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Quote from: Scottie_ffgamer on March 30, 2009, 05:10:01 PM

But the scripture ON Judge's Seat talks about Moses sitting there.

Yes, but scholarship on Judaism and the age of Judges suggests that Moses had a role as elder among his people, which eventually evolved into the role played by the judges later in their history.  They had functions that overlapped but it doesn't necessarily mean that he is in the same category as they.  Judges were also roughly equivalent to what passed for kings in other cultures but that does not mean Redemption should treat judges as royalty characters.

In other words, Moses judged, but was not necessarily a Judge.

Why is Moses not considered a Judge?

Judge
        (Heb. shophet, pl. shophetim), properly a magistrate or ruler,
        rather than one who judges in the sense of trying a cause. This
        is the name given to those rulers who presided over the affairs
        of the Israelites during the interval between the death of
        Joshua and the accession of Saul (Judg. 2:18), a period of
        general anarchy and confusion.