How Does the 6th Commandment Apply to Killing in Military Combat?
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hey, Tim.
How do the 10 Commandments stand apart from other ancient Near Eastern law codes?
Hey, John. Hello. Hello. We wrapped up the Ten Commandments series. AKA the Ten Words. The Ten Words. Yeah. And we're going to do a question and response episode. Yep.
How do modern artistic depictions of God and Jesus relate to the 2nd Commandment?
And hear what people are thinking about. Yeah. And respond.
Turns out there are lots of prickly, complicated, nuanced questions and rabbit holes that we danced around. Yeah. Some of which, you know, I knew or you knew, you can only say so much. You can't say everything all the time. Others, I just didn't even occur to me.
Can we diminish God by how we talk about Him, like saying 'God is love'?
So I'm so glad to hear all y'all's questions to help us think more honestly. Maybe just after, just because I spent the morning kind of sorting through the questions. There were a lot, like over a hundred. And John and I... love to talk about the Bible and meditate on it together and share our learnings with you all. Many of the questions, you know, raised by the Ten Commandments, they're complicated and we're not going to like solve any issues for anybody, but we'll definitely do our best to be honest and try and name what are the issues involved as we meditate on the deep moral and human God-centered implications of all of these questions. So that's my
How do we honor aging parents or abusive and dangerous parents?
way of preface. All right. Let's just dive in. First question is from Kuliso from Johannesburg, South Africa. And this is kind of a context setting question about where the commands in the Hebrew Bible came from in the first place.
Hi, Tim and John. My name is Kudiso from Johannesburg, South Africa. Thanks very much for this podcast series. It's a really fascinating one as it comes at an interesting time for me as my church community has been camped in this sermon series in the book of Exodus.
How does the 6th Commandment apply to killing in military combat?
One of the things that I've been personally thinking through is the perspective from other biblical scholars, commentators, critics, and otherwise that posit that the formation of the Ten Commandments or the Ten Laws, along with the rest of the law codes found in the Torah, is influenced and shaped in part by other ancient Near Eastern law codes, such as the Homo Arabi Code. So I was curious, how do these Ten Commandments stand unique apart from other ancient Near Eastern law codes? Are these Ten Commandments particularly the first about Israel moving to becoming a monotheistic nation instead of a polytheistic nation? Or are these Ten Words performing a very different function altogether? Thanks for all you do.
Grace and peace.
Yeah, thanks for that question.
It's a great question. Yeah. Wow, wow. We could spend a whole series just on those set of questions alone. Actually, in a way, we kind of have spent a good chunk of a series a long time ago on your question, Kulizo, when we did the How to Read Biblical Law in the How to Read the Bible series. Mm-hmm. both a video and a whole podcast series, we touched on this very question about the ancient Near Eastern context of law codes, where they came from, how much biblical law codes have in common with them. So, yes, no one can debate the laws that we find in the Hebrew Bible are similar to, sometimes identical to, laws found in ancient Near Eastern context. law codes. The Hammurabi Code is exciting because it was the first one that was discovered back in, I'm pretty sure it was the 1800s.
We tell that story in How to Read Biblical Law.
What are the implications of the 8th Commandment?
So, one way we often think about it or the way the question gets worded is, well, was the Bible influenced by these other law codes? And I just would invite a bit of a reframing there to say the Bible is an expression of ancient Near Eastern law. These laws are. And it comes from a culture that had lots of conventions and assumptions and a long literary tradition about how these law codes are written. And there's lots of other expressions of the two, the Hammurabi Code. But there's other ancient Near Eastern collections.
What are the positive implications of the 10 Commandments in modern life?
The laws of Eshnunna is an Assyrian tradition. collection there's Hittite collections so more the question is all of these law codes are an expression that come from the royal courts of these other countries and what they embody is usually they're connected to a king like for the Babylonian code King Hammurabi and he first tells a story it's on the famous statue of Hammurabi and there's a picture at the top and as it were he meets and is enthroned by the sun god and
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:06–0:07
2
How do the 10 Commandments stand apart from other ancient Near Eastern law codes?
0:07–0:16
3
How do modern artistic depictions of God and Jesus relate to the 2nd Commandment?
0:16–0:38
4
Can we diminish God by how we talk about Him, like saying 'God is love'?
0:38–1:21
5
How do we honor aging parents or abusive and dangerous parents?
1:21–1:48
6
How does the 6th Commandment apply to killing in military combat?
1:48–3:19
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What are the implications of the 8th Commandment?
3:19–3:53
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What are the positive implications of the 10 Commandments in modern life?
3:53–1:01:08