Moses cast down the stones and the earth openned and swallowed them together with their idol.?

Question

Should we be careful about what we make our God?

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Exodus an Numbers are a composite. The rebellion of Korah WAS the Golden calf. Actually the story itself is aimed against the worship of Israel at Bethel after Jerusalem had been established as ritual centre in the Davidic dynasty, but who's to quibble?

Exodus and Numbers are a composite. The rebellion of Korah WAS the Golden calf. Actually the story itself is aimed against the worship of Israel at Bethel after Jerusalem had been established as ritual centre in the Davidic dynasty, but who's to quibble?

Vulcan. Try putting verses 2-7 together and reading them as a whole and singular statement.

The Name: I AM before all else.

Of course if you can tell me, if the Golden Calf happened while Moses was on the mountain why it's found in Exodus 32 rather than back around Exodus 20, I'd be open to a reasonable explanation.

Answer 1

The real issue is many people don't realize their idols. You would be surprised how many churchgoers work their schedule around a Packer game here. In fact, churches may rearrange their schedule so people can watch their other god play on the field.
I'm not against football, but when people worship a football team over God, we have a problem. Yet, very few will admit this.
I could care less. If they win or lose, my life doesn't change. God changed my life. No one else has that type of power and love.

Answer 2

You seem to be mixing two different stories together.

Numbers 16:1 Now Korah the son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men. 2 And they rose up before Moses, with a number of the people of Israel, 250 chiefs of the congregation, chosen from the assembly, well-known men. 3 They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, "You have gone too far! For all in the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?"

4 When Moses heard it, he fell on his face, 5 and he said to Korah and all his company, "In the morning the LORD will show who is his, and who is holy, and will bring him near to him. The one whom he chooses he will bring near to him. 6 Do this: take censers, Korah and all his company; 7 put fire in them and put incense on them before the LORD tomorrow, and the man whom the LORD chooses shall be the holy one. You have gone too far, sons of Levi!"

Numbers 16:28 And Moses said, "Hereby you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, and that it has not been of my own accord. 29 If these men die as all men die, or if they are visited by the fate of all mankind, then the LORD has not sent me. 30 But if the LORD creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the LORD."

31 And as soon as he had finished speaking all these words, the ground under them split apart. 32 And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the people who belonged to Korah and all their goods. 33 So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.

But the answer to your question "Should we be careful about what we make our God?" is that we shouldn't try to "make a god" since as it is written:

Psalms 100:3 Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Answer 3

Yes, and then he saddled up his dinosaur and rode off into the sunset, while Invisible Pink Unicorns flew overhead, and animals marched two by two from a rowboat on top of Mount Ararat. Yes indeed!

Maybe we should be careful about making vengeful, murderous, capricious, and judgemental Semetic deities our God. Ya think?

Answer 4

They made a golden calf while Mosses was on the mountain getting the tablets written with the finger of god.
Hence the saying "only if it is written in stone."
Later after distroying the golden calf makers and their orgy of rape and incest. He made mosses another set of tablets written with the finger of God.
When God takes the time to write something in stone you really ought to read it.

Answer 5

God reveals himself progressively, not instantaneously. The Old Testament reveals God's holiness. He is set apart or separate from all evil. He hates wickedness. Our God is a consuming fire.

Answer 6

Hey ! you are pushing my 'envelope' this afternoon. LOL
I haven't done this much thinking in a long time !
Don't you have a homily to write !
Yeah - it's easy to forget and not to realize that sometimes we do worship 'things'

Answer 7

That was in the old testament and so it was forbidden to make one. As far as i know, the new testament doesn't prohibit idols.

Answer 8

Read the ten Commandments.......Verse 3....
2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
13 Thou shalt not kill.
14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15 Thou shalt not steal.
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ***, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
I would say that is very clear.....................

Answer 9

I think that's one of the reason's Jesus Christ was sent, so that we don't create anymore false images of Him.


John 14:7

7 If you really know me, you will know [a] my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him."

Answer 10

the komputar is your idol and ze ground is about to swallow you