The question has to be asked: Did Moses respond to God encountered seeing the burning bush....or something else? 

At the burning bush Moses is told to "put off your shoes". As Christians we are told we wear "the shoes of the Gospel of Peace", so Jesus Lord and King of the Jews wears the shoes of the Gospel of Peace, why "put off your shoes?".  The history of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob had been a history of Peace. Shepards, and when entering Egypt led by Joseph honored and giving high station. As sons of Noah surviving The Flood they lived under The Promise of God, destruction would not come again to the world by flood. But from Moses forward the Hebrews become a people who are trained for military authority and violent taking of land to claim as their own. 

Could the voice from the burning bush not have been God, but another?
One that only shows it's "back side" and not it's face?
One that leads it's subservient stranded in the wasteland people into committing genocide? 
One that speaks from behind "a burning bush" many today visualize as the sun setting and seen thru a literal bush...but in this age of nuclear bombs the image of burning bushes and everything else they hold speaks to a call or warning transcending time from ours to his. 
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