MOSES, MYTH & chatGPT
written by
jaron summers © 2025
Now I don’t know if Moses ever split the Red Sea or got lucky in a marsh with a strong wind and a tide chart.
I don’t know if he saw a burning bush or if he just lit one too many on Mount Sinai and mistook it for divine cable television.
But I’ll tell you this:
If he wasn’t real, he should have been.
Because any man who can herd a couple million stubborn folks through the desert without GPS, Yelp, or even a decent pair of sandals is either a prophet or a public-school teacher.
And, if he didn’t write those Ten Commandments, then somebody with a fine sense of drama and a sharp chisel did. A fellow with a keen eye for human foolishness and just enough optimism to believe we’d follow at least two out of ten of ‘em.
Some folks get mighty ornery when you say Moses might’ve been a myth. They say, “How dare you!”
I say, “Well, myths last longer than most people I know, and they age better too.”
Take George Washington—fine man, good teeth (well, for a wooden set), but the only thing folks remember is that cherry tree business, which we all know was a fib about telling the truth.
That’s the kind of irony Moses would’ve laughed at — provided he had a sense of humor and wasn’t too busy turning snakes into staffs and rivers into tomato juice.
The trouble with people is we want our heroes to be historical when their real job is to be useful. Moses is useful.
He reminds us that:
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We wander
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We doubt
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We grumble
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We disobey
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And still, somehow, we make it through.
Even if we’ve got to do forty years of character development just to reach the end of Act One.
So, real or not, I tip my hat to old Moses — a man with no passport, no army, and no Wi-Fi — who still managed to move a nation, and more impressively, get them to listen to instructions carved in stone. Which, by the way, is more than I can say about people listening to street signs today.
Here is a link to more ….https://chatgpt.com/c/68c6c380-f490-8324-bda4-ec0fa2cb467b
