Comments by "Philip Rayment" (@PJRayment) on "The Ten Commandments: What You Should Know" video.

  1. I don't know for sure. The Old Testament was written in Hebrew, or at least that is the language that we have the earliest extant manuscripts of it in. However, I seriously question your claim that "Moses did not speak or read Hebrew, he spoke Aramaic.". Moses was raised in the Egyptian royal family, and would have spoken some form of Egyptian. But he was very likely bilingual, or perhaps even knew several languages. What's your reason for thinking that Hebrew was not one of his languages? Further, there is a lot of misinformation about when Moses lived. According to the Bible, it was (just from memory; I might have this wrong) around 1500 BC, but if you try to apply that to Egyptian history, it won't make a lot of sense, because Egyptian chronology is full of holes. So various people have tried to determine when in Egyptian history the exodus happened and come up with quite different answers. And as the Egyptian language changed over time that then affects which Egyptian language was in use in Moses' time. Which all suggests that it's not an easy question to answer.
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  2. The Christian community does not "ignore" that commandment. Rather, it has various reasons to say that it no longer applies. Whether or not those reasons hold up is not a question that can't be answered in a few sentences, though. But one line of argument is that the entire Mosaic Law doesn't apply to Christians, or even to non-pre-Christ Jews. But that argument is that the specifics don't apply, or that certain parts of it don't apply (e.g. the ceremonial parts), but that the principles still do. So when the Mosaic law says that homosexuals should be stoned, that law no longer applies, but the principle that it's based on—that homosexuality is wrong—is still true. How much of that is relevant to the Ten Commandments is not clear, given that it only espouses principles, not penalties, but Christians still agree with setting aside one day per week, which arguably is the principle involved. So that's not a conclusive answer, but may provide some aspects to consider or investigate more.
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