Exodus III: Just a Few Questions

Is that Your Final Answer?

Tell me, tell me

I really want to know

Where is the point of my origin

Where does this river flow

If I choose to take

Will He promise to give

Why must I choose His love

If I want to live

I won't say 'yes'

And you won't say no

The answers I seek

Shouldn't be impossible to show

Do you believe that the Bible is God's final and everlasting word? Do you believe that every single word in the Bible is the truth, the actual, literal truth? For those who would press you for answers about what it is exactly that you believe, do you ignore them because you feel frustrated for repeating yourself? Are you wanting for a good set of answers? Do you ignore such questions because they give your faith a good shake, rattle, and roll? Are you ashamed of the absurdity and ridiculousness of what you believe? 

All of these questions are part of why I do not believe that God exists. I do not believe that the Holy Bible is some kind of road map given by God to man for purposes of communicating with God. I grew up immersed in Christianity and once I began to think for myself and once I actually stopped and listened to some of the crap I was saying to people I realized something was seriously wrong. 

I do not care if people wish to tell me I am going to hell. Whatever, right? I just want people to type in their answers as to why they believe what they believe in regards to the Bible. Answer these questions. Tell me why. Is that too much to ask of you? 

And now we continue with Part III of Exodus as we consider some of the questions that come to mind when considering whether or not the Holy Bible is the absolute truth of God's own words.

1. Exodus 13:1-2

1. Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

2 "Sanctify to Me every firstborn, the first offspring of every womb among the sons of Israel, both of man and beast; it belongs to Me."

Questions
     1) Did you ever read the story of Rumpelstiltskin? I always thought that was a really creepy story, but this verse totally reminds me of that story. Give to me your firstborn? That is straight-up something right out of Children of the Corn.

     2) The firstborn of every womb among the sons of Israel? So, I take it the women have zero say in this matter? As a mother I can tell you I would rather fight up to and through my last breath before I gave anyone dibs on my children. What kind of God demands the firstborn?

     3) Doesn't the idea of the firstborn belonging to 'God' sound like something straight out of pagan/ancient traditions?

2. Exodus 13:3

3 Then Moses said to the people, “Remember this day in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of slavery, for by a strong hand the LORD brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.

Questions
     1) Where is this strong hand that supposedly brought out the people of Israel from Egypt? Isn't this hand more like something from the hand that rocks the cradle considering that God used straight-up sabotage techniques in order to get His way with Pharaoh?

3. Exodus 13:5

5 "It shall be when the LORD brings you to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall observe this rite in this month.

Questions
     1) Why is God STILL talking in the future tense when it comes to this promised land that has been promised time and again, but that never really seems to materialize for the people of Israel?

     2) Consider the modern day issues with the country of Israel and ask yourself if God has fulfilled His promise to give the people of Israel this land that supposedly flows with milk and honey? Tell me, does Israel flow with milk and honey or with aggression and spite considering the lovely history with Palestine and Islam?

     3)Is this God's idea of a really fucked up joke, to 'give' this promised land that is riddled with problems and scuffles and religious dissension to His people? Does God do this with the specific intent to cause so many problems that the people have no choice but to keep coming back for more help?

4. Exodus 13:9-10

9 And it shall be to you as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the law of the LORD may be in your mouth. For with a strong hand the LORD has brought you out of Egypt.

10 You shall therefore keep this statute at its appointed time from year to year.

Questions
     1) I think God's version of what a strong hand is qualifies as dirty fighting techniques, don't you?

     2) So, exactly WHAT about what God did are we remembering? The underhanded techniques? The lies? The deception?

5. Exodus 13:11-13

11 “When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and your fathers, and shall give it to you,

12 you shall set apart to the LORD all that first opens the womb. All the firstborn of your animals that are males shall be the LORD’s.

13 Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. Every firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem.

Questions
     1) Do you know what these little rules about the firstborn sound like? Just like all of the other gods within religion that demand the firstborn as payment in exchange for giving the worshiping masses a place to stay and food to eat. I think it is sick and very twisted. You know what this is? This is sick. If this God is the one and only God why does He demand all of the same stupid crap that all the other gods demand? He isn't any different then, is He?

6. Exodus 13:15-16

15 For when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of animals. Therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all the males that first open the womb, but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.’

16 It shall be as a mark on your hand or frontlets between your eyes, for by a strong hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt.”

Questions
     1) Uhmmm, how do you figure that the Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let the people go? God did that, didn't He?

     2) What is this about marking the hand and on the forehead? Does that sound suspiciously like some kind of 'end times' mark of the beast to you? Isn't that fairly creepy?

     3) If God is just how does He count subversive techniques as qualifiers for a strong hand? Is it because He is God and so figures He can say and do what He wants how He wants when He wants?

7. Exodus 13:17-18

17 When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near. For God said, “Lest the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.”

18 But God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the people of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt equipped for battle.

Questions
     1) What is the REAL reason God led the people of Israel out of Egypt in the manner that He did? Was it so they would have as little other people and places as possible to rely on? Why wouldn't God want them relying on other people or places?

8. Exodus 13:22

22 The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people.

Questions
     1) So, isn't man supposed to be made in the image of God? If that is the case why does God seemingly love to appear as anything BUT the image in which man was supposedly made?

9. Exodus 14:4

4 And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD.” And they did so.

Questions
     1) So, is 'getting glory' over Pharaoh just another way of saying, "I will murder," but said in such a manner as to make the individual saying such (God) not appear as murderous as they really are?

     2) I want to know how God can do what He did to Pharaoh and yet turn around and give a commandment such as thou shalt not bear false witness? Does God think He is being clever?

10. Exodus 14:18

18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”

Questions
     1) Shouldn't this really say that the Egyptians will know it is the LORD since the LORD is the one who caused all of the problems, hardened Pharaoh's heart repeatedly, murdered Egyptians in droves, and did hateful things to them?

11. Exodus 14:21-22

21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

22 And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

Questions
     1) Okay, how can you people who believe this type of story here pop off at the mouth that what other religions or faiths or spiritual practices believe is unreasonable? Have you ever once stopped to listen to the craziness of what you believe? Do you seriously believe that the waters were separated and the people walked through? Do you believe this is the literal truth?

12. Exodus 14:24
24 And in the morning watch the LORD in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down on the Egyptian forces and threw the Egyptian forces into confusion,

Questions
     1) Well now, this is not the only time that the LORD threw a bunch of people into confusion, is it? Didn't the LORD do something similar with the folks at the Tower of Babel?

     2) If the LORD really wants people to see His truth why is He more consistent about throwing people into confusion than revealing truth to them? Is this kinda backwards of what He is supposed to be doing?

13. Exodus 14:28

28 The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen; of all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, not one of them remained.

Questions
     1) Is there any verifiable evidence, historically speaking, that an entire Egyptian army was lost at sea or in any kind of accident or act of war or anything of the like?

14. Exodus 14:30-31

30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

31 Israel saw the great power that the LORD used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the LORD, and they believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses.

Questions
     1) How else were the people of Israel supposed to react when they supposedly saw God totally and completely destroy the entire Egyptian army? Did God want 'His' people to see what He could do to people when He was very angry? Was that the whole point here?

     2) If the entire Egyptian army was destroyed how did Egypt survive so long in history after this event? Wouldn't other kingdoms have swooped in and taken all the riches of Egypt?

15. Exodus 15:3

3 The LORD is a man of war; the LORD is his name.

Questions
     1) Shouldn't the words here be more along the lines that the LORD is a filthy man of war for the LORD is a dirty fighter?

16. Exodus 15:10

10 You blew with your wind; the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Questions
     1) If the Egyptians sank like lead when the waters crashed in around them how did the people of Israel see the bodies on the shore as it says in verse Exodus 14:30?

17. Exodus 15:22-23

22 Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water.

23 When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah.

Questions
     1) Does the LORD purposely lead the people of Israel into these kinds of predicaments for the purpose of making it seem like they are not self-sufficient and so very desperately need the LORD?

     2) Who in their right mind would lead the people of Israel with all of their children and flocks and herds into the boondocks of the desert where there is no water and no sustainable source of food? WHY does God do this, seriously, WHAT is the real reason for this?

18. Exodus 16:3

3 and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

Questions
     1) How is it that the people of Israel do not see that the LORD purposely sets them up for failure so that whenever He 'helps' them or 'rescues' them it looks like the LORD really cares for them and is providing for them?

19. Exodus 16:4

4 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.

Questions
     1) Do you notice that the LORD is in the habit of giving the people only what they need to survive and nothing more? Why is that? He only wants them to have just enough to survive and eek by life by the skin of their teeth?

20. Exodus 16:8

8 And Moses said, “When the LORD gives you in the evening meat to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the LORD has heard your grumbling that you grumble against him—what are we? Your grumbling is not against us but against the LORD.”

Questions
     1) What did Moses expect to experience as a spokesman for a God that seemingly lives to glorify only Himself by means of making things as difficult as possible for His people?

     2) Does life really need to be so difficult and seemingly impossible for the people of Israel?

     3) When the LORD made all of the promises to be the God of the people of Israel and to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, I am wondering how the inflection in His voice sounded, how His voice sounded? It is one thing reading it in the Bible and another thing entirely when you think about how it was supposed to have sounded to the people of Israel, right? Was the tone of God's/the LORD's voice such that it sounded like it was a really good deal and would be no trouble at all?

21. Exodus 16:18-19

18 But when they measured it with an omer, whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack. Each of them gathered as much as he could eat.

19 And Moses said to them, “Let no one leave any of it over till the morning.”

Questions
     1) What is it with the LORD not wanting the people of Israel to save up/store the food? I could not help but to feel somewhat confused with this story when I was a child. Here the LORD was supposed to be providing for His people, bit it seemed like He never really wanted them to be very comfortable, like He wanted them to worry about where their next meal would come from or where they would be able to find water for their flocks. Why does God choose this really whack way to show His people that He will provide for them?

22. Exodus 16:28

28 And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

Questions
     1) Why is the LORD asking questions to things He already knows the answer to?

     2) If the LORD wants the people of Israel to respond better to Him why doesn't He stop putting them in crazy ass situations? Aren't there better ways to show His people how He will provide for them instead of bringing them to the brink in some way, every time, every day, and then at the last moment providing birds for meat, providing 'bread' from heaven in the form of manna, or making water come out of a rock?

23. Exodus 17:1-2

1 All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the LORD, and camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.

2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?”

Questions
     1) Wait a minute here, WHO is doing the testing here, hummm? Look at Exodus and try to grasp how often these people, this great mass of people wandering in the friggin' desert with loads of children and herds and flocks, suffer for want of water or food...why is this? Is the purpose of allowing all of this to gain control of the emotions of the people of Israel?

     2) Is the purpose of directing and controlling the emotions of the people of Israel to keep them so unsteady that they do not realize how screwy the God that they worship really is and how cruel and bloodthirsty He is just like many other gods of other nations?

24. Exodus 18:11

11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods, because in this affair they dealt arrogantly with the people.

Questions
     1) Arrogance? Arrogance? You want to talk arrogance? Okay, let us look at some of the synonyms of arrogance: conceit, pride, self-importance, egotism, an offensive display of superiority...wow, this list goes on and on and you know what? These are ALL the characteristics of the LORD/God, aren't they?

     2) So this LORD is so full of Himself that He feels it is necessary to remind the people of Israel over and over how He can provide for them in a pinch? He persists to put them in dire circumstances just show He can show how creative He is in His efforts to give His people what they need? 

     3) Why does God continue to pick unhappy and desperate situations to subject His people to? Does God really understand the mind of man? Is the reason because God knows that everyone has a breaking point and He is trying to break the people of Israel so He can truly control them as only He wishes to control them?

25. Exodus 19:4-6

4 You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.

5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine;

6 and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”

Questions
     1) This is so mother f***ing smug it is hard to know where to begin to comment on it, right? God has something else on His mind if He is thinking He had to reference something He did in the past, especially when you consider exactly what it was that He referenced, correct?

     2) How must this have sounded to the people of Israel, hummm? Remember what I did to the Egyptians? Of COURSE they remember what you did to the Egyptians because you played dirty, mister God, and now you are trying to use that as some kind of threat, right? Remember when I did this or that to these people? I can do the same to you if you do not listen. 

     3) Why does it seem like that the more you read in the Bible (when starting in the Old Testament) the more it seems like the LORD/God is not a God of love or a God that wants to BE loved, but that this God...above all of the things HE wants...this God wants to be feared, needs to be feared, and perhaps to a frightening degree must be feared lest the negativity and horror that gives Him substance degrade to a point where He no longer exists?

26. Exodus 19:12-13

12 And you shall set limits for the people all around, saying, ‘Take care not to go up into the mountain or touch the edge of it. Whoever touches the mountain shall be put to death.

13 No hand shall touch him, but he shall be stoned or shot; whether beast or man, he shall not live.’ When the trumpet sounds a long blast, they shall come up to the mountain.”

Questions
     1) Okay, I really want you to think about this, alright? So, God makes man in His own image and for the satisfaction of God (and the screwiness of that is a subject all its own), this God loves these people and even titles them as His people, wants to protect these same people, wants these people to love Him as deeply as He loves them...but then consistently exhibits behaviors and actions that put His people, His chosen people in direct danger?

     2) Considering that many of the trademarks of fear center around patterns of behavior based on that fear how can God/the LORD ever expect ANY people to truly love Him? 

     3) Since when has love EVER required fear, or anything negative for that matter?

27. Exodus 20:19-20

19 and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.”

20 Moses said to the people, “Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you, that you may not sin.”

Questions
     1) Sooo...the purpose of God/the LORD making people fear Him is to stop them from sinning? How is that working out thus far?

     2) Is it possible to prevent sin through ways that are not aggressive or filled with fear?

     3) If God is all-powerful why does He insist on using fear to get people to obey? Since He is omnipotent doesn't this mean He would know that fear is not such a hot tool after all?

28. Exodus 21:7, 11

7 “When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.

11 And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.

Questions
     1) So, uh...some of the men who God considered to be part of that group known as God's people would sell their daughters as slaves? And not only that but apparently God had special rules set aside for such? These verses are wrong for so many reasons.

     2) What is this thing that God has against women?

     3) Why does the Bible mention God the Father many many times, but never once mentions anything about God's mother? Does this have anything to do with the overall bullshit treatment of women in the Bible?

29. Exodus 21:23-25

23 But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life,

24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

25 burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Questions
     1) Is this about one of the most stupid things from the Bible? You don't return evil for evil, and do you know WHY? 

     2) It should not be do unto others as they do unto you, right? I mean, why would you want to treat anyone in the same deplorable manner in which someone has treated you?

     3) Is God really saying that it is okay to behave in a terrible manner so long as you were not the one initiating said bad behavior? Is that it?

     4) Sooo...then the ends DO justify the means?

     5) What happens when someone has a mental disease and they harm or kill someone? Does God allow any kind of relief for those individuals who have zero control over their psychosis?

     6) I take it God offers a mulligan in times of war?

30. Exodus 21:28, 32

28 “When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall not be liable.

32 If the ox gores a slave, male or female, the owner shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

Questions
     1) Explain to me the purpose and benefit of killing the ox that has killed a person? What does such an idiotic thing accomplish?

31. Exodus 22:18
18 “You shall not permit a sorceress to live.

Questions
     1) I this because God/the LORD does not want the competition?

     2) Is this because God does not want people to have or understand this kind of power?

     3) Not everyone does bad things with great power, and surely God knows this, yes? Why kill a good sorceress?

     4) God wants to be the only one with great power, doesn't He?

32. Exodus 22:22-24
22 You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.

23 If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry,

24 and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

Questions
     1) God has no clue when it comes to rendering balanced punishment, does He?

     2) How in the fuck does making another woman a widow and making her child fatherless compensate for the original wrong done?

     3) Wouldn't making a woman a widow and a child fatherless qualify as mistreatment toward that woman and child?

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Exodus Part II: Just a Few Questions

Without Proof, Without Love, Without Remorse:

The All or Nothing Faith

Christianity is without proof not just for God, but for a good amount of the fiction that fills the Bible. Even more telling than this lack of proof are the verses jam-packed into the Bible that recount situation after situation where a supposed all-loving God persistently acts without love. Perhaps there are those who truly believe that to question the Bible or the God of the Bible is a bad thing, folly of the highest order. I am asking these questions anyway, and I ask them without remorse.

If you think you have an explanation or answer or whatever to ANY of these questions please note your answer in the comment link. These questions here are part of why I do not believe in God or in the truth/validity of the Bible.

Now all you need to do, if you are a believer, is to tell me WHY you DO believe. Do not give the cop-out answer of it simply being a matter of faith. Give me good reasons and good answers as to why you believe this stuff as literal truth.

1. Exodus 5:2-3

2 But Pharaoh said, “Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and moreover, I will not let Israel go.”

3 Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.”

Questions
     1) Do you think it would have helped the situation at all if the LORD had simply taken the time to introduce Himself to Pharaoh instead of hardening Pharaoh's heart in order to make a divine excuse to kick Egypt's ass?

     2) So, the God of the people of Israel has conferred with His constituency and issued an edict that He (the God of the people of Israel) must be worshiped ASAP and at a place that is three days' journey into the boondocks, but this God does not bother to reveal Himself to the Egyptians, or more specifically to Pharaoh, so that all the important people who need to know what is going on...know what is going on? What is wrong with this picture?

     3) Do you notice that in verse three the initial threat punishment of disease or violence is not threatened against Egypt or its people, but rather against the people of Israel? How must that have sounded to Pharaoh, hummm? Dear Pharaoh, please let me go and worship my God lest He kick my ass. 

     4) You don't really think that this pharaoh who supposedly was not too keen on the people of Israel to begin with is going to give a good goddamn as to whether or not the God of the people of Israel punishes His own people for not worshiping Him, do you?

     5) Do you think it would have behooved Moses and crew to immediately inform Pharaoh that the one to be punished would be Pharaoh and his people? Might this have changed Pharaoh's initial response of contempt toward Moses' if from the very beginning Pharaoh was informed that he either let the people of Israel go or suffer dire consequences?

     6) Do you think that the reason why God did not instruct the people of Israel to play it straight with the Egyptians was because ALL ALONG the God of the people of Israel WANTED an excuse, BURNED for a reason to annihilate the court of Pharaoh and the people of Egypt?

2. Exodus 5:22-23

22 Then Moses turned to the LORD and said, “O Lord, why have you done evil to this people? Why did you ever send me?

23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has done evil to this people, and you have not delivered your people at all.”

Questions
     1) Questioning the God/LORD of the people of Israel is supposed to be a real big no-no, right? Does it not say in the Bible to NOT test the LORD your God? Well...big time kudos for Moses for having the balls to confront the LORD and the bullshit the LORD is doing. Sure, Moses intended his comment not to mean that God was treating the Egyptians so unfairly or horribly, but that the LORD was bringing trouble and tragedy and turmoil to the people of Israel, and considering their position of slavery weren't they dealing with enough on their proverbial plate without adding pissing the Pharaoh off?

     2) Look at verse twenty-three here. Does it appear to convey a little bit of screwy-ness to you? Here, the LORD sends Moses and Aaron to speak to Pharaoh, and what does Pharaoh do but continue to make things all the more difficult for the people of Israel. And why is Pharaoh being difficult? Is it because Pharaoh himself is choosing to be difficult? Nope. God chips in with that. 

3. Exodus 6:1

1 But the LORD said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”

Questions
     1) What is it that the LORD is really saying here? Do you think it ever crossed Moses' mind that the LORD meant that He would fuck the Egyptians over so royally that Pharaoh would all but get on his hands and knees and beg the people of Israel to leave?

     2) Who is the one with the strong hands here? It can't be Pharaoh because he is being manipulated against his will and not in accordance with his own decisions and not his own use of FREE WILL. So what is the deal? Step back and really LOOK at this entire screwy situation and consider WHO is the one with the big hands and the big spoon stirring absolutely EVERYTHING in the pot with wanton abandon?

4. Exodus 6:2-3

2 God spoke to Moses and said to him, I am the LORD.

3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them.

Questions
     1) Sooo...the name of the LORD was NOT made known to Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob? Are you SURE about that? 
     Doesn't Genesis 13:4 say that Abram, "...called on the name of the LORD," at a place near Bethel? In Genesis 24:7 Abram refers to, "...the LORD, the God of heaven."
     Doesn't Genesis 26:25 say that at Beersheba, Isaac, "...built an altar and there called upon the name of the LORD?"
     Doesn't Genesis 28:13 say Jacob had a dream of a stairway reaching from earth to heaven where the LORD stood at the top of the stairs and said to Jacob, "I am the LORD?"

     2) You want to try this again, God? Only this time be sure to get your facts right, got it? Can you do all that WITHOUT warping or twisting some fact or tidbit of information into something unrecognizable from what it is supposed to be?

5. Exodus 6:5
5 Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant.

Questions
     1) Look very closely at this 'covenant' that God is supposedly remembering, right? Look at the wording of the covenants where God promises a land flowing with milk and honey and you will see something very interesting.
     Granted, there are differences in language and how one language is translated to another language, but notice that God says in the promises "and I will give you" or something very similar. He never says, "I give you." Nope. Saying "I give you" would put that shit in stone, wouldn't it? And what kind of havoc would God be able to do if He mired Himself in an undeniable promise? So, it is left at "...and I will give" which gives God a lot more room to work with. But, WHY would God do this?

6. Exodus 6:7-8

7  I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

8 I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you for a possession. I am the LORD.’”

Questions
     1) Have you read the words of God's supposed promise here? It is all future tense. I WILL take you, I WILL be, I WILL bring, I WILL give. Why does God speak in this manner? He always talks like this. Why not stop with the future promises and actually DO IT?!

     2) Did you notice in verse seven it says the people "...shall know that I am the LORD," and this IS supposed to be the same LORD going back to the beginning of it all, right? So, looking at the phrasing of this verse, if the LORD has been the LORD for so long, why does the LORD say the people SHALL know He is the LORD? Do they NOT already know?

7. Exodus 7:12-13

12 For each man cast down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.

13 Still Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the LORD had said.

Questions
     1) Sooo...here we have Moses and his brother Aaron conversing with Pharaoh in an effort to let the people go...and as a convincing agent God gives them a freaking staff that they can turn into a snake? Are you fucking kidding me? Even if the LORD had NOT purposely hardened the Pharaoh's heart the king of Egypt might still have said 'no' after viewing the stupid trick with the staff and the snake. Seriously.

     2) It turns out that the court magicians can also turn their staffs into snakes, so apparently no big damn deal, right? But then the staff in the possession of Moses and Aaron swallows up the other staffs...er...snakes. Good trick, huh?

     3) See how verse thirteen sounds very intuitive? See? The LORD said Pharaoh would not listen and would not let the people go! The LORD was right! No, honey. The LORD set that shit up, remember? Didn't the LORD say He would harden the Pharaoh's heart? Yes, He did. So, do not be fooled. 

8. Exodus 7:19, 22

19 And the LORD said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, their canals, and their ponds, and all their pools of water, so that they may become blood, and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”

22 But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts. So Pharaoh’s heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the LORD had said.

Questions
     1) Here is something that has always bugged me about this whole thing having to do with Christianity teaching about the evils of the occult and magic and all that hoo-hah, right? So, never mind that whole scene with the staffs turning into snakes and whatnot, but here Moses and Aaron do a little stretchy-stretchy with their wand of wonders and all the water of Egypt turns into blood. 
     River water, canal water, pond and pool water, even the water in wooden and stone vessels. Is the message there something along the lines of magic is bad unless God/the LORD tells you to do it? Or, is it something more along the lines of do as I say and not as I do?

     2) In verse twenty-two how did the Egyptian magicians do the same as Moses and Aaron did in verse nineteen and turn water into blood? Doesn't verse nineteen CLEARLY note all the water in Egypt yada-yada, plucka-plucka was turned to blood (presumably EXCEPT the water of the people of Israel)?

     3) Is it possible that when verse twenty-two says that the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts that this means it was something they had done before and not necessarily that they tried it again right there?

     4) Shouldn't the tail end of verse twenty-two say, "So Pharaoh's heart remained hardened because the LORD decided it should remain hardened," instead of what is written which totally does a half-ass job of trying to make it out like any of it was up to the Pharaoh?

9. Exodus 7:24-25

24 And all the Egyptians dug along the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink the water of the Nile.

25 Seven full days passed after the LORD had struck the Nile.

Questions
     1) Isn't it true that to begin with the Egyptians didn't literally drink out of the Nile (though people did bathe in it) itself but instead dug wells near the river, the purpose being that the water that seeped through the ground into the wells was in a way filtered (somewhat filtered) by the ground?

     2) What purpose is served by making it sound like since there was no drinking water directly from the river that out of sheer desperation the Egyptian people were resorting to digging near the river in hopes of finding clean water? This absurd desperation-for-water scenario is wholly untrue considering they were already in the habit of digging wells next to the river. Why the deception (and that IS exactly what it is)?

     3) In Exodus 7:19 it gives a list of the water stricken: rivers, canals, ponds and pools, even water in containers, right? Why does verse twenty-five say that seven days had passed after the LORD struck the NILE? Why does it only mention the Nile River when it was supposedly ALL of the water of the Egyptians that the LORD struck and turned to blood? Shouldn't the verse say seven days had passed since the LORD had stuck all the waters of Egypt?

     4) Wouldn't the LORD turning the water of the Egyptians into blood qualify as biological warfare?

     5) Sooo...the LORD allowed seven days, a full week to pass with the water of the Nile being blood? Does this mean that the LORD gave a good goddamn and a mother f**k about all of the Egyptian people (to include children and infants and pregnant women and the elderly) and whether or not they had the clean water necessary to their survival? How about the Egyptian flocks and herds?

     6) Do you really really think that with as much pride and love and respect the pharaohs and the Egyptian people had for their culture/heritage/way of life that the Pharaoh would make a series of decisions, to include refusing to let the people of Israel go, that would have increasingly devastating results on all the people of Egypt, possibly including future Egyptian generations?

     7) Considering the question directly preceding this one here, do you now understand the method behind the LORD's madness of forcing Pharaoh's heart to be hardened? Is it possible that the LORD (don't forget the LORD is supposed to be all-knowing) knew Pharaoh would never put all of Egypt in such great jeopardy for the freaking people of Israel?

     8) Is the main purpose for the LORD hardening Pharaoh's heart, the really really deep reason because God/the LORD needed to look as powerful and as much in control as possible? Didn't the LORD need this really great situation, this great struggle for the people of Israel to be as harrowing as possible so that when the LORD supposedly rescued them and 'brought them out of Egypt' that they would be SO grateful to God/the LORD for saving them they would agree to worship Him and do all of His bidding forever and ever?

10. Exodus 8:6-7

6 So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.

7 But the magicians did the same by their secret arts and made frogs come up on the land of Egypt.

Questions
     1) You know what, if God/the LORD freaking knew that the Egyptian magicians were just as good with many of their spells and abilities of manipulating objects or environments and the like...WHY didn't the LORD give Moses and Aaron a better bag of tricks? Why pick things the Egyptian magicians could also do?

     2) Was the point of picking stupid tricks in the beginning to give the Egyptians a false sense of security, to make them think, "Ah, these schlubs aren't doing anything we can't do," or something of the like?

     3) Okay, if the frogs that responded to Aaron's outstretched hand covered the land of Egypt how was it that the magicians showed they could do the same? I mean, verse seven really makes it sound like the magicians did their thing right there in front of Aaron and Moses...
     ...BUT...if the frogs brought up by Aaron COVERED THE LAND OF EGYPT, how in the hell could anyone tell which frogs were the ones brought up by Aaron and which frogs were brought up by the magicians? Seriously, how was this done?

11. Exodus 8:12-15

12 So Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the LORD about the frogs, as he had agreed with Pharaoh.

13 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses. The frogs died out in the houses, the courtyards, and the fields.

14 And they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.

15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart and would not listen to them, as the LORD had said.

Questions
     1) Doesn't it bother you that as the story progresses and as the plagues get worse that everything is consistently put on Pharaoh's shoulders? Don't you find the wording screwy, like purposely making it sound like every time the LORD pulls back or stops the plague that, hey, it could end there but Pharaoh just won't let things be?

     2) Can you think of other stories in the Bible where, like this story here of the people of Israel being led out of Egypt, the supposed mighty gift of FREE WILL that God gave man is INTERFERED with on purpose?

     3) What are the justifications for God screwing around with Pharaoh's free will? I mean, we already discussed that God needed to look like the hero, like the avenging righteous God so that the people of Israel would pick Him over the other gods. Is that justification enough? Or, does it simply boil down to one of those things where God/the LORD made the rules so He can most certainly break them and not owe anyone any explanation?

12. Exodus 8:17-18

17 And they did so. Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, and there were gnats on man and beast. All the dust of the earth became gnats in all the land of Egypt.

18 The magicians tried by their secret arts to produce gnats, but they could not. So there were gnats on man and beast.

Questions
     1) So, if all of the dust of the earth became gnats when Aaron stretched out his hand how in the world would anyone even know for sure whether or not the magicians could do the same? You know how small a damn gnat is? Were they a special color so that people would be able to tell which were gnats belonging to Aaron's deed? Was it something like, "Ah, yes. We see these are polka-dotted gnats so we know they are all from Aaron," or maybe did the little gnats maybe even just come right out and tell people from whence they came?

     2) If the verse says that the dust of the land, ALL the dust of the land, turned into gnats wouldn't this actually explain why the magicians could not do the same? I mean, if in order to make the gnats appear you need dust, and if all of the dust has already been turned into gnats THEN WHERE are the magicians going to get some damned dust to prove they can make gnats?

13. Exodus 8:19

19 Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God.” But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the LORD had said.

Questions
     1) Shouldn't this verse read, "Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God. But try as he may and even though he desperately wanted to boot the people of Israel out from Egypt so that his people could be saved, Pharaoh found he could not control his own will and could not make his own choice for his people. And Pharaoh wept, for the will and the power and the strength of the protector of Egypt had been usurped," instead of the horseshit that is written?

14. Exodus 9:2, 6

2 For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them,

6 And the next day the LORD did this thing. All the livestock of the Egyptians died, but not one of the livestock of the people of Israel died.

Questions
     1) If you refuse to let them go? Bitch, he WANTS to throw your asses out but he can't. Why is that?

     2) So is the LORD's plan to look as mighty and powerful as possible something along the lines of harass and molest your opponent in increasing waves of terror in order to strip them completely of everything even remotely valuable to them, crushing and breaking and annihilating them?

15. Exodus 9:12

12 But the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not listen to them, as the LORD had spoken to Moses.

Questions
     1) Is this supposed to be proof of God's greatness, showing how He can manipulate people without them even knowing what is going on?

16. Exodus 9:19, 25

19 Now therefore send, get your livestock and all that you have in the field into safe shelter, for every man and beast that is in the field and is not brought home will die when the hail falls on them.”’”

25 The hail struck down everything that was in the field in all the land of Egypt, both man and beast. And the hail struck down every plant of the field and broke every tree of the field.

Questions
     1) Doesn't Exodus 9:6 say that all of the livestock of the Egyptians died in the plague pertaining to that verse? 

     2) If that is the case, where in the fuckey-DOO did the Egyptian livestock in THIS particular plague come from? All of the Egyptian's livestock/beasts are already fucking DEAD! What the hell is going on here?

17. Exodus 9:26

26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the people of Israel were, was there no hail.

Questions
     1) Is the underlying meaning of this verse so long as you do as the LORD says, when the LORD says it, for whatever the reason the LORD decides you will be good to go, and those against you will be the ones to suffer greatly?

18. Exodus 9:34-35

34 But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet again and hardened his heart, he and his servants.

35 So the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people of Israel go, just as the LORD had spoken through Moses.

Questions
     1) Isn't this getting to be a bit old?

     2) Is the lesson here that God can be quite persistent in breaking His own rules inasmuch as the free will of man is concerned, provided that God wants something really really bad?

19. Exodus 10:1-2

1 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these signs of mine among them,

2 and that you may tell in the hearing of your son and of your grandson how I have dealt harshly with the Egyptians and what signs I have done among them, that you may know that I am the LORD.

Questions
     1) Soooo...is the reason why God so readily admits His crime of interfering with Pharaoh's free will because He thinks people will be too afraid of Him to call Him on it? 

20. Exodus 10:19-20

19 And the LORD turned the wind into a very strong west wind, which lifted the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust was left in all the country of Egypt.

20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go.

Questions
     1) Say, is what have we here a case of same interference with free will, different plague?

21. Exodus 11:4-6

4 So Moses said, “Thus says the LORD: About midnight I will go out in the midst of Egypt,

5 and every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle.

6 There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever will be again.

Questions
     1) So this great and amazing God of love Who wants everyone to love Him and trust Him decides to use His powers of death to kill in order to get His way when the truth of the matter is that from the very beginning of this story it did not have to happen this way?



22. Exodus 11:8
8 And all these your servants shall come down to me and bow down to me, saying, ‘Get out, you and all the people who follow you.’ And after that I will go out.” And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

Questions
     1) Do you really think that Moses or Aaron have any right whatsoever to be angry with Pharaoh when it is not Pharaoh being difficult but God/the LORD?


23. Exodus 11:10
10 Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go out of his land.

Questions
     1) How is it that some people just do not seem to understand that it most certainly was NOT Pharaoh who was keeping the people of Israel in Egypt, but it was God/the LORD?


24. Exodus 12:12-13
12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD.

13 The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.

Questions
     1) Why is there yet another plague that is said to include the killing of beasts? Aren't all of the Egyptian beasts already DEAD? Is someone NOT keeping up with what He commanded on previous plagues?

     2) So in order for death to pass by a home instead of entering it to kill there must be blood on the door frame of the houses? Isn't this just a less terrible sounding way to say that so long as you can show something was killed (something innocent) you will not be subject to judgment?


25. Exodus 12:36
36 And the LORD had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.

Questions
     1) The people of Israel found FAVOR in the eyes of the Egyptians? FAVOR? Is that the name fear went by back then?



26. Exodus 12:37
37 And the people of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.

Questions
     1) Aren't the numbers mentioned here astronomically absurd when you consider that six hundred thousand does NOT include the women and the children? Some scholars even put the TOTAL number (including women, children, non-Israelites with the group) at about 2 million people, slightly more than half of the population of present day County of San Diego, California, which is about 3,180,000 people. And people believe this story WHY? 

     2) So, all of these people who are also dragging their belongings with them, to include herds and flocks, are all walking out of Egypt and into the desert to wander in circles happily ever after for forty years?


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