Has anyone ever noticed the similarities between the Lion King and Moses' exit from Egypt?
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There are so many stories that parallel each other it's not even funny.  They also say that you can see the word "sex" in the dust in the Lion King scene where Simba is on the rock after the stampede.\n\nJust a note to zentrinity--The Chronicles of Narnia are SUPPOSED to parallel the Jesus story.  C.S. Lewis was primarily a Christian writer.  You should read some of his other stuff, like the Space Trilogy, or The Screwtape Letters.
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The book from the movie is actually a little more precise on his background. He was a Cuban and had been in prison not because he was a drug dealer but because he deserted from the Cuban army when his unit was destroyed in Angola.
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No.  They were separate creation of God that did not survive the flood.  They were sub-human species.  They were not in the human line of Adam.  They undoubtedly lived along side man and had some of the same features and habits, but that is where the similarities end.
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You guys are beginning to make answering questions all about getting 10 points, but i think it should go beyond that because its a time of learning.\nIf you were referring to Moses in the bible, i don't think you got the spelling of the HIERAN or HERAN well. I don't even think that word exist in the bible.
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Moses spoke Hebrew and Egyptian.\n\nHe was hidden by his mother for three months, then placed in a papyrus ark among the reeds by the bank of the Nile River, where Pharaoh’s daughter found him. Through the wise action of his mother and sister, Moses came to be nursed and trained by his mother in the employment of the daughter of Pharaoh, who then adopted him as her son.\n\nSo, it would make sense that his mother would have taught him Hebrew and he would speak it.  After all, how could he speak to all the Israelites when they left Egypt if he didn't speak Hebrew?\n\n(Acts 7:22) 22 Consequently Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. In fact, he was powerful in his words and deeds.\n\nIf he was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, it seems unlikely that his Egyptian would be deficient.  Instead, his slowness of speech seems more likely to be due to his being unsure of himself, perhaps thinking he was not an eloquent speaker.  However, as time went on, Moses slowly emerged as a powerful speaker, and soon Aaron was not needed as a spokeman anymore.\n\nGreek did not become a world wide language until around Jesus' day.
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I think they kept going in circles.  \n\nAfter the 40th time they passed the same burnt shrub, someone probably elbowed Moses and asked if he could check out what was over that hill ahead on the left.  That's when they found the promised land.
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I thought Disney did an amazing job with the Simba character when in he thought he could not go home(the original Lion King)Simba was found by Pumba and ?? (I have nit seen the movie in a while)but being SO different,they embraced Simba and made him feel as if he were family,they showed how you can have a family w/out being the same color,same race,... and still be embraced and loved and respected,robin
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At that time Egypt was a fertile, luxuriant land and the Pharaoh became friends with Joseph (son of Jacob, grandson of Isaac, great-grandson of Abraham) after Joseph had been exiled by his brothers.  Joseph interpreted Pharaoh's dream of the seven fat cows and seven thin cows, and as a reward, Pharaoh promised that Joseph and his people would be welcome in Egypt during the years of famine to come.  \n\nOver much time and many years later this attitude changed and the Pharaohs saw that the Jews had become numerous and decided to enslave them instead.\n\nOf course, reality might have been different but that's what is written in the Torah/Old Testament.
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The same can be said of the Exodus. There are no records of a massive Jewish migration out of Egypt by Moses. Christians claim, erroneously, that the Egyptians never documented a bad policy and would never document losing thousands of slaves.\n\nInterestingly enough though, maticulous records from granaries show no excessive shortages or surplus, which would support the Exodus story...\n\nIt's a book. 5% philosophy, 73% theology, 22% assorted smut and violence. 100% fiction.\n\nIncidentally, for the guy above me, that occurance was off by about 5 years. The phenomenon you are referring to happened BEFORE the birth of Jesus in the historical record.\n\n-SD-
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Lion King...Akuna Matada
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It doesn't have to be true. There are no evidences on Moses name being deleted. Egyptologists could not even tell us which Pharaoh Moses dealt with. \nThe only credible source on the life of Jews in Egypt comes from the bible. Aside from that is only movie dramatization.
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well, they are both hatefully oppressed for no good reason, backed up by the Bible. i'd say they're similar, but not identical.
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Disney's Lion King is from 1994.
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:}\nG-d is real the exodus was not Abraham's but Israel with Moses
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Hey Jim, finally a good theological question from you, I knew you had it in you! Your starting to come over to the other side, I can just feel it. In all seriousness, there is no record the children of Israel coming out of Egypt washed their clothes, used deodorant, or brushed their teeth! After forty years, this would be a pretty ripe bunch, maybe that's why the walls of Jericho fell flat!,. what do you think?
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My absolute favorite story in Genesis is the story of Joseph, where his brothers sell him into slavery and he ends up becoming the top person in Egypt right underneath Pharaoh.  The best part of the story is when his brothers come to Egypt to get food for their family, and Joseph ends up telling them who he is and that he forgives them of everything that they did to him.  It takes a strong man of God to do something like that.  I admire him for that.
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At one point, the Israelites needed water and God told Moses to strike a rock with his staff to release water.  He did this and water came out of the rock.\n\nLater on, the Israelites had moved to another spot and were in need of water again.  God told Moses to speak to a rock to release water but Moses decided he knew better and struck the rock with his staff again.\n\nBecause of his disobedience to God, he was denied entrance to the Promised Land.