TOPIC: Which Ten Commandments ?

One of the best-kept secrets in the discussions on the Ten Commandments concerns the fact that (according to the story) Moses smashed the first set of tables in a fit of anger, because the Israelites chose to worship the golden calf. (That this would happen or would be told casts doubt on the whole Exodus tale, but we will not cover that here.)

As the tale goes, Moses smashed the tables of stone, and God said he'd make a new set of tables containing "the words that were on the first" (Exodus 34:1). However, as we see on the second page, the second Ten Commandments in no way resemble the first set. To popularize this knowledge is to knock the wind out of this entire move to place "The" Ten Commandments in our schools.

Positive Atheism encourages readers to print out and distribute the PDF file of the two center pages of our July, 1999, issue, and distribute it far and wide. (If you don't have Adobe Acrobat, you can download it for free. If you don't use Acrobat, the contents are reproduced in HTML 2.0 below.) Although we know that the main premise of theism is flawed, many Americans haven't thought much on these things. Thus, to show biblical discrepancies can, with many people, go further than any discussion of the main premises of theism.

A discrepancy not mentioned is that between the original Ten Commandments of Exodus 20 and the recap listed in Deuteronomy 5. Exodus 20 requires keeping the Sabbath because "in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day." But in Deuteronomy, Jews must "remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath [sic] day." Nothing is said about God resting after the six days it took to create the universe.

Ask one of the Jews on the forum, or Zhiba or Shanticat (I've gathered they're religious Jews), or even one of the SZ crew ... the 10 Commandments are Mosaic law ... they'll know.

Orangeaid wrote:
Matthew 5:17
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

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I AM ALL I AM wrote:
You have read the bible, right Orangeaid?

You did know of this passage, right?

You know, the apparent words of 'Jesus'.

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Jesus didn't "come" to fulfill the 10 Commandments.

Read up a little on what you're trying to talk about before trying to post as an atheist. Pointing out your whopping lack of knowledge isn't a personal attack I AM.

It's highly amusing to witness it though.

I'm not wasting my time to educate you in something you've got no interest in though.

Try again. The 10 Commandments are Mosaic Law. They were given to Moses. They are simple Jewish law.

The OLD covenant.

You have no idea on this. It is really amusing.

So, what exactly are you proposing was the contents of the old 10 commandments which Moses was supposed to have destroyed?