That's one.
Coveting implies wanting for yourself. Deciding to give someone else's property to another isn't coveting, it's theft. But there is a command against theft, so that still makes two.
Unless he had sexual intercourse with her, he didn't commit adultery. It's possible he used some kind of artificial insemination, so we can't count this one for certain.
The word is graven not craven. Who would want a cowardly image? Graven means pregnant, and creating statues of pregnant fertility goddesses was a common pagan practice at the time. But since his statues weren't of pregnant women/goddesses, this doesn't count
Already covered theft, so it's still two.
Lying isn't prohibited by the commandments. Giving false witness is. It's an injunction against perjury and making false allegations, not lying in general. So this doesn't count either.
Only if you accept the concept of the holy trinity. If you just going by the Bible, Jesus isn't God, so these don't count either.
So only two commandments broken.
You forgot to comment on the Swore Falsely part......so that makes THREE according to your reckoning.....
BUT..... I also disagree with many of your rebuttals and I will discuss them in more detail later when I have more time to use verses to bolster my points.
For example ....if we go by the Bible in John's gospel, Jesus says he is God in no unclear terms....so the concept of the Trinity is actually supported in John.
But also lying and bearing false witness is the same.... it did not say UNDER AUTH.....especially that in the Bible swearing is actually prohibited.
But even then....the prophets who bore false witness to Ahab about him winning the war were bearing false witness as to the will of god and since it was YHWH that compelled them to do that using a LYING SPIRIT then it was YHWH who bore the false witness about himself.
But there are other verses that I will look up later….like god actually giving a false scripture to the Jews to misguide them…in Isaiah I think? But I actually have given quite a few of
these verses in another post… in one of them YHWH says that false prophets are saying false prophecies because he made them do so….so that is False Witness (a prophecy is witnessing to what God will do).
The Graven images.... the commandment specifies and says of things in heaven or things on earth or in the water etc...... I think it is quite obvious that the intent is not just not to take images of pregnant fertility goddesses but any images of any things like BULLS and Birds so forth (that by the includes the POLES of Astarte; poles are not images). So that would also include snakes of bronze that heal snake bites by looking at them....especially when the snakes were sent by YHWH in the first place.
Coveting is not just for one's self..... it can be also for ones wife or children or just to elevate one’s status....coveting Canaan from Baal and wanting to give it to his children to elevate his status....is coveting…they were his children and by doing so he would get the worship to himself instead of the worship that BAAL was getting and his children would have given their worship to Baal….so he was coveting Baal’s status and worshipers and sacrifices.
The adultery part..... well....she got pregnant .... I don't know how he did it.... the outcome is that she bore his son.... it says the Holy Ghost did it....that could be like God's member for all we know....no? The holy ghost came unto her…what does that mean
???? Godly intercourse is not to be judged by our standards. And she was another man's wife. Why did he not choose another woman who was NOT already married who was also a virgin if he is that particularly inclined… I am sure there were plenty of 13 year old virgins in Israel at the time who were not yet married….it is not like today after all.
He came unto her with his holy ghost and she was another man’s wife and she got pregnant……..So that is adultery....
But I did say at least 6....when in fact the list has 9... that is because I am allowing for discounting the Jesus related ones....which if you do include the NT as a valid source will bring the count back up to 9.
I will try to give some verses when I have the time to waste.
