How is it that the 10 Commandments (laws) didn't happened

[LiberalFighter]

until over 2500 years after Adam & Eve? How is it that there were Egyptian laws similar to laws in the Bible before Moses? Why wouldn't it be that the Hammurabi Code was the beginning of how the 10 Commandments came into being?

[Warpy]

1. The closer you look at it, the less sense it makes.

No wonder Catholics were discouraged from reading the bible for themselves and no wonder Protestants just don't bother once they find a couple of the comforting stories and bookmark them.

[kdmorris]

2. All I ever got from asking questions when I was 8 years old

was - you have to have faith. Seemed like a lame-ass answer to me.

[Phillip McCleod]

3. i got the boot.. from sunday school i mean..

..for precisely that crime.

age? 10-ish. kept going to choir practice for another year or so but that was about it for me and church.

[Warpy]

8. Me too, and it got me hours on my knees on marble

I was a rebel. Catholic school wasn't a good fit, to say the least. That's how I got sprung after fifth grade.

After all, people were starting to talk.

[Ron Obvious]

4. And yet...

I used to run into people all the time who thought, in all seriousness, that the laws of the land were founded in the 10 commandments. It apparently didn't occur to them that a) blasphemy is not illegal, and b) every society on earth would have prohibitions against murdering and stealing from the in-group or it wouldn't survive long.

There were many reasons I left Texas.

[Zoeisright]

5. Christianity is cobbled together from many other earlier religions

and superstitions. There's nothing original about it at all.

[Curmudgeoness]

6. I guess it was just the wild wild west until they came along.

What a time it was! No rules, no laws, anything goes!

Wait. That isn't the way it was.

[AtheistCrusader]

7. The story would make more sense if those tablets were made of some sort of indestructible

unobtanium element that does not exist in nature.

Might help the credibility along, you know.

[Warren Stupidity]

9. It isn't even clear what the commandments are or if there are ten.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments

That obscured divinity sure had a problem communicating with his interlocutors.

[SwissTony]

10. I saw a cartoon once in which Moses descended from Mt Sinai

bearing three tablets. He starts to address the people gathered. "God has given me these 15 commandments...". He then drops one tablet and it breaks. Unfazed, Moses continues "These 10 commandments...".