The Baptist
Puritan Board Freshman
I recently had an encounter with an Atheist where he thought he was really schooling me. Destroying my world view! Well, it didn't turn out that way, but it was interesting. I had always thought, despite the fact that I thought I read Exodus carefully, that the typical Decalogue of Exodus chapter 20 were the commands written on the stone tablets. I mean, I guess I was a victim of film and culture, I see these stone tablet thingies in a lot of places and so I assumed those were the ten commandments. But... the commandments that were on the stone tablets in fact come from Exodus 34. Now this gentleman really thought he had me! "Christian, you don't know your Bible!! Gotcha." But it was an interesting moment, I started pondering Christ's conversation with the rich young man, where he says, "you know the commandments, do no murder etc." Either Christ was ignorant of the old testament, (har) or he was showing which commandments must be lived and written on our hearts first and foremost. I started thinking about how it is important for the Jewish nation to follow what was on the tablets, but for us the "commandments" Christ mentions are those that are more primary, to show our love. Anyway, thought I'd throw that out there and see what you all might have to say or to add. I thought it was strange that I didn't know this. Peace.