do you think a loving god is behind it?
2007-09-18 21:20:38 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He sure didn't love the Egyptians, did he?
No, I don't think it sounds very loving. But remember that history is written by the winners. This is the Hebrew Bible we are talking about here, not an Egyptian writing.
2007-09-18 21:26:22 · answer #1 · answered by auntb93 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Was it loving of Pharaoh to keep the Israelites captive?
God could just have obliterated the Egyptians there and then but he sent Moses and Aaron to warn Pharaoh before the plagues were brought about. After each plague, Pharaoh was given a chance to let God's people go. It was only when his firstborn was killed that Pharaoh finally responded.
Once the Israelites had left, Pharaoh showed just how arrogant he was by pursuing them to the Red Sea.
God is loving but, like any loving parent, he punishes when it is due.
2007-09-19 05:46:42 · answer #2 · answered by Iron Serpent 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
History is written from the point of view of the writer The Bible was written by many people some of it hundreds of years after the event .the Bible might be Gods word the problem is it was written by mans hand using mans brain
the Jewish Christian and Muslim faith all have the same basic belief and stories about the the beginning of life and the early years on earth yet none are exactly the same so we can`t know which one (if any) are the real events that took place
2007-09-18 22:50:01 · answer #3 · answered by keny 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some time ago there was a superb documentary on tv that showed how these conditions could have arrived by purely natural means. The people at that time, without a scientific background would have thought that God was angry, just as today, there are still people who live in remote areas that believe God is angry when a volcano decides to throw a wobbler. A purely natural event.
2007-09-18 22:34:27 · answer #4 · answered by ADRIAN H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably not - we have a plague of little black grasshoppers here at the moment and I don't think he's behind that either! Then again I don't believe he has an awful lot to say in the matter anyway - will probably get reported now for upsetting people!!
2007-09-18 21:30:49 · answer #5 · answered by alex s 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is the one that called for the 10 plagues. Worse, if you read the Bible, God told Moses that he is going to harden the heart of the Pharoh to make sure Pharoh won't let the Jews go, which gave God reasons to show his wonders and powers to the world by inflicting pain, suffering, and murder. Kind of creepy if you ask me.
2007-09-18 21:28:00 · answer #6 · answered by zi_xin 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The plagues are what God punished Rameses with whilst he refused to conform with the demnads of Moses. He needed him to unfastened the Israelite slaves and after the appropriate plague(dying of first born son) he finally did and the slaves left Egypt. Is that what u have been asking for? nicely if u choose extra information merely tell me.
2016-10-19 02:00:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol
I don't think god really likes anybody, if read between the lines. At least he left the Egyptians alone afterwards, but poor Amalek (in the region that would later become the Roman province of Arabia Petraea - Modern Jordan (Petra)) that was Genocide (1 Samuel 15:2-3) he declared!
Thus saith the LORD of hosts ... go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ***.
2007-09-18 23:52:24 · answer #8 · answered by DAVID C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All those plagues were designed to get Pharoah to admit that he wasn't really God .. and to get all the Egyptians to understand that fact, as well.
Pharoah never quite got it ... but you can bet that everybody else did.
Sometime love needs to be tough ... especially when people are worshiping false gods ... and enslaving God's chosen people.
2007-09-19 00:57:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God has many attributes! One is love, then there is justice, mercy, and he is a God that protects HIS PEOPLE. Isn't that love?
Thus when the Pharaoh did not want to release the people ENSLAVED by his policies, God went about to change his mind! Did you prefer God to outright having killed the Egyptian nation?
Thus the miracles, all of the Egyptians had to acknowledge before lives were lost. They did not repent. So finally - lives were lost.
Yes, unrepentant sin leads to loss of life, even today.
2007-09-18 21:27:38 · answer #10 · answered by Fuzzy 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋