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Obviously, it was written at a time when the Hebrews acknowledged the other gods existed and had power*, only not so much as Yahweh. I remember an episode when they invade Moab and since the king of Moab sacrificed his elder son to his god the Hebrews were put to flight.
* it's an attitude that persisted for quite a long time since after the Babylonians took Jerusalem refugees were angry at Jeremiah for making them turn away from mild gods who would have helped in favor of Yahweh who punished them.
I read the serpent business was a common trick of the egyptian priests: they knew how to catch a snake behind the head so it would become stiff and immobile like a rod, and throw them down at leisure. I never tried that one LOL
I don't know how they did that trick to turn water into blood though… ( maybe they just added some instant color… )
Also, I noticed something about the Script: It says the rods of the magicians also became serpents, but this would imply that the miracles of the Egyptian gods have power. Is the Bible saying that the Egyptian gods are real, but somehow lesser than the Christian god?
Sooo, at that point you're going to open a big can of worms depending on who exactly you pose that question to.
I'm surprised I've never heard anyone else make this point. Given how famous these verses are, you'd thing SOMEONE would notice.
But still, I've NEVER seen someone find this. Not even radical extremists, who are less likely to care about criticism from the community.
Also, I'm non-Christian as well. Just so anyone reading our comments knows where I stand.
I'm pagan, but I was raised Jewish. When I was a kid I was always asking questions in Sunday school, and they were the type of questions that the teachers just never knew how to answer ("But what about the dinosaurs?" "But where did Cain and Able's wives come from?" "How did Noah have enough food to feed all the animals?" "How did Noah keep the lions from eating the zebras?" etc) So I always ended up having to do research on my own in one way or another. That being said that detail is something that stands out to a lot of pagans that I've met.
Anyway, I don't really have any contemporaries in my daily life to discuss religious matters with. It makes me kinda sad.
I also had the same experience in my life, just swap "pagan" with "agnostic" and "Jewish" with "Protestant."
What I meant to say was, this is a passage of the Bible that suggests the existence of deities other that Jehovah, and this comic is the first I've heard of it. That seems rather odd, doesn't it?
Christianity (and most other religions when one is the most dominant in a particular culture) has been incredibly barbaric and inhuman in a lot of it's conversion tactics. The Spanish Inquisition, the crusades, the witch hunts, and lots more. Those events were made up of men going into towns and villages and saying basically "join us or die a horrifically painful sadistic death." Generally speaking, that sort of behavior does not inspire thoughtful theological discussions.
And while, yes, the world today is much more civilized in a lot of ways, Christianity has a long history of being violent. People in that particular religion didn't really stop using god as an excuse to murder people till about a hundred years ago, two hundred if a person was being generous about it. That's only a couple of generations.
On the bright side, in this day and age if a person wanted to study the bible or any other religious book (and pick apart or memorize or discard) how ever they see fit that person probably wont be called a heretic and killed for it.
There's lots of books out there on a lot of this stuff. If you're interested in this sort of thing, you might want to try reading the aquarian gospel. There are many other books you could read, but that might be a good starting place.