Everything Wrong With Exodus 4 in the Bible
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- Moses is supposed to start leading the Israelites out of Egypt, but he's not exactly sure he should put his trust in God, who just spoke to him through a burning bush. So God's about to try a whole bunch of OTHER magic tricks to convince him to go along with the plan.
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Why is it that every time there's something that sounds extremely weird, it turns out to be a euphemism for something even weirder?
The translators were rather prudish it seems.
God tries to murder Moses and no one ever mentions this? K...
@@harveywabbit9541 : dude, slow down on the happy grass, one day you'll get so high you'll never be able to get back on Earth again.
@@harveywabbit9541 : darn rascal that devil fellow.
"no one in a magic show has ever been impressed by the audience"
... WHAT A DARK TURN! 😂
This is the verse where god "hardened pharaoh's heart." This is the example I give to Christians when they ramble about how god won't interfere with people's free will.
This is why I like The Prince of Egypt's version more. "You who I call brother, how could you call down another blow? Is this what you wanted? Then -let my heart be hardened-, and never mind how high the cost may grow! This will still be so! I will never let your people go!" Pharoah has agency in that version.
You see you see god did that to show US his power......... I'm like ok so when did God ever perform these miracles in front of you.
@@SaltpeterTaffy It's a great film, overall. But if it has to be revisionist, on a subject matter of this sheer import, I'm not sure if they ought to have bothered...
I don't like carrying hollow men, even divine ones.
Small correction. This is ONE OF the verses where God hardens Pharaoh heart. He does it numerous times. Even when Pharaoh seems to be about to free the Israelites.
Check out Mike Wingers video on hardening. It has some suggestions to better understand. I am a Christian and this issue was something I struggled with.
"...Then the Lord said to Moses: 'Pick up a card... Is your card the four of hearts?..."
"And Moses said; "No." Then the Lord pointed to another card, repeating the request. Moses picked it up and gasped with shock and horror. His card was... leprousy. And then he had a heart attack."
Nah im pretty sure it wouldve been the death card
😂
"I will harden his heart so he will not let your people go"
Why? He's literally giving himself an excuse to commit genocide. AGAIN.
One weird concept, you have an invisible sky wizard they claim to love all of humanity but then has a chosen special people so he plays favorites. And apparently Yahweh is tribal. But the sinister aspect of it is he wants to play favorites with a bunch of hairless apes who are prone to violence toward each other. Yes Yahweh is a sadist.
Not to mention he infects one of his supposedly beloved prophets with leprousy. If that's what he does to his friends, you don't want to know what he does to his enemies.
Yahweh was a volcano in Phoenicia
A yam what a yam.
"Why is there a random torture scene in the middle of a magic show?"
I am reminded of Penn and Teller's marshmallow torture scene act.
Ah yes, this is the story my mother used to explain why my son has epilepsy, he's not circumcised.
Ehm... what?
Seriously.. keep your son AWAY from your mom!
This chapter explains why God won't heal blind, deaf and mute people, he made them that way. He must have made amputees also, because he doesn't heal them either.
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s sufferers are screwed as well.
@@harveywabbit9541
"Pure insanity" seems a bit melodramatic.
Or people with cancer or life threatening illness
"I would wonder if he was listening to it, or smoking it...."
There are bushes in the region that spontaneously combust. Combine this with breads sometimes having hallucinogenic molds in them that people would eat...
Lucy Willis Yeah, how ‘bout, neither.
@ Lucy, maybe that was cannabis he was talking to. That staff can get you really high.
That one part is just so bizarre. Until you realize the Bible was compiled from a whole bunch of other stories, that don't all fit together. A moment ago, God could not appear in person, like he did in Genesis. Now he suddenly can again. And then he's back to the sequel version. Almost like someone inserted a completely unrelated story in the only place they thought it would fit chronologically.
JPED hypothesis allusions? Yup, I think you're right
Moses, the first plague doctor and inventor of party tricks
Didn't realize these premiered on Sunday mornings, love it! I recently binge-watched all of this series, great stuff!
Good thing I live in a part of the world where it premieres at 5pm so I don't have to wake up early for it
We had made is through Genesis before I realized that to lol
The best!!!!
How do people think the bible is fact? If they truly read all of the bible then they should know how much bs it is.
In a thousand years people will question your knowledge and beliefs... and of course still wonder how people could read the bible and say "Yeah, sure. I believe."
A thousand years from now people will be reading the Bible and laughing hysterically😂
SquishyMain Well that’s correct to most 1 Corinthians 1:18 and those who read as Hemant does.
Of course the people who actually study the Bible, may find 2 Timothy 3:16-17
Every word of the bible is true ! - but when the words group together to form sentences, that’s when the crap begins.
In a thousand years...
Hopefully, humanity will have survived, thrived, cured all diseases eradicated all suffering, vastly improved life for all, traveled the cosmos, overcome death itself, and achieved Kardeshev Type II level civilization of energy production.
Those are noble things worth hoping for, and working towards.
And hopefully we won't have a need anymore for religion or any other irrational or magical thinking, superstition, or coping techniques for our inate fear of death and the unknown.
“If we’ve learned anything from the South it’s that the descendants of losers hold a grudge.”
Nice burn!
@@harveywabbit9541 that is awesome, but definitely not what the south is known for losing.
Pharaoh's guard #1: "Just came back from my leave period. Did anything happened?"
Pharaoh's guard #2: "We caught some crazy terrorist from the desert poisoning the river. He used the old "magical burning brush made me do it" excuse.
Pharaoh's guard #1: "Classic"
I was just realizing there are parallels between magic and morality from God in the Christian philosophy. Both are essentially defined as good only if directly from God.
It's like god is experimenting with how to communicate with people. He still hasn't figured it out.
No. God is dynamic. God know what we can understand and what we cannot understand at every moment of our evolution. 2,000 years ago people had no concept of the internet, phones, planes etc... We at that time did not know how to navigate natural phenomena without attaching a religious context to our beliefs. Today we have the scientific method and a very long and rich history of discovery at our disposal. We have learned much much more about life itself. God know we had to grow into this larger pool of intellect so he has given us the time we need to learn. Now we are ready to know his mathematical name which is 1/x(change) +1. translated His name is "God's Mind Is Man Changed With God." Go to my pdf doc to learn more. The address is in the chat above.
@@williammabon6430 I can't tell if you're trying to be facetious or you want to be taken seriously.
@@joseph-thewatcher I'm serious Atheist are wrong God do exist. God has given us His mathematical name to prove He exist. His name is "God's Mind Is Man Changed With God" In math His name is Infinity = 1/x(delta) + 1. His name tells us for the first time in all of history what is a number. A number is a set in space that change with space. This is what we do whenever we count. We count by ordering sets in the space of our mind. Here are somethings we learn from understand what His name tells us.
We get a better picture of Gravity. Gravity is matter changing with space. We get the unification of quantum mechanics and relativity. Q is how space behaves and R is the relationship of sets of this Q behavior. We get to learn God loves us so much that He named Himself for us. We are here by design. I did this work using the scientific method. This work is in a pdf google doc. Part 1 is 68 pages of research. Go to: docs.google.com/document/d/1fQ6mMi6vIjmjPL-FVct03RURP0xN7qmYYPtTYpD05ko/edit?usp=sharing
@@williammabon6430 So, aside from your unique religious interpretations, you also believe that God communicating through flawed religious texts 2000+ years old, is a good method? As opposed to say, communicating directly, which is trivial for an omnipotent, and omnipresent deity?
@@williammabon6430 you people jump through hoops to not make sense to try make sense of nonsense
I like how Yahweh's magic tricks involve creating snakes, leprosy, and blood.
There's a damn good reason people did not like leprosy! I'll take the snakes and blood any day.
Moses took that water and he... THREW IT ON THE GROOOUUUND
So God finally admit he is responsible for blindness, deafness, even when your child is born dumb, don't blame Satan. God admitted that he would harden Pharoah's heart. Question: Is Pharoah the bad guy? Why do Christians blame Satan when God admitted he is responsible? Who is really the bad guy in the Bible?
Well, at least I've got support for the "knit you in your mother's womb" line I've heard a couple of times. It can't be the accuser now if "I am" said he's the one who does it.
@@harveywabbit9541 -- Amazing! I'm not into astrology, but you've explained how some ancient people tried to understand the world they observed around them. Sure, they were "borrowing" from each other all the time, but that's not surprising or even bad. I appreciate your outline of this mixing of beliefs. It might make a good (animated?) video one day.
@@harveywabbit9541 -- I'm glad you posted your observations and I hope Hemant and others see them and perhaps get in touch to chat with you about your thoughts (maybe The Atheist Experience channel?). I'm glad my parents weren't particularly interested in any religion, allowing me and my sibs to make up our own minds. I'm glad that ancient peoples were at least trying to understand their world.... I see to the right under the recommendations a 5-year-old video I've probably seen already by TheraminTrees. I can recommend him/her (male narrator). Also Qualiasoup. I'm so glad that CZcams offers so many people the chance to stand up and say "Wait a minute, here are some new ideas!" 😊
@@harveywabbit9541 It wouldn't remotely surprise me. But how would say, others, like shamans, view such tales?
Oft with a set of their own claims...
Kevin St Clair Do you actually want those questions answered?
I'm pretty sure there are some sort of hallucinogenic mushrooms or cacti in the Middle East. This would explain 90% of the bible stories.
It reads like the script to a Cheech & Chong movie!
C and c couldn't write something that dumb
If that's the case then every human culture is to blame.
Also, who else was there to witness all these crazy events happening? The other guys who partook? If so, that explains a lot - they all see something different, write it down somehow, mash it all together, and voilà! You have a book with stories in it! I just don't get how this book is so important, it's so badly written.
Moses: "got turned me into a newt....
I got better."
Lucy Willis That’s Monty Python, one of the villagers, not the Bible nor Moses.
You know, if I was a believer, and I came across a fire, and the powers it showed me were conjuring snakes, disease and blood, I would have to yell "Begone, satan!" at it. The all-powerful creator of the universe is a bush burning with eternal fire that conjures dark omens? Am I the only one that reads this and thinks "If this really happened, this was definitely the devil?"
The story was told before the devil was created (or, rather, adapted from the Persians). So it gets a grandfather clause pass.
@@robertmiller9735 Definitely sounds like a "demonic" trickster entity jonsing to get people to commit to it
@@exillens Not to mention the leprosery! There's a damn good reason that disease was hated and loathed throughout the ancient world. It basically numbs pain, which means you'll accidentally wound yourself and eventually look incredibly ghastly. Life without pain is horrible because you don't know what your extremities are going through, and so they're likely to get really mangled.*shudders*
@@mattmorehouse9685 Life without feeling is bad. Life without pain isn't bad. They're not synonymous words. What's your point though?
@@exillens You really need to look up congenital insensitivity to pain. It's a nightmare. Yes pain, cause it does get turned off due to genetic problems without the feeling part.(1) Just because common sense says pain is always bad doesn't mean it's so. As for my original point it's that giving leprousy, which also causes insensitivity to pain to someone, is an utterly awful thing. Or would that be good, cause people say pain is bad?
(1)en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_insensitivity_to_pain
Is this the way to Sunday church service?
Oh well, this should do
I did some reading about the circumcision passage, and it seems that even the ancient Rabbis were puzzled about that passage 2000 years ago. It may be a fragment, and that we need Paul Harvey to tell us the rest of the story.
When is it that the bible claims God to be omnipotent? Because a lot of old testament passages sure don't describe him that way.
He goes back and forth from bully to victim depending on the plot line.
The people who wrote this garbage and those who translated it into English
do not understand how to build a story that matches reality.
To your question:
I did some checking.
The bible uses the term "almighty" a couple of times, including in Genesis 17:1.
Apparently there are some references to almighty god in Acts and G.John, and somewhere in Revelation, but I didn't see citations.
It was mentioned in the first ecumenical council of Nicaea in 325.
Thomas Aquinas wrote about the inherent paradoxes of it in the 13th century.
But "omnipotence" didn't enter the english lexicon until the early 14th Century.
Nowhere in there did I find any proof for a god nor its power level.
Source:
A quick Google search
@@PBAmygdala2021 I see. Thanks for checking it out.
So it sounds like God is only referred to as almighty in the bible, which is quite likely exaggerations to begin with. And later theologians further exaggerated that to full on philosophical omnipotence.
Interesting how many Christian fundamental claims aren't really in the bible.
@@stevewebber707 SO MUCH Jewish and Christian mythology is basically fanfic. See basically all of Jewish mysticism and how much of what is thought of as lore about the Devil or Hell comes from literature like Milton's _Paradise Lost_ and Dante's _Inferno_ .
@@mastermarkus5307 By mythology, I imagine you're referring to the myths that aren't described in the bible, rather than the ones that are. Both categories make for a major list.
The external myth's also include things like free will, the trinity, the antiabortion stance, and yes, hell would be a classic example of it.
Just wait til you get to David and Goliath.
It take a Homoerotic turn.
Snakes and leprosy: worst board game ever!
Moses threw down his living staff and it became a Snake on a Plain!
Pretty bizarre stuff. Let's base a religion on it!
no don't
@@SaltpeterTaffy Too late.
plot twist: moses’ “burning bush” was actually a stripper he met a while back named Fuzzy Bottom.
I just want to say thank you!
I am waiting for this Hemant!!!!!
I've smoked a few bushes in my day, and I can tell you that I've never come up with a dream like that.
Maybe if I'd done opium or something stupid like that, instead of weed.
My guess: they did foreskins
Yes Yahweh aka the invisible sky wizard is a sadist and a jerk.
He is also incompetent and unworthy of worship
@@JamesRichardWiley and why is that ?
@@mrenigma1564 if he is truly omniscient he would have known the result of the forbidden fruit experiment before he began "creation." He would have known how many would suffer for eternity, that he would flood the world, all of it, before he began "creation."
@@andrewstoddard6717 you need to understanding that God don't interfere with our choices
God knows our future
God guides us
All our actions it's we who are responsible for it
God knows our future God knows who will go to hell or paradise
God uses life for us for showing us who deserve paradise and who deserves hell
Because if God puts people before creation into hell and paradise without this life
People on hell fire will say ""God you haven't tested us if you tested us we will be righteous ""......
God is just so God gaves us this life to show us his mercy
And by praying God will guide you to the straight path
@@mrenigma1564 he would have known before anything happened. Combine this with omnipotent and there is no way everything has not gone exactly as he wanted it. He could have not made a hell, he could have made it so that only believers were born. The only explanation for people going to hell is his sadism if he exist.
It's so sad so many millions take this stuff seriously.
I agree, just the thought of someone just grabbing a rock and cutting off a child's forskin for Gods blood lust and they dont see anything wrong with the story.
It's either barbaric fiction or "I don't know".
It can't be science.
Well a lot of religious people are indoctrinated from birth so they don't have the freedom to chose to believe all those fairytales they just simply do it, and very few of them who are probably in desperate situations already don't have a logical thinking, actually chose to believe there's a afterlife to escape the fear of death, and they found a protector who cares about their little problems (even though it doesn't look that way from the bible), most of them are lost cases and think irrational and that can be seen here in the comments,
@@dark_hood7 what got me to change my mind on religion was the statement: your religion depends on where you was born and your parents teachings. How can your religion be the one true religion?
@@defenestratefalsehoods great point! Thanks for sharing. Hopefully it will help others see the contradictory situation they are in, and escape.
Seeing this always makes my day!
Yay!!! Sunday morning Bible reading!😂😂😂😂😂
This all makes sense when you eat peyote in the desert.
Ah yes, Exodus 4:24. I found this gem while researching. I was raised in church, yet nobody ever bothered to preach this particular verse.
You must invest so much time and energy to do this Hemant and I am so happy that you do that. Thank you. I love this.
Thanks for examining the bible with a dose of common sense.
Carnal sense is more like it.
awsome reading. Please keep on reading, that would be super awesome. You are doing more than all Christians do in their life, reading the whole bible
This chapters nukes apologists' argument 'Knowing about god would take away your free will": Moses' taking with God here and needs more persuasion than an used cars salesman could supply...
So when everyone washes other people's "feet," they don't mean what I think what we all think they mean by "feet?"
"If someone said they talked to a burning bush, I would wonder if they were listening to it or smoking it."
-Hemant Mehta 2021
This is why I love watching this dude's videos. XD
How does Moses have a brother? Wasn't the Pharaoh killing all male Israelite babies? Isn't that the reason Moses was tossed in the river? Where was Aaron, the Levite, hidden?
They were "brothas" not brothers. Like the movie Band Of Brothers.
Comic books revamp origin stories all the time. Recently I saw (didn't read) that Wonder Woman also had a brother... and before that, Superman (Kal-el) was the "last son of Krypton" until quite a few other Kryptonians began showing up (Krypto, Kara-el, etc.) because... editors thought readership would increase (they were right). That's just DC comics, but Marvel has done similar rewrites. So which are more interesting: comic books or the bible? 🤔🤔🤔😊
He was busy making jeans.
The god in Exodus is having a hard time getting Moses to do what he (god) wants.
It seems to me that this god character is a malfunction
in the neural pathways of Moses brain.
You're more on track than you realize, perhaps. God is about concepts, actions, then manifestations. God is a conceptual deity of our mind. The things that have all the power over us. Our own thoughts, ideas, beliefs, and principles, do indeed have supreme, guiding power. Our minds are guided by directives and suggestions from within or without. The Bible is all about human nature, our psychology, and physiology. There are many gods that one can follow, we should choose wisely.
@@stevedyches4635 Interesting, akin to Jungian archetypes, or Blake's 4 Zoas, or Hindu aspects?
But then, what is possession, or manifestations, let alone 'strong delusion', that favourite selective clause of many declamatory theologians?
@@chrissonofpear1384 I'm slightly familiar with Jung. I need to read more of him. I see possessions as things we hold on to, in the mind, or aspects of our personality. Things like thoughts and beliefs that are difficult or have no desire to let go of, like moods and attitudes, fears, and delusions. Manifestations are simply what comes about through thought processes that are put into action, or activated, or psychological consequences that come about from self-speak. Many, if not all psychoses are self-induced, the so-called demons that possess us. One thing that I know of and like about Jung's musings is when he talks about people that think too much to where all they tend to think about are their own thoughts. Their thought world becomes their reality as they gradually lose touch with the external reality. They become disinterested with it, even frustrated when it is interrupted or interfered with. They tend to be wholly self-obsessed. I have two sisters and a mother that are like that. They are trapped or imprisoned and consumed by all the crap that keeps churning in their heads. Oh, what a tangled web we weave... They are truly filled with strong delusion from perpetrating and perpetuating falsehoods. All three are narcissistic nightmares full of spite, malice, and hatred. They are fooling themselves by thinking they are fooling others, so crafty they are. It pays to be true to yourself, at the least.
When he is playing with his staff and snake it sounds dirty!
Along with the hardening of the Pharoah.
@@bellezavudd
Now I can't unimagine that!
Feet are genitalia? I thought thighs were genitalia, what with all the ball cupping oaths.
Maybe it's both.
I often wonder how history would have progressed had Abraham said something like, "So, if you want my son dead so freaking badly, do it yourself!'...!
@@harveywabbit9541 wow. i'm guessing you've had some experience with burning bushes too huh?
@Phoggbanque how about if he reacted like most fathers would have and told this asshole "you'll have to go through me to get to my son"
wtf why does god randomly try to murder moses after sending him to do his bidding?
Waiting for my Sunday sermon
So, in the German Lutherian bible, it doesn't say feet. It very clearly says genitalia. It's so fun reading along in multiple versions.
You would think he'd be talking to the Pharoah in the next verse...
NOPE.
I had to replay this for a second. Verses 27 and 28 takes place just before 14, right? How else is Aaron suppose to meet Moses on Horeb if he's already on his was to Egypt after the kinky lodging place?
It has always struck me as suspicious that gods choose a handful of people to represent them, instead of speaking to everyone.
I used to be a Christian and read this story many times. When you analyze it from a new perspective it is so ridiculous that it’s funny!
Elizabeth Duran When you analyze the story from an incorrect perspective, like Hemant, and don’t take the time to study 📖 or seek correct help, the Bible will sound ridiculous.
Yes, I am ex evangelical, every Sunday our pastor would twist this to tell us a glorious story and we all swallowed it as we had faith in Jesus, as our Lord and Saviour. Now I can see what all this is about; you need only few sheets of paper, a pencil and above all a very clear mind and take notes and you will explode in laughter. I cant wait till Hemant comes to NT all the fictions written by a guy called Paul. At this pace it is a long wait, nevertheless worth it. Spread this channel amongst your ex Christian community to build their confidence. Cheers
@@Daniel-cz7kd what is an "incorrect" perspective?
Who is the judge of what is correct and incorrect?
Is there a set of rules written somewhere where we can confirm this judgement method?
@@PBAmygdala2021 Hello and “incorrect” is the way Hemant is doing in these videos.
“Who is the judge of what is correct or incorrect?” Depends, with God, God’s the judge, without God, you, me and everybody else.
As for the set of rules written, yes there is, again depends.
@@Daniel-cz7kd thanks for your reply.
If you are saying that god is the judge, then why are you here performing the judging on God's behalf? Did God instruct you to do so? Has God written an edict that you are his personal ambassador?
It seems like you are speaking for God. That sound quite arrogant and risky to me. You could get in a lot of 'hell' type trouble for such blasphemy.
And again, where is it written? Depends on what? Sounds pretty vague to me.
What it sounds like to me is that you are passing on judgement that you heard someone else say about anyone who doesn't obey, like, and subscribe to your team. So you're not telling us anything we haven't heard 1000 times before.
What was the name of that fellow who said "Judge not, lest ye be judged"?
Yes, I'm being facetious, but it's to hit home a point: your pronouncements and judgments are entirely your own work and your choice. I haven't seen God instructing you to judge. But I have read him instruct you specifically NOT to judge. Unfortunately I must apply the term "hypocrite" to your actions here today.
If you won't even hold yourself accountable to your own rules, then what sort of example are you setting for people that you are hoping to convert to your faith?
I hope you will strive to set a better example.
After that, I hope you will strive to adjust your communication techniques and tactics to best reach different types of audiences. For non-believers they only require one thing: proof.
So it would be great if the Christians would just provide it, and then we can put aside this debate and all believe the same thing. We look forward to that proof.
Thanks in advance.
Pharaoh does not have free will, or God has taken it from him. That belies the other things that the Bible says that God gives everyone.
Alright it’s starting
4:24 - Why the Lord wanted to kill Moses!? Why was the son not circumcised yet? Why touch with the skin Moses' feet (not Lord's)? I don't get any of these 2 sentences. And what did the Lord appear like?
„A Story of penises and blood mixed with a lot of fillers“ This sound like a great concept for HBO.
Exodus 4:14-17 (let Aaron speak) sounds like a just-so story for why there were priests and why the congregation should listen to them
Right after picking up the snake/stick is the point a street hustling magician would have said: "TA-DA! Donations at the door, please..."
🤣😂🤣😂
Maybe the reason they never said exactly how god presented himself to people all through Genesis is because it was always something ridiculous like this. A burning bush, a talking pitcher of milk, a burning loaf of bread, some floating socks.
How did the writers not know when the pyramids were built Israel and the Jews weren't really a thing?
At this point God was making the case to Moses.
And the Rest of his flesh was in decent condition, God in the Passage just restored his hand.
And "God" demonstrates the
Staff > Snake magic trick.
Who would’ve thought the very beginning of the Bible placed such a heavy emphasis on baby penis skin. I always assumed that was like a one off Leviticus rule, not one of the Lord’s biggest obsessions
'Man, Moses... whatever you're smoking... I want some!'
Also I think Moses is speaking to Lucifer, not God.
-Snakes
-Blood
-Decease
-Burning Life
*Queue X-FIles theme* XD
Not just any disease, but leprousy. Leprousy! Why couldn't it be the common cold instead of something that turns off your pain sensing nerves therefore meaning you steadily inadvertently destroy your body! Something that sounds like it was made for a horror movie!
And the Lamenites, and the Neephites, and the Electrolytes, and the Pro Fights, and the Night Lights, and the Jadeite, and the Nephrite, and the Zoisite.
I’ll give people credit;
I think when it says “god will harden Pharos heart” it means something more like;
Gods actions will cause pharo to try act defiant in the action. In a way someone might try to double down when being attacked or something.
Feel free to word this better or that I’m wrong
I think it a polytheistic remnant: originally a separate god influencing Pharaoh, and later overenthusiastic monotheistic scribes crediting their one god with the actions of all gods in the story. Even when it makes no sense.
Perhaps Pharaoh was seeing the bigger picture. If all the Hebrews/Jews up and leave the country, the economy will be destroyed. He knows they are (sterotypically?) business people and generally hard workers as well. I suspect, too, that the people who say they want to leave are well paid and unaware that the land they (tell themselves they) want to move to is already inhabited and also a bit farther away than a few days' walk.
Perhaps Pharaoh wanted to compromise and agree that some people should scout ahead to see what they were getting into (for, as subjects of the Pharaoh, he had the duty of protecting them). But no, there's this big, fat, fiery (orange?) buffoon who is demanding that all the Hebrews/Jews leave, follow him (well, he can't walk on that bum foot, whichever one it is, so follow Moses), and, hey, build a wall between Egypt and wherever buffoon wants the people to settle. No compromises -- and Egypt's gonna pay for it all, too! Blah.
@@robertmiller9735 Yes. Just like the older Sumerian myths of Enki and Enlil dueling over how to deal with humanity. It makes sense in this context
It's just like saying, I'm sending you in as a hostage negotiator but I will make a call to piss the terrorists off so they wont let the people go. Good luck and show them this magic trick.
@@defenestratefalsehoods -- Your "but I will make a call..." will forever remind everyone of a certain self-styled exleader, especially if you revise it to "but I will make a perfect call..." 😋😂😉😊
Interesting how an all-powerful god capable of causing disabilities and slaughtering humans and animals, by the thousands, had to scratch his head a little to find a workaround for Moses' stutter.
So, poor Aaron had to be drawn into the drama when the same god could have just cured Moses of his stutter and cut out the "middle man" ! Also a missed opportunity for god to gently ease Moses into some of the destructive plans he had lined up against the Egyptians, instead of all that complicated game of hide-and-seek in burning bush.
You know, back in the late 90s I was playing Shadowrun. In the Germany sourcebook it said how Shamans and other magic useres were declared to be in league with Lucy, unless they workd for the church, then it was miracles.
Oddly enough, I can't remember reading about racism against non-norms.
Moses forgot to circumcise his son and the Lord forgot to have him be born without a foreskin.
Ah, but it is the first bit of torture to be inflicted upon his people. God loves to torture, why else condemn people to hell?
@@andrewstoddard6717 Hell is a state of mind and being as is Heaven. Where we dwell spiritually depends on what we dwell on. As a man thinks, so is he. Peace of mind vs. mental torment and the consequences that come about is what the Bible is all about, human psychology. Psyche is Greek for the soul, it is our essence.
@@stevedyches4635 so many people have become happier and healthier after becoming atheist.
@@andrewstoddard6717 No doubt, organized religion is toxic and not the least bit Biblical, a tradition of men, and men are fallible and prone to evil inclinations. My God is the higher purposed mind that I control, to the best of my abilities at least. God is a conceptual deity in the spirit realm that is the intangible thought world of our minds. There are many gods, but not all should be worshipped or revered. One should choose their God wisely. Our mind is what makes or breaks us. That is where everything is experienced. It is all-powerful. It goes everywhere we go and knows our heart.
@@stevedyches4635 I find it odd to say it's not the least bit biblical, if the bible cannot interpret itself, though, or obviously, be left unattended to ensure it's proper meanings endure?
But that's clearly beyond my pay grade.
I love this book. A lot of people on this planet clearly smoked, is smoking, and will be smoking it wildly and legally. Beware: insanity definitely incurs.
note: In Hebrew Foot and leg are the same word "Regel". Same with arm and hand "Yad".
If one wants to refer to a specific part of the arm/leg, one needs to add words, like hand would be "Caf Yad" (spoon of the hand). This explains the strange translation
Do any version of the bible mention a shrub instead of a bush...because that could be a game changer for me.
Maybe Pharaoh was vegan?
Dam this guy is good!
I think the passage implies that Moses was to repeat the staff to snake and instant leprosy signs once he got back. That being said I don’t think these events ever happened.
@@harveywabbit9541 did you not read the last sentence?
@@harveywabbit9541 I wouldn’t be surprised if it was. I think you’ve misread something I said tho because idk what this has to do with anything
@@harveywabbit9541 read my original comment, I literally said “I don’t think these events ever happened”
@@harveywabbit9541 I’m not a Christian or a Bible literalist so you don’t need to write a long ass paragraph trying to explain
I'm surprised, considering how utterly awful leprousy is, Moses didn't die of shock when he saw he suddenly got it. "So Moses put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out his hand was leparous- the skin had become as white as snow. And Moses clutched his chest as his heart pained him so great was his fear and shock. He fell, spasming, a great pain welled in his chest, then he was still. And the Lord said "Crap, need a new prophet."
Though that didn't stop him from trying to kill his erstwhile prophet, cause he didn't get snipped. Then he's stopped by Zipporah with... her son's foreskin!? This sounds like a horror movie! On drugs.
Unrelatedly, I suddenly feel very itchy.
The lord works in delirious ways.
What does an all-powerful God need with burning bushes and messengers?
After giving Moses all these instructions so he could go free the Jews, why would he turn around & want to kill him? That makes zero sense...
Don't use magic, the lord says, so "his people" proceed to develop a highly detailed and complex system of magic that they used for a couple thousand years or so (and is still in use today, to some extent)...
Hoc est enim, corpus meum.
Take this and eat, this is my body.
To this day the Catholic Church uses these magic word to change the bread into Jesus’ body. And similarly, they say “This is my Blood” to change wine into Jesus’ blood.
And to the Catholic Church, it’s not symbolic. It’s actually called transubstantiation.
And from that Latin sentence come “Hocus Pocus”
Magic!
@@tqnohe Yup, that, too. I was referring to Judaic Kabbalah (Cabbalistic magic). The good ol' bible (I like to call it The Murder Book) contradicts itself at every turn of a page, and the church is happy to go along, even inventing their own new ones to keep up the tradition.
Not all of us in the south hold a grudge I personally think the south is out of control I have lived here for 48 years and my family's have been in Alabama and Georgia for generations and I think the south needs to have less control of the government and especially the education system
makes you wonder why we're supposed to believe in god, but a guy talking directly to him didn't. where's that faith thing?
Has anyone here ever consider these two things: That God; being God; can change any physical law by command. And that there are laws and properties, that govern existence, much higher than what has been found?
Just in case you did not know CZcams is not sending me alerts to your Channel.
"I would wonder if he was listening to it or smoking it".
That was the wrong time for me to take a sip of water.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah.
Moses probably grew up speaking Coptic. He may not have been proficient in Hebrew or Aramaic. That is if this story occurred. It really is a myth.
Not to mention that after the purported 400 years of being supposedly SLAVES in Egypt... not even the alleged "Hebrews" would have spoken anything other than PIDGIN Egyptian... and the mythical Moses ought to have spoken Palace Egyptian....
There is no indication that there were any group known as Hebrew or Israelites until around the 10th century BCE, long LONG after the Pentateuch stories.
@@oscargordon ... not to mention that Israel is not an ethnicity or a separate group, but rather just a name for the region of Canaan that is north of Jerusalem and sometimes called Samaria... and even the word Israel is never mentioned outside the Bible except possibly in only two (disputed and argued) inscriptions.
Oh yeah? Well, and then Jesus came and made all of that inerrant Godly inspired Truth into the really real inerrant Godly inspired Truth!
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I didn't realize that Moses practiced the magic tricks before going in to Pharaoh.
Yay!
3:05 how does god not know what will make the Egyptians believe? Why does he have to think of a backup trick?
Yeah and in the Book of Ruth she played with her future husband's feet and they imply that was his 🥒.
What verse is that
1 Corinthians 15:1-4
Ephesians 2:8-9
Ephesians 4:30 OSAS
John 3:16
Romans 10:9-13
KJV Bible
I thought Moses was hidden away without knowing family?