I love the 10 commandments

[EgoDeath]

The thing that Bel seems to ignore is that if it were so obvious that God exists, and if it were so obvious that the teachings of Christianity held some truth within them that we must or should know, it wouldn't require people to be selective in their apprentices or students. It would simply be common sense and plain. But it isn't; Christianity is a mass of entangled stories, some that have nothing to do with one another, some that contradict one another, along with a huge mess of other issues to consider.

This idea that for one to truly understand Christianity they must study it for years and years on end is just garbage. It's a funny coincidence that when one holds the view that opposes Christianity, people will simply reply with "oh you just don't understand the Bible yet."

They like to act as if it is truly impossible to fully understand the Bible and still disagree with the messages therein.

[Nay_Sayer]

Which 10? There are well over 100

Now FSM's 10 'Rather you wouldn't' is a list to live by.

[Belacqua]

I'm talking about governments.

OK. But I'm not.

If you go to your local university and ask to join the advanced class that translates classical Chinese poetry, they have the right to deny you entrance if you don't have the prerequisites. 

If you apply for a job at the nursery school, they have the right to deny you employment if you are of proven bad character (e.g. child rape convictions). 

Kabbalah is administered in a similar way and has nothing to do with government.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I'm talking about governments.

OK. But I'm not.

If you go to your local university and ask to join the advanced class that translates classical Chinese poetry, they have the right to deny you entrance if you don't have the prerequisites. 

If you apply for a job at the nursery school, they have the right to deny you employment if you are of proven bad character (e.g. child rape convictions). 

Kabbalah is administered in a similar way and has nothing to do with government.

Secular requirements for a job or a university position are manifestly different from revealed truth from a supreme Being.

If you think the Kabbalists had nothing to do with the governance of the Hebrew state, you should read up a bit.

Nice job chopping off the relevant bit of my post when you quoted me, btw.  Try not to do that again.

Boru

[The Grand Nudger]

Its common practice for nutballs to limit access to their deepest mysteries, true. You have to pay your way into "Operating Thetan", like Tom Cruise, before scientology teaches you how to fly.

I guess you just can't trust the plebes with stuff like that.

Bel...lol, just go to church, man. If you devote years of your life to that very..very serious study..you might even be able to turn crackers and grape juice into flesh and blood. Fuckin kabbalah? Red strings and numerology. Really elaborate magic that doesn't work any better than sticking pins in Raggedy Anne. I can see why they limited access to that WMD. Wouldn't want a bunch of Honis drawing circles in the dust willy nilly.

..........jesus christ..............

[Fake Messiah]

Hey I get you Cepheus Ace, nothing more ridiculous than letting a fictional character (like Moses) dictating you how to behave.
It's like people following Hogwarts rules in their life.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Hey I get you Cepheus Ace, nothing more ridiculous than letting a fictional character (like Moses) dictating you how to behave.
It's like people following Hogwarts rules in their life.

pfft.  Typical Hufflepuff.

Boru

[Prycejosh1987]

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se...ersion=NIV

its so stupid the things these silly people believe



Exodus 34:10-28

10 Then the Lord said: “I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the Lord, will do for you.
11 Obey what I command you today.

now for the commandments

14 Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. (1)
17 “Do not make any idols. (2)
18 “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt. (3)
19 “The first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock. 20 Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem all your firstborn sons. (4)
21 “Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.(5)
22 “Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the year. (6)

23 Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord, the God of Israel. (7)
25 “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Festival remain until morning. (8)
26 “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the Lord your God. (9)
     “Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.” (10)

27 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” 28 Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

DING DING DING DING!!!!!!  

these are the LAWS humanity NEEDS to live by according to the supreme being.

ITS LOOK SELF INDULGENT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE COMMANDMENTS WITHOUT MEDITATION. BUT THEY ARE NOT MADE FOR GODS SAKE BUT FOR OURS, TO BE THE BASIS FOR HUMAN MORALS. I BET YOU CANT TELL ME WHERE WE GET MORALS FROM. WE OBVIOUSLY GET IT FROM GOD EVERYBODY HAS BEN TO CHURCH AT SOME POINT OR STUDIED GODS WORD.

[Duty]

Which god? Mithras? Thor? Zeus? Allah? Ganesh? etc etc etc? How do you decide which one(s) to follow?

[arewethereyet]

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se...ersion=NIV

its so stupid the things these silly people believe



Exodus 34:10-28

10 Then the Lord said: “I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the Lord, will do for you.
11 Obey what I command you today.

now for the commandments

14 Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. (1)
17 “Do not make any idols. (2)
18 “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt. (3)
19 “The first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock. 20 Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem all your firstborn sons. (4)
21 “Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.(5)
22 “Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the year. (6)

23 Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord, the God of Israel. (7)
25 “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Festival remain until morning. (8)
26 “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the Lord your God. (9)
     “Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.” (10)

27 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” 28 Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

DING DING DING DING!!!!!!  

these are the LAWS humanity NEEDS to live by according to the supreme being.

ITS LOOK SELF INDULGENT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE COMMANDMENTS WITHOUT MEDITATION. BUT THEY ARE NOT MADE FOR GODS SAKE BUT FOR OURS, TO BE THE BASIS FOR HUMAN MORALS. I BET YOU CANT TELL ME WHERE WE GET MORALS FROM. WE OBVIOUSLY GET IT FROM GOD EVERYBODY HAS BEN TO CHURCH AT SOME POINT OR STUDIED GODS WORD.

Unless you have a physical limitation that prevents you from doing so, please use capital letters where they belong and try to toss in some punctuation here and there. Spell check would be a plus.

Otherwise you read like the screaming, uneducated, pain-in-the-ass that you most likely are.