RE: 10 Commandments
February 18, 2010 at 5:58 am
(This post was last modified: February 18, 2010 at 6:00 am by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
@Samson,just a couple of niggles, hardly worth mentioning really but---
The Ten Commandments (which,coincidentally,are not numbered) make up a tiny part of Mosaic law. The laws are known collectively ad 'the mitzvot' and there are 613.
I mention this because :
(1) Jesus specifically admonished his followers to obey the law. It was Saul who de-Jewified Christianity to make it easy for Gentiles to join what had been an exclusively Jewish sect. IE to join you either had to be Jewish or convert,which included being circumcised and obeying the strict dietary laws.
(2) Many Christians just love to cherry pick the Mitzvot, citing the Torah to support a prejudice, such as homophobia, (Leviticus I think) and up to quite recently, slavery. ("the curse of Ham, actually a misreading introduced into common usage during the Middle Ages and persisting [in the US South] until after the Civil War)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/613_Mitzvot
The Ten Commandments (which,coincidentally,are not numbered) make up a tiny part of Mosaic law. The laws are known collectively ad 'the mitzvot' and there are 613.
I mention this because :
(1) Jesus specifically admonished his followers to obey the law. It was Saul who de-Jewified Christianity to make it easy for Gentiles to join what had been an exclusively Jewish sect. IE to join you either had to be Jewish or convert,which included being circumcised and obeying the strict dietary laws.
(2) Many Christians just love to cherry pick the Mitzvot, citing the Torah to support a prejudice, such as homophobia, (Leviticus I think) and up to quite recently, slavery. ("the curse of Ham, actually a misreading introduced into common usage during the Middle Ages and persisting [in the US South] until after the Civil War)
Quote:The 613 Mitzvot (Hebrew: תרי"ג מצוות: Taryag Mitzvot, "613 commandments") are statements and principles of law and ethics contained in the Torah or Five Books of Moses. These principles of Biblical law are sometimes called commandments (mitzvot) or collectively as the "Law of Moses" (Torat Moshe, תורת משה), "Mosaic Law", or simply "the Law" (though these terms are ambiguous and also applied to the Torah itself).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/613_Mitzvot
