by jam 27 Replies latest social entertainment
Come to think about it what proof do we have
that YOUR a real person ? Or that any historical figure
was a real person, Was Buddah a real person ?
Was Mohammad a real person ?
Was Hannibal a real person?
Did Hannibal really cross the Alps with a herd of Elephants,
in 220 B.C.E.? Highly unlikely.
Did Cleopatra really exist ?
Next thing you'll be saying that Charlton Heston didn't exist either!
Cleopatra did existed, because body for her sister was excavated in Turkey before WWII. While the scull was destroyed during battle of Berlin in 1945, the bones and DNA are there. I recommend watching documentary, Cleopatra, the portrait of killer. There are many historical evidence from Roman and Greek records to traces of battles, and the Roman occupation of Egypt, and even coins that circulated along the Eastern Mediterranean. Hanibal was real due excavations of the battle sites. 220 BC was not that far off from the peak of the Roman Empire. It was a closing period of the Roman Republic that ushered a golden age of the Latin literature. Using elephants in the battle was already known to Alexander the Great during his conquest of eastern Persian empire. For Roman soldiers, it was the first time they faced them. Greeks 100 years before them had knowledge about using elephants in the battle. When you talk and mention such events that happened in the period of extensive literature development with large cities and civilizations like Roman, Greek, Persian, Ptolemanic.., you have extensive traces of them. Moses if he ever existed, lived in period in Bronze Age, where Greek civilization nor even Chinese existed. It would predate any of the great civilization of the antiqutity by 1000-700 years.
14 million Jews can't be wrong. And add one billion Muslims who think
Moses helped muhammed write the Quran.
Despite the bad reasoning to the contrary, there is no proof.
Look at the cultures the Hammurabi Arabs developed, do you see justice ? Do you see humanity ?
Hammurabi ruled the Babylonian Kingdom, Semitic peoples, same as the Israelites, which may explain why the Israelites were always boasting about genocide, murder and a propensity for slavery.
The basis of the American Constitution is based on Torah.
A very common misconception.
villagegirl:
The Torah, (first five book of the Bible, known to the Jews as The Law ) is the basis of all Western legal systems.
Hardly! More than half of the 'Ten Commandments' (assuming you mean the first ten at Exodus 20:2-17) are not recognised as laws at all in modern secular legal systems, and the first four are specifically protected against by Human Rights laws regarding freedom of worship.
The second set of Ten Commandments at Exodus 34:11-26 after Moses supposedly smashed the first set are even less relevant to modern legal systems. And only 3 bear any resemblance to any of the first set. (Slavery's fine, but you'd sure as hell better make sure you don't "boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.")
Beyond those ten (twenty?), the laws of most 'Western legal systems' protect people from things that are in 'The Law'. You can't go around raping virgins and then forcing them to marry you (Deuteronomy 22:28-29), killing foreigners and abducting their virgin daughters as sex slaves (Number 31:16-19), or forcing foreigners and their children into permanent slavery (Numbers 25:44-46), because modern laws protect against those things.
The basis of the American Constitution is based on Torah.
Rubbish. The US Constitution explicitly indicates separation from religion. And the 'one nation under God' and 'in God we trust' nonsense wasn't brought in until the 1950s.
Which laws are part of western cultures law codes?
The 10 commandments? Which version... Ex 20... Dtr 5....Ex 34
The Covenant Code Exodus 21-23 is put simply 3000 years out of date
The Holiness Code of Lev 17-26 is simply put the product of a sick mind.
The Dtr code of Dtr. 12-26 has maybe less then 5 parallels in modern laws and those are mere safety measures. The rest of that code is more of a Nazi authoritarian system
The other laws in the 'Torah' are sacrificial laws which if I satrted doing them would be arrested lol
