SonOfCaleb
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I didn't say they were equal, I said the God of Abraham got into a tit for tat with the Egyptian Gods (you had wrongly asserted that the characters in the Bible of that time did not believe in other Gods). They surely believed in the powers of Pharaohs Gods as evidenced in there scripture:
Aaron’s Rod Becomes a Serpent
8 Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
9 “When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘1aWork a miracle,’ then you shall say to Aaron, Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a serpent.’ ”
10 So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and thus they did just as the Lord had commanded; and Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and 1his servants, and it became a serpent.
11 Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers, and they also, the 1bmagicians of Egypt, did 2 the same with their secret arts.
12 For each one threw down his staff and they turned into serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.
So your point is lost, Pharaohs Gods did have powers.....according to the scripture.
Lets run with your very suspect line of reasoning for a minute... Who was responsible for the 'Star' in the East that guided the so called 'Three' Wise men to Jesus as a child so they could do obeisance? Its obvious from the scriptures that the star was not of divine origin (EG God), as Herod was responsible for sending the wise men or Magi to Jesus as he wanted Jesus dead. He was aware of the prophecy that Jesus would be King and mistakenly thought Jesus was going to usurp his king ship hence why he wanted Jesus killed. The Magi/wisemen were supposed to report back to Herod on Jesus whereabouts but they were divinely warned in a dream not to do that and they made their way back to the East via another route. So which god was responsible for that.... ?
Based on this which god do you think was behind the ability of the magic practising priests and conjurers to change their staff into snakes? Snakes which were ultimately devoured by Aarons staff anyway. Regardless their power was shown to be of zero consequence. As their impotents gods were not capable of preventing the 10 plagues when the priests and pharoahs prayed to them. They were not capable of preventing the Jews from leaving Egypt. They weren't even capable of defeating millions of defenseless Jews who were UNARMED against a force of Pharoahs army who numbered into 10's of thousands with advanced weaponry. Ultimately Pharaoh along with his ENTIRE army died in the Red Sea. So using your reasoning, lets pretend these gods had powers why was their power rendered less than insufficient against Jehovah God? Which God was clearly more powerful?