Let's assume that god is consistent and does not make mistakes, especially on something as important as the ten commandments which he supposedly wrote himself on stone tablets.

The Ten Commandments are given twice in the Hebrew Bible, called the Torah, once in Deuteronmy and once in Leviticus. I do not remember Chapter and verse, but could find it if interested and you cannot find it yourself.

The point is that the fist time we see the Ten Commandments written in the bible, the first commandment says: "You shall have no other god before me"

But the second time it says: "Hear o' Israel, the Lord your god, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your god with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your might...." It goes on to say when to do this and to teach it to your children.

Now if this were written by god, the first commandment should be the same in both places. My conclusion, if we presume that there was but one tablet containing the first commandment, is that the bible was written by Rabbis and not god.

Now let's suppose that god did actually mean to have two versions of the ten commandments. Well then I would suppose that in his foresight, he would intend one for the Jews and the other for the Gentiles. My only problem with that is that in summarizing the commandments, Jesus referred to the one that starts- Hear O' Israel...".

So how do you resolve these questions?

Regards,

Richard

• Proof? Hardly! - kc2gwx - May 28, 2002 - 17:04 UTC
  • Hard as it is - yanniru - May 29, 2002 - 20:23 UTC
    • Cool. - kc2gwx - May 29, 2002 - 21:52 UTC
      • Cool, Dude - like hang 10 and stuff - darwinpoodle - May 30, 2002 - 12:32 UTC
        • Astronomy absolutely refutes it - yanniru - May 30, 2002 - 13:28 UTC
      • The ten first commandments are all negative - yanniru - May 30, 2002 - 13:48 UTC
        • Birthday? - kc2gwx - May 30, 2002 - 17:52 UTC
          • Yes - yanniru - May 30, 2002 - 21:42 UTC
            • www.hebroots.com - yanniru - May 30, 2002 - 22:16 UTC
            • K - kc2gwx - May 31, 2002 - 00:01 UTC
              • But God himself said that everyone had to keep them - yanniru - May 31, 2002 - 13:33 UTC
                • K - kc2gwx - May 31, 2002 - 16:20 UTC
                  • Church State separation - yanniru - June 3, 2002 - 14:08 UTC
                    • Ok then... - kc2gwx - June 3, 2002 - 15:11 UTC
                      • Right()nt) - yanniru - June 4, 2002 - 01:03 UTC
                    • WOW!!! really really wrong... - emperor__alikar - June 3, 2002 - 15:17 UTC
                      • I am supposed to be courteous? - harvey1 - June 3, 2002 - 22:38 UTC
                    • Religion. - kc2gwx - June 4, 2002 - 01:12 UTC
                      • Actually it is a law - stormcrow - June 4, 2002 - 01:26 UTC
                        • No no no. - kc2gwx - June 4, 2002 - 01:31 UTC
                          • Certainly. It must be a government sponsored institution - stormcrow - June 4, 2002 - 02:00 UTC
• Circular - carefuluniverse - May 28, 2002 - 17:39 UTC
• Why your post is SO WRONG! - adevandry - April 27, 2003 - 00:49 UTC