The TEN Commandments

Jesus Christ is our Lord and He love us all!

Well a part from retarded people like the the person above me probably

The Ten Commandments

What about the one where women are the same as farm animals and you violate by liking your neighbors pickup truck or car? How can you have an image of G-d if G-d is everywhere? Jesus was around two thousand years ago before photography. How can I get an image or photograph of him? Btw my G-d told me to hate you. Also you left out the part where if you are having a barbecue and things start going very bad and the steaks start burning up with flames two foot hight. You then declare that you are having a sacrifice to G-d of a bull and some of the guests dis the sacrifice. Can you smite them as the Bible says to? The police raid your home. They find evidence that you are using pot, heroin, and coccaine. Can you defend yourself by pointing out that G-d told Adam and Eve to use almost every plant in the Garden of Eden? If G-d loves you why is He keeping track of everything you do so you can spend eternity in Hell for eating a ham and cheese sandwich? Is the President going to Hell for lying to us about Sadam Hussein and causing over 100,000 deaths and creating a political vacuum so religious nutters can take over? If only 144,000 gays and nobody else will make it into Paradise why bother with church? READ YOUR BIBLE. The filthiest thing ever printed.

I am an athiest. I do not take the Bible literally, but I do believe that people should practice what they preach. That is why I made this poll.

gumball machine said, on 2006-09-01 19:41:47, "I am an athiest. I do not take the Bible literally, but I do believe that people should practice what they preach. That is why I made this poll."

You don't seem to understand what Christianity is, as you've made a great deal of mistakes in your assumptions. In addition, you've also made a number of mistaken assumptions of the intent of the Ten Commandments.

Commandment 1: Christianity believes in the Holy Trinity. You don't seem to understand what the Trinity is. The Trinity is, as defined, three distinct Persons equally of the same One Substance (homoousious, in Greek). That Substance is God, in which exists equally as Three Persons: Father, Son, Holy Spirit. God's Name is YHVH (Yahveh), which isn't the personal Name of the Father, but of the Substance (God). Thus, the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is the same: Yahveh.

Commandment 2: Jesus is God Incarnate via the Second Person of the Trinity (the Son). In addition, you forget that the Bible says that all humanity is in the "Image of God." Your understanding of what this prohibition therefore doesn't make logical sense. Image here relates to idolatry, which is mistaking the image for the real thing. It is worshiping the cross instead of the Person Who hung upon it, to give an example.

Commandment 3 (which you listed 4th): This is a ritual/holiness law of the Old Testament. Such laws according to Judaism were established to separate Jews from Gentiles, so that they could be a "light to the world." It was established to keep their religion pure and unstained; in other words, keep outside influences from changing it. Pagan religion at the time was quite different in terms of its worship, which the Jews thought to be non-special because it seemed to be all "lip service." The Commandment really is saying "honor the Sabbath by focusing on God primarily today, thanking Him for all goodness He has given to you." This is what is preached in Jewish synagogues and Christian parishes and churches today.

Commandment 4 (which you listed as 3rd): To use the Lord's Name in vain actually has nothing to do with swearing. In vain means "in falsehood" according to the dictionary and eptymology. Thus, if you promise something and invoke the Name of God in that promise, and fail to perform, you've used the Lord's Name in vain. Swearing using the Lord's Name isn't always in violation, but it can be if you are saying "damn" something when God would not Himself damn it.

Commandment 5 (which you listed elsewhere): Loving your parents isn't discussed in the Bible here. It is honoring them that is. To honor them is to respect them. You can disagree or not love your parents, but you must give them due respect for, it if weren't for them, you would never be.

Commandment 6 (which you have listed elsewhere: The Hebrew uses the word "murder," not just "kill." According to ancient Hebrew law, murder is the willing execution of a fellow person. It actually does not include the unborn or those condemned to death, thus it isn't a prohibition against abortion or capital punishment. Those are found elsewhere.

Commandment 7 (which you listed elsephere): The prohibition against adultery has only to do with the one you are legally married to, not with a girlfriend/boyfriend or fiance. The prohibition against sex before marriage isn't covered here but elsewhere. In addition, "cheating" is way too vague a term; you need to be far more specific.

Commandment 8 (which you listed elsewhere): Actually, the Hebrew here uses the word "kidnap." It means to steal people for sexual reasons. Theft of monies, property, or other personal objects is covered elsewhere.

Commandment 9 (which you listed elsewhere): This you got partially correct. It does have to do with telling the truth, but it was originally meant to do in courts. You were not to give false testamony. The prohibition of lieing is covered elsewhere.

Commandment 10 (which you listed elsewhere): Jealousy isn't covered here. What is covered is desire for things that belong to others with the intent to steal. Wishing for a million bucks isn't wrong, though if you rob a bank, then it is. Wishing you had your cousin's PlayStation II isn't wrong, but having the desire to take it is.

I would encourage you, before you make anymore potentially inflamatory polls or posts, to not act like those you do not like yourself, who prejudge you simply because you do not believe as they do. You are only throwing fuel on the conservatives'/archconservatives'/fundamentalsts' fire in that "oh Atheists are all godless sinners who have no morals and hate Christians."

You ask Christians and Jews here to not be hypocrites, but it is you here who is being hypocritical. Another bit from the Bible is agreeable by people of all faiths and beliefs: "take the log out of your own eye before you point fingers at the speck in another person's eye."