ProzacR Posted May 1, 2014 Group: Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 17 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 49 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 4 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/26/2014 Status: Offline Share Posted May 1, 2014 Hi I started Exodus today. Another really interesting find. Moses killed man just because that man was beating slave. Exodus 2:11-12. So it is considered as OK (correct behavior)? Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other one Posted May 1, 2014 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 29 Topic Count: 599 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 56,246 Content Per Day: 7.56 Reputation: 27,973 Days Won: 271 Joined: 12/29/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted May 1, 2014 Obviously it wasn't ok or he would not have run off and hid for 40 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fez Posted May 1, 2014 Group: Royal Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 683 Topics Per Day: 0.12 Content Count: 11,128 Content Per Day: 2.00 Reputation: 1,352 Days Won: 54 Joined: 02/03/2009 Status: Offline Birthday: 12/07/1952 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Hi I started Exodus today. Another really interesting find. Moses killed man just because that man was beating slave. Exodus 2:11-12. So it is considered as OK (correct behavior)? Why? What do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProzacR Posted May 1, 2014 Group: Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 17 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 49 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 4 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/26/2014 Status: Offline Author Share Posted May 1, 2014 (edited) Does not look good at all from our culture point of view. Obviously govt. tried to kill him and he had to hide. But I noticed that LORD God selected him to do His miracles later. Not so bad guy after all huh. Edited May 1, 2014 by ProzacR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayin jade Posted May 1, 2014 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 44 Topic Count: 6,178 Topics Per Day: 0.87 Content Count: 43,798 Content Per Day: 6.20 Reputation: 11,244 Days Won: 58 Joined: 01/03/2005 Status: Online Share Posted May 1, 2014 Does not look good at all from our culture point of view. Obviously govt. tried to kill him and he had to hide. But I noticed that LORD God selected him to do His miracles later. Not so bad guy after all huh. Â The Lord does not choose us on our merits. He chose moses despite what moses did. Just like He saves us based on His grace, not on our deeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneLight Posted May 2, 2014 Group: Royal Member Followers: 22 Topic Count: 1,294 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 31,762 Content Per Day: 5.22 Reputation: 9,763 Days Won: 115 Joined: 09/14/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted May 2, 2014 edit: God does mot condone killing ever.Murder, I would agree, but not killing. There is a difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atwood Posted May 2, 2014 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 7 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 285 Content Per Day: 0.08 Reputation: 61 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/30/2014 Status: Offline Share Posted May 2, 2014 Great subject. I have long been annoyed by the blaming of Moses on this one and neglect what the NT says on Moses, both in Acts and in Hebrews. The fact is that the Bible never criticizes Moses for killing that Egyptian in defense of the Israelite. The story itself (correct me by quotes if I am wrong) doesn't given enough data to blame Moses. Where does the story say "just because"? I think that Stephen's speech in Acts 7 indicates that Moses was a deliverer that the Lord sent who was (like Christ) rejected at his first coming. " 35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? him God has sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer with the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush." At the second coming of Moses, Moses was accepted, as Israel will accept Christ at His second coming. Hebrews 11 also is important on Moses. "27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible." So for me, Moses is innocent until proven guilty. It may have been necessary in delivering the slave from being beaten to kill the Egyptian -- in the course of a severe fight it may have become necessary. I don't see Moses as a hot-head, but as a disappointed would-be Savior of Israel savior in a greatly reduced sense in comparison with Christ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other one Posted May 2, 2014 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 29 Topic Count: 599 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 56,246 Content Per Day: 7.56 Reputation: 27,973 Days Won: 271 Joined: 12/29/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted May 2, 2014 you are not innocent until proven guilty in the eyes of God he knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwikphilly Posted May 2, 2014 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 96 Topic Count: 307 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 18,143 Content Per Day: 4.61 Reputation: 27,834 Days Won: 327 Joined: 08/03/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted May 2, 2014 Blessings Everyone...      As we know from many occasions spoken of about Moses ,he did have quite a temper.The Word of God does not give me any indication that Moses defending his fellow Israelite was a pre-meditated act of murder.......his temper flared & in the heat of the moment he killed the man,he was terrified when he saw what he had done & realized that others saw him and we know how the story goes      I believe his remorse & repentance was accepted by God and it was not held against him.............God promises that when He forgives us He also says he will remember our sin no more......Moses suffered the consequence of his actions which many of us do despite Gods forgiveness,there is always ripple effect as a result of all of our deeds,good & bad.        Moses had many flaws,he was an imperfect human being.....but our Great God in Heaven,our Abba can use anyone to do His work......as we live in His righteousness      As Jade has replied,it is not our works that make us acceptable by God it is only by His Grace..................Glory to God!                                                                                                                                                               With love-in Christ,Kwik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willa Posted May 3, 2014 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 68 Topic Count: 186 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 14,250 Content Per Day: 3.32 Reputation: 16,662 Days Won: 30 Joined: 08/14/2012 Status: Offline Share Posted May 3, 2014 Acts 7:25 NKJV For he supposed that his brethern would have understood that God would deliver them by His hand. Moses apparently had been called by God from an early age to deliver his people. But he did not wait on God to do it in God's wisdom and power. Instead he went about it in his own strength and wisdom, presumptiously, and got himself into trouble. It took 40 years on the back side of the desert for Moses to learn his own shortcomings and to do things God's way. Prov. 14:12 There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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