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On 12/20/2012 1:59 PM, Stephen wrote:
> On 20/12/2012 3:46 PM, Warp wrote:
>> Stephen <mca### [at] aol com> wrote:
>>>> They dropped that
>>>> particular commandment.
>>
>>> News to me.
>>
>> The second commandment according to the Catholic church (as well as the
>> Lutheran one, which adopted this from the former) is not "you shall not
>> make a carved image", but "you shall not take the name of the Lord your
>> God in vain."
>>
>
> Comparing Jewish, RC & Proddy: It seems to me that Christians could not
> use the Jewish first commandment as they had not been delivered out of
> bondage from the Egyptians so the RCs split the verses about coveting
> into two and the Proddies added the one about graven images to get at
> the Catholics.
Except, of course, they where not. The only evidence of Semites "in"
Egypt, ever, is several hundred years earlier, when they temporarily
ruled it, then got their asses kicked out. None of the dates, based on
the Bible, line up with any pharaoh that could have done it. There is no
evidence of mass famine, the loss of most of the male population of
Eqypt (they would have either died in the army, or as "first born"
during the plagues), no sign of them being attacked by their enemies
during any time period it could have happened, based on the chronology,
etc. Worse, there is evidence of his "people" having had settlements,
for centuries, in the areas they supposedly wandered only 40 years (and
its not even the right 40 years, but like.. again *prior* to the
supposed Exodus.
Of course, Christians had no way of knowing this, since they where
basing it all on the same mythology. Of course, there is always the
possibility that they did know, and a lot of the NT was scripted
"specifically" to attempt to replace the OT, and, in the process,
justify Roman attempts to rule over, and control Jewish lands, which
they had been spending decades trying, not entirely successfully, to
conquer. How much better to undermine their religion, than to conquest
them via an ineffective war.
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