Moses Challenges

Through God’s interactions with mankind, he uses certain individuals to perform tasks to reach specific outcomes and rewards them for their actions. But as conflicts arise throughout man's existence, challenges arise and people begin to question God. A challenge to God’s authority as portrayed by Abraham, Jacob, and Moses is justified by its prevalence to the underlying effects each challenge possesses on the future of mankind, in other words God accepts these challenges through the realization that each will consequently change the future and carry out his goals.

Abram was one of the many prophets in which God quarrels with in response to questioning God's righteousness. God chooses Abraham, reckons him as righteous, and creates a covenant

As Moses is the blessed descendant of Abraham, the challenge is justified as Moses is God’s tool for carrying out this task. Moses is given up at birth and is raised as the Pharaoh's daughter’s son. So Moses was raised with the egyptians but was a Hebrew’s child. As the israelites are suffering, God then calls to Moses from a burning bush blessing him and commanding him to be the one who saves the Israelites. But as God directs Moses, he only questions God’s choice in himself instead of readily obeying, “Who am I that I should go to the Pharaoh, and bring the Israelites out of Egypt” (Exodus 11)? God continues to reason with Moses and make compromises to each

As Moses questions, “But suppose they do not believe me or listen to me, but say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you”’(Exodus 4.1), the Lord replys with another answer by giving Moses the power of changing his staff by throwing it to the ground. “So he threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses drew back from it”(Exodus 4.3). God consistently puts up with Moses challenges to his plan as Moses is the chosen mediator between God and the Pharaoh, and even as God gets angry at Moses “Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses….”(Exodus 4.14), God sets his emotions aside for the greater purpose of saving his people. This greater goal of saving the Israelites becomes the main justification for Moses challenges to God. As obedience is one of the main factors in God’s definition of righteousness, the fact that God dismisses Moses’s acts of disobedience signifies the major importance God places on the future of his people. As when the Moses but once again questions God’s motives as he says “Since I first came to the Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has mistreated this people, and you have done nothing at all to deliver your people”(Exodus 5.23), God then establishes his covenant with the people just as he had previously done before with Abraham and Jacob. So as Moses continually brings forth these challenges to God, the justification for the allowance of these challenges is due once again