Here continues by verse-by-verse refutation of the mindless inanity that is the Bible.
EXODUS
How is it, as Voltaire asked, that the Nile could be transformed into a river of blood, an angel slaughtered all the first-born children in Egypt, the sea parted with its waters suspended on either side, and no author mentioned it except for a tiny barbaric nation thousands of years after the event?
i.5: This verse claims that all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls when in Act{ vii.14 it gives the number as 75.
i.18-20: God dealt well with the midwives because they lied to the Pharaoh. This goes contrary to the ninth commandment of Ex.xx.16 and Dt.v.20 which states Thou shalt not bear false witness. Prov.xii.22 declares that Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord and Rev.xxi.18 promises that All liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.
ii.12: Moses kills an Egyptian and then hides the body.
ii.15: If Moses was adopted into royalty as it claims in verse 10, why did the Pharaoh want to have him executed? Surely royalty didn't consider the killing of a mere workman as terribly significant. Nevertheless, it states here that Moses fled from the face of the Pharaoh which contradicts Heb.xi.27 which declares that he did not in fact fear the wrath of the king.
ii.17: This verse contradicts iii.1 which states that his father-in-law was Jethro, not Reuel.
ii.21: Here Moses marries Zipporah, daughter of the priest of Midian, but in Num.xii.1 for some reason it states twice in one verse that he married an Ethiopian.
ii.25: God had respect unto the Israelites. This contradicts several verses that claim that the Almighty respects no one.
iii.1: Moses married a Midrianite despite...
Good intentions, bad result.
This was very well researched, however, I don't accept any biblical scholarship that is not taken from the original text, and this is a study from English, as Midrash it is trash. Also, the author seems to have "missed the boat" on several important points (ie polygamy and the figurative language often used by the narrator of the text.) This author needs to take a comprehensive study of Judaism and how to critically read the Tanakh before publishing such a work.
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