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This is not over the Protestant and Catholic version of the Ten Commandments argument (which is a silly one at best, because both Catholic and Protestant bibles list the same ones).
What if Ten Commandments we know are really not the Ten Commandments given by God?
Get your Bible out, and open it to Exodus 20:2-17. Youll find the familiar list of rules about having no false gods, honoring your mother and father, not killing or coveting, and so on. At this point, though Moses is just repeating to the people what God told him on Mount Sinai. These are not written down in any forms.
Later, Moses goes back to the Mount, where God gives him to tablets of stone with rules written on them (Exodus 31:18). But when Moses comes down the mountain with the stone tablets he sees people worshipping a statue a calf, causing him to smash the tables on the ground (Exodus 32:19).
Now follow me here.
In neither of these cases does Scripture refer to commandments. In the first instance, they are words which God spake, while the tablets contain testimony. It is only when Moses goes back for new tablets that we see the phrase ten commandments (Exodus 34:28). In an interesting turn of events, the commandments on these tablets are significantly different than the ten rules Moses recited for the people
So, I guess here are the real Ten Commandments found in Exodus 34:13-28:
1. Thou Shalt Not Worship no other god.
2. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
3. The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep.
4. Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest
5. And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
6. Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel.
7. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven
8. Neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.
9. The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God.
10. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
What if Ten Commandments we know are really not the Ten Commandments given by God?
Get your Bible out, and open it to Exodus 20:2-17. Youll find the familiar list of rules about having no false gods, honoring your mother and father, not killing or coveting, and so on. At this point, though Moses is just repeating to the people what God told him on Mount Sinai. These are not written down in any forms.
Later, Moses goes back to the Mount, where God gives him to tablets of stone with rules written on them (Exodus 31:18). But when Moses comes down the mountain with the stone tablets he sees people worshipping a statue a calf, causing him to smash the tables on the ground (Exodus 32:19).
Now follow me here.
In neither of these cases does Scripture refer to commandments. In the first instance, they are words which God spake, while the tablets contain testimony. It is only when Moses goes back for new tablets that we see the phrase ten commandments (Exodus 34:28). In an interesting turn of events, the commandments on these tablets are significantly different than the ten rules Moses recited for the people
So, I guess here are the real Ten Commandments found in Exodus 34:13-28:
1. Thou Shalt Not Worship no other god.
2. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
3. The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep.
4. Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest
5. And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
6. Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel.
7. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven
8. Neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.
9. The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God.
10. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.