How would you improve the Ten Commandments?

How would you improve the Ten Commandments? Jan 25, 2019 10:18:05 GMT

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Post by Arlon10 on Jan 25, 2019 10:18:05 GMT

Jan 25, 2019 5:14:05 GMT goz said:

Jan 25, 2019 4:52:51 GMT clusium said:

It matters because it was never God's Will for people to be given into slavery. Yet, He Knew that humanity were too stubborn to treat one another another equally & fairly. So, He PERMITTED it, but, Gave Laws that they should be treated humanely. Then in the New Testament, St. Paul urges Philemon to receive back a runaway slave as a friend, & not as a slave, because he knows that God Does not Will for there to be slaves.

The purpose of sexual intercourse is for procreation. Therefore, it is for (married) men and women to partake in. Not for 2 males and 2 females. Most people (that are pro Capital Punishment) would not want it for homosexual relations today, or even imprisonment.

Yes, the woman was vindicated when the man who raped her married her. Yes, she felt that way, back in thousands of years ago. Referring back to the example of Amnon raping Tamar: If you read the story itself in 2 Samuel, chapter 13, after the rape was committed, Amnon turned against her, and threw her out of his apartment. She begged him not to, because to do so would have been an even greater crime against her than the original one (the rape itself).

I did not defend slavery, execution (I'm anti-Death Penalty, precisely because I believe in the 10 Commandments), nor punishing rape victims. You continue to misinterpret what the Holy Bible teaches, & I correct you.

You know all this how?

...if it is not clear in the Bible to ALL?

Answer: Interpretation by the Catholic Church over centuries in a self serving justification of its own existence.

   I know that some people like being slaves for various reasons. In ancient times there was nowhere else to go for many people but into slavery. The economy was extremely different. There was no "industry" that needed a large labor pool.

   In modern times some people like being slaves because they don't like making decisions or taking blame for their decisions. They prefer to just do what they are told and avoid blame as much as possible. These days there are people who want the government to make every little decision for them. That way when their aunt dies it is no way their fault, or so they prefer to believe.

   Mentally retarded atheists, and most of them are, can only comprehend the term "slavery" as largely practiced in the southern United States before the Civil War. That was a very different thing that it can be argued involved racist ideas. Other slavery did not.