A Doubter's Guide To The Bible

I consider myself to be a very open-minded, spiritual and understanding human-being. Being raised in a Baptist church, and then converting myself to Methodist at the age of fifteen gave me two different points of view when it comes to the Bible. Of my personal experience, I have noticed a few differences between the two denominations. One difference I had noticed was of course the baptism beliefs. Baptist individuals tend to wait until the person that is being baptized actually wants to be baptized and understands what it means to be baptized versus Methodist individuals who believe that new-borns should be baptized. However a similarity that the two share is the Ten Commandments and how they are viewed. This book, A Doubter’s Guide to the
What would life be like if Moses never did receive the Ten Commandants? Would it be better since no one would technically be breaking the rules since without them there are no rules, or would it be worst because the world would be very chaotic because there isn’t any way to control the people? The Ten Commandments seem as if it is just common sense stuff. Don’t steal, or you will more than likely be going to jail with the jailbirds. Don’t covet your neighbor’s ox or you will never be truly satisfied with what you have. The author spin however dives deeper into the meanings of the Ten Commandments and how they influenced history and western culture. He describes each commandment in its original
You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make idols. You shall not take the name of the lord your God in vain. I feel like he talked the most about these because they are the most important, in my opinion. With the first commandment he talks about how rare it was at the time to only worship one god and one god only. This first commandment, as he says in the book, “Grounds the other commandments in a coherent reality”. With the second commandment he talks about how worshiping an idol of God is wrong, which I’ve already discussed. With the third commandment he talks about how talking the Lords name in vain is wrong and disrespectful. A Doubter's Guide to the Ten Commandments was not written for someone who is a very devoted Christian but it is for someone who is somewhere between Christian and atheist. He contrasts the ideas in the "ten commandments" with both a Christian perspective and an atheist perspective which I felt was respecting both sides of the