2007-10-29 20:13:44 · 19 answers · asked by Emerald Book Reviews 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sorry, I just came across it recently on discovery channel.
2007-10-29 20:25:32 · update #1
Hi stranger. I think the Ten Commandments are basic rules to live by no matter what era you are in. It makes sense to have rules that prevent people from killing, taking others' wives, etc. The Egyptians were highly organised societies, so were the Romans, the Incas. Christianity did include aspects of existing religions. It makes sense to me.
2007-10-29 21:32:58 · answer #1 · answered by Charmaine K 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Unless you have an actual cite for this, I strongly suspect it is not true.
What may be true is that some form of ethical rules, vaguely corresponding to the 10 Commandments, could have been found in Egypt.
However as yet there is no actual convincing evidence of the presence of the Hebrews in Egypt at all (most historians believe that they arose in Canaan, rather than replacing the Canaanites). If something like this had been discovered, it would have been big news.
Unless of course you mean more recently - there has been a branch of Christianity, called Coptic, in Egypt since about 200AD, which has survived to the present day despite the best efforts of the Muslim majority to supress it.
2007-10-30 04:01:09 · answer #2 · answered by Daniel R 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic Encyclopedia states Bible is Skeptic and Concocted
A. THE FORMATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT CANON (A.D. 100-220)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03274a.htm
The idea of a complete and clear-cut canon of the New Testament existing from the beginning, that is from Apostolic times, has no foundation in history. The Canon of the New Testament, like that of the Old, is the result of a development, of a process at once stimulated by disputes with doubters, both within and without the Church, and retarded by certain obscurities and natural hesitations, and which did not reach its final term until the dogmatic definition of the Tridentine Council. ("Canon of the New Testament")
There is a lot of confusion about the earliest existing texts of the Bible. The oldest extant manuscript of the Bible is believed to be the Codex Vaticanus, (preserved in the Vatican Library), which is slightly older than the Codex Sinaiticus (preserved in the British Library), both of which were transcribed in the fourth century.
As for the story of Jesus, there were at least 50 gospels written in the first and second century CE. Four of them (Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John) were included in the official canon during the fourth century CE and are found today in every Bible. All of the original copies of the gospels were lost. What we have now are handwritten copies, which are an unknown number of replications removed from the originals.
Rudolf Bultmann, a prominent 20th-century professor of New Testament studies writes about the life of Jesus:
We can now know almost nothing concerning the life and personality of Jesus, since the early Christian sources show no interest in either, are moreover fragmentary and often legendary; and other sources about Jesus do not exist. (Bultmann 8)
2007-10-30 03:16:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hadn't heard that. But I am aware some of the same principles are in the Book of the Dead. Egyptians were polythistic except for the reign of Akaton so I imagine anything like the 10 Commandmants would have to be at Karnak. But everything there was destroyed by following reign. Many believe that was Tut and the reason for such lavish funeral items for such a short reign. Restoring polythism and the priesthood to power.
- Thanks History Channel
2007-10-30 03:20:50 · answer #4 · answered by genghis1947 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Charmaine, thanks a lot for that answer, it is only a prove that God was and lived with every Land and man.
It has been the emissaries, the interpretors and the makers and administrators of the law, beliefs, customs and traditions who have always turned everything around for their own benefits and according to their inferior reasoning.
If that is what God gave moses to work with, then that is what God gave them to work with. If God gave Jesus a new covenant then God also gave Jesus a new covenant.
If God wants to reveal in Jesus how his messages were miscommunicated and manipulated by all races, lands and tribes, then it is also so.
If the message in Jesus fits the needs for a better society in love and harmony, then there is nothing else to be said in Mohamed.
There's not chosen people to God but mankind itself.
2007-10-30 08:41:24 · answer #5 · answered by Davinci22 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well they were there 400 years. Grafitti is as old as time and the Egyptians were their trading partners....They had rules of ethics before they came to Egypt. They are all Semetic peoples and they all travelled.. No big.
2007-10-30 03:40:40 · answer #6 · answered by ShadowCat 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
And your name and phone number appears on the bathroom wall of the local BP gas station.
What does that have to do with anything?
2007-10-30 08:35:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why wouldn't they be? Moses was raised in Eygpt, and before that, God laid down some rules to Noah in Gen 9 which he would have passed on to his generations.
Presuming there is such inscriptions??
2007-10-30 04:09:45 · answer #8 · answered by Darcy G 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not surprised. The Hebrews were enslaved in Egypt for about 400 years.
2007-10-30 03:24:32 · answer #9 · answered by cheir 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Just another form of proof that christianity seems to be a mixture of whatever was available back in the day...throw in a little bit of this and a little bit of that.....
goodness....bless them all goddess!
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trinity
2007-10-30 03:20:01 · answer #10 · answered by trinity 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋