The Baha'i Studies Listserv > Also, the rabbis (e.g. Maimonides) have come up with an itemized list > of 613 commandments in the Torah. The 10 commandments are only > "special" because they were described as miraculously written in > stone. What is kind of funny to me is that the text pretty clearly > directs the commandments to the Jews specifically "I am the Lord your > God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of > slavery; " so they aren't really for Gentiles anyway. According to > Judaism, the Universal commandments intended for everyone are the 7 > commandments of Noah. (no blasphemy, no idolatry, no murder, no theft, > no sexual immorality, no tearing the limb from a live animal and/or no > eating blood, and then setting up a system of courts to enforce the > first sex commandments)
That's correct. > > (so i guess gentiles get to lie and dishonor their parents) Lying is not mentioned in the Ten Commandments anyhow. What is prohibited is bearing false witness, i.e. perjury, something much more limited than lying. __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-537088-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [email protected] Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[email protected] Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
