Posted on 06/07/2006 7:50:27 AM PDT by Thrusher
Yeah but it was written in Hebrew.
I am wrong anyway.
I made my comment based on something a very Orthodox Jew once told me.
It seems there are some Jews who take exception to the abbreviated text. The actual Commandmants are quite lengthy.
It is however, a very tiny minority of Jews who feel that way.
I stand corrected
Muslims have no Ten Commandments, nothing even close to it. There is nothing in Islam that bids its followers to respect life - in fact, Islam explicitly equates human life to money, allowing its adherents to purchase their way out of the consequences of murder with an acceptable sum.
Thanks for the info. It seems to imply that there are at least two verions of the Hebrew Scriptures. didn't know that.
Muslims have the Ten Threats.
Somehow I don't think the approved version won't be nearly as verbose as the original.
If you read the actual text, you will see they go on and on.
See Exodus 20
Murder is a lot more convenient too.
I havae to get up to get my KJ; the Hebrew has extended explanatory text for 2 and 4.
If the sequence is also different here, that's graven images and sabbath.
The rest seem fairly short.
I could possibly see taking the commandment and not the explanatory text.
Yeah,
The explanatory text is generally ignored.
Espacially the part about giving slaves a day off
Un, no, they pretty much have the same gist... Yes slight differences, but not enough to bicker over.. besides, as I said before, All derive from the Jewish version as they were the origional recipients of them...
Order historically of the denominations in question would be Judiasm - Catholicism - Protestant. If the purpose is historical.. you go with the base, which is Judaism.
The 'gist' of one is that graven images are verboten. The 'gist' of the other is that they are not. That's a little more that slight. That's contradictory.
An entertaining and interesting article. It would be more difficult to say that God is on your side, if the commandment said no taking of human life, or killing, wouldn't it?
Murder, killing, taking of human life...they all have the same outcome, it's just relative to who calls it what.
No they aren't... The intent is pretty clear even if the grammar is slightly different.
And again, for the last time, since all versions of the 10 commandments come from the original JEWISH ones, they are the base.
Moses was Jewish, not episcapalian or even roman catholic.
"The intent is pretty clear even if the grammar is slightly different. "
So what's the intent? Did God forbid graven images or not?
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