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uriel1972

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2. Ah, which set...

Reply to Mariana (Original post)

Fri Jan 18, 2019, 01:34 PM

Jan 2019

There are three set of commandments that are ten in number only one of which is called 'The Ten Commandments'.

However it is mostly concerned with rituals and such not the "Thou shalt not Murder" kind of stuff featured in the other two sets of commandments... ten in number. This could be a subtle ploy by Atheists to open the minds of young people to the difficulties in taking the Bible at face value.

Or maybe not.

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