The Ten Commandments!

by hibiscusfire 367 Replies latest members adult

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  sweet tee

  Well that is also what God meant by using His name in vain.

  How can a human being possibly know what God MEANT?!? Is GOD a NAME or a TITLE???
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  hibiscusfire

  MrsJones,

  The thing that irkes me about you is you assume we are a godless bunch here.

  I never assumed that anyone was a godless bunch in here. I never said anyone was heartless in here.

  I dont want or need your kind of love thank God

  What is love?
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  sweet tee

  Hibiscusfire - I do not find it difficult to love my neighbor. To AGREE with my neighbor with regard to religion or scriptural interpretation is pretty much imposible. So I leave out the religion and just stick with LOVE and mutual respect.
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  hibiscusfire

  Sweet tee:

  Would you also consider that a neighbour could also mean more than the person who lives next to you?
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  mrsjones5

  What is love?

  It's not in your delivery Hibiscus.
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  hibiscusfire

  Funky derek:

  All 613 laws, included the Ten Commandments were to be obeyed.

  God told Moses to write all of His words down and put them in a book because these words were a covenant between God and Israel. These words of God included the Ten Commandments and all of the other laws given in the Torah (the Torah are the books from Genesis-Deuteronomy).

  So, not only were the Ten Commandments written in stone and kept in the Ark, but the same Ten Commandments along with all of the instruction concerning them (the other 603 laws) made up the Book of the Law which were placed in the side of the Ark (Deut.31:26) The first installment of the ten were not kept separate from the rest.

  Exod 32:15-16: “ And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, and the two tablets of the Testimony were in his hand. The tablets were written on both sides; on the one side and on the other they were written. Now the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God engraved on the tablets.”

  This was the first installment of the law. After Israel broke the covenant and it needed to be renewed. In Deut.29 Moses refers constantly to the book of the law Deut.30:10.
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  doogie

  how goes the proselytizing, hib? any converts yet?

  you know, it's funny, my own non-biblical, completely instinctual, atheistic moral code also includes an understanding that murder is bad, stealing is an undesirable practice, and loving and accepting any who would do me no harm is a great goal. it's odd. i don't rely on a list to tell me what to do or not to do; in fact, i don't have these things written anywhere, yet i still remember them. and oddly enough, i still haven't killed a single person. crazy, huh?
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  hibiscusfire

  MrsJones,

  Then tell me what you believe love is then? Please.
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  mrsjones5

  Romans 6

  Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ

  1 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2 By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3 Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

  5 If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. 6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, [ a ] that we should no longer be slaves to sin— 7 because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.

  8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

  11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. 14 For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

  Slaves to Righteousness

  15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16 Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. 18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

  19 I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. 20 When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. 21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! 22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in [ b ] Christ Jesus our Lord.
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  mrsjones5

  I sugggest you read Romans then come back and tell me about the laws of the bible.