Many people have heard the story of Moses in the Bible. He was the elderly gentleman who was chosen by God to lead the Exodus of the Hebrew people out of bondage from the Egyptians to freedom. He set up base at Mount Sinai and at that time received the Ten Commandments, which would become our spiritual values that have continued to form the core of a belief system for centuries to come. Many people know this part of the story but fail to realize the irony of God choosing Moses to do such a tremendous task in freeing the Israelites and disseminating such an important message. Most people don't know that Moses himself was a murderer who killed an Egyptian slave-master and then fled across the Red Sea to Midian, where he tended the flocks of a prominent priest. So yes, God chose a murderous man to preach the important message of "thou shall not kill" amongst other messages. How ironic!
Let's take a step back and look at this Moses scenario as if it were to take place during times of today. Perhaps the Israelites had found out through the 24-hour media news cycle that this prominent gentleman whom they thought God had sent to free them had committed unspeakable deeds in his past, including murder. Then this message became headline news, which caused the Israelites to call Moses a bad person, a hypocrite, and a slew of other things because there is no way (according to the local media) that this old, stuttering, murderous man could lead them to freedom. So that means no parting of the Red Sea story because the people would have been too discouraged to follow this "hypocrite." Of course, that also means that the message from God would have been ignored, with the people still remaining in bondage, but hey, at least they had the pleasure of remaining steadfast to their belief that those who commit sins can never again do good! (I hope you know I am being facetious.)
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