NOTES for Exo 14:1-31
The crossing of the Red Sea always serves for unbelieving people as a direct indication that the Bible tells fairy tales that cannot exist in principle. At the same time, the miracle does not consist in the fact that the sea water parted, exposing the bottom. Such phenomena still happen in these places under a particular wind direction. Miraculous salvation is most often not an impossible and incredible event, but a possible one that happened at the needed time in the needed place.
Moreover, here we see such a response of God to Moses' plea as one would never find in an impersonal and indifferent force or energy, nor in sugary pictures depicting an old man with a long white beard. God says to Moses: "...why do you cry to Me? tell the children of Israel to go forward." This is the foundation of the miracle - in the personal and close relationship between God and Moses and in Moses' trust. One can stay in place and keep crying out, but to live, one has to get up and go on.