Slightly off-topic, but why do we call it the Ten Commandments when there are not ten of them?
I presume it would be immoral to violate any of the 613 commandments in the Bible, or are some less important than others? Can one commandment be less immoral than another?

Well, WHICH ten commandments? Moses smashed the first set in a fit of anger, and the second set were completely different.
http://www.positiveatheism.org/crt/whichcom.pdf

Well, WHICH ten commandments? Moses smashed the first set in a fit of anger, and the second set were completely different.
http://www.positiveatheism.org/crt/whichcom.pdf

The two sets were exactly the same. After giving the second set, God then made a proclamation but there is no indication that what He said was what He wrote on the second set.

Why do you disregard your God's proclamations? Surely they are to be obeyed as well?

Why do you disregard your God's proclamations? Surely they are to be obeyed as well?

8 First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them” —though they were offered in accordance with the law. 9 Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first to establish the second. 10 And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

11 Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, 13 and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool. 14 For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.

15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says:

16 “This is the covenant I will make with them
after that time, says the Lord.
I will put my laws in their hearts,
and I will write them on their minds.”[a]
17 Then he adds:

“Their sins and lawless acts
I will remember no more.”[b]
18 And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary.

28 This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

One-liners are frowned upon in SD. Perhaps fleshing out your viewpoint by referencing a specific difference rather than just throwing a link down would help foster further discussion and understanding.



This is also a one-liner, and without supporting evidence. Where exactly did God proclaim this? Do you have an expert's opinion on the subject?



Which proclamations are you referring? I find your questions a bit unsubstantiated and confusing, especially noting that the language suggests you didn't quite grasp what Jack was saying.

One-liners are frowned upon in SD. Perhaps fleshing out your viewpoint by referencing a specific difference rather than just throwing a link down would help foster further discussion and understanding.



This is also a one-liner, and without supporting evidence. Where exactly did God proclaim this? Do you have an expert's opinion on the subject?



Which proclamations are you referring? I find your questions a bit unsubstantiated and confusing, especially noting that the language suggests you didn't quite grasp what Jack was saying.

And God spoke all these words: 2 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the
land of slavery.
3 “You shall have no other gods before[a] me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above
or on the earth beneath or in the
waters below.
5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I,
the LORD your God, am a jealous God,
punishing the children for the sin of
the parents to the third and fourth
generation of those who hate me,
6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and
keep my commandments.
7 “You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold
anyone guiltless who misuses his
name.
8 “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
10 but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God. On
it you shall not do any work, neither
you, nor your son or daughter, nor
your male or female servant, nor your
animals, nor any foreigner residing in
your towns.
11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the
earth, the sea, and all that is in them,
but he rested on the seventh day.
Therefore the LORD blessed the
Sabbath day and made it holy.
12 “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the
LORD your God is giving you.
13 “You shall not murder.
14 “You shall not commit adultery.
15 “You shall not steal.
16 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s
wife, or his male or female servant, his
ox or donkey, or anything that belongs
to your neighbor.”

The LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on
them the words that were on the first tablets,
which you broke.
2 Be ready in the morning, and then come up on Mount Sinai. Present yourself to
me there on top of the mountain.
3 No one is to come with you or be seen anywhere on the
mountain; not even the flocks and herds may
graze in front of the mountain.”
4 So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones and went up Mount Sinai early in the
morning, as the LORD had commanded him; and
he carried the two stone tablets in his hands.
5 Then the LORD came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name,
the LORD.
6 And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The LORD, the LORD, the
compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger,
abounding in love and faithfulness,
7 maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness,
rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty
unpunished; he punishes the children and their
children for the sin of the parents to the third and
fourth generation.”
8 Moses bowed to the ground at once and worshiped.
9 “Lord,” he said, “if I have found favor in your eyes, then let the Lord go with us.
Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our
wickedness and our sin, and take us as your
inheritance.”
10 Then the LORD said: “I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do
wonders never before done in any nation in all
the world. The people you live among will see how
awesome is the work that I, the LORD, will do for
you.
11 Obey what I command you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites,
Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
12 Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live
in the land where you are going, or they will be a
snare among you.
13 Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their
Asherah poles.[a]
14 Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a
jealous God.
15 “Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute
themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them,
they will invite you and you will eat their
sacrifices.
16 And when you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons and those
daughters prostitute themselves to their gods,
they will lead your sons to do the same.
17 “Do not make any idols.
18 “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast, as
I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time
in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came
out of Egypt.
19 “The first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your
livestock, whether from herd or flock.
20 Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do
not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem all your
firstborn sons. “No one is to appear before me empty-handed.
21 “Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing
season and harvest you must rest.
22 “Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival
of Ingathering at the turn of the year.[b]
23 Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign LORD, the God of Israel.
24 I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land
when you go up three times each year to appear
before the LORD your God.
25 “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not
let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Festival
remain until morning.
26 “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. “Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
27 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I
have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
28 Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking
water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of
the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

So... as I was asking. Why is it that you base your morality purely off Ten Commandments (the ten chiseled in stone) and not the commandments your God gave to Moses orally.

Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live
in the land where you are going, or they will be a
snare among you.
Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their
Asherah poles.
Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a
jealous God.
Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute
themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them,
they will invite you and you will eat their
sacrifices.
Do not make any idols.
Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast, as
I commanded you.

I don't understand how you are distinguishing 'ceremonial' commandments from moral commandments.
"Ceremonial?" Some of those are near identical to the first set.

Basically, I'm asking how are you categorising commands your God gives you or someone else, either textually or orally. Surely every command from your God is a moral one? Because you believe your God to be omnibenevolent.

Not eating certain kinds of animals holds no health benefits, so it is not a moral law. It has nothing to do with civil law, so it must be ceremonial. Killing someone who murders someone else is pretty clearly a civil law. Not lying is pretty clearly a moral law.

None of those commandments seem at all identical, except perhaps the one about worshipping other gods.

All laws given by God are moral, that is, good. Not all of them are about morality, though. The Ten Commandments are very clearly about how to live a moral life, whereas the ceremonial laws are all laws about what to do in the Israelite worship of God, and the civil laws are about what to do in cases of crime and civil aspects. The moral law is unchanged through all time, as morals are set in stone (), whereas the civil law only applied to the nation of Israel, and the ceremonial law only applied to people before Christ's resurrection. I daresay most laws are extremely obvious as to which category they fall under.

Not eating certain kinds of animals holds no health benefits, so it is not a moral law. It has nothing to do with civil law, so it must be ceremonial. Killing someone who murders someone else is pretty clearly a civil law. Not lying is pretty clearly a moral law.

My next question to you would be:
Can your God declare a civil or ceremonial law (or any other commandment) that contradicts a moral one?

Such as:
"Thou shalt not kill." Exodus 20:13

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