Moses and the Ten Commandments, Faith and History.

Rebekah 2022-03-25 09:01:10

Although there are many fantasy elements in such a movie (in fact, it can be said to be a legend), it is still a good movie for understanding the use of that civilization, that era, and that period of history. I have also watched a lot of epic movies, but this movie gave me an unparalleled visual shock. a realistic expression. You know, Hebrew civilization? You know, Moses this guy? You know, what did Moses do? You know, what are the Ten Commandments? You know, Jews are smart and good at business, but how much do you know about Jewish history? You know, the Jewish race, after wandering, can still establish the state of Israel, and in the Arab world, can stand on its own, and the disputed Jerusalem, why? You know that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are mutually exclusive. Do you know that there is an "existential" relationship between them? This film, the content can be said a lot, it can also be said that it only tells the biographical story about Moses.

Before watching this movie, for Moses, it was only known that he was a leader of the Jews, got rid of slaves in Egypt, crossed the Red Sea, and went to a place called Canaan, where he wrote the Ten Commandments. For the Jews, it is only known that they originated from the Hebrew civilization. Regarding the Ten Commandments, I only listened to the teacher who taught the world history and talked about its content. (Impressively, the property is private, there is no idol worship, only the God Jehovah)

This movie, shown in front of me, is a great man with flesh and blood. Although there will be a mythical expression in the plot, it does not affect it. From some aspects, it is incredible for his words and deeds.

Incredibly, his benevolence is so direct, he doesn't have the "white lie" that we take for granted, only he goes forward to express his feelings. The truth (fact) is the truth. What he chooses is to admit and face it.

Even as an audience, I will be impressed by his benevolence, heartbroken by his stubbornness, and envisaged by his ending.

Just think, how much of his heart is there in the past and present? Great people, the reason why they become great people is because of them, their hearts are different from ordinary people.

He also has his origin (Hebrew, slave at the time), he also has his glory (adopted by the Egyptian royal family, became a royal prince, and even had the opportunity to become an Egyptian pharaoh), and he also has his love (and a royal family) feelings of a princess), he also has his feelings (a poor, enslaved biological mother on the one hand, and a noble, adoptive mother in the ruling class on the other).

With his fearless heart and benevolent heart, he gradually reached a life dedicated to his beliefs.

I imagined many possible endings for him, but they were eventually broken by his relatively real life. He belongs to the past, belongs to history, but as a third perspective, we can imagine, put ourselves in the shoes, and only do Follow the great man, see his facts, learn something about him, what you think is "good or bad".

Moses, what he did, was to save those who were enslaved. When he is in the ruling class, he can still ask the enslaved people, "Why, they should be enslaved?", "Why should life be graded? Trampled?".

This is the greatness of people like them, who want what others "don't want to do", do what people "disdain to do", they have their beliefs, they have their mission, and because of their simplicity, they have achieved their "eternity" which will be remembered by future generations. ".

As for the Ten Commandments, "Believe in God, Jehovah alone," "Do not take the name of Jehovah in vain," "Keep the Sabbath," "Do not worship idols," "Be filial to your parents," "Do not murder," "Do not bear false witnesses," " Do not steal", "Do not commit adultery", "Do not covet another's property, wife".

Attached is a classic saying, "Freedom without the constraints of the law is only an extreme, only chaos".

Although the current Jews still follow, it varies from person to person, but the past history is an undeniable fact that they (they) completed their mission.

Living in the current era, it is not bad, you can have relative freedom of thought.

Do not believe in God, but believe in "knowledge".

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The Ten Commandments quotes

  • [Opening line and sentences as movie started]

    Narrator: And God said Let there be light, and there was light. And from this light, God created life upon earth. And man was given diminion over all things upon this earth and the power to choose betweem good and evil. But each sought to do his own will because he knew not the light of God's law. Man took dominion over man, the conquered were made to serve the conqueror, the weak were made to serve the strong, and freedom was gone from this world. So did the Egyptians cause the children of Israel to serve with rigor, and their lives were made bitter with hard bondage. And their cry came up unto God. And God heard them and cast into Egypt, into the lowly hut of Amram and Yochabel, the seed of a man upon whose mind and heart would be written God's law and God's commandments, one man alone against an empire.

  • [the 'stick to cobra' combat had just occurred]

    Moses: You gave me this staff to rule over scorpions and serpents, but God made it a rod to rule over kings. Hear His word, Rameses, and obey.

    Rameses: Obey? Moses, Moses. Are there no magicians in Egypt, that you have come back to make serpents out of sticks or cause rabbits to appear?