Originally Posted by nate_man
I am sorry that you feel this way as you probably havent done enough research as you would know that there were some pretty awesome scientist in the days of old that condtributed to the writings of the bible and one little nugget for you: Had they not been as informed as they were the issue of the great scientists that set out to prove that the world was flat would have been very easily clarified had they done a little bible reading.
Remember principle is principle, there is nothing new under the sun just new approaches to the same principle. Wether you steal from my farm or your broker steals from your investments its still stealing. Nothing has changed.
Well at least you see a little of the light in the value of the commandments. Really the foundation on what this country was based.
Oh BTW can you tell me where the week originated? I would be curious if you know...
Hey, hold it here...........what "awesome"
scientists helped write the Bible?
Firstly, the Bible you hold in your hands today has been translated, modified, re-written & changed from the first bibles hundreds if not thousands of times. The first written bibles were conceived approx.
400 years after Jesus supposedly lived. Does ANYONE's legacy maintain congruency after 20 generations have passed?
Scientists?! What men of science had a hand in writing this book? If you're talking about men
interpreting it so that one thing or another sounds like the Earth isn't flat, well, I guarantee I can interpret of package of raisin oatmeal cookie ingredients to sound biblical, too! The best scientists of the time were Arab & if it wouldn't be for Islam's conquering of Spain, European
scientists would've hardly existed. After all, it was a sin, punishable by death, to question anything not Bible-based. As far as contributing, I guess if you mean helping to change something in the original book to make it sound like something else, that wouldn't surprise me since the original translators of the early bibles couldn't translate Hebrew to Greek or Latin worth a darn.
The Ten Commandments - there aren't actually ten of them, it all depends on just which list you refer to: Exodus 20 or 34 or Deuteronomy 5; & then really only 3 have any significance to the human condition, the rest are just endless repeats of why this god is better than
their god & why
this god needs this, that & the other. Oddly too, I always hear about how wonderful these little jewels of common sense are but never hear about what their penalties are for messing with them! Let's see:
Lord's name in vain? Death (Lev.24:16). Working on the Sabbath (better make sure just which Sabbath you're choosing!)? Death (Exo.31:15). Adultery? I'll bet you're getting the idea now: Death (Lev. 20:10). I would claim that the 3 Commandments that make any sense: murder, theft & adultery, apply without the remaining nonsense.