Was God unfair to Moses?
Sep 4, 2018 · 2 min read

Debby, a reader, wonders why the Lord forbade Moses from taking the Israelites into Canaan after he struck the rock at Meribah (Numbers 20:1–13). She feels “it seems grossly unfair that God would deny him the Promised Land just because he struck a rock…”
A traditional explanation is that they didn’t give the Lord credit for supplying the water, but took that credit themselves making the Lord jealous. However, a close…

