P. Martin

This was emailed to me by one of the members of my athiest group. What do you all think?



Exd 34:28 "And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments."



Exodus 34: 11-28. It goes largely like this:



1) Make no Covenants with other religions; instead, practice religious intolerance.

2) You will have no other god than YHWH.

3) There will be no intermarriage with peoples of other faiths or cultures.

4) Observe the Feast of the Unleavened Bread

5) The firstborn shall be redeemed, or its neck broken; including children.

6) Observe the Sabbath

7) Observe the Feast of Weeks, and Feast of Ingathering.

8 ) Three times a year the males shall gather before the Lord God.

9) No blood shall be offered with leaven bread.

10) You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

keyser_soze

And you wonder why the church is where it is today. :banghead:

beekay

That kid boiling thing has to do with lambs, if I'm not mistaken, not actual human children. Just want to make sure you don't have the wrong impression ...

happyboy

ahhhh, the God of the bible.....such a beacon of love and tolerance.

P. Martin

I did assume this. As a whole though, it seems the commandments have evolved to be a little different than the origanal. I am no scholar on the bible, thats why I am asking what you all think.

Unbeliever

This is the only set of "Ten Commandments" that is actually identified by the Bible as being so. That "other set" should not even be called by that title. And most Christians don't even know of the existence of the "real" ones!:boohoo:

Qinopio

It seems to me that some might say that sincethe set of commandments given to Moses verbally are different from the original set, because God said So it could be said that the verbal instruction that God told Moses to write down was a separate covenant, also to the people, and also containing ten commandments.