Backpacking, the Bible, and the Promised Land
In a discussion we are having on Kampfire, a “catch-all” discussion group that we BGTers use to keep our editors from yelling at us for posting irrelevant information in the wrong group, people were talking about Jesus and the Law of Moses. As part of the discussion I posted a link to the group that
“Elaborates a bit more clearly and in depth than I can on Jesus and the Low of Moses.”
Needless to say, with all the editors that frequent Kampfire, someone picked up on the “Low” part and responded
“Moses was depressed?”
And of course, someone else hopped on that bandwagon too. Heres the response that was too funny not to post here.
“Are you kidding? Think about it. You grow up as a Prince of Egypt. Life is good.
Then God shows up and tells Moses that he’s going to go on a backpacking trip with 500,000 Jews. If that’s not enough to give a man a seizure, these Jews turn out to be miserable, complaining, ungrateful whiners. The good news is that after the backpacking trip, they would enter the Promised Land and everything would be good.
Maybe Moses thought that a nice backpacking trip would be OK, and the Promised Land sounds nice, but then this backpacking trip LASTS 40 YEARS WITH 500,000 JEWS BREATHING DOWN HIS NECK THE WHOLE TIME!
Then, at the end of it, God takes Moses up to a high mountain and says, “Hey, Moses, you see all that? That’s the Promised Land! That’s what you’ve been dragging my Chosen People around for 40 years for, and THAT, my friend, is the reward.”
“Well, THANK GOD!”
“You’re welcome. One small catch. You can’t go there. Neither can anyone who was alive when you left Egypt. Real sorry about that and all, but I’m God, so there. Ha-Ha!”
You’d be depressed too.”
