are the 10 commandments gone as a whole?
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Jesus taught that the Ten Commandments were the "old" laws and that he came to FULFILL or set a new covenant between God and man... and when Jesus was asked what was the greatest commandment (the asker was a Pharasee, and it was in reference to the best of the 10 commandments)... Jesus replied that there were only Two Commandments that were important (in his the new covenant)and they were ... "Love the Lord your God with all your mind, heart and soul, and the second was as the first... love your neighbor as yourself... on these TWO COMMANDMENTS all the prophets and laws are based."  Jesus set up a new level of spiritual challenge to mankind... two new commandments based on the MOTIVATIONS of the mind, heart and soul as the determiner of our righteousness... not the fulfillment of ACTIONS as given in the Law of Moses or the Ten Commandments.  So do we believe and follow what Jesus taught and die to give us... or do we fall back to the old ways of the Ten Commandments of Moses?  As for me... I follow Jesus!
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Don't forget "thou shall not kill"!!!!!!!! The Commandments list moral wrongdoings, similar to our laws, yet these Biblical laws are forbidden from public view, because of what? Because they are Christian values, that our forefathers held true!!!!!\n\n\nBTW the SEC is a better conference!!!!LOL
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If you think about it, all you really need is one commandment / rule / law:\n\nLove.\n\nIf all we did was Love one another, we wouldn't need the other commandments...or most of the other laws on the books.\n\nI wish you Peace.
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We should still keep the commandments. We do still need to ask for forgiveness of all sins.
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In the new testament, Jesus himself says that the laws of the old testament are still binding to Christians.\n\n“For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass the law until all is accomplished.  Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”  (Matthew 5:18-19)
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The Ten Commandments\n\nThe Ten Commandments\n\n   1. You shall have no other Gods but me.\n   2. You shall not make for yourself any idol, nor bow down to it or worship it.\n   3. You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God.\n   4. You shall remember and keep the Sabbath day holy.\n   5. Respect your father and mother.\n   6. You must not kill.\n   7. You must not commit adultery.\n   8. You must not steal.\n   9. You must not give false evidence against your neighbour.\n  10. You must not be envious of your neighbour's goods. You shall not be envious of his house nor his wife, nor anything that belongs to your neighbour.
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humm good question. i believe that the old covenant was abolished with Christ sacrifice and Resurrection. I also believe that are parts of the old covenant that should be kept just to keep us focused. Just as the Ten Commandments should still be followed, we should also tithe. The Sabbath if we were to follow it like the Jews do (no disrespect at all) then we could do nothing including teach, preach, or bring the word to unbelievers, so the Sabbath in ways is a stumbling block to our beliefs and truths. Pastors must push tithing for the same reasons. I have also come to notice that when  you give God your money and control over your finances he blesses you 10 fold. so pray about it. don't just give it up because you don't have to sacrifice makes things all the sweeter.
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So many bad answers from Christians on this it's fairly amusing.\n\n1. "Things/the rules have changed"\n\nResting on the sabbath is a moral precept of one's obligation to Yahweh.  If you are saying this changed, you are saying that God changes his morals, which opens up the idea of moral subjectivitiy.  There is no way around when God said "forever".  Either you are calling him a liar, or you are wrong.\n\n2.  "The law was destroyed"\n\nThen why did Jesus say he did not come to destroy the law?  Remember thar part in Matthew about "not one jot or tittle of the law"?  You are calling Jesus a liar here....not sure what your God would think of that.\n\n3.  Paul said hold no day above any other.\n\nSwell for Paul.  Unfortuantely, Jesus and Yahweh BOTH said different.  Tie goes to the deity, I would think.\n\n4.  "Christians are under grace, not the law"\n\nThen you can ignore the 10 commandments, I assume.  No?  Only the fourth one?  I see.  What part of "forever" and what Jesus said in Matthew don't Christians understand?\n\n******\n\nThose are just a few responses.  Christians love to pull the "Paul Card".  Go ahead and grab anything Paul may have said (ignoring that he often spoke on behalf of himself, not God) and use that to totally dismiss something either Yahweh or Jesus said.\n\nThe bible IS inconsistent.  But if I were to believe in it, I sure has heck would take God's "forever" dictate pretty serious, not Paul's bitter ramblings.
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Basic Humanist principles, which pre-date religion. Half the Ten Commandments are basic common sense - not killing each other, not stealing - they are the rules that a society will self-determine.\nPersonally I believe that there is just *morality* and that pre-fix is redundant. For the most part, people are moral, with or without God.
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Jewish understanding of the ten commandments\n\nSignificance of the decalogue\nAccording the Jewish understandings, the Torah includes 613 commandments, of which those listed in the decalogue count for ten. Most authorities thus do not automatically ascribe to these ten commandments any greater significance in observance, or any special status, as compared to the remainder of the canon of Jewish law. Indeed, when undue emphasis was being placed on them, daily communal recitation of them was discontinued (Talmud, tractate Berachot 12a). The Jewish tradition does, however, recognize these "ten commandments" as the ideological basis for the rest of the commandments; a number of works (starting with Rabbi Saadia Gaon) have made groupings of the commandments according to their links with the Ten Commandments.\n\nTraditional Jewish belief is that these commandments, among the 613, apply solely to the Jewish people, and that the laws incumbent on the rest of humanity are outlined in the seven Noahide Laws. In the era of the Sanhedrin, transgressing any one of these theoretically carried the death penalty; though this was rarely enforced due to a large number of stringent evidentiary requirements imposed by the oral law.\n\nDivision and interpretation\n\n"I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt..." \nThis commandment is to believe in the existence of God, that God exists for all time, that God is the sole creator of all that exists, that God determines the course of events in this world. \n"You shall have no other gods besides Me... Do not make a sculpted image or any likeness of what is in the heavens above..." \nOne is required to believe in God and God alone. This prohibits belief in or worship of any additional deities, gods, spirits or incarnations. To deny the uniqueness of God, is to deny all that is written in the Torah. It is also a prohibition against making or possessing objects that one or other may bow down to or serve, including any artistic representations of God or symbols thereof, including crucifixes, or any sulpture of a human being. One must not bow down to or serve any being or object but God. \n"You shalt not swear falsely by the name of the Lord..." \nThis commandment is to never take the name of God in a vain oath. This includes four types of prohibited oaths: an oath affirming as true a matter one knows to be false, an oath that affirms the patently obvious, an oath denying the truth of a matter one knows to be true, and an oath to perform an act that is beyond one's capabilities. \n"Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy" \nOne is to declare of the greatness and the holiness of the Sabbath, and observe each Sabbath day, as God defined for the Jews during the Exodus. Each day of the Exodus, God provided food to the Jews to collect except on the Sabbath. Instead a double portion was provided the day before the Sabbath. One is enjoined from performing work on the Sabbath. One may not change the day of the Sabbath. \n"Honor your father and your mother..." \nThe obligation to honor one's parents is an obligation that one owes to God and fulfills this obligation through one's actions towards one's parents. This commandment is an interesting development when compared to other laws of the Ancient East (for instance, the Code of Hammurabi) that do not call for equal respect of the father and the mother. Jewish sages note that the 5th commandment, on the border between commandments on relationship with God and those between humankind, is to "Honor your father and your mother...", and draw lessons from this that a person should respect parents (and by implication, elders) only somewhat less than one would God himself, and that parents should be moral guidance to a person as God is to society. \n"You shall not murder" \nThe Hebrew word ratsach, used in this commandment, is close to the word murder; k
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Well.... I have a problem with 1, for starters.  I don't think the 10 commandments of the bible are that hard to improve on.  Let me find a thread for you.
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"Practices That Have Been Abandoned\n\n  This Christmas celebration at Brooklyn Bethel in 1926 was their last. The Bible Students gradually came to appreciate that neither the origin of this holiday nor the practices associated with it honored God\n\n  For years, Bible Students wore a cross and crown as a badge of identification, and this symbol was on the front cover of the “Watch Tower” from 1891 to 1931. But in 1928 it was emphasized that not a decorative symbol but one’s activity as a witness showed he was a Christian. In 1936 it was pointed out that the evidence indicates that Christ died on a stake, not a two-beamed cross\n\n  In their “Daily Manna” book, Bible Students kept a list of birthdays. But after they quit celebrating Christmas and when they realized that birthday celebrations were giving undue honor to creatures (one reason that early Christians never celebrated birthdays), the Bible Students quit this practice too\n\n  For some 35 years, Pastor Russell thought that the Great Pyramid of Gizeh was God’s stone witness, corroborating Biblical time periods. (Isa. 19:19) But Jehovah’s Witnesses have abandoned the idea that an Egyptian pyramid has anything to do with true worship. (See “Watchtower” issues of November 15 and December 1, 1928)"\n............................................\nA Progressive Cleansing (W 1/1 2000)\n\n15 During some 40 years up until Christ’s heavenly rule began in 1914, the Bible Students had been freed from many of the non-Biblical doctrines of Christendom, such as infant baptism, immortality of the human soul, purgatory, hellfire torment, and a Trinitarian God. But it took additional time to purge all wrong ideas. For example, in the 1920’s many Bible Students wore a pin featuring a cross-and-crown emblem, and they celebrated Christmas and other pagan holidays. However, for worship to be pure, all vestiges of idolatry must be discarded. God’s Word, the Holy Bible, must be the sole basis of the Christian’s faith and way of life. (Isaiah 8:19, 20; Romans 15:4) It is wrong to add to God’s Word or to take anything away from it.—Deuteronomy 4:2; Revelation 22:18, 19.\n\n16 One example will underline how important this principle is. In 1886 when C. T. Russell published a book that came to be called The Divine Plan of the Ages, this volume contained a chart linking the ages of mankind with the Great Pyramid of Egypt. It was thought that this memorial of Pharaoh Khufu was the pillar referred to at Isaiah 19:19, 20: “In that day there will prove to be an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to Jehovah beside its boundary. And it must prove to be for a sign and for a witness to Jehovah of armies in the land of Egypt.” What relationship could the pyramid have with the Bible? Well, as an example, the length of certain passages in the Great Pyramid was said to indicate the time for the beginning of the “great tribulation” of Matthew 24:21, as it was then understood. Some Bible Students became engrossed with measuring different features of the pyramid to determine such matters as the day they would be going to heaven!\n\n17 This so-called Bible in Stone was held in esteem for some decades, until the Watchtower issues of November 15 and December 1, 1928, made clear that Jehovah needed no stone monument built by pagan pharaohs and containing demonic signs of astrology to confirm the witness given in the Bible. Rather, Isaiah’s prophecy was seen to have a spiritual application. As at Revelation 11:8, “Egypt” is symbolic of Satan’s world. The “altar to Jehovah” reminds us of the acceptable sacrifices made by anointed Christians while they are temporary residents in this world. (Romans 12:1; Hebrews 13:15, 16) The pillar “beside [Egypt’s] boundary” points to the congregation of anointed Christians, which is “a pillar and support of the truth” and which stands as a witness in “Egypt,” the world that they
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Can you follow the 10 commandments?  Can you go without breaking a single one?  Neither can anyone else.  The laws were given to show the need for a messiah to die and atone for our sins.  Rom. 10:4: “Christ is the end of the Law\n\n By setting out a perfect pattern covering the various facets of life, it showed up the Jews as sinners. It became evident that, despite any good intentions and diligent efforts, they could not measure up to its requirements. Using the Jews as a sample of the imperfect human family, the Law exposed all the world, including each one of us, as sinners, liable to God for punishment. (Rom. 3:19, 20)Thus it emphasized the need for a savior for mankind, and it led faithful ones to Jesus Christ as that Savior. In what way? It identified him as the only one who kept the Law perfectly, thus the only human who was sinless.\n\nWas the Mosaic Law ever meant to be binding on all mankind? (Ps. 147:19, 20; Ex. 31:12, 13)\n\nDid Jehovah give any indication to Israel that someday the Law covenant would end? (Jer. 31:31-33; Heb. 8:13)\n\n In the light of this, what is implied by arguing that the Mosaic Law is still in force? In effect, this constitutes a repudiation of faith in Jesus Christ. Why is that so? Because such a view rejects the fact that Jesus fulfilled the Law, thus paving the way for God to terminate it. To persons who professed to be Christians but who were swayed by arguments in favor of keeping the Law, or some portion of it, the apostle Paul forcefully wrote: “You are parted from Christ, whoever you are that try to be declared righteous by means of law; you have fallen away from his undeserved kindness.”—Gal. 5:4; see also Romans 10:2-4.
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We ALL are still all in trouble just with the ten commandments.  Some repent and some don't.  The repentance and change is what either will or wont condemn you.\n\nActually, the gay people is who gave the straight label to hetrosexuals.
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It's common knowlege that there are tons of scriptures that where left out of the bible. Many thought that the "Holy Grail" was these lost scriptures. \n\nAnswer - No, the bible is not complete
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The following is the text of the commonly accepted (by Christian and Jewish authorities) commandments as found in the book of Exodus:\n\n    "God spoke all these words, saying: I am God your Lord, who brought you out of Egypt, from the place of slavery. Do not have any other gods before Me. Do not represent [such] gods by any carved statue or picture of anything in the heaven above, on the earth below, or in the water below the land. Do not bow down to [such gods] or worship them. I am God your Lord, a God who demands exclusive worship. Where My enemies are concerned, I keep in mind the sin of the fathers for [their] descendants, to the third and fourth [generation]. But for those who love Me and keep My commandments, I show love for thousands [of generations]. Do not take the name of God your Lord in vain. God will not allow the one who takes His name in vain to go unpunished. Remember the Sabbath to keep it holy. You can work during the six weekdays and do all your tasks. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to God your Lord. Do not do anything that constitutes work. [This includes] you, your son, your daughter, your slave, your maid, your animal, and the foreigner in your gates. It was during the six weekdays that God made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. God therefore blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. Honor your father and mother. You will then live long on the land that God your Lord is giving you. Do not commit murder. Do not commit adultery. Do not steal. Do not testify as a false witness against your neighbor. Do not be envious of your neighbor's house. Do not be envious of your neighbor's wife, his slave, his maid, his ox, his donkey, or anything else that is your neighbor's." (Exodus 20)\n\nHere's a basic listing:\n\n1. You shall not worship any other god but me.\n\n2. You shall not make a graven image.\n\n3. You shall not take the name of God in vain.\n\n4. You shall not break the Sabbath.\n\n5. You shall not dishonor your parents.\n\n6. You shall not murder.\n\n7. You shall not commit adultery\n\n8. You shall not steal.\n\n9. You shall not commit perjury.\n\n10. You shall not covet.
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The Ten Commandments were just a summary of the general principles that the rest of the Law explained how to implement.\n\nSimilar example: Think of the U.S. as promoting "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" and holding up the Bill of Rights, and then all the detailed laws of our country (millions of them) as explaining HOW to uphold the Bill of Rights on a practical, daily basis.\n\nHomosexuality was never covered in the broad ten general principles, specifically. It was merely mentioned in one of the zillions of laws explaining how to implement the Ten Commandments.\n\nThe lack of "coverage" in the Bible could be read in one of two ways: Either it didn't matter much to the writers, or it was so obviously wrong to the culture that the writers didn't feel that it needed to be emphasized.\n\nWe do know that the surrounding cultures included such practices and other unbridled sexual activity in their pagan worship; and the Israelites very much viewed themselves as separate, consecrated, "set apart" for God and needed to distinguish themselves from that behavior.\n\nPeople are debating whether homosexuality was banned simply as another aspect of "separation" from the pagans or whether the activity itself was against what God wanted for human relationships.\n\nDirtyWhiteGuy's post: Yep, Sodom and Gamorrah didn't describe any homosexuality in the population, and the sex act that the townspeople wanted to inflict upon the visitors was not about homosexuality per se but really "gang rape" -- an act of violence inflicted by the mob upon guests they should have treated reverently. (This is one reason why the sin of Sodom is considered "inhospitality.")\n\nI do agree with you that the issue becomes far too much a focus in current Christian/non-Christian discussion, and I think it distracts from what it really means to believe in Jesus -- he's sort of getting lost amid the arguing.\n\nAt the same time, sexuality is a large part of anyone's identity; and people want to find some way to live without guilt and feel as if they are pleasing God, so the issue does need to be explored.