MOSES AND CHRISTIANITY HAVE SOME EXPLAINING TO DO!
What is this?
Maat was the Ancient Egyptian concept of truth, balance, order, law, morality, and justice.
The doctrine of Maat is represented in the declarations to Rekhti-merti-f-ent-Maat and the 42 Negative Confessions listed in the Papyrus of Ani.
42 Negative Confessions (Papyrus of Ani)
I have not committed sin.
I have not committed robbery with violence.
I have not stolen.
I have not slain men and women.
I have not stolen grain.
I have not purloined offerings.
I have not stolen the property of the god.
I have not uttered lies.
I have not carried away food.
I have not uttered curses.
I have not committed adultery.
I have not lain with men.
I have made none to weep.
I have not eaten the heart (i.e I have not grieved uselessly, or felt remorse).
I have not attacked any man.
I am not a man of deceit.
I have not stolen cultivated land.
I have not been an eavesdropper.
I have slandered (no man).
I have not been angry without just cause(?).
I have not debauched the wife of any man.
I have not polluted myself.
I have terrorised none.
I have not transgressed (the Law).
I have not been wroth.
I have not shut my ears to the words of truth.
I have not blasphemed.
I am not a man of violence.
I am not a stirrer up of strife (or a disturber of the peace).
I have not acted (or judged) with undue haste.
I have not pried into matters.
I have not multiplied my words in speaking.
I have wronged none, I have done no evil.
I have not worked witchcraft against the King (or blasphemed against the King).
I have never stopped (the flow of) water.
I have never raised my voice (spoken arrogantly, or in anger?).
I have not cursed (or blasphemed) God.
I have not acted with arrogance(?).
I have not stolen the bread of the gods.
I have not carried away the khenfu cakes from the Spirits of the dead.
I have not snatched away the bread of the child, nor treated with contempt the god of my city.
I have not slain the cattle belonging to the god.
Now the first appearance of these Confessions was around 2680 BCE and Moses didn’t come around until 1393 BCE.
That’s like a 1287 year difference. Yet Moses insists that his “god” gave him the 10 Commandments when it’s clear he just stole them from The Egyptians. Very blatant plagiarism.
Can someone explain this to me?
Posted on April 8, 2010, in Historical Inaccuracy. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
Oh dear…I would LOVE to see them try to explain this one away…
Well, in any case, it wouldn’t be the Christians who would have to explain it, but the Jews. The Old Testament (home to the 10 commandments) is theirs.
But neither Jews nor Christians, if they’re being honest with themselves, or even know the history of their own religious traditions, would be able to argue that the 10 commandments – or really anything in the Bible – is wholly original. Hardly any religion, or any lasting philosophy of any kind, didn’t borrow from the culture and philosophy of their time.
All of these tenets, doctrines, stories, whatever are pieced together from pre-existent concepts, going as far back, probably, as the advent of human consciousness. Just like how they say there are “no original stories” anymore.
The claim any religion has to originality is its particular configuration of the various memes (individual concepts) contained within it.
I mean, this is hardly the only thing, either. The virgin birth, resurrection after 3 days (Horus), walking on water, the flood (Utnapishtim/Gilgamesh), the “son” (or sun) of God (pagan Godman in many systems), defying a mandate not to touch/eat/access something forbidden (Pandora), the crucifixion (Odin), December 25th birth (Mithras), and the list goes on…
But this isn’t so much a strike against Judaism or Christianity in themselves, but more a strike against the idea that these religions hold any proprietary claim to an absolute “truth”. That’s where many religious people make their mistake, trying to push their beliefs as objective, when religion should only ever be subjective to the individual.