yes - I get a thought or two now and then. Anyway the "ten commandments" were burned (or something like that, sort of like god's "smite" weapon on stun setting I guess) into two stone tablets. Depicted is a replica. Unless the laws of gravity have changed, stone tablets are pretty damn heavy. Yeah, you know where I'm going with this.... Why didn't god do a "front and back" on one tablet, instead of using two tablets leaving one side blank? It's not like the tablets were on display - if anyone even looked at them, god would smite them six ways from sunday! They were carried around in a box, guarded by angels with god just waiting for someone to accidently touch it while helping their ox get it's balance (yep! look it up!) so he could deliver a preemptive smite. Too bad Dayton is banned, I bet he could clear this up! Discuss!
Dayton would say that The Ten Commandments don't apply to Christians because they're from the Old Testament.
Ya gotta wonder. Even Hammurabi managed to put all 282 of his laws on a single 7.5-foot stone. Maybe Moses had bad knees and Yahweh had to help him out by dividing the load.
The Old Testament is null and void...until you need it to put a stop to butt-stuff, then all of a sudden, it's diabolically important.
God forgot to hit 2-sided when he clicked on print. He didn't want to bother printing it again. If you think ink and toner cartridges are expensive, imagine how expensive a printer cartridge that prints fire can be.
Exodus says that the tablets were printed on both sides: Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets that were written on both sides; on the front and on the back they were written. -- Exodus 32:15 (English Standard Version) Talmudic tradition, however, interprets this as meaning that the letters were bored all the way through the tablets, and says that through a miracle, the letters read the "right" way no matter which side you looked at it from. The reasoning for two tablets is sometimes said to be that the convention was to make two copies of contracts, one for each party. Granted, God wouldn't really need a copy, and at any rate both tablets went with Moses, but maybe the convention of two copies was symbolic of it being a covenant?
so two tablets front & back to write ten short commandments? And each tablet was a palindrome (since it can be read from either side of the tablet) of some sort? Oh and god threw in some symbolism too? I'm impressed! Now for his next trick, he can tell me why my car is making that weird noise - the mechanics are befuddled. You know that "ka-thump...scruuuuuunch - ping ping ping - thump" sound when I drive about 50 or so. He knows what I'm talking about!
You joke, but I'm pretty sure Moses busted the original Ten Commandment tablets and then God had to rewrite them from memory. Something about it in the Book of Exodus, I believe.
Rumor has it in the anime version of the ten commandments they started off with 40 commandments and the tentacle monster dropped a bunch of tablets when a pop idol band dressed as schoolgirls walked by and that is how they got down to ten.
one of the things that has always gotten me is how the first 5 are all about being devoted to god and how there are no other gods and to make sure to set aside 15% of your life to kiss his ass. besides sounding like an abusive relationship, these rules pretty much validate the other 8000 or so divinities humans worship bonus point.... that sort of narcissism is a defining quality of the malevolent figure in just about any other pantheon.
that makes about as much sense as most of the tall tales in the bible! I think we can shoehorn it in the next time we have a new version published.
Yeah, that might be my biggest problem with the Bible. Even if I did believe it, why would anyone want to worship that asshole?
