Rather than playing the Doubting Thomas game you can verify all my claims very easily.
I know there is not much archeological evidence left in the desert. There is some disputed evidence here and there.
My interest right now is for me to examine how completely senseless the whole rest of the Bible would be if the Exodus account were not a historical fact. You do not have ONE book attesting to the Exodus. You have multiple independent sources speaking of the Exodus.
You would have to be talking about a deception that influenced multiple
Psalms, songs, and poetry latter attesting to the Exodus story. The effort to concoct a conspiracy theory of where then all these came from would be harder work then to just believe the Exodus account. I think.
Now the Jews had a civil calendar and a sacred calendar. The sacred calendar marks from the beginning of the Exodus from Egypt. Now if it did not occur please tell us what ALTERNATIVE source you believe serves as the origin of the sacred calendar.
Then Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
This month will be the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first of the months of the year to you." (Exodus 12:2)
What is your alternative explanation for the creation of Jewish sacred calendar when they already had a civil calendar?
I understanding you feel compelled to play the games suggested on Creationist websites to try to argue against things like Creationism, Exodus and Genesis. But you should agree it is dishonest and demeaning to you as a person and as a Christian.
You can assume much. I just ask you now to give opinion on the origin of the calendar which begins with the Jewish Passover event which is firmly grounded in the Exodus account -
Speak to all the assembly of Israel, saying, On the tenth of this month each man shall take a lamb according to his fathers' house, a lamb for a household. ... Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole congregation of the assembly of Israel shall kill it at twilight." (vs. 4,5,6)
A few thousand years Jews have had this time marker, calendar, and sacred ritual. What are your alternative explanations since you doubt the Exodus is history?