was that a common practice back then or just coincidence, kinda makes you say hmmm, maybe? what's up with that
2007-04-30 08:14:42 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Quite barbaric i'll agree but how do we know if it really happened this way?
In Egypt there is no record of Moses interacting with any Pharoah nor any record of Jesus being there as an infant.
Also how did John the baptist survive if it was true? He should've been dead when the soldiers passed because he was born before Jesus (according to the story).
That is what makes me go hmmmm.
2007-04-30 08:21:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pharaoh wanted the total numkber of Israelites lowered. He ordered all male babies aborted at delivery. Moses' mother hid him away.
King Herod heard that a baby was born who would be king of the Jews, so he ordered all male children from newborn up to about 3 years of age killed. Joseph too baby Jesus to Egypt.
This just shows what can happen when one man has too much power.
2007-04-30 15:23:58 · answer #2 · answered by Desperado 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sort of like "both U. S. Presidents named 'Johnson' took office after the assassination of the former president?" Or "both U. S. Presidents named 'Bush' were Republican and waged a war in Iraq against Saddam Hussein"?
Sorry, but I just had to address the following:
"Also how did John the baptist survive if it was true? He should've been dead when the soldiers passed because he was born before Jesus (according to the story)."
The only children that were killed were those that were in Bethlehem (Matthew 1:6). Apparently Zacharias and Elizabeth, JtB's parents, lived elsewhere.
2007-04-30 15:34:17 · answer #3 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pharaoh's decree to kill all the newborn Hebrew males wasn't specifically targeted at Moses. It was an attempt to keep the Hebrews from multiplying and becoming stronger than their Egyptian captors.
2007-04-30 15:19:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Basically, it just shows what power and paranoia can do to a person. Pharoh didn't want to lose his slaves, and Harod was completely insane, and even killed his own wife, her family, and his own children to eliminate any potential threat to his place as ruler. Can you honestly say that this doesn't happen now-a-days? I mean, people are ordered to fly a plane into a buliding, and they do it....
2007-04-30 16:01:16 · answer #5 · answered by ChaoticKimmy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
those were two seperate cultures, so i dont think it was a common practice. A lot of things happened in the old testament that were foreshadowing the things that would happen to Christ. Like Abraham taking Isaac to be sacrificesed. Isaac in that story represented us and the sacrifice God provided instead of Isaac was Christ.
2007-04-30 15:21:01 · answer #6 · answered by A Gabbi 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The events were thousands of years apart, and yes, genocide is quite popular even today.
2007-04-30 15:19:07 · answer #7 · answered by tom 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Isn't that a surefree way to get rid of the anti-Christ?
You'd think Christians would support abortion...
2007-04-30 15:19:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋