How to reconcile 6th Plague of Boils with God's Justice & Compassion? Exodus 9:8-12

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Did you notice how many animals eat other animals? The world is a violent place. And human beings are very violent. We kill and eat millions of animals a day. Now why does God allow that? Look at the teeth of a great white shark. What is God like? There is only one God. He said he is righteous. When a pack of lions kill a baby elephant, the baby feels itself while it is being bitten. Why is the world so violent? Why is it made this way? We can’t say that the world is the devil’s creation. Animals are made to eat what they eat. Vampire bats drink blood. God made the animals to eat each other. This is our God.

Is there more to it than violence? Sure. But violence is real. God made a violent world. Humans are violent. Why did God make the world violent and then ask humans to be kind to each other? Humans work together to eat the rest of the animals. Is there more to it than eating? Why do we eat? God made the animals to eat and be eaten. This is violence. Many animals must be violent or starve. Violence is a requirement for the life of this planet. This is our Creator.

Our Creator created a violent world. Is he not also violent when he destroys? Do you say God cannot destroy? He can and he can be violent. Look at the sharp teeth and understand that God can destroy with violence. This is our God.
 
You ask why use violence to bring down Egypt? Why were they enslaved for so long? Is it clear that God wants to bring down all other idols and imaginary Gods in the old testament? Yes. We’re the Israelites God’s chosen people while in bondage? Yes. Did the Egyptians do them wrong in the name of what they worship? Yes. For 100’s of years. Was God’s repayment then very Swift? Yes. And then the Egyptian God’s faded. And now the world is what it is instead of what it would have been in the name of Ra. Who but God knows what that world would have been? But he isn’t through yet.
 
If Ra had survived and had God not destroyed him would Ra have been thought to be the
Supreme God? What that world be like? Would we believe we revolve around the living God? A great inferno. Would the other stars be his servants? Who knows? Maybe we would have great fires burning to feed humans into for Ra. He has got to eat. Right? Who knows.
 
There is an ages old confusion about what the words “inspired” and “inerrant” mean.

*The Catholic Church does not read Scripture in a literalist-fundamentalist way. *
The Bible is not a history textbook, and it is not a science textbook, even though there are elements of history and science in it.

The bible is God’s word spoken through a work of literature, and there are different genres of literature.
Look here for starters:
vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p1s1c2a3.htm

The source of your confusion is in what Inspiration and innerrancy are. Those are not the same as merely factual.
 
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