If tomorrow morning your oldest son sudddenly dies, and you later found out it was because God instructed the President to do something and he refused, so God killed your son as punishment…. would you be OK with that?
I'm asking because of all the Christians who say that the killing of all the first-born of Egypt, even the first-born of the slaves, and the first-born of people who were locked-up in prison, was JUSTIFIED because Pharaoh refused God, and sometimes God needs to do things like that to get our attention.
So do you really think a slave girl in Egypt deserved to have her son killed by God because Pharaoh wouldn't let the Jews go free? Do you think that slave girl had any say in Egyptian politics? Or was she an innocent victim of a menevolent monster God?
PLEASE READ Exodus 11 before responding. I don’t want to hear anything about how it was actually King Herod that killed the babies in Egypt, or about how the slaves and prisoners were spared. It’s all right the
2007-06-04 04:57:43 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Reading some of these fools answers makes me proud to be Atheist
2007-06-04 10:44:01 · answer #1 · answered by FallenAngel© 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am not a mother but I am responding. I am a Christian however. Pharoah response to God was to kill the babies. It was not God's way of getting the hebrews to respond to Him. Pharoah was afraid of the Hebrews because they were growing in number and strength. He feared they might over throw Him. Did God approve of what pharoah did. No, but it does not change the fact it happened. In most ancient times this practice of killing off potential threats no matter what nation was not unusual. Look and greeks and roman history. They killed off any potential threat of overthrowing their kingdom.
2007-06-04 12:07:43 · answer #2 · answered by turtle30c 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Context is everything in biblical interpretation. The ancient Egyptians served many false gods. The Plagues that were set upon the people of Egypt were relative to the gods of the land demonstrating that God was the true God and that their gods were weak, ineffective, and false.
Plague of Turning the Nile to blood, Exodus 7:14-25. Isis was the Egyptian god of the Nile. Khnum was the guardian of the Nile.
Plague of Frogs, Exodus 8:1-5. Heget was the goddess of birth and had the head of a frog.
Plague of Gnats, Exodus 8:16-19. Set was the god of the desert.
Flies, Exodus 8:20-32. Re was the sun god. Uatchit was a god possibly represented by the fly.
Death of Livestock, Exodus 9:1-7. Hathor, goddess with a cow's head. Apis was the bull god.
Boils, Exodus 9:8-12. Sekmet goddess that had power over disease. Sunu, the god of pestilence.
Hail, Exodus 9:13-35. Nut, the goddess of the sky. Set god of storms.
Locusts, Exodus 10:1-20. Osiris, god of crops.
Darkness, Exodus 10:21-29. Re, the sun god. Horus, a sun god. Hathor, sky goddess.
Death of firstborn, Exodus 11:1 - 12:30. Min, god of reproduction. Isis, goddess who protected children. Pharaoh, considered a god.1
The death of the firstborn (Exodus 12:29) was not only a final blow to Pharaoh and all of Egypt demonstrating the powerlessness of Pharaoh and the truth of God's word, but it was also used as a prophetic typology. In the account of the death of the firstborn, all who had the blood of a lamb placed on their door posts would escape the judgment of God on the households. This blood on the doorpost was representative of the actual blood of Christ who is called the Lamb of God. Therefore, God allowed the firstborn to be killed as a judgment upon Pharaoh, as a proof of God's superiority, and as a prophetic representation of the death of His Son, Jesus. It was a representation of the gospel message that the true first born of God who would later die for the sins of the world and that all who are covered by the blood of Christ will be saved from their bondage to sin. It does not mean that God is mean, especially if we realize that all have sinned (Rom. 3:23). It means that God was arranging history to bear witness of the greatest act of love: the crucifixion.
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1. The information for this list was taken from “The Plagues and the Gods and Goddesses of Egypt,” as found in Walvoord, John F., and Zuck, Roy B., The Bible Knowledge Commentary, (Wheaton, Illinois: Scripture Press Publications, Inc.) 1983, 1985.
2007-06-04 12:02:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 4⤋
i dont think i would just be "ok" with the death of any of my children -- but as a christian with strong faith -- i would trust in my savior that he would help me get through the loss and look for ways to forgive the ignorant
2007-06-04 12:03:44 · answer #4 · answered by m j 3 · 6⤊ 2⤋
no
King Herod was just another fool and i can say whatever i want
God did not kill those babies....the jews had an angels mark to protect them from it
2007-06-04 12:04:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
I would be sad and angry. But not at God. I would be angry at the President for not doing what was asked of him to prevent the death of my child!
2007-06-04 12:02:55 · answer #6 · answered by Sarah R 6 · 4⤊ 3⤋
It was the King that ordered this. God did not do this. And I would not be OK with some person killing any of my children!
2007-06-04 12:01:50 · answer #7 · answered by SDC 5 · 2⤊ 6⤋
I believe in God.
Whatever God does is right.
2007-06-04 12:01:30 · answer #8 · answered by Yahoo admins are virgins 5 · 2⤊ 7⤋
yes thats ok with me!
2007-06-04 12:01:46 · answer #9 · answered by StEpH 3 · 2⤊ 4⤋