Smashing the Ten Commandments

In the Biblical story, when Moses returns from Mt Sinai to find the Israelites worshiping a golden calf, he smashes the original tablets of the Ten Commandments. John Hamer of Toronto Centre Place will smash several misconceptions about these famous legal precepts, beginning with the actual list (there are actually three versions preserved in the Bible) and how they are numbered. The Apostle Paul taught that Christians should not follow Mosaic Law because Christ had fulfilled the Old Covenant and established a New Covenant. Nevertheless, Christian focus on the Ten Commandments continues to provoke confusion about the status of Old Testament law in Christianity.
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Other topics covered in this lecture include:
Documentary Hypothesis
Who Wrote the Bible
What are the Ten Commandments?
Why do Christians use the Old Testament?

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[VSP]

This is so good. Thank you for this bright presentation.

[ARickAndrews]

I’ve listened to several contemporary bible scholars and this is the most believable in my humble opinion.

[Stadtpark]

As a follower of modern Catastrophism, I really like the symbolism behind Moses origin.

The Baby in the basket is like a little Noah on his Ark. Maybe these stories about mythical founding figures are how we remember, that the all too real founders of our human post-cataclysm-civilization really were „drawn out of the water“ as survivors of the Great Flood?

The „Son of“ the unnamed God maybe is more like the Son of the lost civilization. - Also think of the doubling in the Jesus story: surviving the killing of the newborn( „out of Egypt I have called my son“). - Also during the Exodus again the motif repeats: the killing of the first born Egyptians, and the Drowning of Pharaohs army; we consider ourselves as the cultural descendants of the people that got away.

If Moses and Jesus are symbolical stand-ins for the the restart of human civilization, how great is it to find admitted the role of Egypt (- and Egypt of course as Graham Hancock teaches considered itself as the heirs to the pre-flood civilization).

Also: the sacrifice of the first born to me always seems like re-enacted trauma (- questionably therapeutical?) for the immense survivors guilt the people after the cataclysm must have had.

It’s ritually always remembering the sacrifice of the first born (lost) civilization, the lost golden age. - Of course the other strategy is demonizing them:“they had it coming“ / they must have sinned, else God /(„bad Karma“?) wouldn’t have wiped them from the face of the Earth.

In my catastrophist reading, Jesus as the Lamb of God, thus the last sacrifice, was just another cultural / religious attempt to psychologically get over the trauma / the survivors guilt / „original sin“: an attempt of making peace with the almost forgotten near-death-experience of human civilization, that only survives in stories of the great flood and the fall from grace in paradise we are separated from in time by a flaming sword, and our own fear of being inadequate and ill prepared for the next end of the world (- that will come like a thief in the night.)

No wonder, that again in the Apocalypse we have the motif of the „remnant“ repeated. Some always make it into the next age: but what do we have to do to be amongst them? - „The last will be first, and the first will be last“ - in my reading that has to do with the end of the age / the next cataclysm: the last generation pre-cataclysm will be the first generation post-cataclysm. And the first generation in the new age will be last generation to remember our current era. That’s how big an extinction event these things are for human civilization.


P.S.:
I tried watching some other channels on what is said about the pre-flood history, but all the Book of Enoch / Book of Giants / Nephilim crap is either presented in extremely literal reading, or convoluted with Alien visitation / „The Watchers“ and Fallen Angels interpreted as distinctly non-human history on this planet, which stretches even my imagination.

[vaiyt]

The story about losing the original commandments and coming back with a different set reminds me of Joseph Smith losing the original transcription of the golden plates.

[neocount]

Some contemporary scholars propose that acts may be based on Josephus. Bart Earman mentioned this in a recent talk.

[Douglas.Scott.McCarron]

I thought the word translate as Commitments, not Commandments.

[jsimms]

Matthew 5:17-20 KJV
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

[will-onCensorshipTub]

I saw this but other stuff was on.
If you want more hits run your show on the weekend i think.
lots of people don't stream on the weekends.