Moses was defending an Israelite slave. If he was angry, his anger was justified. Had his actions been wrong in any way despite that, so be it. No one said he was perfect. You don't need a Bible verse denouncing your actions or a scene where you are consumed by fire to know that you did something bad.
The man who picked up sticks on the sabbath had watched angel bread fall down from the sky yesterday. He had watched God send a flock of quails to his camp and had seen Moses cross a sea and get the Ten Commandments that had ordered him not to gather those sticks on a mountain. He had more reason to follow the laws Moses dictated and fear their penalties (not to mention that this was one of the central laws of Judaism and was pretty much reiterated ad nauseam) than pretty much anybody else. Don't equate his experiences with yours. He had a command and a penalty, and he chose to break the command. That's it. It wasn't a mistake. It was a willful disobedience of a member of a people that God needed to be his representatives on earth.
As for the stoning kids, no age specified? 8 year-olds don't get drunk and handle money in today's culture, let alone ancient Middle Eastern culture. His job is to take care of his aging parents when they can't take care of them, a job for a male, who can live on his own and support and defend himself, which is why a 'daughter' is not mentioned. If he does not take care of his parents in the middle of the desert where there is are no retirement homes or hospitals, they die. The parents depend on him like he depended on them when he was young. If he can disobey his parents with the knowledge of the penalty, he isn't going to fend for them when they need him.
The man who picked up sticks on the sabbath had watched angel bread fall down from the sky yesterday. He had watched God send a flock of quails to his camp and had seen Moses cross a sea and get the Ten Commandments that had ordered him not to gather those sticks on a mountain. He had more reason to follow the laws Moses dictated and fear their penalties (not to mention that this was one of the central laws of Judaism and was pretty much reiterated ad nauseam) than pretty much anybody else. Don't equate his experiences with yours. He had a command and a penalty, and he chose to break the command. That's it. It wasn't a mistake. It was a willful disobedience of a member of a people that God needed to be his representatives on earth.
As for the stoning kids, no age specified? 8 year-olds don't get drunk and handle money in today's culture, let alone ancient Middle Eastern culture. His job is to take care of his aging parents when they can't take care of them, a job for a male, who can live on his own and support and defend himself, which is why a 'daughter' is not mentioned. If he does not take care of his parents in the middle of the desert where there is are no retirement homes or hospitals, they die. The parents depend on him like he depended on them when he was young. If he can disobey his parents with the knowledge of the penalty, he isn't going to fend for them when they need him.
