Ten Command-nots

Sometimes Christians can be quite strange. They pound the pulpit about “Jesus this” and “Jesus that,” but when it fits their mindset, they dip back into the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) to cherry-pick verses that support their positions. Such cherry-picking twists the original intent, resulting in the ignoring of both the specific context of the passage and the entirety of the ancient Hebrew-Jewish faith and culture. Furthermore, these preachers are often using Bibles that are translations of translations, which frequently have little resemblance to the original Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek texts. Translation is, by any measure, an interpretation. The Bible, more than any other ancient text, has been weaponized since time immemorial. Even Jesus had to confront this with the “scribes and Pharisees.” There is one item of note that has been receiving media attention in the U.S. lately. This attention swirls around various state legislatures and other local government bodies attempting to order schools to post the Ten Commandments in their classrooms. I noted that the Texas StateWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times