincere request from the heart." 

---  What you ACTUALLY said was this:  "God promises to answer the prayer of the believer. With the non-believer He has never promised to answer their prayers. But, even though He has not obligated himself to do so, He does sometimes answer their prayers,..."

--- This means that  god sometimes answers the prayer of believers and god sometimes answer the prayers of nonbelievers. [We know well that He does not answer believers' prayers for world peace, for example. So...]
---  god sometimes does not answer the prayer of believers and also sometimes does not answer the prayers of nonbelievers. There's absolutely no distinction here.  I'm not stupid, bub, I can read.

---  OK, I won't pray.  My salvation is in your hands then, reverend; it's up to you, the ball is in your park.  So far, nothing has happened at this end. In fact, it looks like your Wholly Babble stories are just that, babble, judging from your inability to produce any independent archeological evidence of Jews inhabiting Egypt.  All experts in this field say it wasn't so, but you think it was so.  The ball is in your court to show them wrong.

---  I now see why you were so reluctant to point out to me why the ONE link out of the crap you first send me came so late.  In the link's very first paragraph it says that there isn't any evidence of the Jews.  You knew that an were reluctant to point that out and give it as your best evidence do far, because you knew it would be dishonest.  Furthermore, you never pointed out the MEAT on that "best" link because you knew it wasn't there, yes
 

He won't answer sarcasm with salvation because the sarcastic one wasn't really asking for it in the first place- but rather only blowing the hot air of a buffoon.  Well, we'll leave that matter in God's hands.   Galatians 6:7  "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."
---  Corollary: What goes around comes around, eh?  Big deal!
 
My praying for your salvation, which I do and will continue to do, will not be answered by God forcing you to get saved.
---  so, you will continue pray, knowing for sure that it won't work.  How goofy of you!  Besides, telling god just once ought to suffice, don't you think he heard you the first time, or what?  Meanwhile, I will just wait here to be saved -- I shall do nothing to prevent or speed up my salvation.  Let's see who is more powerful in this regard, God or me, ha ha.
 
  He has given you free will and you have chosen to exercise it. 
---  I, for one have no free will, believing free will is stupid.  If I had free will I'd choose to be different from most, as it is I'm the same as everyone else.
 
My prayers for your salvation will be answered by God; but it will be done by Him continuing to work on your heart through people and circumstances and the Holy Spirit- but,
---  Do your worst!  :) cause your god to save me, I dare you.  I will do nothing to prevent or encourage it, I will just wait her and not even give it any thought.
 
He will not force you to get saved. 
---  OK, cool.
 
That has to be your choice.
---  I won't choose... perhaps, if god is too stupid to know that, you should tell him and ask him to override my "free will" to choose not to choose.  The ball is in your court, reverend.  Pray, pray longer, pray louder... do whatever needs to be done.  It's your [TAX-EXEMPT]  business, not mine.
 
 God has given us free will and that thing which He has given to you cannot be abrogated by my prayers.
---  I see, in this case then, your prayers don't work?  You are beginning to see my point, reverend :)
 
By the way, I asked the whole church to pray for you during our Wednesday night prayer meeting .
 So now you have 50 people that love you enough to pray for you.  More important, God loves you.  He'll keep working on you and I'll keep working on the Moses thing like I promised.
---  Yeah, 50 uneducated  ignorami who, like you think that Egyptian thing really happened, when evidence tells us it didn't.  I'm impressed, my friend!  Your single repeated praying isn't good enough, why?  Louder, harder, more, more often?  Jesus, your omniscient god must be deaf!  Why do you people think that repeating, and nauseam, a heartfelt sincere prayer to the omniscient is going to change His own will and plans -- especially since he knew all along what was on yall's minds?
 
Too bad you didn't want to read the rest of that first page I sent in that first list and then looked it up for you again.  There was some fairly good stuff there.  We'll see what you do with the next ones. 
---  I do want to read it.  And I will, now, but I'll be really pissed if this is another wild goose chase, your previous links have been so disingenuous.  After your correction, if I get one, I'll take the time to go thru, one by one, to show that each link is crap. It's up to you.
 
Also, you took the Attila the Hun thing out of context.
---  I don't remember.  Your point then, was...?
 
Gotta try to get a bit of sleep now.  By the way, prayer works. 
---  Really?  The 50 people praying for my salvation seem to have had no effect, I feel definitely un-saved.   So now we have shown that praying does not work.  NOTHING HAS HAPPENED! 

In fact, I don't even think that I need salvation.  I'm OK.  I've never sinned.

If salvation means, among other things that next, I'll believe the Jews left not a single pottery shard, midden, building foundation in the desert, then I don't particularly want to be saved because salvation would mean stupidity.  But I'll leave it up to you and your 50.  Read them my email, OK?  He apparently needs to be told everything 50-fold, ad nauseam?

I'm not the only one that believes so.
---  Apparently voting on the truth suddenly has validity.  What a stupid thing to say, Herr Doctor!

---  I hope you'll send me the evidence of the Historicity of Jewish habitation in Egypt soon. 

On proving that Egyptians exists...
Amazon.com

Dr. Heinerman

Dear reverend,
I read the "important link" you sent me, which, as you admitted, does not even satisfy you completely
(
http://www.geocities.com/worldview_3/exodus.html   )

"In Genesis 46:27 we read that ..." 
"Thus, we have direct archaeological evidence of the presence of at least several tens of thousands of Semites with Hebrew culture..."
             So:  The Bible is true because it tells us so.  Ha ha ha!!

"Although the man Moses has not yet turned up in extra-biblical sources..."

"...the chronology issue isn't necessarily a very damaging problem for the book of Exodus..." 
            Really?  Who cares show me the artifacts!
 

If those are indeed Egyptian chariot wheels, reverend, then the link you gave me as your best evidence certainly contains evidence for the existence of Egyptians in Egypt.  GOOD WORK!

ARTICLE's CLOSING PARAGRAPH. "God loves you, my friend, and that's why he provided the Bible to explain the work and ministry of Jesus Christ, who came to provide the way of salvation. We invite you to investigate, by reading the Bible."  (And nothing else).
Don't look in a real archeology book, my friend, since we know the Bible is true because it tells us it's true.  Jesus christ, reverend you must think people are really STUPID to give them shit like
http://www.geocities.com/worldview_3/exodus.html to wade through.  You have absolutely no respect for me! Pray for respect, eh?  If praying works, then for christ's sake pray for the Goddamn answer and please quit pussyfooting around.  And speaking of praying, have your 50 x powerful prayers worked yet?  I feel no better about religion yet, but I've learned that you can't even trust a man of the cloth not to lie to you.

THE ARTIFACTS:

Dear Doc,
worm.gif (3649 bytes)Here’s my prediction: You won’t supply proof – not even physical evidence – of the thing you said you could deliver, the historicity of Jews in Egypt.

Already you’re saying that it’s taking too much time to supply this evidence which is one of the cornerstones of your religion. It’s a shame that you have believed this all your life without checking into its validity. You claim you’re too busy to supply this evidence. I think you don’t have any. If you had any evidence you would know what it is, instead of having to LOOK UP YOUR BELIEFS. Is it that nobody in your extensive two -- count them – TWO -- upper-class PhD classes covered this topic? Did you swallow the Wholly Babble Bible story unquestioningly, hook, line and sinker?

If it should turn out that there is no archeological evidence of Jewish habitation and servitude in paranoiac Egypt, would you be intellectually strong enough to accept it ? I think not, if you follow the stereotype of True Believers -- that’s my prediction of what will happen.

Why don’t you wonder if your Baptist primates who issued your “PhD” lied to you or were themselves fooled as you. Honestly, I’m really sorry if you must come to realize that what your parents and those you love told you turns out to be false. My parents lied to me about Saint Nicklaus and the Easter Bunny but I got over it. Your predicament is the same, I think.

My prediction :
You will draw this out, sending me more useless sophistries and bible quotes of how the bible is really, really, true; after all it’s the word of god and the bible is true because it tells us so.

My prediction : You will claim again that since “everyone else” believes it, they must be true, those fictitious Egyptian Jew-scenarios.
worm.gif (3649 bytes)My prediction : You will use as excuse the tone of my correspondence, not is meaning, substance, to claim moral superiority or insult, and thus weasel that you won’t supply the evidence which you promised – you may say that it would be like throwing pearls before the swine.

My prediction : You will draw out and nauseam the delivery of the evidence you thought you could provide to me. You will inflict the death of a thousand cuts by making me research goofy useless links, such as in your first email to me.

My prediction : you will claim that Faith is the answer, even though there is none of that there pesky evidence which you promised. Faith, after all is this --

1. The belief that something is true, in spite of evidence to the contrary.
2. The proposition that something is true, even if there is no evidence to support it.
3. The idea that something can be made true, merely by wishing it to be so.
4. You will use one or all the above in combination.

Best regards,

Ps: as you can see, your 50-person prayer team has not yet had an effect. Perhaps you should ask them (I don’t want to tell you how to do your job :) to pray LOUDER, HARDER, LONGER, MORE, MORE SINCERELY, SYCOPHANTICALLY and GENUFLECTINGLY, whatever… let’s see if your praying will work!

        Only a fool would have a false religion.

"Faith is something you believe that nobody
in his right mind would believe."
       -- Archie Bunker 

I'm just about finished with rebuilding the sound station.  I spent the better part of two days on it already.  I'll finish up tomorrow.  Then I'll be able to allot some more time to "the Jew thing."
 
I'm running a search right now on my e-mail to see if I can find the article that I was originally searching for that I told you about the night of our conversation.  I'll let you know if I find it.  I lost several thousand e-mails when we changed servers last year.  I hope it is still there somewhere.
Doc

Dr. Heinerman wrote about Mormon space aliens.
He also has written extensively about health and fruit juices.  Dr. Heinerman is a BYU graduate.

Dear Doc,

Great!  I happened onto some information today, too, reverend.  I met with Dr. John Heinerman today -- I don't know if you know him.  He's a bona fide Luddite -- in SLC, and has had some contact with the Baptist community.  He has an extensive private religion library -- thousands of volumes!  It contains a section on Egyptology... also many rare books.  If you like, I could give you his phone number and he might allow you to use his facilities for your research.  I spent several hours looking at his library and things; he's an interesting person.  He's LDS and he too thinks that Jews were in Egypt.

Thanks for keeping me informed.  I hope the repetition of the prayers for me went well.

(Nothing has happened yet on this end :).

Readers interested in the Mormon space aliens (inhabitants of the moon), should see "People In Space" by John  Heinerman, Ph.D., published by Cassandra Press, PO Box 868, San Rafael, CA 94915, in 1990.  ISBN 0-9459946-08-02.

At 10:43 AM 1/8/2007, you wrote:
I will continue my search on Monday as I promised.  By the way, regarding your recent e-mail (and some of the others before that), I would ask that you respect my beliefs just a little bit- if for nothing else, because of common decency.
--- I don't respect your beliefs. Given that, how can I play like I do? And don't lecture me on my use of English, OK.

Please don't use the name of the Lord as a curse word/expletive. Whether you believe or not makes no difference. You are personally and constantly insulting me by doing so- whether you believe you are insulting the Lord or not is between you and Him.
--- And don't lecture me on my use of English.  I should respect what you have to say?  Why don't You respect what I say, bub?
--- I see another WEASEL point coming. You can't continue in you research because of the form of my email and not because of its content ?


But please quit doing so in our communications. I don't ridicule you or your beliefs nor do I try to give affront to you
--- Oh and giving Your prayer team of 50 my particular private information and asking it to pray is not ridiculous in my eyes? Come on rev!! Be nice. What would jesus say?

 where they are concerned.  I don't agree with them, yes, and I am carrying on this "Jew thing" as you call it to try and show you why I don't believe them and why I believe what I do believe.
--- You've had a very long time to say why you believe in the Jewish habitation of Egypt, and so far I have not seen one shred of papyrus, even. You have had plenty of time, and only insulted me with the shit you sent so far. It was crap, reverand, and you know it; you are dishonest -- Though you tried not to be, as you say.  I suppose it just comes naturally to you, you religious apologists. You lie and don't even know it.  As Madalyn Murry O'Hair said, "Religion is a mental disease."

But I try to be very careful to not personally insult you or them. You have spewed out a constant stream of personal insults and accusations as well as using the name of my Lord in inappropriate ways when you know that it is extremely offensive to me.
-- I'm an atheist reverend, I have no Lord; if you imagine you have one, that's not my problem. Be nice. As for your disrespect for other religions, those you consider as false, it's much the same. Telling people that they will burn in hell it's the same. So don't lecture me about belittling others' beliefs. You support an organization that does that, and you do it yourself.
-- Don't be offended. Just consider the source. That's what I do when someone tries to insult me. Or pray that next time no offends will be taken. Pray that the lord will subrogate your [knee-jerk] free will so that next time you're insulted you won't even notice it. You should have done this a long time ago. I don't understand that you shamans who have this miraculous power of making miracles by praying -- why you don't do that. Let's see if praying works.

 
And I can no longer help but believe, because of their volume and frequency, that you are purposely doing so.
--- Believe me reverend, I've bitten my tongue many times and I talk to you as nicely as I can. You are offended by how I talk to you? I am offended by your actions. I am offended my tax dollar paying for your church -- I subsidize your religion! Is it just because you happen to be a believer in the supernatural that *I* have to help pay your way
? It's time to tax the churches, which won't way willingly their fair share of the tax burden.

--- But I stray, sorry.

I don't think it is unreasonable to ask that you show me the same common courtesy that I try to show you.
-- I prefer FACTS. Just provide the evidence which you say you have and be done with it. Shit or get off the pot. Why drag this out? Why trey to tick me with crap, saying, ok, it's good evidence -- oh here is a picture of a submerged circle and that proves that Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt. How stupid do you think that people are? Why do you try insult me so?

We can discuss this thing without making personal attacks on one another or on the other person's beliefs. This is the civilized thing to do and we can strive to be civilized by using common decency in our communications and interactions.
--- Take a look at the places in our correspondence where I "insulted" you. I don't insult people ex nihilo. I do it when they deserve it. I use words to punish. Thank God for the fact that people feel hurt by words. Thank god that people feel rewarded by words. Oh, sorry -- may I say thank god or is this also an affront to your imaginary Rule Of The Universe, who is kinda touchy about what some minuscule creature orbiting a dot in an insignificant arm of the Milky way in one of the trillions of Milky ways ? Excuse me reverend, I just can't get a good feel about how saying fuck you God, would offend that god! Perhaps if you got some perspective -- if you learned something about our universe, about history and biology (and Egyptology), perhaps you might see things a little like I do and not harp about syntax. Then you could concentrate on the MEANING instead of on the bad words.

--- I Have little respect for you -- and why should I have respect ? You have tried to trick me, lie to me, weasel, you; you are smug and intolerant of other peoples modes of expression, religion and weltanschauung. So, now you have an excuse to NOT find that elusive Egyptian Jew information -- you can say to yourself, oh, gee this fellow is not worthy and he's not of my religion.

Please try to be civilized. I believe that anyone can, should they choose to do so, be decent and civilized while discussing differences, any kind of differences, with another human being at any time and in regards to any subject. I believe that this also includes atheists. Or will you prove me wrong in this?

I am not trying to be unkind but we need to have some basis for our continued correspondence and/or interaction. Attacks are unnecessary. Disrespecting one another is unnecessary as well as counterproductive. Ridiculing or purposely bringing affront to one another, either personally or through affronts to their beliefs, is also not productive.
Therefore, I will continue with our communications but only as long as we do so in a civilized and respectful manner.


I have not yet been able to find the article on Moses that I mentioned to you in our original conversation. I will continue searching for it as I promised.

Doc
--- I claimed that there is no archeological evidence of the Jews having been in Egypt in pharaonic times. You say I'm wrong. If you had evidence, I'd have to seriously consider it and I'd change my mind.

Holy Moses, are you for real?

--- A story about Moses just won't do, reverend. We really ought to see some bones, graves, pottery, Synagogues -- REMNANTS!!! If your sunken Egyptian Chariot wheel can establish that Egyptians inhabited Egypt -- then we need to see something of that kind to think that Jews inhabited Egypt. My expectations are high, and from the tome of your jammering here it seems that a story about Moses ought to prove anything. Come on, reverend, don't try to INSULT out intelligence. I want meat. Where's the beef?

--- Are you going to show the GRAVES, BONES, PAPYRI, MONUMENTS, INSCRIPTIONS, FOUNDATIONS OF DWELLINGS, SYNAGOGUES, STREETS, OIL LAMS, MINORAs, MIDDENS, TOOLS, FISH HOOKS. ETC., or are you NOT going to show any of these tings -- YES or NO? How about just one?


I will also try to find a bit more substantial evidence on the internet for Moses as well as for the Jews in Egypt, as I also promised. (I have already sent you the secular info that I was able to find on Jesus, so that is finished.)

--- Your information of the Jews was such poor quality, misleading and insulting, what with all your weaseling and the crap-reading I had to do on account of the information you sent me. I'll think about Jesus after we finish  the Israelites' Egyptian connection, if you don't mind. My suspicion is that now, knowing you better, you will try to give similarly dishonest references. But I'll reserve judgment. Perhaps some Roman contemporaries of Jesus made a note of His events. I hope so, else Christianity would be a fraud.   Did a historical Jesus exist?    A web article by Jim Walker


Those are the only two promises I made in our original conversation. Two things- the article on Moses (which I am still searching for) and any internet info that I could find on the Hebrews in Egypt.

(The info on Jesus was just a side-note in our conversation, but I did send you what secular info I could find on the net.)   Ed: Oh-uh... I see another weasel in the bush.

Civilized human beings can discuss differences in a civil manner. So let's be civilized, okay?
--- OK. So what happened with the praying, pray tell -- nothing has happened. Did you instruct your prayer team that the result would be manifested soon or did you leave it up to the providence of the Lard? I'd like to see it happen soon, I'm preparing myself now and I don't have the patience forever to wait. Really, I'm serious. What's going on with the prayer team and the prayers?

I will contact you tomorrow should I find the article to which I had originally made reference. Otherwise, I will keep searching.
Doc

I still have not been able to find the original article on Moses in Egypt that I referred to the night of our original conversation.  I am afraid it was lost when the college switched servers last year.  The man who runs our website (email) didn't know that my e-mail, at that time, was not downloaded to my computer as it is now.  I now use Outlook Express and it automatically downloads all mail to my computer from my two main accounts (personal and college accounts).  When he switched us over, I lost hundreds of archived e-mails that were stored on the previous server.  They are irretrievable.  It took me months to reestablish contact with some of my students.
    [Maybe the dog ate it -Ed.]
 
However, I did do some more research and came up with the following site.  Interesting parallels between an ancient Egyptian papyrus and the book of Exodus.   http://www.specialtyinterests.net/ipuwer.html 
     [This parallel becomes much less evident when not taken out of context,  see
here for a full translation of Papyrus Ipuwer, and here (Wikipedia) -Ed.]
 
There are many more sites concerning this papyrus-some pro and some con.  You can access them by running a search using "Ipuwer Papyrus" on the internet.  Google gave me dozens of hits.  I looked at many and, as I said, some are pro and some are con concerning a connection with the Exodus.  You can decide what you think the connection might or might not be.

---  Luckily for us, what's on your church's computer is not crucial to the problem of the Historicity of the Jews!   I'm waiting for the evidence from you.   If it's a fact, there will be many documented excavations, studies, GRAVES, BONES, PAPYRI, MONUMENTS, INSCRIPTIONS, FOUNDATIONS OF DWELLINGS, SYNAGOGUES, STREETS, OIL LAMS, MINORAs, MIDDENS, TOOLS, FISH HOOKS. Did you even come across one archeology book on this subject?   I'll wait here by my modem :)

At 01:31 AM 1/9/2007, you wrote:

Yes, I would like info on Dr. Heineman for future reference and research.
 
And the prayers will continue on this end but God may have to answer them "no" for us if you continue to refuse on your end.  It's up to you.  He won't force you- only love you and continue trying to spare you the consequences of your free choice.  And we'll follow His example and continue loving you also by praying for you.
 
I sent you some info on the Exodus a few minutes ago.  You can look it over and examine both the pros and the cons and then decide which you will choose to accept.
 
Best I can do for right now.  I have to get back to work now on the episode on the First and Second Commandment.  It's the second video in the series I am producing for the 10 weeks of lectures I started last night on the Ten Commandments.
The Introduction went quite well.  Good crowd and a positive response.

[Ed: The first commandment admits that other gods exist.  Why else the admonition not to worship any of them?

After all, it would be pretty stupid (or mean) of god to tell you not to do X, when it's impossible to do X.]

And I am serious. I will keep praying for God to keep working on you.
 Doc


Dear reverend,

Let me know when you get an answer. 

If It's YES, I will know it, thank you -- no need for you to tell me then. 
If it's no, only you will know that He has answered.  in that case, please let me know ASAP.

I told you I wouldn't resist, don't you remember? It's up to your three-in-one magical mystery combo of Gods, to make me a Baptist like you (I assume that's what the prayer team and its captain are praying for).

You're funny.  But, if I were to resist god's zapping me with your religious belief, and If nothing happened, then I'd be more powerful than your
3 gods and it'd be more evidence that praying does not wok! 
Why do you not agree?  (Rhetorical, off-topic question, sorry)

So you lied to me, when you said that if a TRUE believer prayed, god would answer.  So far we don't have a yes or a NO, from your prayer-squad.  So that's pretty good evidence that praying does not work. 
And of course, not getting a prayer-answer is completely different from the answer being no -- everybody understand and knows that.

The material on the link you sent me was cute, but I must ask you to REFRAIN from sending stuff like that for christ's sake!!!  Send your evidence and quit trying to jerk me off more! 

You say you'll seriously keep praying for God to keep working on me.  But I prefer an instant conversion. As it is, every day that passes I belittle you and ad-hominemize you and your god/s, I think you're stupid etc.  Why do you tolerate it?  Why cna't you just pray-convert me instantly?  You take it and take it, with few complaints, only to demonstrate that the Lord can do snail-slow conversions instead of fast ones.  You stuffer all this punishment.  Does your prayer-team purposely pray for my slow conversion just so I can sit here and laugh, tell my friends and the world about all this?  And all the while you and your prayer squad resist praying for for my quick miraculous conversion!

The Lord COULD make my meager knowledge of Egyptology equal to yours by making me forget a bunch of stuff and thus we'd be halfway to my Baptism.

Instead of praying to me, why don't you pray for knowledge of evidence of Jews in Egypt?   If praying works, then you should have this evidence in a jiffy.  (Unless, of course, no answer can be finagled to mean no evidence).  Pray for an Israelite fish-hook or spoon to be excavated.  

 

Dear Doc,
According to the reference you gave me earlier 
(
henryzecher.com) it was Immanuel Velikovsky who first associated the Ipuwer papurus (ca. 1800 BCE) with the Exodus plagues! And we all know what a quack he wasI To the lay person he was convincing in his books, World in Collision and Earth in Upheaval. The sad fact for your thesis, Dr. VanBuskirk, is that both of his books argued AGAINST the thesis that God caused the Egyptian plagues -- All that turmoil was natural causes, according to Velikovsky.   In place of  Wholly Babble explanations Velikovsky argued that all the mayhem in the exodus, even the pillar of fire, the manna from heaven and many more disasters and phenomena were cased by Earth's close encounter with the planet Venus. But Immanuel Velikovsky has been debunked.

Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipuwer_papyrus

At 12:38 AM 1/14/2007, you wrote:

Yes, I checked a dozen or more of the websites and found that some are for and some are against the hypothesis that the plagues paralleled those in Exodus. 
--- Big deal. 

Also I saw that some attributed them to natural causes. (That still doesn't leave out the possibility that God brought them about.
--- Yes, if gods exist.  If gods hare small children and innocent people.  Or the devil might have done it.  Then there is the possibility that the Loch Ness monster or the abominable snowman or the Easter Bunny or undetectable gremlins orbiting Jupiter brought them about.

He has used nature on many occasions.  He created it and has the right to use it if He so chooses.)  So I guess it depends on who you choose to believe. 
---I  don't believe you until you quit stalling and send me the EVIDENCE you said which you know of and promised to provide.  Pleas LOOK UP YOUR BELIEFS and at least tell me the name of the museum / facility which houses the evidence we both seek.  Why are you being so difficult?
 
Many times "debunking" is in the "eye of the beholder." Many of the web sites were "pro" and many were "con."  That's what I stated in my e-mail when I sent it to you.  As I said then, I say again, you choose what to do with the info. 
--- I choose to believe that no Jews were in Egypt because I have seen no evidence of such a fantastic claim.  You told me yo have it and are weaseling, stalling, or uneducated on the subject.    Perhaps you're not dishonest about it, you just don't know the facts.  It seems that something like that should have been covered in your divinity PhD school, no?  Shame either way, yes?
 
I simply was supplying it to you as I promised.

Doc


PS: RE:  "Many times "debunking" is in the "eye of the beholder."
That's just plain stupid!  If, after the debunking, doubt remains, it's not been debunked, has it? 
Which schools gave your your two degrees, Reverend?

At 01:07 AM 1/14/2007, you wrote:
I was setting the ground rules for our continued correspondence on a civil level.
 
Since you have chosen to ignore the sites I sent you concerning extensive evidence of Semitic Canaanites in Egypt, then it is of no use to send you any more.
---I  Ignored nothing.  You are an ass for saying that. I looked at everything you sent me!!  The problem is that it was ALL just junk.  You gave me ONLY shit.  No artifacts, nothing.  No documented excavations, GRAVES, BONES, PAPYRI, MONUMENTS, INSCRIPTIONS, FOUNDATIONS, SYNAGOGUES, STREETS, OIL LAMS, MINORAs, MIDDENS, TOOLS, FISH HOOKS -- No E=V=I=D=E=N=C=E !
 
Also since you have ignored my request for us to communicate on a civil basis and have continued to use the Lord's name in vain and continued to purposely and personally insult me, then I have no choice but to break off correspondence with you. 
--- Oh, excuse me, I apologise!  I've received insults from you and from religious people, telling me here is shit ... ahem "evidence", telling me I'm a sinner, telling me that I'm not living my life correctly, getting lectured, saying that your WHOOLY BABBLE stories are true, SANS EVIDENCE, and now you have the gall to complain about STYLE ?!  I didn't even ask for proof I only asked for descent EVIDENCE!  You really take the cake, reverend. 
You are a WORM, in my opinion.
worm.gif (3649 bytes)--- Above was *MY* prediction :    "You will use as excuse the tone of my letter, not is substance, to claim moral superiority or insult, and thus weasel that it's  because of that, that you won't supply the EVIDENCE"  -- It looks like I'm a better prophet than any in your camp.  At least I predicted something that, afterwards, actually happened.  HA! You have proven yourself to be an uncivilized person with no sense of common decency. Nevertheless I had hoped that my prediction might not come true.

--- OK, it's just SO0oo convenient, isn't it Dr. Livingstone, your name-calling.  You condemn us atheists, yet  can't understand common English  language.   I don't use any word in vain, I choose them all carefully.  It's just lucky for me that I've some weapon to get even with you -- for lying to me about your possession of secret evidence of the historicity of Jews in Egypt.  If it were evident, it would have been such a God damned simple thing to show, for christ's sake!  Jesus christ, you and your ilk irk the shit out of me, you are so dishonest!

I have no more time for this.  I will continue to pray for you, as will the folks at the church.
---Cool! Your prayer squad has not yet convinced your deity that I should become stupid and / or DISHONEST like you Baptist religionist apologists, not knowing squat thing about history, or even your own Wholly Babble.
 

We leave it up to God to answer as He sees fit. 
--- Don't do that!  Pray for my salvation.  The you'll know right away if it works.  It doesn't work, because nothing has happened to me.  If you god-combo were real, I would despise them, all three of them -- well four of them -- if you count the devil as an Omniscient Omnipresent being.

All we have asked is that He continue to work on you.
--- That's stupid, too.  I am more powerful that you imaginary HE; HA HA.
--- Let me know when you and you PRAYER SQUAD have given up, so I and my friend can have a big laugh.  Then I'll publish the results on the 'net.
 

 You choose whether you will yield or not. 
--- Yes, I choose to yield.  Do your worst, "reverend Double-Dr.-Phd"  You Weasel, you.  --- Your goofy prayers don't work.  Praying is stupid.   It does not work, see?  Try honesty next time you attend an atheist party.  Perhaps you might learn something.  Your Baptist Ministry school didn't educate you -- or you would not think that you URLs are evidence.  Pray to ask your trinity-combo and god-on-a-stick to make your smart, educated and honest.  Quit lying to people.  You are stupid, or you are dishonest.  Both are bad qualities, I'm sorry but I don't see it any other way. 

He has given you that choice.  Exercise it as you will.  I don't know what you are truly seeking in your life, but I hope you find it. I am not mad at you, just disappointed that you have chosen this uncivilized track.

Doc


--- It's uncivilized to lie, weasel and to be uneducated.  Read a book, get an education, "Doctor Double-Phd".  Only a fool would have a false religion. god bless you. Your name, VanBuskirk translates as "Of the Penitence Church", yes?  Repent, for christ's sake!  If no more evidence is forthcoming from you, this will have to stand as is.  Be nice.

Goodbye, god Bless.

LINKS
Response to Mr. Lobdell and Rev. Buskirk

Religion beat became a test of faith
[GOOGLE]: Rev. Jerry Vine
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What the Reverend sent me in support of his idea that Jewish slaves inhabited Egypt was absolute Junk.
As you can see, half the hyperlinks he gave me didn't even point to any website.

 

From: "Doc Van" docvbk@msn.com>
Subject: Info you requested- Moses, Jesus, etc.
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:29:00 -0700
 

Here is some of the info I promised to send to you.  There is a massive amount more available on the internet from secular as well as religious sources. 
But, here are just a few that I have had the time [sic] to dig out for you.
 

The Reverend's email is in BLACK; mine are shown in BLUE
Below, I added quotes from some of the web pages as well as my comments -ed.
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- The Exodus:
http://www.geocities.com/worldview_3/exodus.html  
"Admittedly, there is not an abundance of specific archaeological evidence to confirm each particular event in the biblical account of God delivering the people of Israel out of Egypt through Moses, as described in the book of Exodus ..."
 
- Moses:
http://biblelight.net/moses.htm   At the bottom of this page are various links from which the info was gathered for the article [at this web page].  
http://www.pilgrimpromo.com/WAR/discovered/html/chapter12.htm this one seems quite informative.  "The kings of the 18th Dynasty are stated by historians as being named either Amenhotep and Thutmoses."
 There was a Thutmose(s) ? III, II who was the sixth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Wikipedia informs us that Thutmose III ruled from 1479 BC to 1425 BC according to the Low Chronology of Ancient Egypt. -- nothing about Jews in Egypt.

 
General info on Moses and the Israelites in Egypt:
http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/1827/
The CREATIONISTS here tell us noting about the Historicity of Moses, on this site which is supposed to substantiate that Jews were in Egypt. On this web page we see ?It is true that there is no evidence for Moses, the ten plagues that fell upon Egypt or the exodus ?at that time?.? However this web site goes on to say that Egyptologist have most of the dates wrong, therefore Moses and Jewish slaves existed after all (sic).
 
BBC broadcast on Moses:
https://listhost.uchicago.edu/pipermail/ane/2002-November/004626.html Here, a computer is said to validated the story of Moses [ed.]:
"In Moses, the latest scientific evidence is combined with state-of-the-art computer graphics and dramatic reconstructions to reveal the sensational truths that lie at the heart of the Moses story." 

 also:
http://www.abc.net.au/compass/s271762.htm
Moses mentioned 3 times, no info on Jews, Slavery or Moses. 
 
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Dr. T.E. VanBuskirk
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Doc


The Reverend Dr. VanBuskirk says "there are multiplied [sic] hundreds of more sites on these subjects"  -- the historicity of Jews in Egypt.  Yet he only gave these few links, and they are *ALL* junk!  None addresses this question. In an email I told him that.  I thought the good reverend is dishonest in using these links to fortify his claim that Jews existed in Egypt and I told him so.


Date: Sat, 30 May 2009
To: docvbk@saltlakebaptistcollege.org
From: nowscape@nowscape.com

Is your prayer team still working? Please let me know thanks.


My email to Dr. T.E. VanBuskirk   20 Oct 2009 15:45

FFRF sues IRS, Geithner and California over 'Minister of Gospel' tax benefits
Examiner.com/x-2044-Atheism-Examiner~y2009m10d20-FFRF-sues-IRS-Geithner-and-California-over-Minister-of-Gospel-tax-benefits?cid=examiner-email

Sincerely yours.


From: docvbk@saltlakebaptistcollege.org
Subject: Autoresponse to FFRF sues IRS, Geithner and California
To: KRP nowscape@yahoo.com


The following message is from our autoresponder
... [snip]

Thank you for your communication concerning "To a Dishonest Scheisster."

shy·ster
Pronunciation: \'shīs-tər\
Function: noun
Etymology: probably from German Scheisser, literally, defecator; 1844
: a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger

It has been received and routed to the proper mailbox. [Oh yeah... sure...]

You are important to us. Your communication has been routed to the proper person and if it requires an answer, expect one within 24-48 hours excluding weekends when the offices are closed...
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Thank you,
Dr. T.E. VanBuskirk


The Rev. Dr. T.E. VanBuskirk is spamming people with a link to a Viagra advert.
I think his computer has a virus; he is sending spam to these addresses:

 Greg Lavine <glavine@sltrib.com>
hbchurch1 <hbchurch1@sbcglobal.net>
Herb Rawlings <hmr@rawlingscompany.com>
Howard Braymer <hbraymer@alltel.net>
jcgoldman <jcgoldman@templeabq.org>
jessek <jessek@tds.net>
jhack911 <jhack911@optonline.net>
Jim & Jeanne Berryhill <junglejim@cantv.net>
Jim Brummet <chaplainjim@charter.net>
JIM IVY <nhranchaztec@msn.com>
Johnny Fulmer <fefulmer15@aol.com>
Johnny Widener <lbcjdw@xit.net>
Joni Tuttle <jonitutt@aol.com>
Judea Samaria Project <judeasamaria@protelco.net>
Karla <coolsquirl@netzero.com>
Karla UseToBeVBK <coolsquirl@netzero.net>
Kaye LeachSpear <kleach@land.az.gov>
kbc <kbc@cyber-quest.com>
Ken Haugland <kenlh1@charter.net>
KenKathyCornett <kenkathycornett@cs.com>
Kim <light_house11@hotmail.com>
LairdLoveridge <lairdloveridge@yahoo.com>
Lawyer Africa <barrister2osemes@yahoo.co.uk>
Lenore Cook <lenore@elltel.net>
Linda Hilton <linda@crossroads-u-c.org>

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Luis and Marlyn Jimenez <bigaconstruction@aol.com>
Lydia Biggs <avengres95@aol.com>
Lynn Arave <lynn@desnews.com>
Lynn Romer <lynnromer@yahoo.com>
Malyssa Jennings <mizlyssie@hotmail.com>
Marc Leverett <marcleverett@earthlink.net>
Matt Stahlman <director@reachingbeyondborders.org>
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Michelle CHURCH INQUIRE <nainers@juno.com>
Miguel Jurna <fbco@comcast.net>
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ghchbc <ghchbc@swbell.net>
gsutek@zappmobile.ro
hasulomi@yahoo.com
hbraymer@alltel.net
jaac4@aol.com
kaymacabre13@msn.com
kenkathycornett@cs.com
kimiferguson@hotmail.com
kimiferguson@hotmail.com
kimiferguson2@hotmail.com
lairdloveridge@yahoo.com
little_brat_2009@hotmail.com
marceyhulslander@hotmail.com
miztigger0623@hotmail.com
nationaloffice@bbfi.org
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riny@comcast.net
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sockspenny@usadatanet.net
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docvbk@saltlakebiblecollege.org

rrauscher_1999@yahoo.com

edu@schoolhousepublications.info

admin@nowscape.com

jessek@tds.net

emona1225@aol.com

ccbrown18@msn.com

drjones@sit.com

I told him about it.


From: "Dr. TERRY VANBUSKIRK" docvbk@msn.com>
Date: November 13, 2010 11:29:31 PM MST

I didn't.

Someone is sending out fraudulent email in my name.

I am working with the FBI and the Autstralian government to put a stop to the fraud.

Sorry for any inconvenience but I had nothing to do with it.

Christ's Servant forever,
Dr. T.E. VanBuskirk
Administrative Vice President Salt Lake Baptist College
docvbk@saltlakebaptistcollege.org
http://saltlakebaptistcollege.org


From: "Dr. TERRY VANBUSKIRK" <docvbk@msn.com>
Date: November 14, 2010 2:46:15 PM MST
Subject: RE: From: "Dr. TERRY VANBUSKIRK" <docvbk@msn.com>


You didn't sign your email so I don't know who you are.

I haven't yet contacted the FBI, but I will be contacting them and the Australian government on Monday to find out who is hacking my email account and sending out fraudulent email in my name.

It is against the law for them to perpetrate such fraud.

        [Unfortunately it's still legal to perpetrate the fraud you're mixed up in, with your tax-exempt bullshit. - Ed]

This happened once before with another email account and I was able to put a stop to it.


From National Geographic:  nationalgeographic.com :

Who Built the Pyramids?

Contrary to some popular depictions, the pyramid builders were not slaves or foreigners. Excavated skeletons show that they were Egyptians who lived in villages developed and overseen by the pharaoh's supervisors.

The builders' villages boasted bakers, butchers, brewers, granaries, houses, cemeteries, and probably even some sorts of health-care facilities—there is evidence of laborers surviving crushed or amputated limbs. Bakeries excavated near the Great Pyramids could have produced thousands of loaves of bread every week.

Some of the builders were permanent employees of the pharaoh. Others were conscripted for a limited time from local villages. Some may have been women: Although no depictions of women builders have been found, some female skeletons show wear that suggests they labored with heavy stone for long periods of time.

Graffiti indicates that at least some of these workers took pride in their work, calling their teams "Friends of Khufu," "Drunkards of Menkaure," and so on—names indicating allegiances to pharaohs.

An estimated 20,000 to 30,000 workers built the Pyramids at Giza over 80 years. Much of the work probably happened while the River Nile was flooded.

Huge limestone blocks could be floated from quarries right to the base of the Pyramids. The stones would likely then be polished by hand and pushed up ramps to their intended positions.

It took more than manual labor, though. Architects achieved an accurate pyramid shape by running ropes from the outer corners up to the planned summit, to make sure the stones were positioned correctly. And priests-astronomers helped choose the pyramids' sites and orientations, so that they would be on the appropriate axis in relation to sacred constellations.

From stone pusher to priest, every worker would likely have recognized his or her role in continuing the life-and-death cycle of the pharaohs, and thereby in perpetuating the glory of Egypt.

[forwarded to Dr. VanBuskirk]

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