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Thousands of years ago, even before the birth of Jesus, the Ten Commandments were handed to Moses on a set of stone tablets. Engraved upon the stones was a set of rules meant to create peace and holiness amongst the people led away from their lives of bondage. Since then, various religious groups and individuals have experienced times of belief and disbelief in the laws originally set before them. In 1948, according to “Historical Religious Demographics of the United States” on the…

How the Ten Commandments Compare to Ancient Law Codes Throughout history, Cultures have lived by some form of moral code values that was orally passed down through generations. There is an amazing similarity between the codes and the Mosaic Law, which has been compared with numerous legal codes such as 1. The Ur-Nammu code of 2050 B.C., 2. The Code Bilalama of 1925 B.C., 3. The Code of Hammurabi of 1700 B.C., 4. The Assyrian Ancient Law Code of 1350 B.C. (Wood). According to Chabad.org, the…

The Hiding Place written by Corrie Ten Boom in 1971, tells the life story of a young girl and her family living through the Holocaust. The book goes through the life of Corrie as she tells about the experiences she had during Nazi occupied Holland and about hiding the Jews that had escaped. Sadly, she is caught and sent to a concentration camp for her actions. Corrie lived through the Holocaust and believes that it is her responsibility to tell her story as well as keep her sister, Betsie’s,…

Life-Changing. Impactful. In The Hiding Place, Jewish culture was represented tremendously. The Hiding Place is a true story written by Corrie Ten Boom. Corrie was born April 15, 1892. She was the youngest child of two sisters Nollie and Betsie and one brother Willem. She had to train to be a watchmaker in Holland and was the first woman to do this also. Her father, Casper Ten Boom, was born in 1859. He then met the love of his life in sunday school, Cornelia JoHanna Arnolda Luintiga. They end…

I remember it like it was yesterday, I was about Eleven or Twelve years old. What had started out as a great day took a turn for the worst. My brother, Bobby, was moving to San Diego and had decided to take our pit bull red with him. My mother, my step-dad and myself were all against him taking red but he was really my brothers dog so we couldn’t tell him not to. We all really loved that dog, to us he was part of the family. It was going well for the first couple days, it was hard getting used…

On September 17th of 1787, a group of men to whom we call “The Founding Fathers,” wrote one of the most famous documents; The United States Constitution. The goal when writing the constitution was to help better American lives by creating a set of Ten Amendments that grant basic rights to all citizens. The Founding Fathers essentially took pieces out of other famous documents like those of The Magna Carta (1215), The English Bill of Rights (1689), and The Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom…

The bible being looked at as sacred history would have one think that the ten plagues are a retelling of events that could have actually happened rather stories being told about a people and a pharaoh. Looking at the bible as scared history gives you the mindset that these events took place and the locations that they happened at can be visited. The fact that it is now looked at as history makes what is written regarded as fact and do not solely rely on faith but as something that actually…

There are some common themes in Ten Principles. Caregivers tune in to the infant toddlers and let them set the paces. Caregivers do not distract their learning opportunities. Principle 1 : Involv infants and toddlers in things that concern them Principle 2: Invest in quality time Principle 3 : Learn each child’s unique ways of communicating and teach yours Principle 8: Recognizing problems as learning opportunities, and let infants and toddlers try to solve their own  Principle 10: Be…

if you were a child? In what ways has American culture retained these Judeo-Christian roots? What evidence from current events would you give to support your answer? The Bible teaches what is right and wrong. Specifically, when God delivered The Ten Commandments to the Israelites,God (G-d) described a set of rules that would provide for better…

them a covent. Moses put The Ten Commandments in a box and made it an Ark of the Covenant, so it could be put into Holy of Holies, a temple built by Solomon. The website bibleinfo.com breaks down the laws given to the Israelites to get a better understanding of what they mean so followers can put them to practice to enter into God’s Kingdom like he promised. The website bibleinfo.com starts off talking about giving the exact scriptures and the background story of The Ten Commandments. Moses…