Are we living in a modern day Egypt?

[RandomVariable]

Suppose the oppressed of the world today are the Hebrews of Biblical time. For those who harken to the call of God we will be lead out of Egypt. The fact that the world is falling apart is hardly deniable, although the cause is of some debate.

There is a reason that this concept might be a little unfavourable to many. The one and only true God is the God of the Old Testament, the God of Abraham. That means practically no one gets a pass on this. Not even the 0.2 percent of Jews in the world are by default the modern day Hebrews.

 

[shart_attack]

Suppose the oppressed of the world today are the Hebrews of Biblical time. For those who harken to the call of God we will be lead out of Egypt. The fact that the world is falling apart is hardly deniable, although the cause is of some debate.

There is a reason that this concept might be a little unfavourable to many. The one and only true God is the God of the Old Testament, the God of Abraham. That means practically no one gets a pass on this. Not even the 0.2 percent of Jews in the world are by default the modern day Hebrews.

No offense, but this makes no sense.

Who is God leading out of the US, errr Egypt???

Why???

 

[RandomVariable]

Suppose the oppressed of the world today are the Hebrews of Biblical time. For those who harken to the call of God we will be lead out of Egypt. The fact that the world is falling apart is hardly deniable, although the cause is of some debate.

There is a reason that this concept might be a little unfavourable to many. The one and only true God is the God of the Old Testament, the God of Abraham. That means practically no one gets a pass on this. Not even the 0.2 percent of Jews in the world are by default the modern day Hebrews.

No offense, but this makes no sense.

Who is God leading out of the US, errr Egypt???

Why???

First, was Egypt a literal place in the Bible? Or least the Egypt as is on our map today? And, no, no one is getting lead out of the US to a desert island or something like that.

Why? Oh, I don't know.

 

[Avatar4321]

no. It's not modern day Egypt. Modern day Egypt isn't so blessed as we are

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Way we're marginalizing people of faith in the US validates some of the comparison to ancient Egypt. Way capitalism enslaves us too. Can have your religion, but only to a point, and meanwhile you must work to live. Much like Egypt in Torah. But are we slaves like the Jews in Egypt? Maybe, but only in the loosest metaphorical sense.

 

[RandomVariable]

Way we're marginalizing people of faith in the US validates some of the comparison to ancient Egypt. Way capitalism enslaves us too. Can have your religion, but only to a point, and meanwhile you must work to live. Much like Egypt in Torah. But are we slaves like the Jews in Egypt? Maybe, but only in the loosest metaphorical sense.

Interesting point you bring up. One one hand the Bible talks about the affliction the Hebrew's taskmasters put upon them. On the other hand the people who came out of Egypt are constantly complaining to Moses about how much better they had it in Egypt. In the wilderness they feed on manna, angel's food, their feet did not swell, and their raiment waxed not. In reference to modern conditions when you say 'we' do you really know how the other half lives? If you have no need of God great for you.

 

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no. It's not modern day Egypt. Modern day Egypt isn't so blessed as we are

I was referring to an Egypt of Biblical times and I was not referring strictly to America. In the Bible the reference is to single general location but does the same need apply today?

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Way we're marginalizing people of faith in the US validates some of the comparison to ancient Egypt. Way capitalism enslaves us too. Can have your religion, but only to a point, and meanwhile you must work to live. Much like Egypt in Torah. But are we slaves like the Jews in Egypt? Maybe, but only in the loosest metaphorical sense.

Interesting point you bring up. One one hand the Bible talks about the affliction the Hebrew's taskmasters put upon them. On the other hand the people who came out of Egypt are constantly complaining to Moses about how much better they had it in Egypt. In the wilderness they feed on manna, angel's food, their feet did not swell, and their raiment waxed not. In reference to modern conditions when you say 'we' do you really know how the other half lives? If you have no need of God great for you.

I spent a summer 'street-camping.' I wasn't technically homeless, I had one, I just wasn't in it for a few months. But I know how to be poor and thrive, as well as affluent and not let it go to my head.

 

[RandomVariable]

Way we're marginalizing people of faith in the US validates some of the comparison to ancient Egypt. Way capitalism enslaves us too. Can have your religion, but only to a point, and meanwhile you must work to live. Much like Egypt in Torah. But are we slaves like the Jews in Egypt? Maybe, but only in the loosest metaphorical sense.

Interesting point you bring up. One one hand the Bible talks about the affliction the Hebrew's taskmasters put upon them. On the other hand the people who came out of Egypt are constantly complaining to Moses about how much better they had it in Egypt. In the wilderness they feed on manna, angel's food, their feet did not swell, and their raiment waxed not. In reference to modern conditions when you say 'we' do you really know how the other half lives? If you have no need of God great for you.

I spent a summer 'street-camping.' I wasn't technically homeless, I had one, I just wasn't in it for a few months. But I know how to be poor and thrive, as well as affluent and not let it go to my head.

So you believe God will not be coming back?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

How odd that we have the first ever case of Ebola in the USA right at the start of the Shemitah.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Way we're marginalizing people of faith in the US validates some of the comparison to ancient Egypt. Way capitalism enslaves us too. Can have your religion, but only to a point, and meanwhile you must work to live. Much like Egypt in Torah. But are we slaves like the Jews in Egypt? Maybe, but only in the loosest metaphorical sense.

Interesting point you bring up. One one hand the Bible talks about the affliction the Hebrew's taskmasters put upon them. On the other hand the people who came out of Egypt are constantly complaining to Moses about how much better they had it in Egypt. In the wilderness they feed on manna, angel's food, their feet did not swell, and their raiment waxed not. In reference to modern conditions when you say 'we' do you really know how the other half lives? If you have no need of God great for you.

I spent a summer 'street-camping.' I wasn't technically homeless, I had one, I just wasn't in it for a few months. But I know how to be poor and thrive, as well as affluent and not let it go to my head.

So you believe God will not be coming back?

I don't believe God is sentient. Real, but not sentient like we are. Think what we call God is in fact some as yet undescribed 'super organism.' Maybe the sum consciousness of all life in the universe 'group thinking' reality into existence somehow.

Like what we see with mass intercessory prayer when many pray for a common goal but on steroids and utilizing all living beings in the universe.

 

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How odd that we have the first ever case of Ebola in the USA right at the start of the Shemitah.

At the start of the eight month. Search YouTube for: Planetary Alignment/Earthquake Watch Oct 23-31, 2014. Coincidences, every one of them.

When God first started really talking to me there got a point where I simply had to apply Occam's razor, "It states that among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected. Other, more complicated solutions may ultimately prove correct, but—in the absence of certainty—the fewer assumptions that are made, the better." - wiki

 

[RandomVariable]

Way we're marginalizing people of faith in the US validates some of the comparison to ancient Egypt. Way capitalism enslaves us too. Can have your religion, but only to a point, and meanwhile you must work to live. Much like Egypt in Torah. But are we slaves like the Jews in Egypt? Maybe, but only in the loosest metaphorical sense.

Interesting point you bring up. One one hand the Bible talks about the affliction the Hebrew's taskmasters put upon them. On the other hand the people who came out of Egypt are constantly complaining to Moses about how much better they had it in Egypt. In the wilderness they feed on manna, angel's food, their feet did not swell, and their raiment waxed not. In reference to modern conditions when you say 'we' do you really know how the other half lives? If you have no need of God great for you.

I spent a summer 'street-camping.' I wasn't technically homeless, I had one, I just wasn't in it for a few months. But I know how to be poor and thrive, as well as affluent and not let it go to my head.

So you believe God will not be coming back?

I don't believe God is sentient. Real, but not sentient like we are. Think what we call God is in fact some as yet undescribed 'super organism.' Maybe the sum consciousness of all life in the universe 'group thinking' reality into existence somehow.

Like what we see with mass intercessory prayer when many pray for a common goal but on steroids and utilizing all living beings in the universe.

So you have awareness of the existence but no understanding. You and millions of agnostics. I suspect a vast majority of people who claim a religion are actually agnostics, i.e. "non-practising".

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Way we're marginalizing people of faith in the US validates some of the comparison to ancient Egypt. Way capitalism enslaves us too. Can have your religion, but only to a point, and meanwhile you must work to live. Much like Egypt in Torah. But are we slaves like the Jews in Egypt? Maybe, but only in the loosest metaphorical sense.

Interesting point you bring up. One one hand the Bible talks about the affliction the Hebrew's taskmasters put upon them. On the other hand the people who came out of Egypt are constantly complaining to Moses about how much better they had it in Egypt. In the wilderness they feed on manna, angel's food, their feet did not swell, and their raiment waxed not. In reference to modern conditions when you say 'we' do you really know how the other half lives? If you have no need of God great for you.

I spent a summer 'street-camping.' I wasn't technically homeless, I had one, I just wasn't in it for a few months. But I know how to be poor and thrive, as well as affluent and not let it go to my head.

So you believe God will not be coming back?

I don't believe God is sentient. Real, but not sentient like we are. Think what we call God is in fact some as yet undescribed 'super organism.' Maybe the sum consciousness of all life in the universe 'group thinking' reality into existence somehow.

Like what we see with mass intercessory prayer when many pray for a common goal but on steroids and utilizing all living beings in the universe.

So you have awareness of the existence but no understanding. You and millions of agnostics. I suspect a vast majority of people who claim a religion are actually agnostics, i.e. "non-practising".

God is simply the word we use to describe the reality of existence. Can call it anything though. Doesn't have to have a thing to do with religion. That's all invented by us from fairy cake. But we really exist, as does the universe. And I suspect the way systems work is usually counter-intuitive. Religion is what happens when people confront their mortality and begin accepting it by moving through denial (aka theism,) then on to the other coping mechanisms until reaching acceptance (aka atheism.) But existence still exists and is irrefutable. Why's the universe exist, why did it come to be in the first place...And do most people spend so much of their lives wearing digital watches?

 

[RandomVariable]

Interesting point you bring up. One one hand the Bible talks about the affliction the Hebrew's taskmasters put upon them. On the other hand the people who came out of Egypt are constantly complaining to Moses about how much better they had it in Egypt. In the wilderness they feed on manna, angel's food, their feet did not swell, and their raiment waxed not. In reference to modern conditions when you say 'we' do you really know how the other half lives? If you have no need of God great for you.

I spent a summer 'street-camping.' I wasn't technically homeless, I had one, I just wasn't in it for a few months. But I know how to be poor and thrive, as well as affluent and not let it go to my head.

So you believe God will not be coming back?

I don't believe God is sentient. Real, but not sentient like we are. Think what we call God is in fact some as yet undescribed 'super organism.' Maybe the sum consciousness of all life in the universe 'group thinking' reality into existence somehow.

Like what we see with mass intercessory prayer when many pray for a common goal but on steroids and utilizing all living beings in the universe.

So you have awareness of the existence but no understanding. You and millions of agnostics. I suspect a vast majority of people who claim a religion are actually agnostics, i.e. "non-practising".

God is simply the word we use to describe the reality of existence. Can call it anything though. Doesn't have to have a thing to do with religion. That's all invented by us from fairy cake. But we really exist, as does the universe. And I suspect the way systems work is usually counter-intuitive. Religion is what happens when people confront their mortality and begin accepting it by moving through denial (aka theism,) then on to the other coping mechanisms until reaching acceptance (aka atheism.) But existence still exists and is irrefutable. Why's the universe exist, why did it come to be in the first place...And do most people spend so much of their lives wearing digital watches?

So you believe the Bible was written by the son of man. (Yes, I realize we have gone over this before but you lose every time without admitting defeat. so...)

 

[jwoodie]

Humans trying to understand divine intentions is like cockroaches trying to understand New York City.

 

[Ravi]

No.

 

[RandomVariable]

No.

Yes.

 

[RandomVariable]

Humans trying to understand divine intentions is like cockroaches trying to understand New York City.

If you were the Mayor of NYC what would you give the cockroach so that they could understand the city?

 

[September]

Way we're marginalizing people of faith in the US validates some of the comparison to ancient Egypt. Way capitalism enslaves us too. Can have your religion, but only to a point, and meanwhile you must work to live. Much like Egypt in Torah. But are we slaves like the Jews in Egypt? Maybe, but only in the loosest metaphorical sense.

Interesting point you bring up. One one hand the Bible talks about the affliction the Hebrew's taskmasters put upon them. On the other hand the people who came out of Egypt are constantly complaining to Moses about how much better they had it in Egypt. In the wilderness they feed on manna, angel's food, their feet did not swell, and their raiment waxed not. In reference to modern conditions when you say 'we' do you really know how the other half lives? If you have no need of God great for you.

I spent a summer 'street-camping.' I wasn't technically homeless, I had one, I just wasn't in it for a few months. But I know how to be poor and thrive, as well as affluent and not let it go to my head.

Interesting

I vividly remember spending three months alone in the wilderness as part of an initiation ritual. It was... enlightening. Now I feel completely comfortable surviving for days or weeks in similar areas, alone, and with Nature. It always feels so much more welcoming now.

I bet you could to the same, if you haven't already. You would likely find it just as insightful as your "street camping" experiences.
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