2007-03-25 12:10:00 · 12 answers · asked by WWTSD? 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sarah J: The ones from Exodus!
2007-03-25 12:13:12 · update #1
Yes.
2007-03-25 12:13:55 · answer #1 · answered by God 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Don't really know, remember it was the first born, not the "children" so they might have been adults or children, god didn't care.
Why not kill the parents? Simple god was proving a point if the Pharaoh messed with him god was going to make him pay. If god killed the Pharaoh the point wouldn't be made. And for a culture where the first born inherits the family name and wealth (think next Pharaoh) there isn't anything worse that god could do.
As for the "god hardened the Pharaohs heart", god didn't need to do that it was already that way, you are watching too much Hollywood.
Does all of this sound vengeful? Sounds like it to me, this god character is certainly one that you shouldn't mess with if you don't want to get a world of pain brought on you.
Do I really believe in god? Not really, and if I did he wouldn't be someone I would follow. No more then if some powerful beings came and ordered me to do things I don't believe it for either punishment or rewards. I would like to believe that I would hold to my beliefs and standards, and not just follow or bow down to someone just because the wield more power then I do.
2007-03-25 19:35:21 · answer #2 · answered by Bulk O 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They probably did growing up with slave's and slave children it is like servants today only they treated them even worse if that is possible. They were rich and arrogant and the bible says cruel. By having the first born of every family it effected every family. People seem to disregard the fact that the Pharoah had said to throw the Isrealite children babies into the river nile to drown. Not just the first born but all of the males. Since they had multiple concubines they preserved the women. Did those women have a chose over who they married or was given to? NO! Where they whipped and beaten yes. Life was no cake walk. That is why I was suprised that some were unfaithful to God.
2007-03-25 19:18:11 · answer #3 · answered by Ruth 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No. In fact, they were not even accused of having done anything wrong. It was God's vengeance against Pharaoh, whose heart he had deliberately hardened. This would be no more just or moral than killing the sister of Usama bin Laden in revenge for his terrorist activities, or rounding up Muslim-Americans and slaughtering them for what their brothers of faith have done. That isn't justice. Then again, there is an abundance of evidence in the Biblical stories to prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the God of the Tanakh is not a loving, moral, and just god.
2007-03-25 19:15:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, and so did all the people who died in the flood and Moses had it coming for one minor infraction and so did Job since god had a point to prove to the Devil. What a hunk of ****.
2007-03-25 19:14:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ironically, it was their parents that God should have killed. It was there parents that supposedlt turned their backs on God, not their first born children. Aren't all children innocent in God's eyes? Apparently not.
2007-03-25 19:13:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
what Egyptian children?
are you talking about
the moses story?
EDIT:
oooohhhhh
lol, sorry i don't know much about exodus.
i haven't gotten to that part of the bible in my religion class.
2007-03-25 19:12:32 · answer #7 · answered by . 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Not to mention that it was God who hardened the Pharoah's heart...
2007-03-25 19:13:53 · answer #8 · answered by Michael 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Sounds cruel and callous,
but who knows ...?
2007-03-25 19:13:05 · answer #9 · answered by catfencing 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the firstborn egyptian babies that god killed...
2007-03-25 19:13:42 · answer #10 · answered by funaholic 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋