A bit of scripture for the weekend

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A reading from the word of God:

Exodus, chapter 7 verses 10 through 13:

"So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord commanded. Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake. Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their secret arts. Each one threw down his staff and it became a snake. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs. Yet Pharaoh's heart became hard and he would not listen to them, just as the Lord had said."

So stop all this derned skepticism and get to believing, all you hard-hearted fools!
 
A bit of scripture for the weekend:

Book of Cyril 10:17

...Obadiah, his servants. There shall, in that time, be
rumours of things going astray, erm, and there shall be a great confusion
as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth
those little things wi-- with the sort of raffia work base that has an
attachment. At this time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer and
the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers
that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight
o'clock. Yea, it is written in the book of Cyril that, in that time,
shall the third one...
 
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Nothing wrong with a bit of mythology on the weekend, but the OP snippet of myth doesn't say anything. Boring.
 
m_huber said:
A reading from the word of God:

Exodus, chapter 7 verses 10 through 13:

"So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord commanded. Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake. Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their secret arts. Each one threw down his staff and it became a snake. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs. Yet Pharaoh's heart became hard and he would not listen to them, just as the Lord had said."

So stop all this derned skepticism and get to believing, all you hard-hearted fools!
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So Pharaoh would not listen because God had decreed it, but it was still his fault? How do I get people to accept that kind of logic when I'm talking to them?
 
Elizabeth,

I think God said the Pharaoh would not listen, but he allowed the Pharaoh to use his free will to actually not listen. God didn't make him not listen.
 
cloudshipsrule said:
Elizabeth,

I think God said the Pharaoh would not listen, but he allowed the Pharaoh to use his free will to actually not listen. God didn't make him not listen.
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Therein lies the problem with the Bible: people wrote what they thought God said and others believed what was written.

I believe I'll have another cup of coffee.
 
I like this Bible quote because it reveals the all loving, judgmental, merciful, vengeful, forgiving, sinister, kind, cruel nature of the most mass-murdering genocidal deity that ever didn't exist.
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Blessed is the one who grabs your little children and smashes them against a rock.
--Psalm 137, verse 9
 
I believe that somewhere on this forum, Stephen, is a thread with favorite biblical quotes such as yours. I'm too lazy to look for it right now.
 
With respect to "staff into snake", I read somewhere, sometime (TM) that snakes go rigid if they are held vertically. After all, it certainly is not a usual position for a snake. Thus this just a trick that can be explained naturally.
 
I think God said the Pharaoh would not listen, but he allowed the Pharaoh to use his free will to actually not listen. God didn't make him not listen.
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No, God said specifically that He would harden the pharaoh's heart. Ie. make him not allow the Jews to leave.

Moses and Aaron performed all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let the Israelites go out of his country.

Sources.

So Pharaoh would not listen because God had decreed it, but it was still his fault?
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Exactly. Nice, loving God.

How do I get people to accept that kind of logic when I'm talking to them?
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I'd like to know, too. Would be awesome if I could say exactly what I wanted, no matter how twisted or bizarre, and leave it to my minions to somehow justify it.
 
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Safe, I was being sarcastic with my post. Sorry about not being obvious with it.
 
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This whole thread reminds me of the wonderful sermon preached by Alan Bennet in Beyond the Fringe on the text "But my brother Esau is an hairy man, but I am a smooth man."

So Aaron had a bigger snake, or was it a bigger rod? Isn't it sinful to wave your woodie at god?
 
What amuses me personally about this passage is that Moses and Aaron failed Pharaoh's equivalent to the MDC. Only for them, it was the MIC -- Million Israelite Challenge.
 
Just like the human race. Someone turns a staff into a snake and inevitably a bunch of old boys get together to make a contest out of it. Great selection m_huber.
 
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