Quote (Manaburn @ Jun 2 2011 07:19pm)
Take an ancient history class & you'll see how false the bible really is, commandments stolen from Hammurabi's laws? lol.. and some of the stuff in the bible was written hundreds of years later.. that's a long game of "telephone", and go watch the passion of christ, yeah, go christianity!.. no offense, my whole family is catholic.. but still
read the latin bible, don't disgrace susej.
If we are going to toss general statements about ancient history around we need dates so we can discuss what portions of the biblical texts correspond to what time periods. Even IF what you have said is true, it would not immediately prove the Bible is false. In making such a claim the burden of proof is upon you to give us a positive affirmative case as to how this makes the entire bible false. (The statement that the entire Bible is false is itself false, by the way, because events recorded in it have been justified to be plausibly or undeniably true historically.)
Also, even if the ten commandments did bear some resemblance to Hammurabi's laws, it does not inevitably mean they were plagiarized and adapted into the Hebrew culture. If you do some diligent study of the history of science, math, and philosophy, you will find it is not at all uncommon for people to come to the same conclusions without copying each other in the least. Here are couple of examples (forgive my lack of exact names, but these are easily verifiable):
1. We hail Isaac Newton as the inventor of Calculus, but it is also true that a contemporary of Newton (that means he lived at the same exact time as Newton) ALSO invented calculus, although he had never spoke with Newton or seen his work. In fact, he spent the last few years (five or more) of his life writing letters defending how he had never copied Newton. We now know this is true.
2. The two individuals who are best known as the discoverers of the double-helix (Crick and Watson, I believe) were given the Nobel Prize for their discovery. However, there was another scientist who was a contemporary of these two who, while in the hospital unable to leave due to a recent injury, literally figured out the double helix and could visually represent it IN HIS MIND. He never copied them, although he made the same discovery. This we also now know is true.
In a word, just because two things resemble each other, it does not mean they were copied. If all of Hammurabi's laws even closely resemble morality in the way given to the Hebrews, all it would do to show is that there was another culture that was capable of defining objective moral values and place them into law. This says nothing about the truth of the Bible, like many ancient historians actually recognize.