Maybe he went up the mountain and was thinking "Those people just won't listen... I got a great idea... I'll tell them I talked to God and he told me these things they just can't do... I am sure they'll be doing something wrong when I get down there so I can get mad and smash them and convince them God really did give me them!"
It makes sense.. Could have happened this way...
Parents do this all the time with their children.. "Stop that right now or we're turning the car around and going home." When they are halfway to their vacation destination... yeah right.
I think this was a false threat invented to motivate Moses' herd into corrective actions.
2006-09-08 06:13:57 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Perfect theory. I've found that you can read between the lines and rationalize every story in the Bible. Ironically, if they would have just left history pure and unaltered, there might be more "believers" today. They didn't need to elaborate, falsify and manufacture. It must be true that the "forbidden fruit" is "knowledge," because knowledge is what opens our eyes and turns us against religious abuse.
The Ten Commandments were COMMON SENSE (except for the Sabbath and Blasphemy parts: Those were meant to control the money sources). Anyone born with half a brain knows that this sense of right and wrong is inate.
2006-09-08 06:18:59 · answer #1 · answered by georgia b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question is an intresting one. I'm sure that people who don't believe in the bible will say agree while the bible thumpers will say "nu uh!!" Well I'll try and take another route. When you start doubting the Bible's correctness you don't really make a point. What you have done here is woven a little story that you came up with. Heck, for that matter why don't I say that instead of evolution happening we were all made by purple space monkies who fly through space on giant pink carrots? How could you prove me wrong? The point I'm trying to make is, is that the Bible requires faith, just like many other things in life.
2006-09-08 13:22:29 · answer #2 · answered by link_althor 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those "tablets" never existed, the entire thing is myth. I think the old guy just got tired of being around all the critical fools and went camping. Probably went over the mountain and found refuge in a bawdy house for a month.
2006-09-08 13:16:44 · answer #3 · answered by thebushman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Moses smashed the tablets because he was so angry at the behaviors he saw in the Israelites when he came down off the mountain. He didn't "make it up" that God had spoken to him and given him the 10 commandments. To suggest it is blasphemy! May God have mercy on your soul.
2006-09-08 13:38:04 · answer #4 · answered by celticwoman777 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think this is answered in the movie History of the World Part I....."I give you these 15 (smash) 10....10 commandments!" LOL :) sorry it's almost the weekend so I'm being a bit silly!
2006-09-08 15:40:52 · answer #5 · answered by Joeygirl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think that what happened was that when he got down the mountain, he noticed a spelling error and new that if anyone saw it they wouldn't believe God wrote the tablets...so he got mad at himself for making the mistake and the fact that he now had to go back up the mountain and start writing on tablets again...what choice did he have but to smash them and destroy the evidence that he was just a bad speller.....lol
2006-09-08 13:25:36 · answer #6 · answered by ♥ Callie ♥ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well from a christian perspective what you say is possible but extremely unlikely.
From a Jewish perspective it is not possible.
Not 100% sure what Islam believes relating to Moses so I cannot comment on it.
2006-09-08 13:16:30 · answer #7 · answered by Quantrill 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe no one was listening to Moses and he had a fit, mistakenly breaking the tablets.
hahah SouthPaw your a riotius nutter.
2006-09-08 13:17:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He smashed those suckas like an electric guitar. Then exclaimed "Cleveland Rocks!!"
No one knew what he was talking about of course.
2006-09-08 13:15:50 · answer #9 · answered by Southpaw 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no i think that you need to read more into your bible, cause it says that they were written on the tablets by the hand of god,
nice theory though, i guess its another scenario to explain away the idea of god and religion
2006-09-08 13:17:12 · answer #10 · answered by naughty coolaid 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋