And just by the way, the penalty for doing any kind of work on the Sabbath is death. Moses had a man stoned just for gathering sticks for a fire. But credible surveys show that most Christians know next to nothing about the Bible beyond the kind of things you’d find in a Sunday School picture book intended for young children.
I’m Christian, 10/10, but the last two or three I get the order mixed up.
I taught Sunday school for a while, 2nd/3rd graders. We made cardboard plaques of the 10 commandments, but there wasn’t room for every word, so it was “Don’t steal” “Don’t be greedy”, and so on. When it came to adultery I had them put down “Love your spouse” without, at that age, mentioning fooling around.
If you are Jewish, it is paramount.
The Eastern Orthodox take this one seriously to this day. Their churches are full of painted icons, but nary a statue.
I’ve mentioned that many times, but to be fair, if you read the passage in the gospel, Jesus never says it’s an original thought; Christian readers just assume it is, because they are unfamiliar with any Jewish writing outside of the so-called “old testament.” They know nothing about the mountains of commentary. Nor who Hillel was. The pharisees were probably trying to test Jesus’ familiarity with commentary when they asked him the question, and because he came up with a standard answer, the knew he knew he did his studying. Or at least so some storyteller whose idea it was to have him appear so had his story make it into the gospels. Maybe because later writers were unfamiliar with commentary, and thought the idea was original with Jesus.
I actually find Christianity highly entertaining.
Gotcha, thanks.
I believe “you shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain” originally meant not to use God’s name in magic. The speculation I read was that was why Moses wanted so badly to know God’s name, when God first commissioned him to lead Israel. Nowadays it has been “spiritualized” in the way I mentioned above, as in “don’t claim to be a Christian and sin” as well as not to use it in vain cursing.
And I expect that “honor your father and mother” implied a much greater degree of obedience to the pater familias even as an adult than it does today.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Regards,
Shodan
In the documentary “(Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies” one part of an experiment involved people trying to list all ten. I think the host(lead researcher) said basically no one was able to do it.
The interesting thing was that even if you knew none of them or were atheist or whatever simply thinking about them(or maybe it was reading them after failing to list them) made you less likely to lie. They even went a step further and had people read a fake honor code which resulted in them being less likely to lie.
Back in the days of Holy Moses and before that, one was not to mention the name as one would be looked down on very much so, because one did not know what they were truly talking about and it was regarded as blaspheme, that’s taking the name of God in vain.
Jesus added two more laws and it’s this that over shadows all of the other laws and this is what’s called under Grace.
The Jews were under the Law and Christians are under Grace, the Law still stands but it’s now under grace in Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour, Jesus means Saviour so Christ means Lord and this is the power under what one comes to comprehend, as in the Spirit in our Lord and we abide IN him, so in that we have that human compassion of understanding of the Law and the old Law that was before Christ was only as the Letter of the Law.
Christians do not have the letter of the Law, as this crude harshness is not needed anymore because Jesus has come ! just as Holy Moses said he will come and the fact is that anyone who rejects Jesus Christ then also truly such a one rejects Holy Moses and is not being lead by the Holy Spirit at all.
Holy Moses only did what God told him to do and that was to lead Gods people out of slavery, Gods people have a God that they abide in and are not to be under slavery and that has to do with that God rejects idolatry and his true people are not into the foolishness of idols.
Gods laws are held up, mans own made laws don’t cut the grade.
True Israel is True Christianity, Jesus called out to the Israelites and if such a one rejected him he said to leave them directly.
Holy Moses!
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‘crude harshness’ ?? you mean the laws as written/spoken by god himself ?
somehow, I think he might differ with you on that.
Well, since the commandments you list are not biblical I don’t know how anyone could be expected to “pass” this test. The list they are looking for are erroneously called the 10 commandments. cite
Here, by the way, are the actual 10 straight from the book itself:
I. Thou shalt worship no other god.
II. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
III. The feast of unleavened bread thou shalt keep.
IV. Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest.
V. Thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest,
and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.
VI. Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord God.
VII. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven.
VIII. Neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.
IX. The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God.
X. Thou shalt not seethe a kid [ie, a young goat] in his mother’s milk.
This one is oddly specific. I seem to recall it refers to a local practice of actually cooking a live kid in it’s actual mother’s milk, doesn’t it? I seem to recall it was basically code for “remember you’re not one of those savage [TRIBE NAME] and just don’t do anything else they do either.” Like, “Don’t flash your boobies in exchange for beads” would essentially mean “pretty much anything that goes on in New Orleans during Mardi Gras–yeah just don’t.”
As opposed to being a metaphor prohibiting tossing a scrambled egg in your chicken fried rice, or having a cheeseburger, or something. Or I dunno–am I totally wrong? I’d hate to wake up tomorrow only to find out I’m really a Jew 4,000 years ago and I’ve been pissing God off on a regular basis.
Oh, and I got 9/10. Graven images eluded me.
that seems strangely specific. Was this a common practice, and why would some god object to it? And why all the comments about “leavening”?
I seem to recall hearing somewhere that it was in fact an oddly specific commandment. Here’s something about it…
Like a cop being likened to a robot and not having human compassion in understanding.
The letter of the Law is Nazi like and it does not truly work.
God has Grace the OT law was set so as to lead the people to Christ so they could bear fruit and nothing has been diminished in the commandments but has been brought to light under grace, just as Jesus Christ said he came to fulfil and not one jot (iota) did he remove.
So without the OT Law, Christ Jesus could not come to save his people, as it had to bear fruit just as we see in Nathaniel the true Israelite, she is working in the hope and she recognises who Jesus is directly and Jesus said who she is “Israel” !!! and that she will see the light.