2007-02-04 15:37:23 · 14 answers · asked by RICK 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
I thinks it maybe that stone lasts longer than any of those other things. Stone is sort of eternal in a symbolic sense. To carve the commandments into stone was perhaps a symbolic suggestion that they would stand for all time. Also (and this is maybe going a little too deep) stone is the heart of earth, so by marking the commandments on stone, we should also mark them in our heart.
2007-02-04 15:42:17 · answer #1 · answered by confused 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're Moses and you go up the mountain and write down ten commandments you say God put down, do you think people will look at you in awe and gush about the commandments and follow them and respect your every word... if they don't believe God did it? Like, you know, if you wrote them in ink on papyrus and came down? Someone who hates you or just likes exposing frauds calls out "Wow, he's God and he wrote them on papyrus with ink! Golly. Whatcha wanna bet the writing looks like other stuff ol' Moses there has written?" And the crowd laughs at you and goes back to calf worship.
Or maybe you have someone craft it all, under control, and you send someone trusted to take up all the material to the high parts of the mountain. Not just the couple sets you haven't decided between but the bad copies too, that didn't look perfect enough to have been done by God. You have him killed later, before you reach the mountain, sooner being best before he starts thinking about how to turn this knowledge to his advantage. Then you go up the mountain, clearly with no stoneworking tools or materials both of which are bulky enough to have been easily noticeable to the crowd as you made a production out of ascending and you come back with God's work.
Awe. Respect. People doing the things your psychosis requires. You are happy. You are now the father of your people and go down in history after a long, long time on top of the heap.
Yeah, it would occur to me too, to do it in stone, not something they'd never believe for a minute.
2007-02-04 23:49:21 · answer #2 · answered by roynburton 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As if you didn't already know the answer ... 'written in stone' means 'that is the way it will be forever' ... because wood, clay, paper (or papyrus) can 'rot away' but stone doesn't ... although we all know that the names and things carved onto headstones do 'fade away over time' because they are 'kept outdoors' ... which is why the ten commandments were kept in 'the Ark of the Covenant' ...
2007-02-04 23:48:03 · answer #3 · answered by Kris L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wood and paper burns, clay breaks and cracks. If you put something in stone it takes years for it to break down.
2007-02-04 23:52:35 · answer #4 · answered by Alierah W 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Upon reading the 10 Commandments all believers soon discover they are a heavy load we have to carry.
Writing them on stone was his cute way of reinforcing his message: Yes I know its a heavy load.
2007-02-04 23:53:10 · answer #5 · answered by xxx000au 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it is chiseled in stone it is permanent. The other choices you listed can easily be destroyed.
2007-02-04 23:45:42 · answer #6 · answered by xox_bass_player_xox 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you heard the saying "Written in stone"?
2007-02-04 23:41:22 · answer #7 · answered by Kim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell, He's God right? He could of written it in Microsoft Word.
2007-02-04 23:40:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
first of all moses wrote the ten commandments........he was on a mountain......maybe he didnt have a pen, pencil or paper handy
2007-02-04 23:51:43 · answer #9 · answered by snowangel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I see you like the comics.
2007-02-04 23:41:49 · answer #10 · answered by JAY 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋