Tim Attwood wrote:
>> I already granted that I was reading an English translation and therefore 
>> was several steps removed. That "kill" isn't what it says in the old 
>> testament isn't really the point - the point is that Jesus, for example, 
>> can't reasonably be said to provide context for the meaning of the ten 
>> commandments, nor can Pope John Paul III, or etc etc etc.
> 
> 
> Matthew 22:34-40
> But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees,
> they gathered together. Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question,
> testing Him, and saying, "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment
> in the law?" Jesus said to him, " 'You shall love the LORD your God
> with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is 
> the
> first and great commandment. And the second is like it: 'You shall love
> your neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments hang all the
> Law and the Prophets."

I fail to see the relevance.

I was speaking of the ten commandments, as given to Moses. Certainly, 
something that comes later can dispute or clarify such commandments. But 
  I don't know what context God's words to Adam could have that isn't in 
Genesis, given there was nobody else in the entire world at the time.

Jesus says which of the commandments are more important. How does that 
help Moses interpret them? How does that help anyone before Jesus 
interpret them?

(This is turning into a pretty silly discussion at this point. :-)

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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