Mass revelation at Mt. Sinai prove Judaism is true...?

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Does the mass revelation at Mt. Sinai prove Judaism is the true religion? all other religions have a story of a single individual receiving a revelation and then telling others about it, while in every copy of the Torah, it has a story of 3 MILLION Jews hearing God speak at Mt. Sinai.... does this prove that Judaism is the true religion?
http://www.simpletoremember.com/article ... orah-true/

None for these examples you cite satisfy burden of proof. This are not first hand account and lack contemporary historical accounts. The archaeological account of early Judaism, relate Cannanite culute.

You would need to prove that there were this group of slave who came out of Egypt en-masse.

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/the-jewis ... h-1.420844

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/ ... jews_were/

However if you are Muslim, then you would accept that Judaism as part of your tradition.

Probably just a form of group hysteria.

Aliens.

If this would have happened in modern times, with cameras at the scene, there might be validity to this question.

However, a mention of this situation in a 20-century old book has no hope of ever being valid as evidence, let alone proof (*any* 20-century old book).


Then still, even *if* this mass revelation really happened, and it was indeed a god speaking, this still only indicates that judaism is true, not that it is the only true religion; who claims that there is only one "true god"? many societies had several gods, even christianity hints at this. "Thou shalt not worship any god but me", why say that if there is only one god? Jaweh basically stated "yeah, there are more gods, but i'm jealous, so worship only me".
i can imagine judaism and islam have similar passages in their books

A crowd of three million people were camped out in the wilderness at the foot of a mountain in the Sinai Desert. And they all witnessed the same thing at the same time?

And this happened in 1300 BC when the whole world only had less than 100 million people? So more than three percent of the world's population was gathered at one spot at one time? That would be the equivalent of 200 million people today- two thirds of the U.S. population gathering at the Glastonberry Rock festival at one time.

There were no cities even one tenth that size at the time, but thats how many were camped out in the wilderness at that moment?

If each of these three million were standing up (and assuming that each man, woman, and child, were the same stature so they would block each others view) then the crowd would have to have been three square kilometers, or about one square mile-assuming they were all on a level plain. Most of the Sinai is rather rugged and lunar looking with a lot of crags. So they probably would have had to spread out more than that to get around the craggy rocks. And they all heard a voice speak to them and could decifer the words from half of a mile away? And we have sworn affadavits from each of these three million people who saw this thing in 1300 BC?

Right.

If Judaism is invalid then that also invalidates Islam. The two are linked.

Genesis is crucial, if i didn't happen then the basis for Abrahamic faith falls down like a collapsing house of cards.

The reality is there is no credible evidence linking a mass exodus of slaves from Egypt, and given there is evidence of an origin in Canaanite culture, that would much more likely.