What
do you get when you cross a theologian with an economist and a historian?
You
get Gary North!
I
just finished “Moses and Pharaoh” by Gary North – published in 1985.
It’s
a fascinating read in that it shows that nothing has changed over thousands of
years.
You
can download it free or get some print copies from Amazon.
Dominion Religion vs. Power Religion
In the fifteenth century before
the birth of Jesus, Moses came before Pharaoh and made what seemed to be a
minor request: Pharaoh should allow the Israelites to make a three-day journey
in order to sacrifice to their God. But this was not a minor request; given the
theology of Egypt, it was the announcement of a revolution.
The conflict between Moses and Pharaoh was a
conflict between the religion of the Bible and its rival, the religion of
humanism. It is not common for scholars to identify Egypt's polytheism with
modern humanism, but the two theologies share their most fundamental doctrines:
the irrelevance of the God of the Bible for the affairs of men; the evolution
of man into God; the impossibility of an infallible word of God; the
nonexistence of permanent laws of God; the impossibility of temporal judgment
of God; and a belief in the power of man.
What Bible commentators have failed to
understand is that the conflict between Moses and Pharaoh was at heart a
conflict between the two major religions in man's history, dominion religion
and power religion, with the third religion - escapist religion -represented by
the Hebrew slaves. What they have also failed to point out is that there is an
implicit alliance between the power religion and the escapist religion. This
alliance still exists.
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This book is a detailed study of the conflict
between Moses and Pharaoh. It discusses the implications of this conflict in
several areas: theology, politics, sociology, and especially economics.
