Keep us posted on all that existed or not in a past you know nothing about eh? We look to you.
Ok, we will use an example, where Genesis is wrong about history.
Now I don't know which bible you read, but I assuming you reading an English translation, like the KJV, or something more modern, like NASB, NIV or NRSV, which are all Old Testament were mostly translated from the Hebrew Masoretic Text, and supplemented with Greek Septuagint. Only the Greek Orthodox Church don't rely on the Masoretic Text at all.
Based on most modern English translations, you can calculate the Old Testament, by counting the reigns of kings of Judah, backwards from the fall of Jerusalem (587 or 586 BCE), to the beginning of king Solomon's reign about 970 BCE. From 1 Kings 6:1, we would use 480 years, to get the date of the freed Israelites leaving Egypt, and Exodus 12:40-41, to get the date of Abraham's covenant in Genesis 15, when Abraham was 85 (we know this because Abraham was 86 when Ishmael was born). And we can calculate all the years of generations of patriarchs, from Adam to Abraham with Genesis 5 & 11. And lastly, we know that Noah was 600 when he boarded the Ark
From all these dates, we can get the date that Genesis Flood would have occurred in 2340 BCE.
Now the example is this:
According to Genesis 10:6, Egypt did exist until after Ham became father of "Mizraim" in KJV translation, "Egypt" in most more modern English translations.
Genesis 10:6 KJV said:
And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
Genesis 10:6 NRSV said:
6 The descendants of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.
There are no years or age given in this chapters, and we can only assume that the order of names given to Ham's sons are the order they were born, eg assuming Mizraim/Egypt was Ham's 2nd eldest son, after Cush.
We are also assuming that no one else survive the Flood in Genesis 7 & 8, other than Noah and his 3 sons, and their wives (hence a total of 8 survivors).
Now one person cannot make a nation, so if there was truly a Flood, as Genesis 6 to 10 say, then it would take many generations for Egypt to be a nation. So Mizraim/Egypt would have to reach adulthood, before becoming father to his sons and daughters, and his children would have to reach adulthood, before they became parents of new generations, and so on.
But how much generations are needed to make a nation?
And how big a population would be needed to become a nation?
- 10 people? No, that's highly unlikely. It would be more like a tiny village than a nation.
- 100 people? Again, no. That size would make a clan, but not a nation. 100 people would either be modest village or tiny town, but certainly not a nation. In 3 to 4 generations, you could reach this population.
- 1000 people? Again, no. It is still not enough people to be called a nation; this population would possibly be suitable for a moderate town or a tiny city, but not a nation.
- 10,000? That's more possible than all of the above. But we are talking about Egypt that would cover the northern length of the Nile (Nile Delta to southern town of Elephantine, hence a whole region, and not a single city).
For Mizraim or Egypt to create a nation, it would require a number of generations and tens of thousands of people. And all that will take time, like a couple of centuries, and number of generations, especially, if you are only starting with two people, eg Mizraim/Egypt and his unnamed wife.
And according to Genesis 10:13-14, Mizraim/Egypt only had 7 sons. That still not enough to become a nation called Egypt.
If the Flood did happen in 2340 BCE, and Egypt only exist afterwards, then it would take a long time for Egypt to become a nation.
But according to history and archaeology, there was no global flood. Egypt predated 2340 BCE, as a civilisation and as a culture.
If different people lived in Egypt in pre-Flood, then you would expect the "old" population to replace the "new" (eg the biblical descendants of Mizraim/Egypt), so there would be discontinuity in that land, disruption of civilisation and change in cultures, between the old and new.
There was no such disruption or changes, caused by a natural disaster, like the scale of Genesis Flood.
But historically and archaeologically there are no sign of changes. The arts from 24th century to later time, are no different to 31st to 24th centuries BCE.
Instead, Egyptians continued to build pyramids, still created the same types of artwork, and still use the same hieroglyphs and hieratic writings.
2340 BCE would be in the reign of 1st king of the 6th dynasty, Teti (reign 2345 – 2333 BCE) who has pyramid built in Saqqara, just like his son and 2nd successor Pepi I (reign 2331 – 2287 BCE) and his predecessor, the last king of the 5th dynasty, Unas (reign 2375 – 2345 BCE). (Note that Userkare actually ruled between Teti and Pepi I, in 2333 to 2331 BCE, but his reign was too short to have a pyramid built for himself.
If the Flood had occurred, Teti should have died, and he would have no successors. But not only Unas, Teti and Pepi I have their names in their respective pyramids in Saqqara, their names are listed in the Abydos King List (AKL).
The AKL contained the names of kings from the 1st king of 1st dynasty (Menes or Narmer, flourished in 31st century BCE) to the 2nd king of the 19th dynasty (Seti, 1290–1279 BCE).
There are king lists, such as the Turin King List (TKL) and Karnak King List (KKL), where Unas' name is missing in the KKL.
These king lists, along with the names inscribed in their pyramids are evidences for these kings.
(Note that Egyptians only started building pyramids, with the Step Pyramid in Saqqara being the first, for Djoser (reign 2686 - 2649 BCE), the founder of the 3rd dynasty. Before Djoser, tombs were in the form of "mastaba".)
If Flood did occurred in 2340 BCE, and Mizraim/Egypt was the first, then there would be no earlier rulers and dynasties of Egypt, there would be no great pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu, reign 2589 – 2566 BCE, the 2nd monarch of the 4th dynasty).
There shouldn't be Egyptian history before 2340 BCE, if Genesis Flood was true.
You know nothing about history, dad1.
