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any question at all and don't be afraid to ask anything is there some way that we can reconcile almost 150 year discrepancy between the Torah historian dating of equ byon and secular historian is there some way of reconciling the discrepancy between the chronology of the Torah and the chronology of the secular historian yes there's a very good way to reconcile that discrepancy and that is to follow the to historians I'll tell you why people are naive they don't realize what's behind the secular historians it's all rigged for a purpose and the purpose is to justify purpose and the purpose is to justify the Christian books now the Christian books were not written by Scholars anybody knows a little bit about their books and recognize the ignorance of the early writers and therefore it's gratuitous it's entirely unnecessary for us to bother our heads to reconcile our chronology with theirs to reconcile our chronology with theirs let them reconcile theirs with ours because we have an exact chronology according to Generations Jews didn't calculate by years we calculate by generations and we have every generation in sequence from the beginning down to today we know all the generations and therefore that's valid enough for and therefore that's valid enough for us now the number of years according to these Generations in the tanak is enumerated and that's good enough however it's useful to know what a certain writer I won't give him the honor of mentioning him a secular writer states that there is a very big mixup in the secular Chon ology and that's because this all based on Egyptian
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- 2:35Egyptian chronology all the secular chronology is based on ancient Egyptian records but the ancient Egyptian…
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