The Ten Commandments drawing upon 21st Century's exchange of knowledge

according to Saint Philip of Sydney, Oz

1st     Thou shalt believe that a highly intelligent, skilful and powerful Energy Force, hereinafter Extreme Energy Force, far beyond even a remote understanding by Homo sapiens is responsible for creating the Universe, thence planet Earth and finally enabling life on Earth.  This Extreme Energy Force initiated The Big Bang 13.8 bil. circa years ago that created the Universe. Thence Earth's solar system formed within the expanding Universe around 4.54 bil. years ago. Taxonomy is the science of categorization or classification.  Humans are classified as descendants of apes and chimpanzees that started walking on two hind legs, not loping along on all fours.  Hence, the first humans were aptly named Homo erectus.  Fossils indicate Homo erectus first appeared in East Africa around two million years ago.  Neanderthal appeared around 430,000 years ago. Primitive Homo sapiens first appeared 300,000 years ago in East Africa.  Homo sapiens, known as Early Modern Humans, appeared 125,000 circa years ago on the Savannah Plains in East Africa.

2nd    Therefore, thou shalt believe that -

           (A)     a Christian God referred to as God the Father did not create the world in six days and rest on the seventh day; and

           (B)     the first human inhabitants of terra firma were not Adam and Eve who reputedly lived on their lonesome in The Garden of Eden assertedly only 7,520 years ago and supposedly survived by eating copious fruit.  But no protein or carbohydrates. "The story of the Garden of Eden is a theological use of mythological themes to explain human progression from a state of innocence and bliss to the present human condition of knowledge of sin, misery, and death.  According to Genesis account (2:4–3:24), God created Adam from the dust of the ground and then planted the Garden of Eden with the “tree of life” and the forbidden “tree of the knowledge of good and evil” at its centre."  How did Genesis know how its God created the first human?  Nor shalt thou believe that these fictitious first human inhabitants of Earth brought on Original Sin when first Eve, then Adam, purportedly ate an apple from a forbidden apple tree in the Garden of Eden.  (Modern Homo sapiens appeared 125,000 circa years ago in East Africa, and not a mere 7,520 years ago in the inane biblical Garden of Eden).

3rd    Thou shalt believe that the greatest achievement of the Extreme Energy Force is the biology of a male of an animal species injecting a small amount of sperm into the vagina of a female of the same species.  In the case of Homo sapiens during approx. 9 months a tiny, beautiful, delicate, complex progeny forms/grows and is ejected from the mother's uterus that has -

(a)      two eyes to see, two ears to hear, a nose to smell, a mouth to taste and digest food and fluid, as well as make audible sounds;

(b)      two arms and hands to hold objects and two legs to propel itself forward, backwards or sideways;

(c)      a digestive system to metabolically extract energy from foods and fluids and organs to sort, refine and excrete remaining waste;

(d)      several organs that perform a different purifying and storage role in the human body - stomach, bladder, small intestine, large intestine, liver, kidneys, pancreas;

(e)      two lungs to capture energy and a heart to pump blood and oxygen around the new born's tiny defenceless body; and

(f)       two parents with an instinctive sense to do all in their power to nurture and protect their defenceless child/s. 

4th     Thou shalt not believe that a biblical character named Noah received a message from God the Father (around 2,592 BC - only 4,615 years ago) that an angry and wrathful God wanted to drown all human life by a giant flood (around 2,472 BC) and assertedly at the age of 500 years' old circa, Noah then worked with his family to build a giant timber boat over the following 120 years that then sheltered two of every known animal on the planet and safeguarded all these animals from "....... rain that fell for forty days and forty nights until the highest mountains were covered to a depth of 15 cubits, and all earth-based life perished except Noah and those with him in the Ark."  How did Noah and his family protect carnivorous food for the lions and tigers, namely the sheep, cattle and goats, from being devoured?
Why would a loving God be more concerned about saving animals from an imminent flood and allow "... all earth-based life to perish, except Noah and those with him in the Ark."?  This biblical chap known as Noah did not craft for 120 years to build a massive/gigantic ark and board two of each animal on his ark during a giant flood that " ... all earth-based life perished".  Nor did this legendary, Noah, live for 950 years - asserted in Genesis 9:29.  How did the "scroller" of Genesis know that Noah lived for 950 years?  The "oldest person ever, whose age has been independently verified, is Jeanne Calment (1875–1997) of France, who lived to the age of 122 years and 164 days."  There was no Births, Deaths and Marriages Register that recorded when the mystical Noah was born and when he seemingly died.  There was no paper in Israel until the 7th Century.  And no Bic Biros until 1938AD.  Residents of Bethlehem, Nazareth, and Capernaum in 2,500BC circa were preoccupied with feeding their family.  Virtually no one could read or write.

5th     Thou shalt not believe in the mythology of The Parable of the Passover (1250 BC circa) where reputedly God the Father:

           "sent the angel of death to kill the firstborn sons of all the Egyptian families. And God told Moses to order the Israelite families to sacrifice a lamb and smear the blood on the door of their houses. In this way the angel of death would know to 'pass over' the houses of the Israelites. This is why the festival commemorating the escape from Egypt is known as Passover."

           The Celebration of Passover is prescribed in the book of Exodus in the Old Testament (in Judaism, the first five books of Moses are called the Torah).

                    "12 “On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. 13 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt."

           The book of Exodus fails to chronicle how God the Father's "angel of death" actually killed the first born male child in each Egyptian family, as punishment for the Egyptians not allowing the Israelites to escape from reputed slavery in Egypt.  Nor does Exodus note the number of first born Egyptian males that God the Father's "angel of death" actually killed.  (More Christian biased dogma about God the Father bringing about the execution of each Egyptian's first born son.)

6th     Thou shalt not believe the further Christian invented parable that God the Father drowned the Pharaoh and his Egyptian army:

          "Moses guided the Israelites out of Egypt on their way to the Promised Land.  Pharaoh and his army pursued them.  When the Israelites reached the Red Sea, Moses stretched out his hand and the waters divided, allowing his followers safe passage. The Egyptians followed them, but God the Father again commanded Moses to stretch out his hand and the sea engulfed the Egyptian army."

This far fetched myth (above) is recounted in the Old Testament (Exodus 14: 19-31).

7th     Thou shalt not believe that after the omnipresent, ubiquitous, Moses, who popped-up everywhere in the Old Testament scrolls, had hung out at the apex of Mount Sinai for 40 days and 40 nights without a food store within cooee, a mythological God the Father then presented Moses with two heavy stone tablets that chronicled the Ten Commandments (as noted hereunder).  Thence the exceedingly hungry and withered Moses twice walked the 3,750 stairs to the bottom of Mount Sinai, sometimes referred to as "God's Stairmaster" to present the two stone tablets to the assembled Israelites who had scripturally already endured the perils of crossing The Red Sea":

"When God finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him two tablets of stone inscribed by the very finger of God. The tablets contained the Ten Commandments.

Meanwhile, the people of Israel had become impatient while waiting for Moses to return with a message from God. Moses had been gone for so long that the people gave up on him and begged Aaron, Moses' brother, to build them an altar so they could worship.

Aaron collected offerings of gold from all the people and built an idol cast in the shape of a calf. The Israelites held a festival and bowed down to worship the idol. Quickly they had fallen back into the same type of idolatry they were accustomed to in Egypt. They were acting in direct disobedience to God's new commands.

When Moses came down from the mountain with the tablets of stone, his anger burned as he saw the people given over to idolatry. He threw down the two tablets, smashing them to pieces at the foot of the mountain. Then Moses destroyed the golden calf, burning it in the fire.

Moses and God proceeded to discipline the people for their sins. Later God instructed Moses to chisel two new stone tablets, just like the ones God had written with his own finger."

           The Ten Commandments were a creation of the early Christian Church without any drafting or input from -
 a)    its avowed God the Father ; and
 b)    a fictitious chap (who pops up lots in the Old Testament) lugging two heavy stone tablets down from Mount Sinai after he'd waited 40 days and 40 nights for a mythological God to appear.

8th     Thou shalt not believe that Jesus was the only child of Mary and Joseph.  Nor that Mary was a virgin.  Mary bore four other sons (James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas) and two sisters.  Following Jesus' crucifixion, his brother, James, reputedly became the most important leader of the early Christian church. 

9th     Thou shalt not believe that Jesus of Nazareth rose from the dead after being nailed to a timber cross for three days.  The asserted authors of the Gospels have written conflicting accounts of Jesus' execution and reputed rise from the dead.  Below are extracts from The American Humanists Association that ADVOCATES PROGRESSIVE VALUES AND EQUALITY FOR HUMANISTS, ATHEISTS, AND FREETHINKERS:               

"In describing Jesus being led to his execution, John 19:17 recounts that he carried his own cross. But Mark 15:21-23 disagrees by saying a man called Simon carried the cross.

As for the crucifixion, Matthew 27:44 tells us Jesus was taunted by both criminals who were being crucified with him. But Luke 23:39-43 relates that only one of the criminals taunted Jesus, the other criminal rebuked the one who was doing the taunting, and Jesus told the criminal who was defending him, “Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.”

Regarding the last words of Jesus while on the cross, Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34 quote Jesus as crying with a loud voice, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” Luke 23:46 gives his final words as, “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.” John 19:30 alleges the last words were, “It is finished.”

There are even contradictions in the accounts of the resurrection– the supposed event that is the very foundation of the Christian religion. Mark 16:2 states that on the day of the resurrection, certain women arrived at the tomb at the rising of the sun. But John 20:1 informs us they arrived when it was yet dark. Luke 24:2 describes the tomb as open when the women arrived, whereas Matthew 28:1-2 indicates it was closed. Mark 16:5 declares that the women saw a young man at the tomb, Luke 24:4 says they saw two men, Matthew 28:2 reports they saw an angel, and John 20:11-12 claims they saw two angels.

Also in the resurrection stories, there are contradictions as to the identity of the women who came to the tomb,[7] whether the men or angels the women saw were inside or outside the tomb,[8] whether the men or angels were standing or sitting,[9] and whether Mary Magdalene recognized the risen Jesus when he first appeared to her.[10]"

            Below is an extract from Jon Santiago's appraisal of “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” written by Reza Aslan 

          "On Jesus' Death and Resurrection

·         Punishment by crucifixion was common during Jesus' lifetime. Why?

 o   It was cheap. All you needed was a tree.

 o   They were always carried out in public, where people would have to see the grossness of it.

 o   The criminal was always left hanging long after he had died; he wasn’t buried.

.          Because the entire point of the crucifixion was to humiliate the victim and frighten the witnesses, the corpse would be left where it hung to be eaten by dogs and picked clean by birds of prey.

.          At least a month after crucifixion, bones would be thrown into a heap of trash, which is how Golgotha got its name."

           When the Romans painfully nailed a dissident Israelite to a wooden cross, the Romans did not allow him the dignity of a burial.  Rather the carcass remained hanging on the wooden cross to be picked at by high lunging dogs and birds of prey for other Jews to see.  To allow the corpse to be buried would have diminished the significance of an excruciating and drawn out execution.

 

10th   Thou shalt not believe that the Christian Church of The Holy Trinity was the first religion to offer the enticement of an Afterlife in Heaven for those that obeyed their own version of the Ten Commandments and did not die with a Mortal Sin on their soul.  Many other religions, both BC and AD, not limited to the following, have promised an eternal Afterlife in Heaven or paradise for its Obedient Followers: