Ja, die contradicties zijn geweldig
Ik kwam net tijdens het leren ook nog iets vreemds tegen. Niet zozeer een contradictie, maar wel weer iets wat wijst op het kwaadaardige, jaloerse karakter van God. Mozes mocht, net als de generatie Israëlieten uit de Exodus had meegemaakt, niet het beloofde land in.
Waarom niet? De Israëlieten zitten in Numeri weer eens te klagen en God zegt tegen Mozes:
"Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together.
Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water. You will bring water out of the rock for the community so they and their livestock can drink." (Num. 20:8).
En wat doet Mozes vervolgens?
9 So Moses took the staff from the LORD's presence, just as he commanded him. 10 He and Aaron gathered the assembly together in front of the rock and Moses said to them, "Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?"
11 Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank. (Num 20:9)
Dus, terwijl God zegt dat Mozes tegen de rots moet
spreken slaat Mozes er twee keer tegenaan met de stok.
Vervolgens zegt God:
12 But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them."
Dus: omdat Mozes tegen de rots slaat, ipv er tegen spreekt wordt hij niet toegelaten tot het Beloofde Land? Een krankzinnige consequentie van zo'n futiele gebeurtenis! God kent zelf blijkbaar niet het 'oog om oog, tand om tand' principe wat in het Nieuwe Testament betekent dat je mensen niet buitenproportioneel moet straffen (itt de moderne interpretatie dat je iemand die jou een klap op je wang geeft ook een klap terug mag geven)
En is het jullie wel eens opgevallen dat de 10 geboden in Exodus 20 niet dezelfde zijn als de 10 geboden in Exodus 34? (en dan hebben we het nog niet gehad over de 10 Geboden in Deut 5). En dat terwijl God zelf zegt dat het exact dezelfde geboden zijn!
, check Ex 34:1: The LORD said to Moses, "Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
Exodus 20:
1 And God spoke all these words:
2 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
3 "You shall have no other gods before [a] me.
4 "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing love to a thousand {generations} of those who love me and keep my commandments.
7 "You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.
8 "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. 11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
12 "Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
13 "You shall not murder.
14 "You shall not commit adultery.
15 "You shall not steal.
16 "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
17 "You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."
Ex 34:10-27
10 Then the LORD said: "I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the LORD, will do for you. 11 Obey what I command you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 12 Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you. 13 Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles. [a] 14 Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
15 "Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices. 16 And when you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will lead your sons to do the same.
17 "Do not make cast idols.
18 "Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in that month you came out of Egypt.
19 "The first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock. 20 Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem all your firstborn sons.
"No one is to appear before me empty-handed.
21 "Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.
22 "Celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
23 Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign LORD, the God of Israel. 24 I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to appear before the LORD your God.
25 "Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.
26 "Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God.
"Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk."
27 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel." 28 Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
merk op dat de 10 Geboden uit Ex 34 vrijwel alleen maar met 'worship' te maken hebben en geen humanitaire overwegingen bevatten.
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En last but not least,
In Exodus en Deuteronomium geeft God verschillende redenen voor de sabbath:
Ex 20:11
For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
Deut 5:15
Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.
Het moet in ieder geval wel gezegd worden dat de God in de laatste passage wel weer een stuk aardiger is dan in Exodus. Nu lijken zijn beweegredenen huminatair, terwijl die nadruk in Exodus ontbreekt.
..en wat smeergeld van 30 zilverlingen dabei....
: werden er nu twee paar van iedere diersoort of zeven paar meegenomen de ark in?
Hebr 6: 