The End of Freewill

June 28, 2009, 7:55 am by dc-agape.

Exodus Chapter 11

This is the post that completely annihilates any concept that humans have freewill, if YHWH of the Old Testament exists.  Chapter 11 of Exodus mentions YHWH’s complete control of all human actions, not just once, and not just of the Pharaoh.  This chapter also continues the same mistake that I have reported before about the Egyptian livestock.

If any Christian claims that humans have freewill, this is the chapter that negates that opinion.  This is the chapter that proves that freewill Christians are lacking in their understanding of the monster that they worship.  This is the chapter that proves that the concept of freewill is a Tradition of Man.  And here are the verses that prove it:

Exodus 11:3 (The Lord made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and Moses himself was highly regarded in Egypt by Pharaoh’s officials and by the people.)

Exodus 11:5 Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the slave girl, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well.

Exodus 11:9 The Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh will refuse to listen to you – so that my wonders may be multiplied in Egypt.

Exodus 11:10 Moses and Aaron performed all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go out of his country.

I know that this is 40% of the chapter, but in each case it repeats that YHWH does not provide for freewill.  YHWH makes the people regard the Israelite “slaves” favorably.  YHWH kills nearly the entire nation of Egypt, unless you consider that the firstborn rarely live anyway.  I wonder if the firstborn also include the grandfathers, fathers, and children.  But of course the murder of the firstborn would not include Rameses II, since Rameses II was a second son, but Ahmose was also a second son!  These two Pharaoh’s are the only one who would have survived, because it would seem that all the other Pharaohs of the 18^th dynasty were first born sons/wives.  But what was the likelihood that a first born son would survive to adulthood in the 18^th Dynasty?   It was actually very low!  In fact, this last plague, if not directly cause by the disease spread by the Red Tide, the frogs, the gnats, the flies, the death of all livestock, the boils, the hail (destruction of food crops) or the locust, would not have affected the Egyptians that greatly.  Death of a child was common place, and which ever oldest child was alive at the death of the father was the inheritor – son or daughter or wife!  Only from a patriarchal society would the death of the firstborn son cause:

Exodus 11:6 There will be loud wailing throughout Egypt – worse than there has ever been or ever will be again.

Isn’t that nice imagery?  The loving YHWH murdering innocent firstborn sons, just to show off!  Worse is that this loving YHWH planned the whole thing and controlled the events that would lead up to his final “wonder” the cold-blooded murder of children.  Who wants to worship this beast?  Why do we even have records of this monster existing?  How can anyone claim that this corruption of good could possibly have any capacity to love?  As an Atheist, I cannot see how anyone, out of fear or out of humility, could worship this vile, evil tyrant named YHWH.

It is worth repeating the error in the Word of God.  It is even more important that this mistake has been repeated! 

Exodus 9:6 And the next day the Lord did it: All the livestock of the Egyptians died, but not one animal belonging to the Israelites died.

Exodus 9:10 So they took soot from a furnace and stood before Pharaoh.  Moses tossed it into the air, and festering boils broke out on men and animals.

Exodus 9:21 But those you ignored the word of the Lord left their slaves and livestock in the field.

Exodus 11:5 Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the slave girl, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well.

In that first verse YHWH kills all the livestock.  Now in the second verse, you could make the claim that this was the wild animals, cats, and dogs.  But that seems to be just rationalization.  The last two verses clearly state that the Egyptians still had livestock, which is in complete contradiction to Exodus 9:6.  The Word of God is flawed and in the case of a perfect supreme being, this means that his word cannot be taken literally. 

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