I know Pharaoh had Moses and his people and were torturing them but if God had the power to do anything he wanted like global floods, burning cities down, killing every new born, why didn't he just go after the men whom were responsible for torturing Moses and his people? Can anyone make sense of that? I can't.
Why did god kill anyone? I would think in a divine act lifting the entire Hebrew population and their goods and a big chunk of the wealth of Egypt to Mt. Ararat would have been enough of a fear inducer to be true Shock and Awe to make his point.
You "know" something that has no basis in history. There is zero evidence backing up the story that the Jews were ever slaves in Egypt or that the Exodus ever happened.
God LOVED killing children in the Old Testament....we've shown that many times. Naturally the Christian apologists try to claim "God got better" after Jesus....or that they were "evil babies".....or even that they were being "cannibalized".
You get that quite often from people who are asked questions....they never considered or are too frightened to consider or have no means of explaining rationally.
This is only my opinion. Most of tricks/magic could be duplicated, and most of the plagues were known to the Egyptians as natural events concerned with the annual flooding, and with the occasional drought when the rains in Central Africa failed, and the Nile, which relied on the rainwater from 3000 miles away, virtually dried up. Many of the plagues were the result of the effects of previous plagues. The really startling plague was that of the death of so many 'only' sons in one night. Death of children was not unusual, even with Egyptian medicine, but not in one night. This was the deciding plague. Pharaohs subsequent change of heart was out of anger. This was also the deciding plague for the Hebrews. 'Trust me' God tells them. 'Put blood on the door posts and you will be safe'. Those that didn't believe learnt a valuable lesson. As I've said before I don't believe they were ever in Egypt, but that is my interpretation of what the Bible is saying. Oh. Despite what the Bible says slaves were treated well in Egypt. And the Bible tells us that the Hebrews were forced to make 'bricks'. If, as some would have us believe, they built the pyramids, they certainly didn't use bricks.
God did drive mankind to extinction when the great flood of Modern man through Noah and his three Racial Stocks arrived in this new world. He promised not to do this again, too. But, Egyptians in those days were all part of the same species which survived Neanderthals' extinction. And, it seems reasonable that God would introduce the idea of a supreme God, through Moses, and wait for the world to change, as it did for Egypt in the 2nd century when it became Christian.
you talk about this stuff as though it's the plot of a movie. so disconnected are you from the reality of what is actually being claimed. it's like someone went to see Apocalypse Now, and came back with the following review "there was an interesting boat trip up a river, and some of the photography was really really good. oh, and I liked the soundtrack"
Did you remember the US invasion to Iraq? It was obvious that hiring a dude to kill Saddam Hussein was the best option, but killing hundreds of thousands of troops and civilians sounds a complete lunacy... but it happened. I think that the reason of a daily bombing day and night was to cause terror in the Iraqi population, they weren't able to sleep well, they weren't able to drink potable water, the civilians suffered a complete hell by the US and allies war actions. What was the purpose? I think that the purpose to destroy their peaceful lives was to avoid the birth of another leader taking Saddam's place. With a terrified population and a destroyed army, it was very easy to implant any new government that pleased the US. From where the US army copied this kind of strategy? From God, of course. When you see how the Egyptian empire was diminished after every plague, you will understand why the leader and the best of his army were taken last. The Israelites left Egypt without a single opposition. It was necessary to destroy the empire in all its aspects, so no new leaders will try to follow the Israelites to cause them harm.
exactly, in the past they believed God was meant to be feared and loved, that God was jealous and vengeful so you better not (*)(*)(*)(*) him off - today many believe God is better then that and would of wrote the story different... but then they would have to admit it was just a story, so they try to instead ignore the evil God in the Bible and replace him with their own imagined God instead ...
