is the ten commandments a B.S story -- since moses never let anyone see him when he went to talk to god .?
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now let me think about that for a nano second...yes!\nlets face it, the bible was a collection of STORIES...and if anyone thinks that people get turned into pillars of salt, then they are more stupid than i thought
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Most of the stories in all the Good Books are for the purpose of illustration of a point..remember the ppl of those days were not terrible literate so a story told the idea...the story means that some places may be solid( as a rock) but they are not and to leave ones necessity( such as clothes or heart..) is foolish for then you become naked and what will you do then.  Remember that the bible is very sure that one does not know the time or the place for the revealing and so one needs to be on watch at all times...Moses was not on his watch and so he lost his clothing..which in those days was devastating
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First thing comes to mind is "The entire village of Sodom & Gommorah", !#2 The followers of God , as he led them out of egypt.  We complain so much to god that we are in  in such bondage, hard life ...work, work ,work ! When God sends moses to lead the israelites out of slavery, its still not enough ! We are ungrateful people, just like they were ! too bad , I often wonder why God still puts up with us ! { but im sure glad He does !}Sometimes I feel like Job, but would I have that much faith after losing everthing ? Id like to think so !
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No. God never said anything. Existence is required for speech to become an option.
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We don't know.\n\nGod didn't tell Moses, obviously. But everyone saw it and everyone knew what it was.  In my (very humble) opinion, it might have involved fire (God's energy) as many instances in the Bible God appears this way. For example, he appears as a fiery cloud (leading the Israelites),  he etched the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments, for Moses, with his own finger (must have been fire to write on stone), and appeared as a disembodied hand, which wrote on the stone wall during the feast of King Belshazzar ( Belshazzar and revelers were drinking out of the stolen temple vessels, and he and his friends were drunk and blaspheming the name of God ("the handwriting on the wall" Daniel 5.))\n\nWhen God "touched" Cain when he marked him, it was to cause a fear and awe in people who would recognize it and not kill Cain. \n\nTo me, God's mark would have burned him, and badly.  But, we just don't know.\n\nGod may have touched his forehead, his face, the back of his head, his hands, his arm, his chest or back. But wherever he would have touched him, it would have  been "etched" or burned, probably right down to the bone. Perhaps just a gouge across the forehead would have done it. \n\nThink about what severe burn victims look like. The skin is never totally  "repaired" so that you don't notice it.  God wouldn't have had to cause Cain pain with this, because he is God.  He could have quickly marked, seared the skin, and it wouldn't continue to hurt.\n\nHowever, another version:  Many interpreters of the Latin think it may have been a physical shuddering (like involuntary spasm), or an expression of horror or consternation (perhaps like a scream)??  Perhaps it was like a "palsy" whereby he lost all muscle control of his facial expression, and it turned into a frozen expression of shame or horror,  for example.\n\n<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>\nFrom this website: http://www.newadvent.org/bible/gen004.htm\n\nGen 4:15. And the Lord said to him: No, it shall not so be: but whosoever shall kill Cain, shall be punished sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, that whosoever found him should not kill him.\nLATIN: Dixitque ei Dominus nequaquam ita fiet sed omnis qui occiderit Cain septuplum punietur posuitque Dominus Cain signum ut non eum interficeret omnis qui invenisset eum\n"Set a mark, etc... The more common opinion of the interpreters of holy writ supposes this mark to have been a trembling of the body; or a horror and consternation in his countenance."
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There are many things that Jesus did where the Tanach (OT) fulfillment is hard to find such as Jesus walking on water. Then we find an obscure little passage in Job where we read that God "treads on the sea". In the case of the "I AM" statement knocking the sense out of the arresting officers, I do not think there is any prophecy related to it other than what would have happened to Moses if he didn't take the shoes off his feet. We do know one thing, and that is that Jesus was not just saying "I AM", He showed that there was power and authority behind it.
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So many bad answers from Christians on this it's fairly amusing.\n\n1. "Things/the rules have changed"\n\nResting on the sabbath is a moral precept of one's obligation to Yahweh.  If you are saying this changed, you are saying that God changes his morals, which opens up the idea of moral subjectivitiy.  There is no way around when God said "forever".  Either you are calling him a liar, or you are wrong.\n\n2.  "The law was destroyed"\n\nThen why did Jesus say he did not come to destroy the law?  Remember thar part in Matthew about "not one jot or tittle of the law"?  You are calling Jesus a liar here....not sure what your God would think of that.\n\n3.  Paul said hold no day above any other.\n\nSwell for Paul.  Unfortuantely, Jesus and Yahweh BOTH said different.  Tie goes to the deity, I would think.\n\n4.  "Christians are under grace, not the law"\n\nThen you can ignore the 10 commandments, I assume.  No?  Only the fourth one?  I see.  What part of "forever" and what Jesus said in Matthew don't Christians understand?\n\n******\n\nThose are just a few responses.  Christians love to pull the "Paul Card".  Go ahead and grab anything Paul may have said (ignoring that he often spoke on behalf of himself, not God) and use that to totally dismiss something either Yahweh or Jesus said.\n\nThe bible IS inconsistent.  But if I were to believe in it, I sure has heck would take God's "forever" dictate pretty serious, not Paul's bitter ramblings.
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God has spoken to me many times through scripture.  I had the experience that God spoke to me and it was like an audible voice, but wasn't.  He called my attention to something I had done and I immediately repented of it.  It was very interesting and only happened once in my 30 years as a Christian.  \nI once knew a young man that said that after he was saved he had experiences that God spoke to him, not audible, but in his mind with specific instructions, to talk witness to people, where to sit on the bus, lots of things like that but always to witness to others.  This man fell into sin and eventually after years repented and he told me that the voice never came back.  I believe that he was telling the truth and he didn't seem to be (funny)  it was a very sad thing for him.
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how about the 10 commandments?\n\nExo 20:2  [#1]  I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. \n\nExo 20:3  Thou shalt have no other gods before me. \n\nExo 20:4  [#2]  Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. \n\nExo 20:5  Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; \n\nExo 20:6  And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. \n\nExo 20:7  [#3]  Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. \n\nExo 20:8  [#4]  Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. \n\nExo 20:9  Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: \n\nExo 20:10  But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: \n\nExo 20:11  For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. \n\n[Note:  The "sabbath day" being referred to here is the Hebrew/Israel/Jewish sabbath day [the seventh (7th) day of the week, Saturday], that begins Friday at sundown, and continues until Saturday at sundown.] \n\nExo 20:12  [#5]  Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. \n\nExo 20:13  [#6]  Thou shalt not kill. \n\nExo 20:14  [#7]  Thou shalt not commit adultery. \n\nExo 20:15  [#8]  Thou shalt not steal. \n\nExo 20:16  [#9]  Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. \n\nExo 20:17  [#10]  Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. \n\nExo 20:18  And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. \n\nExo 20:19  And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die. \n\nExo 20:20  And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not. \n\nExo 20:21  And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was. \n\n~ Idols and Altars \n\nExo 20:22  And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. \n\nExo 20:23  Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold. \n\nExo 20:24  An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee. \n\nExo 20:25  And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it. \n\nExo 20:26  Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
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It was Moses.  In the OT, he was called by the Spirit of God to climb Mt. Sinai.  After Moses saw the burning bush, he asked God if he could see Him.  God said "No, you'd die if you looked directly at me" (I'm paraphrasing, of course).  So God told Moses to go to a cleft in the rock and hide his face and God would pass by.  That was all Moses could handle (as a human being).
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1. What scripture verse was translated incorrectly (What did the incorrect verse say)\n\nHERE IS THE WHOLE STORY, FOR THOSE WHO MAY NOT KNOW:::\n\n          Exodus 34:28-35  28 And he was there with the \n          Etrnl forty days and forty nights; he did \n          neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote \n          upon the tables the words of the covenant, the \n          ten commandments. 29  And it came to pass, when \n          Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two \n          tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came \n          down from the mount, that Moses wist not that \n          the skin of his face shone while he talked with  \n          him.  כי קרן עור פניו בדברו אתו׃\n          30  And when Aaron and all the children of \n          Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face \n          shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him. \n          31  And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and \n          all the rulers of the congregation returned unto \n          him: and Moses talked with them. 32  And \n          afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: \n          and he gave them in commandment all that the \n          Etrnl had spoken with him in mount Sinai. 33  \n          And till Moses had done speaking with them, he \n          put a vail on his face. 34  But when Moses went \n          in before the Etrnl to speak with him, he took \n          the vail off, until he came out. And he came \n          out, and spake unto the children of Israel that \n          which he was commanded. 35  And the children of \n          Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of \n          Moses' face shone: and Moses put the vail upon \n          his face again, until he went in to speak with\n          him. \n\nThe verse incorrectly translated is, of course, Exodus 34:29 above, and i have supplied the Hebrew. The word mistranslated is the word, 'KEREN,' meaning 'beam,' like a beam of light. Unfortunately, the word also means horn, as in a 'horn of plenty.'\n\n2. and what is the correct translation?\n\nMay own translation:::\n\nExo 34:29 ויהי ברדת משׁה מהר סיני ושׁני לחת העדת ביד־משׁה ברדתו מן־ההר ומשׁה לא־ידע כי קרן עור פניו בדברו אתו׃\n\nAnd when Moses came down from the Mountain of Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in the hand of Moses, when he came down from the Mountain, and Moses did not know that beams of light (keren or) shone from his face when he spoke with Him.\n\nAdditional information:: When i was a kid, i actually had Christians come up to me, asking me where my horns were? Their ministers and their families had taught them that the Jews actually had horns, based on the New Testament quotation, when Jesus calls The Jews children of Satan!!!!
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no you've got that wrong... Moses and Abraham never saw the promised land... thats NOT heaven.
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No,  Jesus didn't indicate a division between the "10 Commandments" and the remaining laws.\n\nHe divided the "OT" or Hebrew scriptures in the Law and the Prophets.\n\nWhen asked which was the "Greatest" Commandment" he quoted Deut. chapter 6, not chapter 5.\n\nIf you want to disprove JW's try studying with them.  I know many who did that and are some of the most zealous witnesses I know.
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I think people not believing in God because "why would a God bring hurt,sickness,suffering on his people" is such a cop out. It is annoying. As far as the story about Egypt and everything, God was showing his power and his seriousness to the Pharaoh, it had to be done. God wouldn't do something like that for his "pleasure" but for his plan, and his plan is right.
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The saddest event in Moses' life might well be God's prohibiting him from entering the land of Israel. The reason for this ban is explicitly connected to an episode in Numbers in which the Hebrews angrily demand that Moses supply them with water. God commands Moses to assemble the community, "and before their very eyes order the [nearby] rock to yield its water." Fed up with the Hebrews' constant whining and complaining, he says to them instead: "Listen, you rebels, shall we get water for you out of this rock?" He then strikes the rock twice with his rod, and water gushes out (Numbers 20:2-13). It is this episode of disobedience, striking the rock instead of speaking to it, that is generally offered as the explanation for why God punishes Moses and forbids him to enter Israel.
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I love when people say "read the bible!" after the guy just posted the verses he wants to discuss.\n\nIf the example he gives shows moses killing CHILDREN!!  How can you possibly say he did it b/c he had to or it was justified?  If god told you to go kill children you would do it?  You are sick.  Does that mean that the woman in texas or wherever who drowned her kids b/c she thought they were demons did the right thing?
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None. Moses was the custodian of another type of Ark.The Ark of God. Not the Ark which Noah Built in which he put two of every kind of animal.\n\nGood Try if that was to fool me.\nBettel Luck next time.