Do you really believe that eating shellfish is high temperatures is healthy?
It wasn't given as health advice, it was reported as a moral failing.
As for haircuts why did Samson live at a time when he was not allowed to cut his hair or where did his strength come from if it went when hair cut?
Samson was allowed to cut his hair, but he took an oath as a Nazirite which included a restriction on cutting his hair, but that's not really relevant to what I was asking.
Keeping slaves was something man did and raping has never been allowed.
Eating shellfish, mixing crops and being gay were things men did, but the God saw fit to explicitly speak out against those. Rape wasn't just allowed it was actively sanctioned in the form of taking the unmarried women from defeated lands and forcing them into marriages.
What is sin?
It's a made up parallel immorality score to justify religious interference in individual freedom.
God hated human sacrifices they sacrificed their children.
God hated human sacrifice, which is why we have Jesus? God hated human sacrifice which is why he drowned the entire world except on drunkard and his close family?
Do you not see how people were at that time.
Fundamentally, like us but with more supersitions.
Immorality or immoral = not conforming to accepted standards of morality. So given that is comes from not conforming to accepted standards of Morality then humans had already decided what the standards were.
Yes, but the point is that there isn't very much that's of a moral foundation in the precepts handed over by, particularly the Old Testament depiction of, God.
Do you conform to the 10 commandments and were they for everyone when given?
Some of them, but not because of them, and no they weren't given for everyone, they were given explicitly for the Jews.
So we are accepting that the concept of sin and morality can only be observed and accepted by the standards you adopt.
You're falsely equating sin and morality here - morality is a system based upon one of a number of rational or sentimental systems; sin is the breach of a number of apparently arbitrary rules with no evident moral basis whatsoever.
We have to ask do you get what you write from what you read or by studying the bible.
Amongst other sources, yes.
Do you believe any of the 10 commandments to be acceptable and if so, which? If there are some you do not find acceptable then post and explain why.
"I am the lord thy god, thou shalt have no other gods before me" - I don't believe in any gods, but it does seem strange that a monotheistic deity would be worried about other gods?
"Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain" - I'm an advocate for freedom of speech, but I can understand the basis of this, at least.
"Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day" - well, the very concept of 'holy' is fundamentally troublesome for me, but I do think that purely from a personal wellbeing point of view we all need at least one day of the week which we can use to rest and recharge.
"Honour thy father and mother." - as a general precept not too bad, presuming that it's understood there are implicit qualifiers (some parents don't merit honouring) but it lacks the counterpoint that parents should equally honour their children who are also individuals worthy of respect for their individuality and selves.
"Thou shalt not kill" - in the original this is, I've heard, better interpreted as 'thou shalt not murder' which is easier to accept. I think killing should, in the main, be avoided, but I think it's sometimes necessary.
"Thou shalt not commit adultery" - depends on the interpreration; if adultery is any sex outside of a wedded couple (as I have seen it interpreted) then that just robs individuals of their freedom to choose their own lives, but if the principle is to not compromise on promises you make to the special people in your life then I'm fine with that.
"Thou shalt not steal" - seems reasonable.
"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour" - again, depends on interpretation; some people see this as an absolute prohibition on lying, which is not just unrealistic but fails to appreciate that some of those little white lies are necessary, but again the general principle of an expectation of good faith is fine.
"Thou shalt not covet they neighbour's wife" - this is just not possible to comply with. Who we find attractive isn't something that we can control; what we do about it is, of course, but this is trying to make instinctive feelings into something somehow criminal.
"Thou shalt not covet they neighbour's goods" - as above, whether we want things or not isn't something that we can control, we can only control what we do about it.
Of course, this neatly bypasses the more problematic 'commandments' that aren't part of the traditional ten, but which are still there. Modern Christianity's ongoing issues with homosexuality aren't any sort of issue in light of the Ten Commandments, slavery isn't a problem according to the Ten Commandments (although you mustn't be jealous of your neighbour having more slaves than you, that's sinful...)
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