PeterS wrote:
Some memes just say it all...
I think it’s quite “convenient” for your slant on things that your “meme” leaves out all the important details of the story. Beginning with the fact that the Israelites were in Egypt, in the first place, because Joseph, at God’s direction, had saved the whole nation from destruction by famine, and because of that Egypt’s Pharaoh had honored Joseph with a position over all of Egypt just short of authority over the throne. But then later the once grateful host country turned their “honored guests” into slaves. I guess that part wasn’t convenient for you, was it? And you also neglected to mention how that brief snapshot of the situation depicted in your meme was a culmination of God’s delivery of His unjustly enslaved people through Moses which began by first telling Pharaoh to let his (God’s) people go. Which Pharaoh obstinately refused, then relented, then refused, then relented, then refused, then relented, etc, through a series of increasing plagues as God, through Moses, began displaying His power in a way that even Pharaoh could easily relate to.
So, by your meme, do you realize you are justifying a tyrant against what your meme depicts to be the “evil” of God delivering slaves from bondage, and his process for not punishing the innocent?
Of course, what God was really doing through that whole event was teaching the whole world, by what is called a type and shadow, or example, about our common slavery to sin that Jesus Christ, God’s own Son, would come to deliver us from by being God’s ultimate Passover Lamb, sacrificed on our behalf, that if we apply his sacrificial life’s blood to our lives (by dying out to our evil lives in repentance, and living instead to God and His righteousness) we can be freed from the bondage to sin.
If you think our Creator is evil for wanting to deliver people from bondage, and punish evildoers while sparing the innocent, perhaps you should make your own world where you can make the rules… and don’t forget to start by making your own dirt and giving yourself your own life. Of course, that means you’d also have to first give back the life you already have in order to start from scratch. Hmm, not such an easy task, eh?
Perhaps instead you may want to learn to be grateful you even have a life by which you have the free will to even contemplate things like rebellion against your Creator, let alone the liberty to choose not to serve Him?
Maybe the thing that causes you to look at God’s Delivery System (Salvation Plan) as an evil thing is the same thing that is keeping you from realizing it is, after all, the good news of the kingdom of God, rather than the tyranny you are currently defending.