Difficulties

1:15-21 - How could God bless the actions of the midwives, when they lied and disobeyed the authorities? 2:1-9 - Should believers make irrational decisions like sailing babies down rivers? 2:1-10 - Was the Moses birth story copied from pagan parallels? 2:24 - If God is omniscient, how could he “remember” something? 3:3 - Are miracles like a “burning bush” just pre-scientific myths? 3:5 - Why does God give Moses an arbitrary command like removing his sandals? 3:14 - What does “Yahweh” mean? 3:18 - Why does God tell Moses that it would only be a three day trip, if he planned on rescuing them permanently from the Egyptians? 3:22 - Why would God command the Hebrews to steal from the Egyptians? 4:21 - How could God harden Pharaoh’s heart? 4:24 - Why did God want to kill Moses? 5:3 - Why would God kill his own people with pestilence or a sword? 6:3 - How can this be the first time God revealed his name “Yahweh,” when this name is used often before this time? 6:26-27 - Why are these verses written in the third person, if Moses wrote them? 7:11; 22; 8:7 - How could the sorcerers perform supernatural signs, if they were not from God? 7:14 - Why weren’t these 10 plagues recorded by the Egyptians? 7:14 - Were the judgments of the 10 plagues arbitrary? 7:14 - Is there a feasible naturalistic explanation for the 10 plagues? 11:3 - How could Moses write this, if he was more humble than all men? 12:1-22 - Does the Passover foreshadow the work of Christ? 12:29 - Why would God slay the firstborn of the Egyptians? 12:37 - Were there really two million Jews in the Exodus? 13:18 - Did the Jews cross the “Red Sea” or the “Reed Sea”? 14:21-29 - How could two million people cross the Red Sea in such a short time? 16:22 - Why does the Sabbath come up at this point in the Exodus? 16:34 - How could Moses mention the Ark of the Testimony before it was even created? 20:5 - Is it wrong for God to be jealous? 20:5 - Is it fair for God to punish someone for their father’s sins? 20:13 - Is killing right or wrong? 21:21 - Are slaves persons or property? 21:22-23 - Are fetuses human beings or not? 21:29-30 - Can we pay a ransom for murder or not? 22:18 - Why were false teachers put to death? 22:29 - Does this passage condone human sacrifice? 23:19 - Why couldn’t the Jews boil a young goat in the milk of its mother? 24:10 - Can we see God or not? (c.f. Ex. 19:12-13) 25:10-22 - Did the Tabernacle worship and the ark of testimony foreshadow the work of Christ? 30:23 - Does the “fragrant cane” actually refer to marijuana? 31:18 - Does God have fingers? 32:11-14 - Did God change his mind? 33:20 - Can we see God or not?