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Originally Posted by Lafon
Well, Timmy, the "short" answer would be yes! However, God was "with" them in a much different sense, in that He "allows" evil to prevail, oft-times for the purpose of showing the superiority of His power; as it was with the magicians of Pharaoh and their actions. If you will note, everything that Pharaoh's magicians did was nullified by the actions which were done by God through Moses and Aaron.
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By "with", I meant in same way He was with Moses and Aaron. The stated purpose of the rod/serpent miracle was to show Pharaoh that God had appeared to them. God had a backup plan, of course. If that didn't work, Moses (or Aaron) was to do the hand-turned-leprous-and-back miracle. Plan C was to be pouring river water onto the ground to be turned into blood.
Well, plan A didn't seem to work (though it may only be because God hardened Pharaoh's heart -- hard to say). Plans B and C seem to have been skipped, in favor of an even better (I guess) plan, and, well, the rest is "history".
Anyway, back to the issue of indisputable proof. How does that work, again? If a miracle is amazing enough, that proves God did it? How amazing is enough? (A rod turning into a snake didn't quite make it. A snake devouring all the bad guys' snakes did. I guess.)
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