The Ten Commandments are proof of God's existence since humanity rejects them if given the chance. :) Therefore, they couldn't have come from man.
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I think I can not fulfill very easily the one you´ll observe Saturday. I do it on Sundays. And neither can I fulfill the second, I wear crosses and so on. And I don´t know many men who consider women property, thence, or posses slaves, so it´s more than easy for them not to fall into the tenth one.
On the other side, apart from that, we believe in a kind of God, we take seriously our promises and try not to blaspheme on purpose, we don´t steal, we don´t lie in court, we love our parents............I think it´s not that difficult.
Taxes are proof of God's existence since humanity rejects them if given the chance. :) Therefore, they couldn't have come from man.
There's actually a quite interesting evolutionary theory about the origin of the 10 commandements. Humans are pack animals, surviving much better in groups than they can individually. Human morality (a la the 10 commandements) developed as a way for people to get along in the pack. Murder, theft, adultery etc. would all cause strife and hardship in the pack, and therefore were not good for humanity as a whole.
If you'll look around carefully, you may notice that their is more than one person. Now (try to follow along) if one of those people rejects the 10 commandments and another one does not, what does that say about your proof of God?
Sounds like Carico is saying he/she would be a thieving, lying, parent-hating, idol-worshipping, adulterous murderer were it not for a belief in bible god. Good thing most people can be decent without having to delude themselves into it!
Yeah, I know I sure worship false gods, disrespect my parents, kill people, commit adultery, steal, lie, and lust after married women whenever I get the chance!
Taxes are proof of God's existence since humanity rejects them if given the chance. :) Therefore, they couldn't have come from man.
Most of humanity rejects murder, rape, torture and countless other acts of sociopathic behaviour. Does that also prove that god exists? I suppose it could since after all, god condones many of those things in his purported "word".
Ok, Carico. First off, as no one has mentioned it yet, the so called 10 commandments were first introduced in the Egyptian Book of the Dead, and this writing PREDATES the biblical writings of Genesis. So your idea that they came from any god of yours, is foolish. If anything, they were stolen, or taken from earlier writings in the first place, as was much of the bible, and the ideas within it.
It seems to me that you are generalizing all of mankind, saying that if one man made up those laws, then all must agree. If they do not agree, then therefore the laws must not have been made by man.
Are highway speed limits from God too? I'm always breaking those as well.
Several billion practicing Christians, Muslims and Jews all claim to accept the Ten Commandments, so what's with this "humanity rejects them" stuff? The initial premise is wrong even without the typical Carico-logic.
"White people are better than black people."
That statement is rejected by most people. Ergo, it couldn't have come from man and must have been written by God. Good going, rascist.
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