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Why did God give commandments to Jews?
August 9, 2022 at 2:30 pm
Why did God supposedly give laws and commandments to Jews like not to collect wood on Sabbath, to stone a married woman if she is not a virgin, not to eat shellfish, not to wear mixed fabrics, etc.?
I mean what would happen to Jews if they didn't obey the laws? What's in it for them?
In Christianity, it mostly means that you go to an eternal torture chamber when you die if you don't listen to God's commandments, but Jews did not have the afterlife, so I guess God would just destroy them.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Why did God give commandments to Jews?
August 9, 2022 at 3:17 pm
Pharisees had belief in afterlife. Sadducees didn't believe in afterlife.
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RE: Why did God give commandments to Jews?
August 9, 2022 at 3:24 pm
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Two ways to look at this, and one interesting way to put them together. What does a person get by following a gods command to rest on some day or not eat a food of questionable health implications? Well..rest and health, but also reputation with the command issuer. Insomuch as you believe that only those the command issuer is satisfied with can/will get rest....they become the same conceptual item.
Strict virginity codes dissuade arguments over paternity which can cause social unrest - particularly in tribal and matrilineal societies - the culture of origin being both. As above, it's not uncommon for people to view social unrest or fraternal violence as a judgement for and proof of unsanctioned or degenerate activity.
The mixed fabrics things was racially coded language. Also as above, indicative of race mixing which was then seen to be the reason that god had abandoned or was becoming thoroughly angry with the chosen people, as they go to some lengths explicitly mentioning in the stories in question. Think "no baggy pants, no ethnic hair styles" rules.
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RE: Why did God give commandments to Jews?
August 9, 2022 at 3:26 pm
My understanding is that God would punish his chosen in this life if they transgressed.
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RE: Why did God give commandments to Jews?
August 10, 2022 at 1:39 am
Each delusional believer thinks s/he is special enough to have received special attention from god.
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RE: Why did God give commandments to Jews?
August 10, 2022 at 5:12 am
Quote:Why did God give commandments to Jews?
And who SHOULD he give them to, bubbeleh?
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RE: Why did God give commandments to Jews?
August 10, 2022 at 5:36 am
(August 10, 2022 at 5:12 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Quote:Why did God give commandments to Jews?
And who SHOULD he give them to, bubbeleh?
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RE: Why did God give commandments to Jews?
August 10, 2022 at 8:54 am
(August 9, 2022 at 2:30 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Why did God supposedly give laws and commandments to Jews like not to collect wood on Sabbath, to stone a married woman if she is not a virgin, not to eat shellfish, not to wear mixed fabrics, etc.?
I mean what would happen to Jews if they didn't obey the laws? What's in it for them?
In Christianity, it mostly means that you go to an eternal torture chamber when you die if you don't listen to God's commandments, but Jews did not have the afterlife, so I guess God would just destroy them. More importantly why the hell does god even care about mixed fabrics .... 
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RE: Why did God give commandments to Jews?
August 10, 2022 at 10:53 am
Of course, the earliest Jews were henotheistic:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism
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RE: Why did God give commandments to Jews?
August 10, 2022 at 11:12 am
(August 10, 2022 at 8:54 am)Helios Wrote: (August 9, 2022 at 2:30 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Why did God supposedly give laws and commandments to Jews like not to collect wood on Sabbath, to stone a married woman if she is not a virgin, not to eat shellfish, not to wear mixed fabrics, etc.?
I mean what would happen to Jews if they didn't obey the laws? What's in it for them?
In Christianity, it mostly means that you go to an eternal torture chamber when you die if you don't listen to God's commandments, but Jews did not have the afterlife, so I guess God would just destroy them. More importantly why the hell does god even care about mixed fabrics ....
Why wouldn't an ethnocentric god have ethnocentric concerns?
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