When Moses was in Egypt, did he prove that the Egyptian gods were as powerful as his?

Question

Moses & Aaron's magic tricks were matched by the Egyptian magicians when Moses showed up to confront the random Pharaoh.

Oh, wait, the Judeo/Christian God is "better" because he killed a bunch of children?!?!?!?

Eeesh................

Answer 1

Just goes to show you that even back then somebody was smart enough to call it mumbo jumbo.

Answer 2

Just the opposite, as a matter of fact. The Egyptian magicians could only duplicate a few of the plagues that the Lord placed upon Pharoh and Egypt -- not all of them.

They couldn't duplicate the plague of lice (Exodus 8:18) or flies (Exodus 8:24.) Nor could they stop and/or duplicate the boils (Exodus 9: 10-11) or the hail (Exodus 9:22-33) or locusts (Exodus 10:1-15.)

And they certainly couldn't prevent the death of every firstborn male in the country. I'd say that makes God a lot more powerful than any of Pharoh's magicians.

Edit:

Again, you're making a huge assumption in order to support your bias against God. The "firstborn male" could have been anywhere from a newborn to 75 years old. So a majority of who were struck down were probably adults, not children.

Pharoh and the Egyptian people saw that the Israelites were putting the blood of the sacrificial lamb on the doorposts of their homes. No doubt they asked questions and could have done the same thing to protect their own families.

The Angel of God would have seen the blood and passed over their homes, too. Faith in God and the saving blood was all that was necessary, not being an Israelite.

But they chose to be stubborn and remain in idolatry, rather than acknowledge the living and true God. Their stubbornness and rejection of truth is what caused them to lose their firstborn males.

Just as the human race's insistence having its own sinful way would ultimately cause the death of God's own "firstborn" Son on the Cross.

Answer 3

When Moses' staff turned into a serpent and the Pharaohs magicians staff turned into a serpent Moses' serpent/staff consumed the magicians serpent/staff.

When Moses turned the Nile River into blood and Pharaohs magicians did the same thing Pharaohs magicians version wasn't all consuming as Moses' was.

Besides these, after God sent the angel of death to kill the firstborn sons Pharaohs son died too. Pharaoh pleaded with his god to bring him back to life and nothing happened.

Consider the plagues. If the Egyptian gods were real why didn't they challenge Moses' God when God sent the plagues?

Answer 4

Not all of the miracles God performed through Moses were duplicated by the magicians of Egypt. And if you would take the time to read Exodus, you would know that Moses proved to Pharaoh the the God of Israel was more powerful than all the magicians and gods of Egypt.

Answer 5

Actually Pharoahs Magicians couldn't pull of the dust into lice, nor the three days of darkness. And although they could produce some of the wonders from Moses, they could not REMOVE it. And the plagues were to prove that Egypts gods were nothing but false Idols. (Blood in water; The Nile River Frogs; Heka, represented by a Frog. Lice and flies, boils mostly aimed at the Cow, which Egypt worshipped; And the hail and locust were for the land.)

Answer 6

The fact that God gave Moses those miracles that are very close to prcaticed magic done by the egyptians, only proves that Moses is a prophet and His God is superior than the false gods worshipped by the egyptians.
To clarify this, if u look more clearly about all the miracles given to prophets, ull realise that these miracles are in the exact fields those ppl are best at, in order to challenge and thus prove with no doubt that these are true miracles by true God.
Jesus (pbuh) was given the miracles of curing the ill, resurrecting the dead, bec the romans were superior in medicine, the prophet Mohamed(pbuh) challenged his ppl by words bec it is well known that the arabs were the most articulate ppl in the world, so God chooses the field the ppl are best at to give no chance to any1 to think that those men sent to them are merely masters of their professions, they are real prophets, doin real miracles.
and all other magicians believed in Moses afterwards because they knew that this was no magic, when his snake ate theirs!

Answer 7

Through the 10 plagues, God proved his power and might, Moses' acts notwithstanding.

Interestingly enough, each one of the 10 plagues disproved the power of a different Egyptian entity, from a god of the harvest to the divinity of Pharaoh himself, who, despite all his prayers and sacrifices, was unable to save his firstborn son and heir to Egypt's throne from the final plague.

The faithful Jewish slaves, however, preserved all of their children alive.

The ultimate insult was the death of Pharaoh himself, who was arrogant enough to deny God's power after seeing it firsthand.

Israel obviously had the backing of the only true God- how else could a nation of captive slaves escape the tyranny of the ruling power of the world at that time?

The Egyptian "gods" were nothing more than lifeless statues that couldn't save a moth from a flame, let alone an entire nation and it's inhabitants.

Answer 8

really? I think you missed something. Moses rod that turned to a snake ate up the other snakes of the magicians. God always did "one better" that what they could produce. And the magicians could not reverse what God did. Also, God showed His power upon all the gods of Egypt plus the fact that life and death were in HIS hand and noone elses. Why settle for something less than the real thing?

Answer 9

There is the truth, then there is the WHOLE truth.
You have not stated the whole truth.
Naughty, naughty trolling!
The first 3 'miracles' of Moses were matched ....not the remaining 7.
Even with the first 3, the snake thingy end-up proving the greater power of Moses' God.

Answer 10

Moses snake swallowed the snakes of the magicians. The invisible God was the winner.

Answer 11

Actually...Moses' snake ate the magicians snake. I'm sure they used Satan's help as well as simple tricks in gaining power, but God is always more powerful.