Re: 10 Commandments?

Lord Myrddin (jim.morrison@montego.com)
Mon, 10 Feb 1997 21:11:01 -0500

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> From: lpm@hiwaay.net
> To: Jim Morrison
> Subject: 10 Commandments?
> Date: Monday, February 10, 1997 8:07 PM
>
>
> This list looks like the USENET group talk.origins with
> all the debate about the big bang and such. Here is
> a question related to errancy.
>
> We are in the middle of a flap over the display of the
> "Ten Commandments" in a courtroom. How do inerrantists
> handle the three versions of the Ten Commandments that
> are found in Ex. 20, Ex. 34, and Deut. 5?
>
> What happened to the commands between "no molten gods"
> and "keep the sabath" that command keeping the feast of
> unleavened bread and redeeming the colt of an ass?
>
> Should anyone be offended that wives and slaves are listed
> with other property that should not be coveted?
>
> Larry
>
>
>

Well, I am an Atheist - however, I see no difference between Exodus 20 and
Deut. 5 ... Moses seems to simply be quoting the commandments again;
however, I will confess, I didn't really look it over, just glanced, and
didn't see any MAJOR differences. Ex. 34 is curious.. it seems to be a
renewing of the covenant with Israel, but I honestly don't know what to say
about it. However, I always liked this commandment:

"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness [of any
thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or
that [is] in the water under the earth" (Exodus 20:4, KJV)

Do any Christians today actually follow this commandment? NO image of ANY
THING that is in Heaven, on the earth, or in water under the Earth. They
are not to just make NO idols, but no other image of anything in Heaven, on
the Earth, or in the waters. Do any Christians follow this? No. Wonder
why?

--
Michael Rohm
jim.morrison@montego.com
http://www.montego.com/~jim

"One is *not* free to become a Christian. One must be sick enough for it." - Nietzsche

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