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Originally Posted by TGBTG
For Aquila to consider...
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So... how many verses must I sift through to find God's commandments? How many are there? How can I be sure to keep a given statement in context? Who's interpretation of them do we follow? It's like looking for needles in a hay stack. God isn't the author of confusion.
Can you list ALL of the commandments binding upon Christians??? You'll start a virtual war between denominations and those here with various denominational backgrounds. lol
But... the Ten Commandments are perfect and simple. They are moral in nature and not legalistic with outward ceremonial show. For almost 2,000 years the Ten Commandments were the foundation of morality in Western Culture. We've thrown them out of our schools, our court houses, and even the churches. Who in their right minds would disagree that the following Ten Commandments do not only stand as a perfectly moral and holy guide to live by... but that they also do not reveal the very nature of God's own holiness?
The Ten Commandments
I
Thou shalt have no other gods before Me
II
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image
III
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord
thy God in vain, for the Lord will not
hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain
IV
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy
V
Honor thy father and thy mother,
that thy days may be long upon the land
which the Lord thy God giveth thee
VI
Thou shalt not murder
VII
Thou shalt not commit adultery
VIII
Thou shalt not steal
IX
Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbor
X
Thou shalt not covet
Frankly, it's a beautiful Law of Liberty. Why? Because no man can place an arbitrary human interpretation upon you (legalism). I can agree with the Psalmist:
Psalm 1:1-6
1Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
2But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
3And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
4The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
5Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
6For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
Selah.
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