The Parting of the Red Sea: A Foundational Miracle in Christian History
A historical account of the Red Sea crossing and how this ancient miracle shaped Christian understanding of deliverance, identity, and sacred history.
The parting of the Red Sea is one of the earliest and most influential miracle accounts inherited by Christianity, remembered not as a separate Christian event but as a foundational episode within the sacred history that Christianity received from Israel’s past. Categorized as a miracle, the account describes the deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt through the division of the sea, traditionally dated to the thirteenth century BC within the biblical narrative. For Christians, this event became notable because it established patterns of deliverance, divine intervention, and communal identity that later shaped how early Christians understood their own origins and historical mission.
