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  1. Being in a country that recently had Protestantism as a state religion i realized school is surprisingly christian focused.
    KRLE (christianity, religion, worldview, ethics) taught us a lot of Christian tales like Eden, Tower of Babel, Noah's Ark, Jesus and his stuff etc.
    With no other religion did we learn ANY stories, only the basic beliefs and ideals. Also we got taught this when we were 4 – 6 years old.

    I'm not religious and never have been, maybe i disagree with focusing so hard on Christianity, to me now it feels like a soft push towards conversion.

  2. Excellent job on the video Jake. One thing I need to correct you on tho. Moses didn’t have the veil over his head for the rest of his life, before his head flowed, he looked around similar to a man in his 40’s. After his head stopped glowing, it was most likely changed to white hair. Apart from that, fantastic job

  3. The Website or Video of GOT QUESTIONS explain why God was going to kill Moses:
    Based on the fact that God was going to kill Moses, we assume that Moses had committed some sin against God. The fact that the circumcision of Moses’ son caused the Lord to relent indicates that Moses’ sin was a failure to circumcise his son. The fact that Zipporah, not Moses, performed the surgery suggests that Moses was unable to do it himself; the same conclusion is supported by the fact that Zipporah touched Moses’ feet with the proof of circumcision—this would be more natural if Moses were bedridden. And, if Moses was confined to bed, the method that God was using to kill him was likely an illness of some kind.

    So, as far as we can tell, God was threatening to kill Moses because Moses had not circumcised his son. The question then is, why was that particular sin being judged so harshly? Surely there were other sins that Moses was guilty of, yet God chose to pursue the death penalty over a lack of circumcision. The answer probably goes back to the time of Abraham.

    When God called Abram and established a covenant with him, He changed his name to Abraham and gave him a sign of the covenant: circumcision. Moses later wrote this account: “Then God said to Abraham, ‘As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come. This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised. You are to undergo circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you’” (Genesis 17:9–11). God was clear that, among Abraham’s descendants, every male in every household was to be circumcised. No exceptions: “My covenant in your flesh is to be an everlasting covenant. Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised in the flesh, will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant” (Genesis 17:13–14).

    Moses, as a descendant of Abraham, had been circumcised. But, for some reason, he had not circumcised his own son. It could be that Moses, as a shepherd in Midian for forty years, had given up living like a Hebrew. Or perhaps he assumed he was already “cut off from his people,” so why bother with the sign of the covenant?

    The problem was that Moses was going to Egypt to rescue the circumcised people of God from the uncircumcised Egyptians. There was a sharp distinction between the slaves and the oppressors, but Moses, the leader of God’s people, was blurring the distinction in his own family. Further, Moses was to be the lawgiver for Israel, and it would not do for the giver of the law to be a lawbreaker. Part of the law would require circumcision (Leviticus 12:3). For Moses to have an uncircumcised son would be blatantly hypocritical—and hypocrisy is never good in a national leader.

    If Moses was to be a spiritual leader, he had to get his personal life in order. If he was to be a Hebrew and not an Egyptian, he was going to have to follow God’s instructions to the Hebrews. If he was to avoid hypocrisy, he must circumcise his son.

    Whatever the cause of Moses’ sin of omission, the situation had to be rectified before he could carry out his mission. God was about to kill Moses, but Moses lived because God allowed for repentance and forgiveness. Praise the Lord that “mercy triumphs over judgment” (James 2:13).

  4. one interpretation of the hardening of the heart is that because pharaoh took away the people’s freedom and free will, god took away pharaohs, ensuring he would be punished and not easily forgiven. yes this brings up other questions but still

  5. I can't wait for the religion that's going to spring out of the angelarium after generations of enthusiasts of the book eventually forget it was all myth and take it as actual fact allowing them to form the next generation of science deniers.

  6. So, believers are really think that humanity were descended from long line of Adam and Eve kids incest?
    Really weird shit, man. And if that wasn't enough – they had it second time when all humanity shrink to Noah's family.

  7. I really love your Moses characterization during the plagues, as someone who wants to do good things, but is up against not only the pharaoh, but his own god as well.

  8. Brillant !! Interesting, educational, illuminating and entertaining for the entire 90 minutes. Bravo ! But how much time did it take you to put this all together? I"m thinking…A LOT ! But all worth your incredible and undeniable efforts.

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