"Go down, Moses"

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In my last entry I regaled you with a story about God offering the Torah (5 books of Moses) to every nation on earth. They all refused it… except the Israelites.

I was confused when I first heard this.
I found it hard to believe.
(what? no haggling? why not 8 books of Moses?)


I grew up thinking God gave Moses the ten commandments on Mount Sinai,
Not the whole Torah!

I had a T.M.B.S. moment!

Remember: This Movie’s Bull Shit!
The moment when you inexplicably stop believing a movie’s storyline, a storyline that was implausible from the beginning anyway.

Recently the comedian Doug Benson pointed out:
In the film “Avatar,” the army general tells the new recruits, “You’re not in Kansas anymore.” Really? It’s 160 years in the future and people are STILL making “Wizard of Oz” references? They haven’t even advanced to “Wicked?”

Good point… But if that’s where you draw the line for believability, you won’t like the remaining two hours of giant blue cat people living on Pandora!

We all have those moments while reading the Bible, too.


“oh, come ON”

Really? Now you draw the line?

THAT’S what you’re taking umbrage with?

(My mom used to say that—honey it’s raining, remember to take an umbrage)

MAYBE the ten commandments, God says, here- take these two tablets call me in the morning
So Moses COULD take the two pieces of stone (10 commandments)… but the whole Torah? That’s a whole lotta tablets. He’d have to make like 600 trips up and down Mount Sinai… he’d get a hernia before he was done with Genesis!

I don’t know why this stuck in my mind.

Adam and Eve and the snake—Okay
Noah and the animals on the boat—no problem
The Ten Plagues and the Parting of the Red Sea—sure!

But Moses bringing a BOOK down from the mountain?
No way!
I call B.S.!


Anyway, there is STILL some wisdom to be taken.
Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water.
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