RE: You can be an atheist and still follow the ten commandments as guidelines
January 21, 2017 at 3:09 am
(This post was last modified: January 21, 2017 at 3:45 am by Wyrd of Gawd.)
(January 20, 2017 at 1:24 am)paulpablo Wrote: What about people who enjoy killing and stealing? Do these commandments take those people into consideration?
The First Commandment actually instructs people to invade other people's land, to kill or enslave them if they won't leave, and to destroy their religious artifacts. (Exodus 34:11-14). People love that Commandment more than any other.
(January 21, 2017 at 2:56 am)pool the great Wrote:(January 21, 2017 at 2:54 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: The problem is that those are not the Ten Commandments. The real Ten Commandments are found in Exodus 34:10-28.
The ones in Exodus chapter 20 and in Deuteronomy chapter 5 are not the Ten Commandments.
Not too many Gentiles would follow the real Ten Commandments so they had to sell the lie that the other sets were the Ten Commandments. Even today most people are too lazy to actually read the fairy tale for themselves so they take the easy way out and believe the lies.
Could you quote the actual ten commandments you speak of, anon?
Here it is in visual form. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkCJ8rb8Grw
If you want to understand it yourself I suggest you get some paper and a pen and read Exodus chapters 20-34 and to make notes on each section in your own words. Read it carefully and summarize what who have read in each section.
Note that the stone tablets are not mentioned until Exodus 24:12 so that by itself means that the Commandments in Exodus chapter 20 are not the Ten Commandments.
In Exodus 31:18 finally gets the two stone tablets, written by the finger of God.
In the meantime the local yokels are having a party and working on developing the idea of religious freedom with their gold calf. God & Moses get ticked off and God wants to storm down and gut everyone. Moses says "cool down Daddy, let me have some fun killing them." So Moses walks down the mountain with the two stone tablets God had spent forty days and forty nights chipping on and when he sees that the people are having fun he breaks the tablets.
Moses gets his gang of thugs (Taliban/ISIS types) and slices and dices 3,000 people. after the slaughter Moses hits the road to Mount Horeb. And then Moses and God had a face to face chat (Exodus 33:11). Remember, at one time God was going to kill Moses (Exodus 4:24).
In Exodus chapter 34 God tells Moses to whip up a new set of stone tablets and that God would do some more writing. However, in verse 27 it says that God told Moses to do his own writing. In verse 28 it says that whether it was Moses or God that did the writing after forty days and forty nights the stone tablets that contained the verbiage in Exodus 34:11-26 is the official Ten Commandments. It took them 80 days and 80 nights to make two sets.
So, if you have the time and interest in understanding the fairy tale read that material and summarize it in your own words and/or watch the video. Then, when you think about other biblical stories you will see how they all come back to one of those Ten Commandments.
