10 Commandments
How foundational are they?
I was taught as a child that the world was created 6000 years ago, which means that creation and Adam and Eve happened 4000 BC according to young earth creationists. During this time, Adam and Eve disobeyed God and got kicked out of the garden of eden. 1650 years went by as mankind got worse and worse. So out of great forethought and compassion, in 2350 BC, God destroyed the earth with a flood due to how evil man had become. The fix was to wave a magical wand, destroy everyone and everything, and start over from one man and his family. Somehow this great creation wasn’t working out so well, so rather than solving the problem, God wiped out the problem. Not very creative problem solving. Then it still took until 1500 BC, 3500 years after creation, for God to figure out that maybe, just maybe, he forgot something in this grand design. Moral laws! The 10 commandments! Oh yeah. These 10 commandments will save the world from destroying itself. Except that 1500 years later, God had to sacrifice himself because he saw that mankind was going to hell in a handbasket, even preceding god’s judgement, or something. So then, finally God transformed culture and religion from animal sacrifice to human sacrifice with the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the world has been saved by human sacrifice (at least it wasn't babies). Fast forward to 2021 and can we see that the great wisdom of the 10 commandments has saved the world? Christians still teach that this is the foundation for all morality and that America was founded on the 10 commandments.
Is this really the best of all time?
Is this epitome of human morality straight from divine origin?
Is this foundational for American democracy?
Is this foundational for all human civilization, morality, and decency?
