40 days and 40 nights.

Anyone find the story of Moses disappearing into the Mountain for 40 days and 40 nights a little bit off?

Here is this God, that supposedly created the entire Universe with trillions of galaxies and solar systems, who tells Moses that He will speak to him in a Thick Cloud so that the Israelites know that God is using him to speak to them.

What the Hell. Why didn’t Jehovah just talk to them all directly and avoid having to slaughter 3,000 of them for miscommunication?

So Jehovah has Moses, an 80 year old man at this point in his life, climb Mt. Sinai which was about 7497 ft high, so as to receive a message that he can relay to the Israelites. Imagine an 80 year old man doing such a thing. So Moses climbs up the mountain and gets the message, and down the mountain he goes to tell the Israelites what the message is.

The Israelites respond and up the mountain goes Moses to tell Jehovah what they said.

In one verse it tells us that it took Moses 6 days to make the ascent up the mountain, then he had to wait 40 days and 40 nights for the two stone tablets plus some other instructions. And on the way down Moses gets angry and breaks the tablets.

So up the mountain he goes again to get a copy of the two tablets with the 10 commandments.

And this back and forth goes on for about eight times.

And here is why this story is ridiculous.

Would the Creator of the entire freaking Universe actually work this way? God knows everything. Hell just send an Email to everyone. Or talk to everyone at the same time.

The poor people did what humans normally do, they thought the 80 year old man died in the Mountain since there was no communication for 40 days and 40 nights. So they made a calf thinking that maybe Jehovah was a calf. Who knows what they were thinking in such a desperate situation. They were in the wilderness with no food or water, so they had to do something. And Jehovah killed some three thousand of them without considering how humans react in desperate situations.

This is not a God of Understanding, Compassion, and Love. He wanted to wipe them all out but Moses intervene.

It seems like whoever wrote this story of Moses was trying to establish the idea that God uses certain MEN TO SPEAK FOR HIM. Maybe the writer wanted that position, as God’s Spokesman.

And as a result of this story, THE IDEA OF RELIGIOUS LEADERS AS SPOKESMEN FOR GOD WAS BORN!

The Governing Body, the Catholic Pope, Jim Jones, and any human that takes it upon himself to speak for God is the result of this story of Moses…...The Spokesman of Jehovah.