non-believers: Do u really believe the 10 commandments are human in origin?

Question

Humanity would never make a set of laws that would restrict them from certain pleasures they saw right in their own sight. such as stealing, committing adultery (includes fantasizing by Jesus' standards) , disobeying their parents, etc.

okay, disobeying parents may not be a pleasure, but people still like to be rebellious.

Answer 1

if you believe the 10 commandments MUST be of divine origin, does that mean all the other law codes that aren't from the jewish tradition are divinely inspired too? How come they have all the same laws but a different God?

Oh no, most of the ten commandments make perfect sense for a highly traditional, conservative society. Including the first commandment. Keeping everyone in the same religion keeps the society together, something ancient peoples knew all too well.

Answer 2

That was a different society: they didn't have internet and pornography. People actually wasted their time doing things like growing food and music and arts. They didn't care much about naked women on small screens or reading about other people's lives in blogs. Their own lives were important to them. Yes people in very old times made those laws for a very different society.

I understand that in today's world, people don't have time to really meet real people and talk to them, so they read blogs of strangers. Also, when they spend 11 to 13 hours in front of computers or cell phones, they don't have time to spend time with their spouses and hence no sex. So they run from office to gym to pubs to discos to yoga classes to god knows where, and miss having good family, friends and sex. So they have to have porno and voyeuristic pleasures to fill their pathetic lives with some happiness (or virtual happiness). So they say, I saw Heidi Klum (or some such) naked, how cool is that? I understand their psychology perfectly. This is a different society.
By the way, if you like stealing and comitting adultery so much can I come to your house and steal your everything and rape your sister? I think you must be very modern already. Shouldn't be a problem, right?

About being rebellious, have you ever said anything against society in your entire life? For your kind information, it's a pain to stand up and disagree with parents or authority figures. You get punished very badly and it is not enjoyable.

Answer 3

Non believers? A rather biased term. The 10 commandments doesn't mention anything about child molestation, pedophilla, drug abuse, insider trading, torture, etc...so I guess all of those are ok.

I hope you realize that the bible also says that children should be stoned to death for disobeying their parents.

I suggest you read up on history - the 10 commandments is virtually a carbon copy of Hammurabi's code of the ancient Sumerian/Akkadian empire. The Isrealites/Jews copied the culture and laws of Akkadia (later became Babylon) and created their own version now known as the 10 commandments.

Answer 4

Of course the 10 commandments are man made. I'll tell you why men would come up with them. Even though we'd all like to have sex with every pretty girl we see on the street, we don't because if everyone did that, society would fall apart. People like living in a place with very little crime where people don't run wild doing whatever they want. That's why man came up with the 10 commandments. Are you saying that if it weren't for the 10 commandments you would steal and commit adultery? Of course you aren't. The golden rule has evolved in all of us and has helped us get along and survive together.

Answer 5

How is obeying parents displeasure? I never had displeasure obeying my parents. Displeasure came when I obeyed who I thought were my friends who turned out that they just wanted puppets to do their bidding! I'm not necessarily a nonbeliever but I'm not an absolute believer either. If the 10 commandments are human in origin then it's probably Nordic people that did it and let the Jews get blamed for them! Well what ever floats ones boats.. whatever works for you okay. Just let people find their own way! Don't push your misconceptions that you think
may be the right path on to others. You could be right You could be wrong

Answer 6

Well, I don't really know the 10 commandments. Not all of them, anyway. But if the point is taking certain pleasures away, I can see men creating it as a way to manipulate societies. Nothing manipulates better than making people feel guilty about having fun, because they are going to do it anyway, so you may tell them all they're bad and dirty for doing it. Especially when it comes to sex.

Answer 7

I believe the 10 commandments are common sense to anyone who was raised right.

How about these Rights and Responsibilities for Humans:

Have no gods.
Don't worship stuff.
Be polite.
Take a day off once in a while.
Be nice to folks.
Don't kill people.
Don't fool around on your significant other.
Don't steal stuff.
Don't lie about stuff.
Don't be greedy.

See? Common sense. Because they are common sense rules for living in a crowded society, the men who wrote the bible put them in so they could be passed down in writing and how better to get people to obey them than to say that GOD said these are his commandments.

Pretty smart of them, eh? Great marketing!

Answer 8

A Rabbi told me one time that the original Hebrew calls them the ten suggestions. They are man made laws very similar to other laws made around that time. They are pretty basic requirements for any society to function. What City would be able to carry on business if the rules were not like that. consider the effect of the opposites if they were rules. The code of Hammurabi is quite a bit older and much of the Mosaic law is almost direct quotes of old Hammurabi. Do you think God plagiarized Hammurabi. I think that I have made my point.

also people don't make laws against things that nobody does or that don't cause problems.
They make laws against things that cause problems when people do them or make laws to make people do things that cause problems if they are not done.

Answer 9

I believe the concept of the 10 commandments were meant as a series of 'laws' at one time. Because when it comes right down to it, most of it is pure common sense.

Answer 10

Code of Hammurabi... King of Babylon. Several centuries before Moses was even born. A Pagan King at that. I know for a fact they are human in origin.