mP: Jesus was not moral. If he was he would have spoken against slavery, but instead he tells stories telling the unfortunate to shutup and accept their fate. The same is true of women and his racist attitudes and tendencies. Jesus is nothing special, he’s just another name that has been reinvented and repurposed.
You’re absolutely correct that Jesus did not speak out against social injustices. That was not his mission. He was sent into the world to do the will of the Father and to die for the sins of the world, bringing about the great atonement. (See Isa. 53)
In God’s way of thinking, this life on Earth is just a blip in eternity. It doesn’t make any difference whether you’re a king or a slave, the important thing is being obedient to God and seeking his will in all things. Joseph spent time as a slave in Egypt and he tried to be the best servant he could be. If the Lord sees fit to free you or deliver you from bondage, so much the better, but Jesus wasn’t about being a political revolutionary, which is contrary to what Reza Aslan argues in his recent book, Zealot, The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus wasn’t a radical; he was about serving one’s fellow man and forgiving him. Under the Law of Moses, the animals, birds and, of course, the poor also were cared for.
The Atonement is the greatest gift that could be given anyone. But God doesn’t always share our values, like diversity, to name one. That’s a manmade value. And though early Christians were forbidden to own slaves, Jesus preached against rebellion and to strive for peace.
mP: Cold: Don’t forget to show the math and show us how this is humanly possible.
First of all, I don’t know how many Israelites left Egypt. The numbers used in the scriptures aren’t always that reliable; however, I don’t see that moving three million people would be completely unmanageable. Moses was known for delegating authority, and the Israelites were divided into twelve tribes, each tribe with its captains and organizers.
One scholar writes:
When the Israelites were suddenly granted their freedom, it was a glorious day for Jacob's children. But it is one thing to glory in freedom and quite another thing to move a mass of some three million human beings across a bleak and barren wilderness in order to keep that freedom. Moses knew that wilderness. The Israelites did not. It was ugly and violently desolate; windswept during the deadly monsoon season, and sun-drenched to the point of creating a boiling, blistering sterility during six months of the year. Its 120 degree heat could suck the breath of life from every man, woman and child. What would they eat? What would they drink? How would their flocks and herds survive? At the moment, these matters may not have worried the hosts of Israel. They were just grateful to be free. But Moses had reason to be worried. He knew that without these necessities this people might learn through bitter suffering in the wilderness to hate their precious freedom and actually long to return to the flesh pots and slavery of Egypt. The problem for Moses was not merely to get free, but to stay free.
Also:
The scriptures declare that this was no small conglomerate of nomadic tribesmen, but a monstrous concourse of humanity which included "600,000 on foot that were men," not counting women and children, the Levites, or the "mixed multitude" which went with them. As we learn elsewhere, this 600,000 constituted the male Israelites over 20 years of age who were fit and able to fight in defense of the others. This host of over half a million men is accurately referred to in Exodus as the "armies" of Israel. They, together with their wives and children (not counting the "mixed multitude") are believed to have constituted a total population of between two and three million people. As we pointed out in chapter 11, in order for the Israelites to have attained such a population in 215 years it would have been necessary for each family in each generation to have averaged around ten children. We also pointed out that when all of the circumstances are taken into consideration, this unexpected expansion in population is entirely plausible.