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|claim=The author writes, "God doesn’t like to hear whining and ingratitude so he sends out a bunch of snakes to kill the people. When the people had enough of the snakes, they ask Moses to tell God to quit it. God decides Moses is persuasive and tells Moses to put a snake a pole and tell the people to look at the pole and they won’t die. So, the pole is built, the people look at it and they don’t die. The moral of the story? Don’t whine or God will send in the snakes." (Number 21:5-9: ) | |claim=The author writes, "God doesn’t like to hear whining and ingratitude so he sends out a bunch of snakes to kill the people. When the people had enough of the snakes, they ask Moses to tell God to quit it. God decides Moses is persuasive and tells Moses to put a snake a pole and tell the people to look at the pole and they won’t die. So, the pole is built, the people look at it and they don’t die. The moral of the story? Don’t whine or God will send in the snakes." (Number 21:5-9: ) | ||
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*The moral of the story is that one who looks upon Christ will be saved from spiritual death, not "don't complain or God will kill you." The sarcastic version of the story offered by the author robs it of any coherent meaning. | *The moral of the story is that one who looks upon Christ will be saved from spiritual death, not "don't complain or God will kill you." The sarcastic version of the story offered by the author robs it of any coherent meaning. | ||
*The snake on the pole is a representation of Christ and the atonement. Those that simply looked at it were saved from physical death. Those that look upon and accept Christ are saved from spiritual death. What is amazing is that there were people who simply wouldn't look at it, despite how easy it would have been to do so. They simply refused to believe. | *The snake on the pole is a representation of Christ and the atonement. Those that simply looked at it were saved from physical death. Those that look upon and accept Christ are saved from spiritual death. What is amazing is that there were people who simply wouldn't look at it, despite how easy it would have been to do so. They simply refused to believe. | ||
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Response to "Scriptures Concerns & Questions"
| [[../Science Concerns & Questions|Science Concerns & Questions]] | A FAIR Analysis of:
[[../|Letter to a CES Director]] |
[[../Other Concerns & Questions|Other Concerns & Questions]] |
- Response to section: D&C 132 [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: Numbers 31 [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: 1 Nephi 4
- Response to section: Exodus 12:12
- Response to section: Deuteronomy 21:18-21
- Response to section: Exodus 35:1-2 [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: Numbers 21:5-9
- Response to section: Judges 19:22-29 [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: "I’m asked to believe in not only a part-time racist god and a part-time polygamous god but a part-time psychopathic schizophrenic one as well" [Work in Progress]
Response Section
1 Nephi 4
Exodus 12:12
Deuteronomy 21:18-21
Numbers 21:5-9
== Notes ==
- [note] Hugh W. Nibley, An Approach to the Book of Mormon, 3rd edition, (Vol. 6 of the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley), edited by John W. Welch, (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Company; Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1988), xii.