The Burning Bush-Exodus Chapters 1-7

Faith is a topic most people try and avoid. As many have said, it is impossible to prove God exists. Is it not, also impossible to disprove His existence? Faith is the belief in an idea that may or may not be true. The pharaoh did not have faith in Moses or in God. The “Pharaoh’s heart hardened, and he did not listen to them”(Exodus 7:13) Moses also did not have faith in God, he asked if Aaron could speak in his stead, where he should have trusted God would attend to that problem as well. In Egypt Moses’ faith was well tested by the pharaoh and by his own people. They did not have faith in God and attacked Moses. They said, “May the lord take note of you and judge.”(Exodus 5:21) In the Latin bible Paul refers to the word “apologia”. What he meant by this was not that Christians would have to apologize for their faith but that we must defend it. He tells Christians to be ready whenever and wherever to defend your faith and defend God. Moses had to be ready, he displayed God’s power to the pharaoh who only countered with arcane magic. The pharaoh was ready to attack Moses as Moses was ready to defend it. When God appeared to Moses as the burning bush, Moses had an overwhelming feeling that told him it was divine. He had no way of proving the feeling but had to have faith in the Lord. Much of the arguments made against Christianity are aggressive, testing your own knowledge of the bible. It is always easier to attack something to defend it. Sometimes you may simply not know the answer, we cannot know God’s will nor His intentions. But we can support our faith with arguments countering the opponent’s. Atheists claim that to have faith in God is to have no reason. Faith is insanity some say. Then one could counter, to believe in Atheism one must believe that everything comes from nothing, intelligent beings can come from non-intelligent cells, information can come from randomness. In the end one may give in, like the pharaoh. Moses eventually displayed God’s awesome power and saved His people from their imprisonment.