will christians stand up and get the 10 Commandments back in the class rooms, or just throw our hands up and?
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Greetings, oh brave one. Don't worry.GOD will bring the Commandments back, and soon! Believe it or not, Christ is coming to subdue and CONQUER all rebellion and usher in a new world--and this time mankind WILL HAVE PEACE!!! I don't care what the scoffers say--I'm not addressing them anyway--either there is an all-loving GOD ALMIGHTY soon to intervene FORCEFULLY in this world, or we will have no world! And how anyone can be against killing,theft,and the other commandments is beyond sanity!!! MOST LAWS ON THE BOOKS ARE AN EXTENSION OF THOSE COMMANDMENTS!!! Should we throw away the law against rape? How about murder? The commandments are summed up in 4 words: LOVE OTHERS AS YOURSELF. See? GOD is pretty smart after all, huh?.....
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There are as many excuses as there are poor Christians. Where mediocrity is allowed or tolerated, mediocrity will flourish - people are sluggards. (As long as we are talking in generalities.) When a teacher raises the test standards, the class' average scores increase - the teacher does not make the students smarter; when the hurdle is higher, you've got to work a bit harder to clear it. If the standards are lowered, some self-starters will continue to excel, but the tendency will be for students to put forth less effort.\n\nThe example of Jesus' life is extreme. What He asked of His disciples was extreme - pick up a cross & follow Him - most of them suffered & died for the faith. What He asks of His disciples today is extreme - pick up a cross & follow Him - the cross being a symbol of suffering unto death.\n\nPeople are accepted in congregations if they are nominal Christians - be a pew-warmer & donate some money. An hour Sunday morning is usually enough - the rest of Sunday and the rest of the week is your own time to do what ya wanna (as long as it is fairly legal & fairly ethical).\n\nPeople are told to "believe" & be saved. "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." [Romans 10:13] They are told, you don't have to "do." "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." [Ephesions 2:8-9] They are told what you do or don't do won't save you, so it doesn't matter what you do... just "believe." The denominations grow (or keep, or try to minimize their dwindling numbers) by offering cheap grace. Cheap grace [a term coined by Dietrich Bonhoeffer] is forgiveness w/o repentance, expecting the Grace of God w/o discipline & Lordship discipleship, grabs the benefits w/o taking any responsibility, it takes grace for granted, even a "do it now - ask for forgiveness later" mentality.\n\nOhYa, most denominations will put some more requirements on believers - you must be baptized, you should read the Bible & pray.... But when is the last time you were told one of the signs of a believer is one who loves God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, & all your strength - all your being. [Deuteronomy 6:5; Deuteronomy 10:12; Deuteronomy 11:13; Deuteronomy 13:3; Deuteronomy 30:6; Joshua 22:5; Matthew 22:37; Mark 12:30; Mark 12:33; Luke 10:27 - evidently God thought is was worth repeating] Or, the believers' delight "is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night." [Psalm 1:2] "Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your Torah." [Psalm 119:18] How about a circumcised heart  where the Torah/Law/Commandments are written so you live them like Jesus lived them?\n\nHow many ~Marcion~ Christians read Luke 24:45 "And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures," and then just read the NT? "The Scriptures" which the followers of the Messiah must understand are the OT!\n\nSo, what does the NT say about the 10 Commandments (which Christianity has watered down)? Watered-down? When is the last time you kept the Sabbath holy? A scheduled appointment [so many "Christians" don't even know when the Sabbath starts] by God; a whole day, not just 1 hour a week or so.\n\n"If ye love me, keep my commandments." [John 14:15] This is the Word of God, the Word made flesh, the Word Who was with God & is God before creation. The Word was given to Moses; he wrote it in the Torah - the first 5 books of the Bible - which includes the 10 Commandments. The perfect & unchanging Word from the perfect & unchanging God.\n\nApostle Paul, defending himself to Felix the governor against the false charges of High Priest Ananias & Tertullus, an attorney: "But this I confess unto thee, that after the way [i.e. following Messiah] which they [i.e.
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No, unfortunately.  But someday Jesus will come back to earth to rule and reign in a perfect Christian Theocracy, and we will be so much happier for it.  Those who repent and are still here, that is, will enjoy it.
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COMMANDMENTS...\n\nJUST FOLLOW JESUS TEACHING IN MATTHEW AND LUKE  WHICH ARE IN LEV AND DEUT.\n\nLOVE GOD AND YOUR NEIGHBOR.\nALL THE REST WILL FALL IN LINE
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I pray someday we will all have the courage and faith to stand up and not let abuses in this country take place anymore. \nWe need to do it together!!
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Go face to face and tell Christians that
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Ok here goes.\n\nFirst off, you need to revise your question. Matthew 7:9-10 says,"\n\n\nAnd Mark 7:9-10 says this " He said to them, "All too well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.  For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.\n\n\nNow in the OT (Old Testament) that was the Law.\n\nIn this passage though, it was allegory. If you read before and after these verses you will see that the Pharisees were trying to stump Jesus with another question/accusation, and ended up making themselves look like fools. Lets examine this, shall we?\n\nk, lets put things into context.\n\nMark 7\n\n2 Now when they (pharisees) saw some of His disciples eat bread with defiled, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault(they found something with which to accuse him). \n\n3 For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands in a special way, holding the tradition of the elders. \n\n4 When they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other things which they have received and hold, like the washing of cups, pitchers, copper vessels, and couches.\n\n5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, "Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?"\n\n6 He answered and said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: 'This people honors Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me.\n\n7 And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'\n\n8 "For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men*--the washing of pitchers and cups, and many other such things you do."\n\n9 He said to them, "All too well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.\n\n10 For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother';  and, 'He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.'\n  \n11 But you say, 'If a man says to his father or mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban"--' (that is, a gift to God),\n\n \n\n12 then you no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother,\n\n   ***They ended up making Gods law void by picking and choosing what they would and would not follow. See the next verse***\n\n13 making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do(that aint the only thing you do)."\n\n14 When He had called all the multitude to Himself, He said to them, "Hear Me, everyone, and understand: \n\n15 There is nothing that enters a man from outside which can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are the things that defile a man.\n\n   ***Nothing you enters you from the mouth makes you unclean, it is the things exit your mouth which defile you.***\n\n16 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!" \n\n17 When He had entered a house away from the crowd, His disciples asked Him concerning the parable. \n\n18 So He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him, \n\n19 because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, thus purifying all foods?"\n\n20 And He said, "What comes out of a man, that defiles a man. \n\n21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, \n\n22 thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. \n     \n***These are the things that defile a man, examine the above two verses carefully***  \n\n23 All these evil things come from within and defile a man." \n\nAs for the commands to kill you are refering to, yes they are not metaphor, They where rules for capital punishment. \n\nIf a
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It's pretty much summed up in Ecclesiastes:\n"Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man." Eccl. 12:13 :)
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Not likely.  Our country follows the Moses Law & not the Jesus Law.  Moses said "an eye for an eye" where as Jesus said "turn the other cheek."  Which do you think we are more likely to follow as a nation?
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Yes I am ready to stand before Christ. But I think you made a very big error in your statement. You said that those who do have a relationship with him will be left behind. That is not true!\nThose who do have a relationship with him will be gathered in his loving arms and taken to heaven for eternity however those who do not have a relationship with him will live in eternal damnation.
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"Shaking hands" - Typical christian response.
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Yess the new 10 commandments should be:-\n\n1-No one will hate other religions/beliefs\n2-No one will try to correct God's designs (like for foreskin)\n3-Bush will be hanged\n4-There will be no morals but humanity\n5-No meat is banned\n6-No drinks are banned\n7-No ban on pre-marital sex and abortions\n8-No racism\n9-no cruelty towards animals and plants\n10-No prophet, no book, no dogma, no ritual allowed
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I do not know if Christianity does this differently, but, in Judaism, we bury objects with God's name on them.  If it's respectful enough for humans, it's probably good enough for Bibles.
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Hmm, I think christians would.  They'd have zealotry on their side.  They could whip everyone into a holy frenzy of righteousness.  (Plus, there are a LOT of them).  They'd be like The Hoarde.\n\nAtheists and agnostics wouldn't be well organized.  We'd try to reason a way around things.  Try to work out a compromise.  Form a committee to study the scientific reasons why the christians were so hacked off at us.
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I honestly believe they think those biblical verses are going to once again 'make us see the light' and bring us back when most of the time we just shake our heads in disgust and it reminds us why we left.  Most of us won't even READ them, we just skip over them.  A good chunk of us already know them so spouting them won't do anything.  Only thing it serves to do is drive us further away and remind us why we left to begin with!
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haha According to Jenkins and LaHay of Left Behind fame, they will leave their clothes behind. I just never thought of that before. I guess the more prudish of the Christians will get a shock at first. \n\nLOL
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That would just mean we would have to go through the Biblical law again.  No thanks, I like it Jesus's way.