The Meaning Of The Plagues?

In the exodus the Lord made the Egyptians suffer for the actions of the Pharaoh. The reasons for this I believe obscure and although there can be scientific explanations I believe that they might have not happened. As well as the moment when Moses opened the red sea so that the Hebrew could pass. They are both improbable and in the case of the red sea impossible. I believe that this has a greater message below it which is trying to get to us but of course we have to go deeper than the literal level.

In general the idea of the plagues was very improbable but it was a way to explain the customs of the Jews at the time. Why did they celebrate the year in that month and why they didn’t eat leafed bread are examples of these. Also it was a way to warn them of the punishments of god. It was a way to scare them in to believing what the bible wanted them to believe. These are cataclysmic events that lead to the releasing of the Hebrew and they were thankful at the beginning for that entire god did to them but at the end we all forget.

This part can also be seen as a way to show people what the benefits of being with god are. Having someone to watch over you, someone you can trust and someone who will always try to teach you what’s good and what’s wrong. It is interesting that we humans having eaten of the fruit of knowledge of good and evil still choose evil as their way of being. We still do today although we might be getting a little more conscious about it we don’t know any other way of living and we end up attacking the symptoms and not the cause. As Ishmael said good and evil are only for the gods and only they should know this, yet we like the Pharaoh decided to go on with evil. It is interesting to remember the time when Ishmael said that we weren’t on the hands of the gods when we ate the fruit of that tree. Incredibly although that might be true when God decided to take the Hebrews out of Egypt we were completely on the hands of the gods and maybe this might have another message below what religious thought I might have.

When we think of the bible we immediately associate it with religion but it can also be seen as a book from which we can learn how to live. Here we see god taking care of the Hebrews and we can see that it was when they were in the hands of humans that they were suffering but once they were in hands of god they were happy. I believe this might be a message to us to get back in to the hands of the gods. Otherwise we wills suffer but back in the other hand we will be given everything we need. I believe that this meant that the way we are supposed to live is under the control of god. We might as well be living trapped inside Egypt all our lives like many Hebrews did before they were freed from the hands of man itself.

 Yet there are still many questions to be answered here, like: why would they want to tell us this? Or even better what was that they really want us to interpret? If this was written for us why did they have to use metaphors or similar devices to get the message through why not just say it clearly and straight out?