Your Comments on Exodus 4:11

by lookingnow22 5 Replies latest jw friends

  • lookingnow22
    lookingnow22

    Hello again everyone,

    A 99 WT had an article entitled "Does God Work in Crooked Ways", and one of the scriptures discussed in it was Exodus 4:11.

    NWT
    At that Jehovah said to him: "Who appointed a mouth for man or who appoints the speechless or the deaf or the clear-sighted or the blind? Is it not I, Jehovah?

    NIV
    The LORD said to him, "Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

    RSV
    Then the LORD said to him, "Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

    What are your thoughts on the implications/meaning of this scripture? Are we to discern that God does, or has, caused physical handicaps to people?

    Any thoughts appreciated.

    Thanks all,
    Looking
    p.s. - A special big thanks to whoever gave me the link a while back to the World Wide Study Bible! http://www.ccel.org/wwsb/

  • Fredhall
    Fredhall

    No comments

  • Yerusalyim
    Yerusalyim

    Come on Fred, what are you afraid of?

    I'll try it. God allows it for sure, and will give us nothing we don't have the ability to handle, but the defects are still due to the effect sin has had on the world. God allows it.

    Yeru

    YERUSALYIM
    I like peanut butter, can you rollerskate?

  • bigboi
    bigboi

    I think it's a hyberpolic(?) expression that was used to impress upon Moses the fact that God could easily aid him to overcome his difficulty speaking, whether it was from a speech impediment or just plain ol fear of speaking in public. If the intent here is to find another Bible contradiction, I would like to hear about something else. I don't put much stock in figures of speech.

    ONE....

    Bigboi

    "it ain't what ya do. it's how you do it" quote from the song "True Honeybunz" by Bahamadia

  • SixofNine
    SixofNine

    It is quite self explanatory. Indeed, it would seem to a bible writer back then, with a very unpolished sense of the creator, that God treats different humans quite differently. Why, look at the way he treats our enemies! He lets us kill them with extreme predjudice! Obviously, there are cripples, obviously God made them.

    Just more reason to ask if it is even possible that a Creator had anything whatsoever to do with the writing of the bible.

  • Francois
    Francois

    A primitive god for a primitive people.

    My $0.02

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