The Purpose of the 10 Commandments (The Law of Moses)

VanillaSunflowers said:

Prior to Sinai there was the Edenic, the Adamic covenant, the Noahic covenant, and the Abrahamic covenants.

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roamer_1 said:

I am happy to entertain real scholarship and real science. The comparatively few tools and fossils evident prior to 4000BC are widely scattered, and far too few to conclusively declare that hunter/gatherer was the only societal form - Largely a presupposition that fits the preferred evolutionary model.

Farmland would necessarily be near to water. Rivers and streams meander over many centuries, and could wipe away evidence of 'towns' and farming. We see this in contemporary history, where evidence of known habitation is scoured away completely. You have no evidence to stand on.

Which is why I pointed directly to anthropology rather than archaeology.

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Open Heart said:

I am familiar with this line of thought.

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VanillaSunflowers said:

Line of thought?

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VanillaSunflowers said:

You refer very often to the prohibition of sex with a menstruating wife.

You believe the Mitzvot did not come into existence until Mt. Sainai. You are then saying the Jews had no law before Moses.

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roamer_1 said:

Not really. Prior to the last 250 years, Humans have pretty much been the same... a blend of hunter/gatherer with agrarian since the beginning of proven history. Cities go back equally as far.



The character of YHWH has always existed. What he says is good for his creation and for his people cannot have changed. His preferences in worship cannot have changed. What HE sees as lawful and right cannot have changed. Because YHWH does not change.



Tell me what the commandment against mixing wool and linen is for. What does it mean?



Then how did Abraham walk in YHWH's commandments and obey all his statutes?

There is only Torah. And according to the prophets, the whole world will walk in Torah before it is done.

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VanillaSunflowers said:

OK. Are those prohibitions in the Torah? Or the Talmud?

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