Alrighty, let’s deal with the issue of why so many modern Christians hold to the false belief that the tip of the Sinai Peninsula is where Moses received the 10 Commandments from God.
You know, what’s really interesting about this whole thing is that up until 300 A.D., in Egypt, Palestine, Arabia or heck anywhere else in the world for that matter, there was zero thought or evidence…
…from a historical, cultural or traditional perspective…
…that the tip of the Sinai Peninsula was connected to…
…the Mountain of God (also known as Mount Horeb or Mount Sinai).
This false belief would not take hold until the original Messianic faith transformed into a fully gentile religion that eventually sought to remove any element of Jewishness from Biblical history.
How this belief arose is almost too trivial when you look at what really happened.
Around the 4th century AD, a small group of acetic monks were traveling through the region and when they came to the tip of the Sinai Peninsula they said to themselves…
…”Hmm, doesn’t this particular mountain look just like how the Mountain of God is described in the OT?”
Obviously that’s a paraphrase but that’s pretty much what happened.
The monks decided the tip of the Sinai Peninsula perfectly matched the Biblical description and that was that.
They decided to go with the conclusion that this was the mountain where Moses received the 10 commandments and even went on to name the mountaintop “Mount Sinai”.
It was from this trivial event and nothing else that the Gentile Church came to the conclusion that this was the area Moses was talking about in Exodus 3:12.
The monks built a church there and this falsehood still remains with us to this very day.
Of course, this is just the beginning of the many falsehoods the church would go on to promote.
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