Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Patrick Miller and right now we're going through the Book of

Exodus. Back when I did college ministry I remember doing a speaking series on

objections to faith. These are the objections that people brought forward and they said because of this I can't believe in God.

And so we let students send in their objections and most of them were questions or propositions that I'd heard before.

But there was one that was totally new.

I just never heard someone say this.

A student wrote this in.

He said, in Exodus, the book of Exodus,

the final plague is the killing of every firstborn Egyptian from newborns all the way to

adults from the wealthiest and most powerful all the way to the least how could a good

god execute so many people for no crime but being a firstborn?

I met up with a student to hear more about the question, and I was surprised to learn that

at least for him, this was the central holdup in his faith and going

further and his journey with Jesus and I really appreciated his integrity. I mean he

read this passage and it deeply bothered him. It bothered his sense of moral rightness and wrongness.

Here's what happens in Exodus 12 and again this story is grave. It's difficult to read

verse 29 at midnight yoway struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt from the

firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was

born in the dungeon and all the firstborn of the livestock.

And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians,

and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house or there was not someone who was dead.

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