The famous, marveloues ten ocmmandements suddenly turned into about a hundred! The original comamandments were the following:
"7: 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.
8: Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
12: Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
13: Thou shalt not kill.
14: Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15: Thou shalt not steal.
16: Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
17: 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. " Exodus 20.
These are the commandments that you are obligated to learn by heart when you are going to do your First Communion, the commandments that your grandmother reminds you of every time you see her, the commandments that you fear to break because you would go to hell. All my life I have heard of the 10 commandments but in the Exodus I found only 8 of them... Did men later made up the other two?
The punishments that are supposed to be the consequences of not following the commandments are really harsh. "16: And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." If these punishments were still held today, more than a 50% of humannity would be dead. Laws are very important if you analyse it. They are boring and irritating but what would happend if there would be no laws. Chaos, uncontrolable chaos. Everybody would do whatever they want, without punishments society would be unbearable. True it is that on those times everything was harsher, ironicly the values today are much more remarkable and people simply don't do many of the things that are morally wrong. "26: And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake." Exodus 21. Today a man would simply not "smite the eye" of another man, it is wrong.
I didn't know that god gave so many orders to so many cases and punishments for all of them and a different one for every circumstance. "28: If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit. " The casesa re very random and unprobable....It is very evident the sexism that there is towards men, women are taken ad animals, below the importance of men. This is the way is has always been in the world.
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I like the way in which you incorporate the quotes in the text. You pose an interesting analysis that compares actions and consequences, and the values of the ancient world with those of today. Furthermore, I like how you think about the "What if?" of the future.
Personally I liked some parts of your entry and other not. For instance, I think that your reflection about the commandments was good, I totally agree what you say about laws and if there were to be absent it would be chaotic. I also think that it is interesting how if things where to be as they were before (punishments) most of the people would be facing consequences because moderns society is not as near as devote as in the past. Finally I wouldn´t say sexism is so relevant, it sounds as a fill in the entry. In general your blog was very Good and reflective.
I like your language usage in the blog, you look like if you were talking to a friend instead of a teacher or somebody who is going to judge you so it gives a friendly aspect. I also liked the fact of the question if the men created the other 2 commandments, which I thought it was pretty shoking and that is very important to get the reader's attention.
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