Thursday, July 9, 2020

How comes the Bible-bashers, with their bible-college degrees haven't seemed to notice the still rather long life-span centuries after the flood?

Moses, following that incident (he slew a harsh taskmaster) and ended up taking off.  Account in the middle portion of Acts 7.  He was 40; he met Zipporah, one of Jethro's seven daughters.  Dad liked Moses and gave him Zipporah to wife.  She was probably the oldest of the girls,  but let's say she was 15 at the time of her becoming Mrs. Moses.  Moses remained there for 40 years - that made him 80.  Well that means when he put his wife and their two boys "upon an ass", (Exodus 4:20), and headed for Egypt, those kids were obviously very young.  That means Zipporah was nearly in her mid 50s, when the eldest was born.  Per the verse, looks like her 80 year-old husband walked beside his family; he had the rod in his hand.  No mention of Moses on a donkey.  And if he was, uh crossing the hot dry wilderness at 80?  Not to mention, a bit later on, Moses walking up a mountain, carrying about 80 pounds of stone.  That would be tough enough for a 40 year-old.  Who knows?  Maybe Moses had a back-pack, but still, 80 is 80. 

Meanwhile, back at the palace, the new Pharoah (guess the old one died) is living large.  The bashers blame God for hardening Pharoah's heart.  For awhile, yeah, i was thinking, that's not fair (are we even gonna have one in September?  Stupid covid...)   So, alot of web space, and drama, from both camps has erupted.  Well, was just a short time ago...think i must of grown a few brain cells (yeah, fancy that) because it hit me that Pharoah had eyes, and he had brains - royals went to school, alot of school.  He knew what was going on in his kingdom.  And Pharoah had alot of power - if he wanted captain-crispies for breakfast, there had better be a fresh unopened box in the pantry. 

Pharoah saw the building in process, the teams of slaves; he heard the cracking of whips upon their sunburnt shoulders, the cries for just a sip of water.  Uhm, sounds like Pharoah's heart was plenty, plenty hard two days before Moses and family arrived in town.  Oh, and at that time, the slaves didn't yet have to gather their own straw AND meet quota. 

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