[ SECRET POST #4274 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4274 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

-mutters and go grabs Scofield KJV- Okay, so God being a touchy feeley nice God is totally New Testament God. In the OT, God is judgey and jealous and all sorts of angry. There's a reason one of the first commandments is "have no other god before me."

So in Chapter 6, Moses tried speaking to the Hebrews, but they wouldn't listen, so he told God, hey how is Pharaoh going to listen if the Hebrews won't? (He's 80 years old, or fourscore, at this point. Cranky old guy.)So in Chapter 7, God goes, you talk to Pharaoh, and I'm going to harden his heart. And then I'm going to perform wonders and magic and show these Egyptians that I'm REAL. (This will also prove to the Hebrews that Moses knows what he's talking about.)

And so for the next 5 chapters, after every miracle, God hardened Pharaoh's heart, just as he said he would. Then on the 10th, Pharaoh LET THEM GO, then his heart hardened AGAIN and he chased the down to where Moses had to split the waters.

It, sadly, wouldn't have mattered how Moses approached Ramses. God intervened in order to show his power to both Egypt and the Hebrews. He was proving this point and in order to make the Hebrews grateful to Him, He did something horrible to the Egyptians. Though the Hebrews weren't immune to the prior 8 plagues.

It is the weirdest story to teach to children, especially after teaching them about Joseph and that mess. Then it goes on about the 10 commandments and the bull and forcing the Hebrews to basically drink gold imbued water and then their own version of genocide later. It's bonkers. Especially since it's taught as "truth" without any historical context. And the "moral lesson" that young kids are supposed to get out of this is "if God talks to you, do what he says. Obey him. Or else bad things happen." But hey, even if you DO obey him, bad things still can happen.

At least most churches skip... Job. Poor Job.

[(Anonymous)]

My church didn't skip Job and his story really fucked up kid me.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for pointing out that whole "God hardened Ramses' heart" thing because, in the movie, Ramses does it to himself and that's erasing a really fucked up aspect of Christianity.

[(Anonymous)]

It depends on what translation of the Bible it is

[(Anonymous)]

You mean that some places want to censor that God isn't a good, all-benevolent being? Gasp, shock, horror!

[(Anonymous)]

Judaism. Exodus was way, waaaaay the fuck before Jesus.

[(Anonymous)]

well, it's a fucked up element of both religions, really

it did originate with Judaism though

[digitalghosts]

Job has been the favourite Bible part for my Polish professor and he used it as a sample of how God should be always most important - "Job survived all that crap and you kids refuse to obey!? You and all those other heathens are shitty!". Needless to say, he also loved Abraham forced to almost kill his son ... and Song of All Songs which was absolutely not porn to him and boobs were "mountains of Israel".