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Is Moses God?

Muffled

Muffled

Jesus in me
John D. Brey said:
The number of types that portray Moses as God are difficult to ignore. In Exodus chapter 4 God tells Moses that Aaron with be his mouth, and he will be as God to Aaron. Whatever Moses say will be as though it's from God, so far as Aaron is concerned. In Exodus chapter 7, God tells Moses that he has made him (Moses) a God to Pharaoh, and Aaron is Moses' prophet.

But this is the tip of the iceberg. Multifarious scripture paint Moses as a human emblem of God the Father.



John
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I believe I am God also. It isn't a big deal. I prefer to be me most of the time.
 
Muffled

Muffled

Jesus in me
John D. Brey said:
Right. But we're not really talking about God talking through Moses (though he did). We're talking about Moses being emblematic of God. Jesus is not emblematic of God. He's emblematic of the rod in Moses' right hand. The ruler's scepter. The rod out of the root of Jesse. The root and offspring of David. God's weapon.



John
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I do not see it as emblematic.
 
John D. Brey

John D. Brey

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Muffled said:
I do not see it as emblematic.
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. . . The background for Moses being emblematic of God is given earlier in this thread, and the thread on Tiferet and Nehushtan.

Most things in the Tanakh are symbolic. There's good reason to picture Moses as emblematic of God the Father. Which is to say he represents a particular member of the Trinity for the sake of a systematic theology.



John
 
John D. Brey

John D. Brey

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Ben Avraham said:
If Moses is God!

Of course not! Moses is dead. God is not bound by death.
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. . . The ability read more than one line in an argument seems to be just as dead as Moses. Nevertheless, a good argument isn't bound by the death of serious inquiry into the argument.



John
 
`mud

`mud

Just old
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I have to make an observation about Moses.
It's pretty simplistic, as are most of my thoughts.
In starting Genesis, didn't Moses create the _od in the book ?
Sooooooo....._od didn't exist before then.
_od was Moses' alter ego.......and it almost worked.
Along comes Saul.......
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'mud
 
John D. Brey

John D. Brey

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'mud said:
I have to make an observation about Moses.
It's pretty simplistic, as are most of my thoughts.
In starting Genesis, didn't Moses create the _od in the book ?
Sooooooo....._od didn't exist before then.
_od was Moses' alter ego.......and it almost worked.
Along comes Saul.......
~
'mud
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. . . He created the written version. And we know what Saul thought about the written version.



John
 
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Ben Avraham

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'mud said:
I have to make an observation about Moses.
It's pretty simplistic, as are most of my thoughts.
In starting Genesis, didn't Moses create the _od in the book ?
Sooooooo....._od didn't exist before then.
_od was Moses' alter ego.......and it almost worked.
Along comes Saul.......
~
'mud
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Moses had a beginning and an end. He was born and died. Right there! Moses could not be God. If you don't believe in God, tell us who caused the universe to exist? Don't tell me that it has always been there because Science teaches that the universe had a beginning when they measure the age of the universe to about 15 millions of years. If the universe had a beginning, something or someone caused the universe to exist. Can you take from here?
 
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Ben Avraham

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John D. Brey said:
. . . The ability read more than one line in an argument seems to be just as dead as Moses. Nevertheless, a good argument isn't bound by the death of serious inquiry into the argument.

John
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I didn't get it! Can you translate the above into English? If you don't know, English is only my third language.
 
psychoslice

psychoslice

Veteran Member
We are all One with God, Jesus was no where near God than anyone of us, he was only a story that showed is our own Oneness with what we call God, nothing more than that.
 
John D. Brey

John D. Brey

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ronandcarol said:
Is Moses God?
NO!
ronandcarol
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. . . The sort of dogmatism you display parallels the kind of authority God has. Which explains why you would be offended that anyone other than you (be it Moses or God) should have that kind of authority.

In the future, I should like to request that anyone who responds to a thread like this have a reading comprehension of a particular level, and have read more than three sentences in this thread, or perhaps any other book or thread. . . . Then again, if I'm interpreting things correctly, that request might kill the thread before it's even got its sea legs.



John
 
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