Atrocities in the Bible

[Wyrd of Gawd]

The Commandments in Exodus chapter 34 are the real Ten Commandments.  People use the ones from Exodus chapter 20 or Deuteronomy chapter 5 because they are "nicer" and not ethnocentric like the real ones.  I think it would be hard to find too many Bible thumpers who would really want to post the ones in Exodus chapter 34 in every American courthouse.

If you want to have some fun ask your favorite preacher what the Ten Commandments are.  He will lie and say they are the ones from Exodus chapter 20.  

But one you fully understand that the ones in Exodus chapter 34 are the real Ten Commandments you will be able to understand all of the biblical stories.  All of the biblical stories from Adam & Eve to Jesus are based upon those Commandments.

I don't really see a reason to call them the "real" ten commandments. The first set got broken and now another set is made, and it's different, and that's kind of dumb.

Why do you call them the "real" commandments? Because the Israelites were commanded to destroy altars and not make covenants with other people groups, and God promised to drive out other nations, and that influenced their behaviors afterward?

*Edit* I now see that these are the only set of commandments that are actually called the Ten Commandments, so I see your point.

Thanks for the follow up.  Remember, the Commandments in Exodus chapter 20 were never written on stone tablets.  The ones in Deuteronomy chapter 5 were written on stone tablets but they are not called the Ten Commandments.  On top of that the biblical stories are not based on them.