Was it necessary for God to kill all innocent firstborn children? No other way out for the almighty God?
How could you justify that God killed all firstborn children in Egypt?
by Mr Fool 92 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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little_Socrates
My only responce is... He didn't even spare his own first born.
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ctrwtf
Let's see;
Jehovah hardened Pharoah's heart to keep the Israelites enslaved......then punished him for doing so. If the story is real, and that is a big IF, then Jehovah is an a#$hat!
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Pacopoolio
- Pharoah hardened his own heart. The NWT is the CORRECT translation, and the point is that God ALLOWED Pharoah's heart to be hardened.
- Every human sins due to imperfection, even unconsciously, and every human therefore owes God a death, even babies. They owed him a death, and God can ressurect them in the paradise if he feels they didn't have a chance to live a life.
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sowhatnow
Im still trying to figure out what the purpose of making up such a grandiose story is.
again, I cant get past genisis chapter one.
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OnTheWayOut
Nobody is innocent. Including children.
(Well, that's the answer if God is a total asshat)
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Pacopoolio
Each plague attacked a different Egyptian god and showed that the Jewish god was superior to each one. It was probably an oral "this is why we're better than the greatest nation around, and our god is more powerful, too" story.
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hamsterbait
Most of the firstborn died because they got their double portion of the mouldy grain.
Just another self aggrandising Jewish fairy tale, featuring their vicious sand fairy.
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blondie
So why did these children die for the sins of their fathers?
(Ezekiel 18:20) 20 The soul that is sinning—it itself will die. A son himself will bear nothing because of the error of the father, and a father himself will bear nothing because of the error of the son. . . .
(2 Chronicles 25:4) . . .And their sons he did not put to death, but [did] according to what is written in the law, in the book of Moses, that Jehovah commanded, saying: “Fathers should not die for sons, neither should sons themselves die for fathers; but it is each one for his own sin that they should die.”
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