Comments on: Commandments, counting and splitting hairs http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/11/28/commandments-counting-and-splitting-hairs/ Challenging the Zeitgeist Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:15:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Heather http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/11/28/commandments-counting-and-splitting-hairs/#comment-9220 Heather Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:25:39 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/11/28/commandments-counting-and-splitting-hairs/#comment-9220 Try to keep up. It is now up to 14 commandments...... :-) I looked at the Wikpedia page. There are a few lists of commandments. You start to feel a bit sorry for fundamentalists. Trying to maintain the literal truth of a book must be quite difficult when you don't know which book you have to treat as literally true. It looks like the Ten were cobbled together from a couple of separate bible books. I am also REALLY confused by Commandment #1 "I am the Lord thy god*" or apparently, in Exodus - <blockquote>I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery;</blockquote> In any case, I have to be really pedantic and say "This is not a command." Surely it's a statement (though clearly not a statement of fact.) (*The King James bible is much more poetic than the dull modern translations. Also, the beautiful antique language makes it so much easier to appreciate the bible as myth and metaphor than to hate it as bullsh, so it would be my bible of choice, if I were to read one, which is obviously a mite unlikely.) Try to keep up. It is now up to 14 commandments…… :-)
I looked at the Wikpedia page. There are a few lists of commandments.

You start to feel a bit sorry for fundamentalists. Trying to maintain the literal truth of a book must be quite difficult when you don’t know which book you have to treat as literally true.

It looks like the Ten were cobbled together from a couple of separate bible books.

I am also REALLY confused by Commandment #1 “I am the Lord thy god*” or apparently, in Exodus -

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery;

In any case, I have to be really pedantic and say “This is not a command.” Surely it’s a statement (though clearly not a statement of fact.)

(*The King James bible is much more poetic than the dull modern translations. Also, the beautiful antique language makes it so much easier to appreciate the bible as myth and metaphor than to hate it as bullsh, so it would be my bible of choice, if I were to read one, which is obviously a mite unlikely.)

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