Parting the Red Sea

Dear Victorious,

A friend and I were discussing the parting of the Red Sea recently. He claims it really happened in a miraculous way. But I've read accounts that say the wind could have blown and dried out the sea, much like it dries a marsh or something. I'm not saying that God didn't do it. I just believe that He probably didn't do exactly what people think He did. I mean He used nature to accomplish what was accomplished.

Sam R. - Dallas, TX

Dear Sam,

There is nothing that has ever been discovered or observed in nature that could have produced the effect that Exodus 14 records. Exodus 14:21-22 makes it the clearest. It says, "Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left."

Look at what it says. It happened over night ... in a matter of hours. And there was a wall of water on either side of the passage the Lord had opened up. A wall of water? On both sides? Like I said, there is absolutely nothing that nature or science have ever recorded, discovered or observed that would produce such a phenomenon. I would submit to you that anyone who tries to dismiss this as anything but a miracle is committing blasphemy ... calling God a liar.

The next time you go to a big city aquarium, stand beside a wall of water higher than your head. Then imagine that the plexiglass were removed from that wall ... and it remained a wall. Such was the experience of the Israelites --- on both sides of them.