Exodus 22-35: The Other Side

Throughout Exodus we can see that God shows his hard and feared side. We see at the beginning that he unleashes his wrath in the Egyptians, but as I read this I notice that God shows his vengeful side. When he gives his twelve commandments he threats people that do not follow his laws with death. In today’s society we can see something similar with our judicial system. When people do not follow the law they are put to jail, what in the time of Moses would be equal to death, but death is a very drastically measurement. What happens if you were taken back to that time and without knowing what you are doing you sin? Will you die? This also brings us to a discussion we have today that is if the death sentence is human enough. Personally I don’t like the idea of someone being sentenced to death I think it is a bit barbarian and inhuman, but sometimes people are very bad and sometimes kind of deserve this sentence. God shows that he is partidary to the people that favor him, “but if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.” Exodus 23, 24 Sometimes when I fight with someone and a third person has to intervene and he or she doesn’t favor me I sometimes tend to think that they are partidary of the other person. God also does this to his favorite ones like Moses. We tend to think that God will be impartial and that every aspect of him will be perfect, but here we see his hard and punishing face.