Hello, people! I am new to this website, my apologies if I had not introduced myself on the other introduction page but, here I am! I'm not a Christian, I don't know what to think where my faith is, I want to believe in God, but it's tough in this day and age. We live in now, Sin city.
Anyways, the point I'd like to make here is Did Moses steal the 10 commandments? it'll be a bit silly, since one of the commandments does stipulate '' Thou shalt not steal '' but other people do honestly believe that Moses did in fact plagiarize some laws from Hammurabi. The story goes that a French Archaeologists began excavations around Shushan in 1852. M. Dieulafoy discovered the palace fortress that the writer of the book of Esther calls the citadel of Susa. In 1901, another expedition began, led by de Morgan, uncovered three stone fragments of black stone. After being fitted together, they formed an impressive round-top stele or pillar, which according to the archaeologists measured in total of 7.5 feet high. Hammurabi was said to be around the time of 1792 to 1750 BC.
But the closest parallel between the Code of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses comes in the common wording of "eye for an eye" and "tooth for a tooth". Hammurabi's laws 196, 197, and 200 stipulated that "If a man puts out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out. If he breaks another man's bone, his bone shall be broken. And if a man knocks out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out." This is very similar to Exodus 21:23-25, which reads, "But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise."
So, I'm kinda scratching my head here and starting to think, '' Who copied who exactly? '' I don't know exactly what dates that Moses was born, but obviously if he was born way before 1792 or 1750, then we'd be pointing our fingers at Hammurabi. Please tell me what you's think about this!
thanks all,
Anyways, the point I'd like to make here is Did Moses steal the 10 commandments? it'll be a bit silly, since one of the commandments does stipulate '' Thou shalt not steal '' but other people do honestly believe that Moses did in fact plagiarize some laws from Hammurabi. The story goes that a French Archaeologists began excavations around Shushan in 1852. M. Dieulafoy discovered the palace fortress that the writer of the book of Esther calls the citadel of Susa. In 1901, another expedition began, led by de Morgan, uncovered three stone fragments of black stone. After being fitted together, they formed an impressive round-top stele or pillar, which according to the archaeologists measured in total of 7.5 feet high. Hammurabi was said to be around the time of 1792 to 1750 BC.
But the closest parallel between the Code of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses comes in the common wording of "eye for an eye" and "tooth for a tooth". Hammurabi's laws 196, 197, and 200 stipulated that "If a man puts out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out. If he breaks another man's bone, his bone shall be broken. And if a man knocks out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out." This is very similar to Exodus 21:23-25, which reads, "But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise."
So, I'm kinda scratching my head here and starting to think, '' Who copied who exactly? '' I don't know exactly what dates that Moses was born, but obviously if he was born way before 1792 or 1750, then we'd be pointing our fingers at Hammurabi. Please tell me what you's think about this!
thanks all,
The Law Of Moses...inspired and commanded by God...has stood the test of time and for 3500 years plus or minus a few, was carried by Moses off of a burning, thundering mountain and was written by the finger of God, was witnessed by several million Hebrews, has been on the scene, pointing people to Jesus Christ (as the law is our school master which leads and points to the master) and has been changing people's lives and or proving their guilt since it's giving.
The Code of Hammurabi was given by a man without claims of inspiration and or given by God, it fell into ruin and lay buried in the sand for thousands of years without any influence whatsoever at all with any human beings and at the end of the day pointed at what? It was dug out of the ground by a man, sits in a museum and is a nice piece to look at and study concerning ancient man, but still without any direction at all about knowing and or receiving God.
By the way, my (several million Hebrews statement is based upon the following math).
600,000 men of war over age of 20 that could fight
Not counting the aged men that could not fight
and the women and children. The Bible and history teach us that the Jewish people are blessed by God with big families and under Egyptian bondage (represents sin and the bondage to sin) Israel was blessed and multiplied greatly.
I believe in the account of scriptures as I am from the (show me state) and I put everything to the test. If it does not jive I chunk it and look for conclusions based on truth. After being raised in the truth for almost 47 years and intensively studying the truth for over 24 years and putting it to the test there are a few things that continually prove to me that the scriptures cannot be the product of mere men.
1. God never misses anything when it comes to covering all bases and the Bible is full of thoughts/principles/truths that we would of missed if it was a man made project.
2. Thru and thru there are numerous prophecies concerning individual nations, people, events, statements, etc. that have come to pass exactly as predicted and the majority have been predicted hundreds and in some case thousands of years in the past before the events came to pass.
3. The fact that the Bible has come to us from over 40 different authors, over a period of 1600 years, in three languages (Hebrew, Greek and Chaldean in Daniel), written by Kings, Fishermen, Rich, Poor, Doctors (Luke) and every gambit imaginable and yet it all flows smoothly, doesn't contradict itself and has been changing lives from the very first words given. It has survived all attacks and attempts to burn out, kill off and or stamp out and you may or may not believe it, but it is for sure right when it states that, Men die, but the Word remains for ever as every scoffer from the past is in the ground having long been eaten by the worms and yet here it is, still here, still proclaiming the eternal truth of God. trust it my friend as it speaks truth!
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