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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Exodus Part I: Just a Few Questions

A New Book, A New Set of Questions:

You didn't think we were going to stop with just Genesis, did you?

Well, we have made it to the next book of the Bible, Exodus. As was done with the previous book a verse or set of verses will be noted and will then be followed by a question or a series of questions. If you would like to answer any of these questions please do so at the comment link at the end of this posting. These questions are part of why I do not believe in the Bible as truth, or in the existence of God. If you ARE a believer of both God and Bible please be so kind as to note such in the comment section.

1. Exodus 1:7

7 But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.

Questions

     1) Did the Israelites grow and reproduce quickly because of their habit of marrying blood relatives instead of outsiders?

2. Exodus 1:8-10

8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.

9 And he said to his people, “Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us.

10 Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.”

Questions

     1) I am curious as to why the new king in Egypt did not know of Joseph considering that the ancient Egyptians were outstanding records keepers, probably the best of their time? 

     2) The Egyptian kings were educated very well, so again, why didn't the new king here know about his predecessor?

     3) Is there any SOLID supporting historical evidence that is free from speculation and clearly points to the ancient Egyptians having enslaved the Hebrews?

3. Exodus 1:11-14

11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses.

12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel.

13 So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves

14 and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.

Questions

     1) How were servants to the ancient Egyptians treated?

     2) What was the classification of slaves in ancient Egypt?

     3) Did the ancient Egyptians ever enslave an ENTIRE people, much less an ENTIRE people for the length of 430 years?

     4) Did the ancient Egyptians ever treat their slaves with persistent ruthlessness?

4. Exodus 1:15-16

15 Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,

16 “When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.”

Questions

     1) Is there any verifiable historical information that points to any king or pharaoh of ancient Egypt ordering the deaths of Hebrew baby boys?

   2) Why were there only TWO Hebrew midwives mentioned if the Hebrew people were supposed to be so numerous?

   3) Are we to believe that only TWO women were the midwives for what had to be a considerable number of people?

5. Exodus 1:17

17 But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live.

Questions

     1) Is there any mention in the ancient Egyptian texts that indicate a pharaoh ordered midwives to kill the Hebrew baby boys with the result that the midwives disobeyed him on account of fear of the Hebrew God?

     2) What happened to people who disobeyed the direct order of a pharaoh?

6. Exodus 1:19

19 The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”

Questions

     1) Is this verse supposed to be an example of the wondrous blessings heaped upon the captive Hebrews, that even though they were held captive God was still there with them, taking care of them, aiding them, sustaining them, and making them stronger than the Egyptians?

7. Exodus 1:20-22

20 So God dealt well with the midwives. And the people multiplied and grew very strong.

21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.

22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”

Questions

     1) Sooo...did God deal well with the midwives because they chose to disobey pharaoh, or because they straight up lied to pharaoh?

     2) If the midwives HAD listened to the pharaoh's order would God have prevented them from being able to have families?

8. Exodus 2:1

1 Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman.

Questions

     1) Considering God's apparent delight with incest as a means of procreation, was this Levite man closely related to the relative he married or are we talking a cousin five or six times removed?

9. Exodus 2:6-8

6 When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying. She took pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”

7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”

8 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother.

Questions

     1) How did Pharaoh's daughter know the baby was Hebrew? Did the mother leave a note? Was he circumcised? Was it the way he was clothed?

     2) Why does God seemingly find it necessary to manipulate every damn situation so that He can try to mold it into some bullshit story of how He rendered yet another mind-blowing miracle on His chosen people?

     3) Is the purpose for God performing or allowing things like baby Moses being found to distract His chosen people from remembering exactly WHO was responsible for their captivity in the first damn place (that would be God)?

10. Exodus 2:11-12

11 One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.

12 He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

Questions

     1) So, was Moses informed of his Hebrew heritage and where is the proof of this being mentioned?

     2) If Moses witnessed this 'beating' of an Hebrew slave taking place, and if Moses looks around to see if anyone is watching, does the verse mean looking to see if any Egyptians were watching or if any Hebrews were watching or if ANYONE at all was watching?

     3) If Moses thought that no one was watching at all, exactly where was he when he did this terrible deed?

     4) These verses make it sound like Moses was in an area virtually empty of people/slaves. Now, you would think that if this incident took place in an area where many slaves were working that there would be far more people present, enough to have made Moses' action of looking this way and that more or less pointless. Where was Moses when he did this thing? A cloakroom? Probably not considering that Moses hid the body in the sand and not a closet. So, HOW did Moses do this, who was likely to be around, and who would have reported such a thing to the pharaoh?

11. Exodus 2:13-14

13 When he went out the next day, behold, two Hebrews were struggling together. And he said to the man in the wrong, “Why do you strike your companion?”

14 He answered, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, and thought, “Surely the thing is known.”

Questions

     1) Now these fellows apparently witnessed what Moses had done to the Egyptian the previous day. Where were they when they saw what Moses did? Were they in view of Moses? Were they hiding? Would it have even been possible for any Hebrew slave to hide anywhere considering the supposed ruthlessness and watchfulness of the Egyptian slave masters?

     2) Is this verse a pre-cursor to the New Testament verse that references plucking out the log in your own eye before plucking the splinter from another's eye?

     3) Is this verse intended to deliver the same message as the verse that states something along the lines of let he who is not-guilty cast the first stone?

12. Exodus 2:15

15 When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. And he sat down by a well.

Questions

     1) Sooo...if Pharaoh heard of what Moses had done WHO told Pharaoh? 

     2) Did the bickering slaves tell Pharaoh? Was there a roll call and the murdered guard was absent and Pharaoh put two and two together?

     3) Did the slaves play a game of ancient telephone and tell one person who told another who told another who told another, and so on and so forth?

     4) If the Egyptians supposedly treated the Hebrew slaves so poorly would any Egyptian, much less Pharaoh believe what the slaves had to say in regards to Moses murdering the man?

     5) Again, I ask you WHO else saw what Moses had done and how did that information reach Pharaoh so damn quick?

13. Exodus 2:23-25

23 During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.

24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

25 God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.

Questions

     1) Why would the people of Israel have to cry out to God in order for God to hear or know that their situation was so damn dire?

     2) Wouldn't God ALREADY KNOW of the plight of the people of Israel since God was the one Who put them there in the first place?

     3) God remembers His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob? Had He forgotten?

     4) Did God purposely put the people of Israel in a bad situation in order that He could get them to think He was the shizz-nit when He swooped in and miraculously delivered them from the clutches of Egypt and its pharaoh? 

     5) Wouldn't such a thing as planning out and executing this ridiculous and murderous plan make God's actions rather devious?

     6) So, if God is devious but at the same time absolutely perfect does that excuse God for the shitty things He does to people who sometimes turn out to be His own chosen people?

14. Exodus 3:2-3

2 And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.

3 And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.”

Questions

     1) Why why WHY does the LORD insist on sending angels in His stead when by nature He is already everywhere and in all things? Wouldn't God then be wasting His own time? Isn't wastefulness a sin? Would God get a free pass on that, too?

     2) Of all the things that the LORD could have done to make Himself known and revealed to His chosen people (such as ceasing to be in-fucking-visible)...of all these things He picks turning into a BURNING BUSH?

     3) Why didn't the LORD simply speak to Moses' heart, just like all of the televangelists of the present day claim that God does for them?

     4) Was the burning bush for dramatic effect? Did the LORD appear as a burning bush for the purposes of 'shock and awe' since a bush burning in defiance of natural laws looked and probably sounded a whole lot more interesting than simply speaking to Moses' heart?

15. Exodus 3:4

4 When the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.”

Questions

     1) In the previous verse it is noted that the angel of the LORD was in that burning bush, but here it says the LORD. What the hell happened to the angel of the LORD? Was He demoted? Called away on duty? Went on a bathroom break?

     2) In the first part of this verse it says that when the LORD saw that Moses was intrigued by the sight of the freak of nature burning bush and began to walk over to investigate, THEN the LORD called out of the fiery bush. Doesn't this sound suspiciously like a subtle form of lying in wait?

     3) In modern times is it even plausible that anyone, God-fearing or not, would believe Moses' story?

     4) Sooo...if we are to take this story as truth is it so far fetched for people nowadays to see the Virgin Mary in a billboard, baby Jesus in a floor tile, John the Baptist in a hoagie, or Satan in the billowing smoke and flames of a petroleum plant explosion?

16. Exodus 3:5

5 Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”

Questions

     1) Okay, here we find ourselves in a bit of a pickle when it comes to the LORD'S/God's/Jehovah's omni-presence. If the ground upon which the LORD is present is holy ground due to that very presence, how the hell isn't all of the ground of this planet holy, considering that the LORD is every where, at all times?

     2) If ALL of this planet's surface/ground is holy due to the omni-presence of the LORD...well, wouldn't we ALL be traipsing around shoe-less?

17. Exodus 3:6

6 And he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.

Questions

     1) You know one of the more bothersome questions that cross my mind in relation to this verse is that God introduces Himself as the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Why does this sound suspiciously like there ARE other gods, and God just happens to be the one picked by these guys? 

     2) Why doesn't God simply refer to Himself as THE God and save a lot of trouble for a lot of people?

     3) Why is God so obviously obsessed with making people fear Him? Is the fear what gives Him power and substance?

18. Exodus 3:8-9

8 and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

9 And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

Questions

     1) Does God assisting the people of Israel to flee Egypt deserve ANY kudos whatsoever considering God is the one who put them in Egypt in a damn fix to begin with?

     2) Sooo...God tells His people that He will give them this great land, and yada-yada, plucka-plucka. God even tells His people the land is already occupied. Now how do you suppose God is going to get those dwelling on this land out and the people of Israel in?

     3) Wouldn't harassing and harming and mistreating and killing and robbing the inhabitants of the promised land qualify as oppressing these people? 

     4) Didn't the people of Israel get it through their skulls that what they were planning to do to the people already in the promised land (oppress them) was exactly what the Egyptians supposedly did to the people of Israel?

     5) God is omni-present, correct? Exactly how long did the people of Israel have to cry out before God decided to stop His deaf ear act and actually render aid/help?

19. Exodus 3:12

12 He said, “But I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”

Questions

     1) The 'sign' that God had indeed sent Moses to drag the people of Israel out of Egypt was that when all was said and done, Moses would serve God on the mountain? What kind of nonsense gibberish is that?

     2) So, Moses wants a sign that he has indeed been chosen to do what God is telling him to do. God says Moses will receive a sign but Moses will not actually receive that sign until the people of Israel are out of Egypt and everything is after the fact? 

20. Exodus 3:13

13 Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?”

Questions

     1) Is Moses really this fucking stupid? 

     2) Why would God trust ANY portion of His supposed divine plan for man with an individual so goddamn stupid as Moses? Isn't that about as bright as giving Jeffrey Dahmer a fork and knife and a new cellmate? 

21. Exodus 3:18

18 And they will listen to your voice, and you and the elders of Israel shall go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us; and now, please let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’

Questions

     1) So basically God is instructing Moses to LIE to pharaoh, because both Moses and the LORD God know for sure they have zero intention of actually returning to Egypt as such as their 'three day journey' makes it sound?

22. Exodus 3:19-20

19 But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless compelled by a mighty hand.

20 So I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all the wonders that I will do in it; after that he will let you go.

Questions

     1) And why WON'T the king of Egypt want to let the people of Israel go?

     2) Is the LORD God's intentional hardening of the pharaoh's heart and the consequences of such considered the 'mighty hand' that compels pharaoh to eventually let the people of Israel go?

     3) God absolutely could have simply told the pharaoh to let the people of Israel go, just like that and short and sweet. Pharaoh would have had to listen for who denies God, right? So, why DIDN'T God try that instead of hurting and maiming and frightening and murdering countless Egyptians?

     4) Does God consider His victories more complete if He can arrange suffering and sorrow and death on a massive scale?

23. Exodus 3:21-22

21 And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and when you go, you shall not go empty,

22 but each woman shall ask of her neighbor, and any woman who lives in her house, for silver and gold jewelry, and for clothing. You shall put them on your sons and on your daughters. So you shall plunder the Egyptians.”

Questions

     1) So God is going to place the Egyptians in such a deep state of fear and despair that as the people of Israel leave Egypt they will be able to openly rob the Egyptians of valuables?

     2) Why does God refer to this as the people of Israel finding favor in the eyes of the Egyptians when the truth is that the Egyptians were in such a state of fear and shock that they had NO CHOICE but to allow themselves to be robbed, because for all they knew there just might have been a worse plague than the angel of Death tiptoeing through Egypt and killing all of the firstborn?

24. Exodus 4:1-5

1 Then Moses answered, “But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, ‘The LORD did not appear to you.’”

2 The LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A staff.”

3 And he said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses ran from it.

4 But the LORD said to Moses, “Put out your hand and catch it by the tail”—so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand—

5 “that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

Questions

     1) Did either God or Moses truly think that a simple magic trick would impress the Egyptians into allowing the people of Israel to leave, or to convince the people of Israel of Moses' leadership abilities?

     2) How would something like this work nowadays? Would the staff turn into a formerly misplaced/lost television remote? 

25. Exodus 4:6-7

6 Again, the LORD said to him, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” And he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous like snow.

7 Then God said, “Put your hand back inside your cloak.” So he put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, it was restored like the rest of his flesh.

Questions

     1) How would something like this work nowadays? Would the hand come out of the cloak with a nice peppering of small pox or hemorrhagic fever or some other weird-ass, disgusting malady?

26. Exodus 4:9

9 If they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground, and the water that you shall take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.”

Questions

     1) IF they will not believe? IF? 

     2) Do you think Moses would like to have known how far God was going to carry out His threat/promise to harden the pharaoh's heart?

27. Exodus 4:10-11

11 Then the LORD said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

Questions

     1) And WHO is the One who put the people of Israel into their predicament to begin with?

     2) And WHO is the One Who is purposely hardening the pharaoh's heart in order that an excuse to totally annihilate the Egyptians be made?

28. Exodus 4:18-19

19 And the LORD said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are dead.”

Questions

     1) This is the same goddamn thing as modern day criminals who participate in some horrible crime and then run off in hopes that sooner or later people will forget what he has done. Way to go, God. Way to fucking go. Hummm...how is this for holy justice?

29. Exodus 4:21, 23

21 And the LORD said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.

23 and I say to you, “Let my son go that he may serve me.” If you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son.’”

Questions

     1) Aha! Is this where Moses finally finds out some of the more dark aspects of God's plan for mankind, that said plan absolutely DOES involved premeditated murder?

     2) Say, if something like this went to the Nuremberg Trials do you think Moses' life would be spared on account that he was following God's orders under threat of death? 

30. Exodus 4:24-26

24 At a lodging place on the way the LORD met him and sought to put him to death.

25 Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!”

26 So he let him alone. It was then that she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.

Questions

     1) Doesn't this verse have sneaky, sly undertones of God lying in wait?

     2) So, God cancels the kill contract because He was appeased by the foreskin of Moses' son being cut off?

31. Exodus 4:30-31

30 Aaron spoke all the words that the LORD had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people.

31 And the people believed; and when they heard that the LORD had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped.

Questions

     1) Doesn't this sound suspiciously like God is wowing and wooing the people of Israel with stupid tricks?

     2) So, God has all of the power in the universe at His disposal and He chooses to turn a fucking STAFF into a snake as a means to convince people to believe in Him?

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