I mean the Jews at that point were breaking apart with everyone going in their own direction so old Moses cooked up this story in an effort to get everyone back on the same page.
2007-11-25 14:39:46 · 13 answers · asked by TSIRHC 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Actually you can't just state bible as your souce, which version do you speak of. Its a little different in each one-a real Christian would know this.
2007-11-25 14:50:19 · update #1
It's also possible (and much more likely) that that part of the story was added later on as it was mythologized, or that the entire story is just that, a story.
2007-11-25 14:45:10 · answer #1 · answered by Eiliat 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
>> Isn't it possible that Moses just hallucinated the
>> burning bush?
Not at all...
>> I mean the Jews at that point were breaking apart
>> with everyone going in their own direction
It seems you don't know your Bible very well at all. When Moses saw the Burning Bush, all of the Jews (except himself) were doing the same thing -- living as slaves in the Land of Egypt. While Moses, had been on the run for almost 40 years, at that point, from the law in Egypt (Exodus 2:15) for having murdered an Egyptian taskmaster (Exodus 2:11,12).
Moses, at that point, though he would never see his people again -- and, if he did, that he would be ostracized from them as a murderer (Exodus 2:13,14). Also at that point, Moses was married to Zipporah, daughter of Jethro, the priest of Midian (Exodus 3:1). He also had two children by her and never intended to return to the Land of Egypt. He had taken up permanent residency with his father-in-law and was second in command, to Jethro, of a very prosperous tribe of people.
So, did he make it up? Hardly! Doing so went against everything he was invested in at that point. And I don't see any other mention of a Burning Bush experience except the one in Exodus 3 for which I've just described the surrounding circumstances.
2007-11-25 23:05:33 · answer #2 · answered by ♫DaveC♪♫ 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Um.... I don't think you have the story right... are you SURE you READ it???
At the time God appeared to Moses in the "burning bush," Moses had NO thoughts or intentions of bringing the Jews out of Egypt. Hell... he had "escaped" Egypt because he had a "death sentence" hanging over his head... the LAST THING he wanted to do was RETURN to Egypt!!!
As to your notion of the Jews "breaking apart," where does THIS come from? The Jews were "together" and enslaved in Egypt. They weren't breaking apart. In fact, it was God who said to Moses that He (God) had heard the prayers and cries of His people in Egypt. He didn't say His people scattered across the face of the earth!
Where do you come up with these strange notions? Certainly, if you had READ the story in the Bible, you wouldn't have asked this question.
Have a blessed day.
2007-11-25 23:28:55 · answer #3 · answered by wyomugs 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. Moses didn't hallucinate about the burning bush. Moses saw an intense artificial bright light coming from the bush that the God Yahweh used on the bush while talking to Moses. Not ever seeing an artifical light before, Moses compaired the light to fire. The bush didn't burn because of the artificial light. Which God turned off when He was done talking to Moses. What would you have called this bright artifical light 3500 years before electricity was invented?
2007-11-25 22:56:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Actual you need to read the bible for yourself to see that the bush wasnt burning.
Exodus 3:2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
Exodus 3:3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
Acts 7:30 And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
2007-11-25 22:44:48 · answer #5 · answered by Charity 3 · 2⤊ 5⤋
They had hallucinogenic plants back then. I read somewhere that he probably ate some and hallucinated the burning bush.
2007-11-26 15:24:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Is it possible that the Egyptian army just hallucinated drowning in the red sea?
Edit:
Actually you can just state the Bible as your source. Most of us would know by reading it that it was the KJV
2007-11-25 22:50:44 · answer #7 · answered by Caveman 5 · 1⤊ 5⤋
i always thought it suspicious that he spent just about enough time on that mountain to carve a couple of tablets.
2007-11-25 22:46:43 · answer #8 · answered by karl k 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Not only possible, but highly probable.
2007-11-25 22:46:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
The weed was smoking.
2007-11-25 22:43:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋