Surely God could have given the others the abililty to understand as well, and not just Moses. I mean, he's God. R-right??
I suppose. But it would have been a bit complicated to give 2 million people the chance to ask questions. I mean, Moses himself probably had a shit-ton of those, don't you think?
God is not powerful enough to answer over 2 million questions at once. Got it.
When you read the bible, its almost as if god keeps forgetting he is omnipotent. Weird.
I think you are all forgetting the manner in which God has always brought a new dispensation to the world. There are many ways he could do it. I suppose he could do it any way he so chose. But he chooses to bring it through one individual, probably because (and this is my guess, not that of the Rabbis, or other people far smarter than me) such a person is far more capable of receiving such a dispensation than your average John Q. Public. And for example, he chose one person, Abraham, to be the father of a nation, the Hebrews. Why a nation? I don't know. He promised them a land, Canaan. They lived there for some time. All the way til they went down to Egypt under Jacob. They spent 430 years there. They went back under Moses.
Why did Moses receive the Law and not the whole nation at once? Well, probably because he could read and write (and again, that is just my guess, not that of the Rabbis or of men much smarter than me; I don't know what they suggest, I'd have to look it up). But the fact that it has to be written down for posterity indicates that someone has to be able to do so, and, again, this is a guess, but I suspect slaves probably didn't know how to read and write, so, once again, Moses would be an ideal choice.
And now we come to the comment that takes the taco for utmost stupid in the entire thread that I have seen yet. Someone has to be a complete fucking idiot to come up with this one. I quote the following gem of stupidity:
Is there any meaningful difference between the jewish God and Hitler? Both demanded absolute deference, both were more than happy to order the extinction of multiple races through genocide and eugenics, and both felt that their people deserved land which did not belong to them.
First off, God did not use positive eugenics in any form. He simply allowed humans to do what humans do, which is intermarry with one another until they no longer exist as groups. In fact, the Jews are one of the few groups that has survived as long as it has because of its tendency NOT to do that. During the Bronze Age, genocide was a standard procedure, whether ordered by God or man. If the Hebrews had not engaged in the practice, it would have been them that would have been genocided (to coin a verb).
Since Canaan was promised to Abraham way back when, long before Moses was even thought of, your last point is no point at all. Remember that after the destruction of four of the Five Cities on the Plain, there was virtually nobody left in Canaan. Abraham's family was. Anyone who came knew the land was his. If they chose to settle there, they knew the land was his. Even though Jacob chose to leave for reasons of famine, the fact that other people showed up was their fault, not his. That does not negate his claim to the land.
So, bitch and belly-ache all you want. The fact is, that your left-wing "sit around the campfire and lets make friends and sing "CumBayYa" shit isn't real. I mean, seriously. Do you people even hear yourselves, or see what you fucking type? You sound and read like clowns. Lets all go out and make like buddies. Please. Its not realistic.
The fact is that there are no moderate Muslims in the world that are willing to speak out against the ones that are killing and slaughtering people that don't agree with them, because they are too damned afraid of being next on the list. The fact also is that in the fucking Bronze Age brutality was such that either you did it to them, or they did it to you. Take your pick. And don't tell me you would have done anything differently.
If you had lived during the Bronze Age, and the opportunity had presented itself, you would have slaughtered your enemy, and taken his land and women captive. That is the way it was done. And if you had done otherwise, they would have done it to you. And you would have known that. So, don't tell me that YOU would have been different. If you are stupid enough to try to tell me that, I will laugh in your face.
With a Master's degree in History, I know full well what people are. You are no different than anyone else. The Gandhis and the Mother Theresas of the world are few and far between. I seriously doubt if there is one of those among any of us here.
So, whether you say its because you would have done it, or because your God ordered you to do it, the fact is you would have slaughtered your enemy, and hung his head on a fucking pike, and taken his women captive, and married the virgins, and given the married girls over to the soldiers for spoil. That's just how it was.
Its not a matter of being like Hitler. And in fact, today's Israel with the so-called "Palestinians" is far kinder than any other Occupying Power in the history of the world, as I have proven in previous postings on this thread. So I strongly suggest you shut the fuck up and quit your bitching. I have never seen more
WAAAAAAAAAAH FUCKIN' WAAAAAAAAAAH! in my entire life.