Was the parting of the Red Sea a real miracle or just a natural event?
The parting of the Red Sea was a miraculous act of God, not a natural event. Theories that it occurred at a shallow end in eighteen inches of water, or that a tidal wave drowned the Egyptians, are rejected as hogwash and bilge water. It was the powerful working of an Almighty God.
Les explains that the parting of the Red Sea was a miraculous act of God. He notes that skeptics try to explain it away by placing it at a shallower end near the Mediterranean Sea, where they went through water only eighteen inches deep. He mentions an article arguing that chariots could not be drowned in eighteen inches of water, but that the area often has great tidal waves coming in off the Mediterranean that could have drowned the Egyptians. Les calls that explanation hogwash and bilge water. He insists that all these things are the miraculous, powerful working of an Almighty God, and that this is the way we have to take it.