The Beatitudes, The Ten Commandments, and The Code of Hammurabi are all very well known and religious texts, but all are very different. The Beatitudes and the Ten Commandments are both focused around the catholic religion, while the code of hammurabi is a preserved babylonian religious code from ancient mesopotamia. They all describe things that we should do while living our lives. The Code of hammurabi is the first set of laws ever made, they were inscribed on a pillar with a picture of hammurabi himself. They were on a pillar so they were high in the sky and closer to the Gods basically telling the people they were given by the God’s through hammurabi and you must follow them. The codes are greatly sexist and they favor men in almost all
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The main just of the ten commandments is basically only believe in me and be a good human being. The most important or most severe of the ten commandments is to not kill and to not have any other gods besides God. These are obviously the most serious crimes because killing people is clearly not a very good thing to do, but I always have though that don’t have any other gods was a stupid rule because God is being very very selfish. The beatitudes have a lot in common with the ten commandments because they both come from the same religion, they are both given to us by god, and they both explain a basic way of how to live your life as a good human being. But there's also a big difference that the ten commandments is a way to better yourself, while the beatitudes are a way to better yourself by helping the community, those in need, and doing so selflessly. For example Give drink to the thirsty, and give food to the hungry. All these are more of a way to live your life better by helping those who need what you have more than you, or you just have something you don’t need at all. All of these have many things in common but the code of hammurabi has the biggest differences to the beatitudes and the ten commandments. But either way these are all laws given to us by what we believe to be the Gods above us who provide for us all we
The main just of the ten commandments is basically only believe in me and be a good human being. The most important or most severe of the ten commandments is to not kill and to not have any other gods besides God. These are obviously the most serious crimes because killing people is clearly not a very good thing to do, but I always have though that don’t have any other gods was a stupid rule because God is being very very selfish. The beatitudes have a lot in common with the ten commandments because they both come from the same religion, they are both given to us by god, and they both explain a basic way of how to live your life as a good human being. But there's also a big difference that the ten commandments is a way to better yourself, while the beatitudes are a way to better yourself by helping the community, those in need, and doing so selflessly. For example Give drink to the thirsty, and give food to the hungry. All these are more of a way to live your life better by helping those who need what you have more than you, or you just have something you don’t need at all. All of these have many things in common but the code of hammurabi has the biggest differences to the beatitudes and the ten commandments. But either way these are all laws given to us by what we believe to be the Gods above us who provide for us all we