Are Christians who want the 10 Commandments posted as "the basis of all law" unaware of the Hammurabi Code?

Answer 1

I think most people in general are "unaware of the Hammurabi Code;" however, I also don't think that those particular Christians would care much about it.

The significance of the 10 Commandments is that they are Biblically cited as being directly inspired from God, whereas the Hammurabi Code is not necessarily backed by the same authority.

Whether the Biblical 10 Commandments are feasibly integrable to modern law is certainly debatable, but their divine superiority to the Hammurabi Code, in the Christian mind, is not.

Answer 2

How is the Hammurabi Code superior to the 10 commandments?

Answer 3

Ok... So another culture has something similar to the 10 commandments. But honestly, even if you don't believe in God, are the commandments really that bad? Why don't people keep them in mind as guidelines to follow so they can be seen as decent, kind, respectable people?

edit: I was already aware of the Code of Hammurabi... I learned about it in 6th grade History, and again in high school World History. The teacher even made a couple students who were goofing off with their GigaPets write a report about it.

Answer 4

I would have to say yes.

I think unfortunately most christians are unaware of the great codes of law that existed thousands of years before the 10 commandments and in many ways are far superior to the 10 commandments.

For example:
+The Instructions of Shuruppag (2430 BCE)
http://one-faith-of-god.org/old_testament/sources/shuruppag/shuruppag_0010.htm

+ The Code of law of Hammurabi (1780 BCE)
http://one-faith-of-god.org/old_testament/sources/hammurabi/hammurabi_0010.htm

+ The (Lost) Commandments of Akhenaten (Moses)
(1336 - 1333 BCE)
http://one-faith-of-god.org/old_testament/sources/commandments/commandments_0010.htm

Answer 5

No, first of all the Israelites were following those laws already, and those laws far precede Egypt, they are directly from the Sumerians. Now think about Abraham, the founder of Judaism. He was a Sumerian. Lived in Ur of the Chaldees, which was in lower Mesopotamia, which was Sumer. Upper Mesopotamia was Babylon. The laws came out of Sumer, the very first known civilization, and spread from there to Babylon, to Egypt, etc. Abraham's family name has been found all over the area, from Sumer to Babylon and beyond, indicating that his family was very powerful, very wealthy, and probably had a tradition of being Sumerian priests. Jewish tradition teaches that these laws were being followed already by the Israelites long before they were written down at Mt. Sinai through Moses. And this would be because Abraham had long ago brought them out from and passed down those laws.

Answer 6

I don't know what's sadder--that some many Christians are unaware of the Hammurabi Code or that so many of them feel that their ignorance is something to be proud of....

Or possibly that so many Christians who answered missed the entire point of your question.

Answer 7

The Ten Commandments matter more to me than this Hammurabi Code. To bring the point home, I don't even know what it is. May God Bless U.

Answer 8

I don't know but they should all take a long, hard look in the mirror before they seek to impose things like this on the rest of us. FIRST; They're gonna have to stop bearing false witness against their neighbor while fornicating with their other neighbor, and; worshipping the money God. Then; They really should stop judging others when they themselves are nothing more than whitewashed sepulchres, clean and crisp on the outside, and rotten to the core on the inside!!!

Answer 9

I am one who is unaware of the code of which you speak but I assume that it must be something similar to the commandments. What difference does it really make? God created everything at the beginning and I doubt if his requirements would have changed...regardless of who wrote them or whatever.

Answer 10

Probably. They are certainly unaware that moral codes derive from evolution, which applies to societies as well as to species: a society which lives by a sound moral code will survive preferably to one that does not. The late and unlamented Soviet Union is a classic example.