How come people disagree about the 10 commandments?
May 27, 2020 5:57:05 GMT
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Post by gameboy on May 27, 2020 5:57:05 GMT
Q:Why are the Ten Commandments not written in the same order anymore? The fourth is now the fifth. Why? I'm a Roman Catholic and can't find the commandments written the way I learned them.
A: Your confusion has a 2,000-year history. Since Judaism and Christianity split, there's been no disagreement that there are 10 commandments listed in Exodus and (in a very similar version) in Deuteronomy; there's just no agreement on which commandment should bear which number.
Starting with Augustine, Catholics, and then later, Lutherans, combined commandments 1 and 2 and then, so that they could still get to 10, they separated the commandment about coveting into two separate commandments -- one prohibiting the coveting of your neighbor's possessions and one prohibiting coveting your neighbor's wife. What this has meant is that commandments 2-10 are numbered differently in each list.
www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2003-10-23-0310230618-story.html
A: Your confusion has a 2,000-year history. Since Judaism and Christianity split, there's been no disagreement that there are 10 commandments listed in Exodus and (in a very similar version) in Deuteronomy; there's just no agreement on which commandment should bear which number.
Starting with Augustine, Catholics, and then later, Lutherans, combined commandments 1 and 2 and then, so that they could still get to 10, they separated the commandment about coveting into two separate commandments -- one prohibiting the coveting of your neighbor's possessions and one prohibiting coveting your neighbor's wife. What this has meant is that commandments 2-10 are numbered differently in each list.
www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2003-10-23-0310230618-story.html