10 Commandments Day

[Californee Girl]

Tomorrow is the official 10 Commandments Day (http://www.tencommandmentsday.com/). Several churches have gathered together to discuss the commandments and their meanings. My church has made it an entire weekend marathon, and weve been doing intense studies of each commandment over the last few weeks. It has really been awesome. I have learned more about myself and the laws of God in these last few weeks than I have in my entire lifetime.

So what are your takes on the commandments?

[Cleis_the_11th_Muse]

So, with all of this in mind, I give you my revised list of the two commandments:

Thou shalt always be honest and faithful to the provider of thy nookie.

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Thou shalt try real hard not to kill anyone, unless of course they pray to a different invisible man than you.

Two is all you need; Moses could have carried them down the hill in his f*****' pocket. I wouldn't mind those folks in Alabama posting them on the courthouse wall, as long as they provided one additional commandment:

Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself.

George Carlin on the 10 Commandments (http://www.geocities.com/bobmelzer/gc10cx.html)

Ok so I'm really not that disrespectful of them but some people can nearly make you that way. Withough going into much detail the 10 commandments are all fine and good... but really almost unimportant compared to the two that Jesus gives to us in the Matthew 22 34-40 NKJV

34 But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?â€�

37 Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.

The Big JC man himself names the most important commandments and I think many, many people forget this.

Cleis

ETA: I posted before looking, but then again I didn't need to as I already has suspicions. It's hidden pretty good but the use of the magic words "traditional values" and "family" that make the hamsters hit the proper response lever. Obviously the group of people behind that website have forgotten Matthew 22.

[Californee Girl]

Yea, that sparked me to read up a lot on the whole old versus new covenent argument. What trips me up on that is Matthew 5:17-19;

Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.
For assuredly I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one little tittle will by no means pass from law till all is fulfilled. Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

I think some people use the verses you gave because they feel that they are easier to follow than say the Sabbath commandment or to really take a look at their idolatry. But if you really give it some serious thought, loving God and each other is just a short way of going over all ten commandments. How can you say that you love God if you have other Gods before him or dont keep his day? How can you love others if you disrespect them, murder them (or their character), steal or lie from them?