Why did god kill all the innocent newborn babies but not the guilty pharaoh?

Answer 1

he wanted to get his point across and maybe if pharoh seen babies dropping dead left and right he would know whats going on and get scared

Answer 2

He didn't kill innocent newborn babies. The final plague was the deaths of all of the firstborn children of the Egyptians.

He had to do this because the Pharaoh had hardened his heart against letting the Israelites go and God had to get the Pharaoh's attention. Nothing else seemed to have worked. It took something as shocking as this to bring the Pharaoh to his senses and to cause such a cry throughout all of Egypt that no one wanted the Israelites to stay.

Answer 3

God did not kill newborns. He instructed Pharoah what would happen as part of the tenth plague. He instructed the Israelites of what to do to save their firstborns and even some Egyptians took heed of that warning. Only those who had hardened their hearts to Jehovah Gods will were adversly affected by the Tenth Plague. Jehovah God always gives a way out when his wrath is foretold. It is not His fault that Pharoah didnt listen.
The reason whyJehovah God didnt just kill Pharoah was because that was not his intention. He was intent on making Pharoah respect his name and power and he wanted Pharoah to let his people go. Therefore he plagued Egypt many times before he brought the 10th plague. Pharoah didnt listen until it was too late.
The death of the firstborns was the Pharoah's fault.

Answer 4

Pharoah himself did die very shortly therefter. However, Scripture does Not say that Newborns died, but rather, Firstborn Sons. In Egypt at that time, firstborn sons were viewed as Very Special, especially in Pharoah's lineage ...

Notice these very interesting facts:

The firstborn is primarily the oldest son of a father (rather than that of the mother), the beginning of the father’s generative power (De 21:17); also, the initial male offspring of animals, at times designated as “firstlings.”—Ge 4:4.

Among Egyptians, the Firstborn were Dedicated as Sacred to the sun-god Amon-Ra, the supposed preserver of all the firstborn. The tenth plague that Jehovah God brought upon the Egyptians >served to discredit this god and showed up his inability to protect the firstborn.< By obeying God’s instructions by slaying a lamb and splashing its blood on the doorpost's upper part of the doorways of their houses, Israelites did not lose their firstborn in death, whereas all the firstborn of the Egyptians --both man & beast-- were slain. (Ex 12:21-23, 28, 29) Evidently the firstborn son of each household is meant in most cases --not the head of the household-- though he may have been a firstborn.

Pharoah himself was held to be a God. He died with his army while chasing after the Israelites through the Red Sea, where God allowed the waters he'd been holding back to allow the Israelites to pass through on dry ground, to go back into place. The entire army drowned. Thi showed how utterly powerless the Egyptian gods were. I\n fact ... Every one of the 10 plagues demonstartedthat one or another of the egytian gods were powerless before Jehovah.

http://watchtower.org/library/w/2001/7/1/article_01.htm

Could it be that you were confused? ...

HEROD killed All the young & Newborn Israelite babies in & around Bethlehem, in an attempt to kill the prophesied Messiah. Not only did prophecy tell when & where he'd be born, but several astronomers were guided to him by an unusual light. They knew about the prophecies, & took gifts to the Messiah. But the light did't go directly to him. IT went first to Herod, the then pagan ruler, who did not want any competition. He told them to report back to him after finding him, so he would know right where & who he was. But God warned them not to return to Herod. When he found out they had gone home without reporting to him as ordered, he sent his soldiers to slay all the young & newborn babies in that geeral area. ... Perhaps you got the two historical events confused.

Answer 5

Been asking myself the same question for years. I find no justification in any killing by any means even by GOD. There is no lesson in it other than listen to me or else, once again, FEAR.

To see a response of well they were not innocent babies some were toddlers makes me realize how brainwashed some people really are. Instead of seeing the real point they have to justify the answer in some way. There is none. Never was.

We are the way we are because we were taught how to be this way only we can change it and if GOD doesn't like it, well who cares, cause either way its bad and either way we go to hell.

Either we worship him, follow his way or we become evil people tempted by Satan, not too much choice is there. Well I would rather go to Hell for not killing something than go to heaven for doing so. I value life above all else, does that make me an evil person tempted by Satan, geez tough one there.

Answer 6

Actually, there is no history of that in either Egyptian or Hebrew texts - it's a myth. Do an ancient history search - it isn't there.

The Egyptian Ipuwer papyrus describes a series of calamities befalling Egypt, including a river turned to blood, men behaving as wild ibises, and the land generally turned upside down. However, this is usually thought to describe a general and long term ecological disaster lasting for a period of decades, such as that which destroyed the Old Kingdom. The document is usually dated to the end of the Middle Kingdom, or more rarely, to its beginning, fitting the Old Kingdom destruction, but in both cases long before the usual theorized dates for the Exodus.

Immanuel Velikovsky decided that the Egyptian papyrus did, in fact, describe the events of Exodus, along with the major natural catastrophes that he thought preceded it; in his opinion it was the conventional chronologies of Egypt that were wrong by several hundred years. His theory has never gained credibility among Egyptologists, not even those who are evangelical Christians such as Kenneth Kitchen.

Answer 7

The babies did not suffer, they went to be with God.

The Egyptian Pharaoh held the Israelites in captivity as slaves and would not let them go. So, when Pharaoh and everyone else, lost their first born children and animals, it was God's tenth and final way of convincing them to let His People leave.

The Israelites were God's chosen and He loved and took care of them. He planned for Jesus to come through them.

God told the Israelites to place the blood of a lamb on their door post so that the death angel would pass over their firstborn children and animals.

This was a parallel to the blood of Jesus covering us, for our salvation so that we will not die spiritually. With Jesus' blood sacrifice, we can have eternal life.

Answer 8

God did not kill the babies - Pharaoh did. Pharaoh killed them by not letting Israel go - Pharaoh could have saved them all.

Answer 9

God took their souls.
Killed them ? this is what is appropriate to your understanding. you make it like a crime.
You don't know nothing about God.

God creates and gives life, so he can take it.
Why? because he is the most wise.
Everything is his. He is the King, he oppress nobody, he is Just and he is the Judge.
1-this life is a test. God gave us free will to chose.
2-God is testing anybody he wants. the parents, people like you also.
3-These babies will have their test also. don't worry about them. did you pass yours?
4-I see that many people are attached to this life and don't think even about the hereafter, the real life.
5-what did you prepare for the next life?
6-how many good deeds did you do?
7-how many commands of God do you follow?
8-do you learn new things about the religion of God, or just judging, accusing God?

In Islam, you will know why God created us? why we live this life? why he punishes us or forgives us? what we have to do to succeed in this life and the hereafter?

Answer 10

I do not recall anything about God killing newborn babies. The way I remember it is that Pharaoh ordered that all newborn male babies be killed

Answer 11

As punishment for what the Egyptian pharaoh did to the first born of the Israelite's. I'm speculating here but I think they all went to heaven "The BABIES".