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because your Thread That Never Dies . . . . .


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although I shall never lay my eyes upon the treasures it contains.

First off part of the problems currently is people today think the Promise land is a geographic location, although having a Jewish State makes sense, I don't see a geographic area as the definition of the promise land. And again that is the same mistake of context of one time, and literal translation creating an idea.

And think many peoples may find many promise lands where ever they are.

Although to your point, did Moses go to the mountain as a punishment, as the writers after that point said, or as a reward. I can find lots of bias of those that wrote some of that history.

And I can see that it could be Moses went even higher.

And if it was true that becuase he made one mistake of hitting a rock for his own thoughts, not by instruction, he received such a punishment, that is not a source I would follow. It is far more likely, that when he returned to the mountain, wanting to return to that love of God he found there, people had to make some sense out of it. So they wrote based on the one time they saw him in regret in a mistake.

I like to think he completed his task and returned to where he found the love of God, and went home.

Or here is the thought process, of how I see that explanation of finding a reason to explain something.

"Huh? Moses isn't coming to the 'promise land' with us?"

"But we are the bestest, and are getting the bestest of things, he has to come also, or he must be bad."

"Lets figure out why he is not going to the promise land"

"Remember when he felt bad for that mistake he made of hitting the rock without inspiration? That must be why, write that down, he is being punished blah blah blah'

And if Anyone does not like the way I question that, then you are living in fear, and not any sense, why would you follow someone that would so harshly punish someone of such work and favor. Furthermore it upsets me that the writings can not see the simple idea that 40 years in the desert was for a new generation without the old thoughts of Egypt, and Moses was of that older generation, so he went somewhere else, although not by punishment. The idea he was punished is used to elevate those that did cross into 'the promise land' It is nothing more then self arrogance in the bias, and I am sure he found a promise land also.



Have you considered that after going to the Mountain, Moses went to his promise land.


And it is not respecting God, in my view, to think he would punish someone becuase of one mistake, that worked hard for his people for many years.