2007-04-08 14:08:47 · 22 answers · asked by WWTSD? 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What? you know if the Pharaoh had set the people free then Hey...there would not have been any deaths
2007-04-08 14:12:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Actually Pharaoh picked that one. Each of the plagues had been to directly disprove false gods the Egyptians worshiped. After the hail storm of fire, Moses told Ramses that the next curse would come from his own mouth. Ramses got mad and decided to kill all the first born male children. His father had done the same thing many years earlier, and he knew it would hurt Moses. So, God turned it around, and protected the children of the Israelites, and only the Egyptian children died. Moses warned Pharaoh, but he didn't listen and in the end cursed his own people.
2007-04-08 21:20:09 · answer #2 · answered by Rixie 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Good question ! No mental gymnastics on my part as evidenced by...the "Passover" the angel of death could not discriminate between Hebrew and egyptian; he/it was charged with smite the first born. The hebrews were given the 'secret weapon' of paint some lamb's blood on your doorposts so the angel will...'pass over' your house.
Whoever is wringing their hands about the 'poor babies' needs a shot of reality: God is not a weak, soft, sentimental God. He planned on humiliating the egyptians and He did just that. One day He will humiliate the god of this world and its armies and peoples. For now, He's silent....putting up with the "great indignation"...(See Daniel)
2007-04-08 21:26:42 · answer #3 · answered by Bill S 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Pharoah gave orders to slaughter the infant sons of Israel first, this is how Moses was saved from the nile river in a basket by the daughter of Pharoah,
if Pharoah could risk the destruction of the genealogy of Jesus, then he should not be surprised that he had no one to reign in earthly Egypt.
Pharoah's can not save us or give us eternal life, Jesus can.
The children of Ham, cared nothing for the children of Shem. None of the people in Canaan Land or in Egypt cared if Abraham's family even had a drink of water. Only God could see this? They were all land pirates? To selfish to share anything?
2007-04-08 21:31:16 · answer #4 · answered by jeni 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The ten plagues that God brought upon Egypt were meant to show the superiority of Almighty God over the non-deity of the "gods" that the ten plagues were brought upon.
............and it wasn't like the Pharaoh couldn't give up at anytime.
Pharaoh was viewed as a god (notice small "g")
frogs, gadfly, Nile river, and so on............
Not much for mental gymnastics.........only facts and study of the Bible here.
2007-04-08 21:14:46 · answer #5 · answered by Livin In Myrtle Beach SC 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is the creator of life. We are his, and he can destroy bodily and spiritually if he wishes; we have no say in the matter. God gave spiritual life to the first-born fo Egypt, and could therefore kill his creations if he felt he needed to do so. No mental gymnastics involved, God did what God did, he gave Pharoh a chance to save his people.
2007-04-08 22:49:08 · answer #6 · answered by 29 characters to work with...... 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would consider the following issues:
God gives life and can take life.. it was not done by men but of God God has the perogative of decided when a person lives and dies and that was the case.
The Pharoah did have warning what would happen and what the consequences would be
addiitonally the Pharoahs had slaughteered the Jewish male babies... and would not be innocent themselves of such
2007-04-08 21:16:37 · answer #7 · answered by whirlingmerc 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well I think you have your answer in all of the above; rather incredible contortionist mental (and moral) gymnastics are involved to justify Biblical events.
2007-04-08 21:22:04 · answer #8 · answered by Dendronbat Crocoduck 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is quite simple.
its god's will. thus morality does not apply.
moral limitations are for us, with our limited understanding of things. God is not limited in such a way because he can see the complete nature of all that is in such a way that any descision made will be the appropriate one, even if we cannot perceive why it is so.
but also, it was a last resort thing to force pharaoh's hand. it was his responsibility, and the result of his actions.
2007-04-08 21:18:42 · answer #9 · answered by RW 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God warned them to let His people go and then cursed them with a plague. THen another. Nine plagues total with warnings going prior to each before this last one occured. They were fair game. You will find God treats a man and his family as one unit. He didn't follow our individualist ideology. So punishing a man and his family will often occur for the leader of the family's misdeeds. Fair? I don't know. Ask God.
2007-04-08 21:14:41 · answer #10 · answered by David 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nothing moral or immoral about it. The kids died because they ate Easter eggs contaminated with E.Coli.
2007-04-08 21:18:42 · answer #11 · answered by bandycat5 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋