Over the last couple of days, I think I’ve amply demonstrated that the term “commandment” from the Hebrew DABAR really means “word”. If this is the case, how then should we re-think this notion drilled into us that these 10 Words are 10 “commandments”? Well, speaking as an American, I’d like to suggest that the Declaration […]

Today I want to explore the motivations behind why the Christian church would want to abolish the 1st Commandment of God. But first, a quick crash course into the history of early Christianity is necessary. It’s no secret that Christianity began as a strictly Jewish movement. It was all about Israel waiting for their Mighty […]

“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.”-Exodus 20:2 In my last post, I showed how the phrase “The 10 Commandments” is actually a mistranslation. The Hebrew word usually translated into “commandment” is DABAR and it literally means “a spoken word” or “a verbal utterance”. Some of you may have […]

“Then God said all these words“ Exodus 20:1 When it comes to understanding and studying our Bibles, we’re all very lucky today for one very good reason. We can now partake of scholarship that was formerly only available to theologians and scholars who had special access to the private libraries of certain elite Christian seminaries and […]

Today we begin Exodus Chapter 20. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James Bible, click here. Today we are going to begin that section of the Torah known in scholarly and theological circles as the “Decalogue” or more commonly known as “the 10 Commandments”. Now I need to give you a […]