That Evil ... Pharaoh? ...

[pasithea]

4:21 And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into
Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have
put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let
the people go.

Um... So God gives Moe these parlour tricks to perform then says, "But I'm going to make Pharaoh hate your act. Why? Oh, because I've got an itch to do some smiting and this makes a good excuse."


And what's so bad about a plague of frogs exactly? Frogs are good eatin' and they eat bugs. Wouldn't that help your crops?

Also, we have a gazillion artifacts from that time period, and many tombs that were not discovered until modern times were already in place by then. Why isn't there evidence the water in the vessels turned to blood? Why isn't it in the geological record? Why doesn't anyone else remember it? And shouldn't we find some evidence of the corpses of all those dead stinky fish, frogs, lice, flies, and exploding cattle?

Come on guys. This doesn't pass the lightest examination.

Comments

[schlake.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I should mail you a copy of the FOUL Manifesto. I have both the Old and the New Testicles.

I'm firmly in the trench of the Bible being a very accurate historical record. I can't think of a single miracle in the Bible that doesn't have a perfectly plausible explaination once you try to strip away the myth and fantasy of people who wrote it. The seven plagues seem best explained by anthrax. One way or another, it could caused almost everything the bible says. All you need then is an explosion, like the one at Thera, to fill in the holes. Any maybe an exclipse, I can't remember if the sun went out too for those plagues.

Jesus rising from the dead. No problem. People recover from "death" every once in a while. We still call it a miracle. Mary a virgin? Easy. Not only can women reproduce asexually once in a great while, but a virgin is just an unmarried woman back then, and worked as a prostitute in a temple.


The important thing to remember is that Christianity is a religion of faith. Religion doesn't operate on proof. If there was proof of God, and of Hell, then faith goes right out the window. It becomes a matter of fact that people can't be evil or they will burn. If Hell is unproven then people have a choice. Any proof of the existance of God would descredit him.

[kynn.livejournal.com]

I'm of the bible being a book of myths made up to explain then-contemporary things by incorporating other legends and stories into a nominally coherent narrative.