How Many Mistakes can the Bible Have?

June 26, 2009, 8:17 am by dc-agape.

Exodus Chapter 10:1-20

I am almost finished with the plagues that YHWH pre-planned to unleash on the 3,000,000 Egyptians generations before they were born.  All of them happened because YHWH hardened the Pharaoh’s heart.  This post will be about the plague of locust.  The swarming of locust in the Egyptian Nile is not uncommon, so this “plague” was just another natural event that Moses took advantage of. 

More than one error in the Word of God occurs during this plague.  Remember this verse:

Exodus 9:25 Throughout Egypt hail struck everything in the fields – both men and animals; it beat down everything growing in the fields and stripped every tree.

Well here we are told a different story:

Exodus 10:15 They covered all the ground until it was black.  They devoured all that was left after the hail – everything growing in the fields and the fruits on the trees.

If every plant in the field were beaten down by the hail, would there be anything left for the locust to eat?  If the trees were stripped bare by the hail would not the fruit have also been stripped as well?  For that matter the locust swarm was most likely due to the hail storm anyway.  The natural food supply for the locust was destroyed by the hail which then caused them to swarm in search of food.

But there are more mistakes in this story about the plague:

Exodus 10:1 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials so that I may perform these miraculous signs of mine among them that you may tell your children and grandchildren how I dealt harshly with the Egyptians and how I preformed my signs among them, and that you may know that I am the Lord.”

But just a little later the official’s hearts were not hardened, only the Pharaoh’s heart was:

Exodus 10:7 Pharaoh’s officials said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us?  Let the people go, so that they may worship the Lord their God.  Do you not yet realize that Egypt is ruined?”

Does this sound like a group of officials that have had their hearts hardened by YHWH?  They are begging the Pharaoh to let the people go!  Notice also the true purpose of these plagues.  YHWH planned them specifically for his own ego.  He wants to be worshipped and to ensure this practice he is willing to be as brutal and cruel as any of the ancient polytheist gods of Rome, Greece, Egypt, or Babylonia.  This is the second error in the Word of God, there is one more.

I have mentioned before that how do slaves own property and that Moses lied to Pharaoh about the purpose of the festival.  But both are worth mentioning again. 

Exodus 9:9 Moses answered, “We will go with our young and old, with our sons and daughters, and with our flocks and herds, because we are to celebrate a festival to the Lord.”

In what nation have you ever heard of slaves owning flocks and herds?  The Israelites were not slaves!  But this festival is a cover-up.  Moses never plans on returning to Egypt, so when it is appropriate YHWH approves of bearing false witness.  And as we all know that lying happens to be something that YHWH finds detestable:

Proverbs 6:16-19 There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him:  haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush to evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.

One of the truly Deadly Sins is lying, yet Moses has repeated this lie to Pharaoh numerous times!  Here is another example of the changing YHWH.  YHWH is not immutable!  So at least two other verse in the Word of God are false and made to prove that the Word of God is not to be used as a source of ethical behavior (Numbers 23:19, 1^st Samuel 15:29).  But here is more proof that YHWH does change his mind.  He would not allow Moses to lie to the Pharaoh, even a little white lie, if YHWH did not change his mind.  He would find Moses detestable and hate him for the lie that was told to the Pharaoh.

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