August 17, 2018 - Day 131 - Numbers 14

I am writing from my desk in Seattle, WA.

Numbers 14:

This chapter opens with the Israelites complaining to Moses and Aaron.  They are wondering why they weren't just left to die in Egypt, rather than come to Canaan and get slaughtered.

At this point, the Israelites figured they should just choose a leader and head back to Egypt.

Joshua told the people not to be afraid, that they would be victorious, because God is with them.

The Israelites talked about stoning Moses and Aaron (and I guess Joshua too?), so God appeared at I guess everyone could see.  God is all pissed off and wondering how much more needs to be done to get these people to have faith, and says a plague will be thrown down if necessary.

Moses again talks God out of genocide.  What a negotiator!

Moses then talks to God in third person, reminding God that "he" is slow to anger, loving, and forgiving; yet in the same breath says that God punishes children for the sin of their parents to the third and fourth generation.

How is punishing someone born 70 years away from an incident that they likely had no knowledge of...forgiving? LOL OK.

Anyway.

God goes on a bit of an egomaniacal rant after Moses successfully negotiates out of murder.

Because the people were upset with God, God declares that they'll fall in the wilderness and their children will wander for forty years.  #grace #mercy

My favorite God quote from this chapter is this one:  "You will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you."

ALRIGHT THEN.

So then anyone who grumbled against God just fell over and died.

Some more people tried to go to the new land but apparently God was not with them, so they died too.

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Did you know that scientifically speaking, it is neurologically damaging to believe in a god who is vengeful and angry?

source:  "How God Changes Your Brain" by Andrew Newburg


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