[RetiredArmy]

The 10 Commandments convict. We are under Grace. The 10 Commandments are for the unsaved. If you are Saved, you are under God’s Grace. You don’t need the 10 Commandments.

[narses]

RetiredArmy wrote:

The 10 Commandments convict. We are under Grace. The 10 Commandments are for the unsaved. If you are Saved, you are under God’s Grace. You don’t need the 10 Commandments.

What do YOU say? Are they Ten Commandments? Or just suggestions for some?

[omega4179]

Are you saying you covet wives and don’t honor the sabbath?

[mountn man]

I understand and agree WHOLEHEARTEDLY about grace. And though the law no longer has the power to CONDEMN me, it still has a purpose, to convict me.

The law CONDEMNS the unsaved.
The law CONVICTS the saved.

[annalex]

We are under Grace

There is a point in that. Surely the Ten Commandments were given by God to the Jews. But the Jews received many more commandments, over 600 in all, and the Church dispensed with most of them, as the scripture tells us. Yet, I just walked past a monument pictured at the top of the page on my way out of my Catholic Church. The Church never lifted those ten.

Jesus repeated most of the commandments (in Matthew 5-7, 22:36ff, and elsewhere). A few things are remarkable about His teaching about them:

• He told us to use reason and listen to Him: "It is written... But I say to you...".
• He made the commandments He mentioned harder: not just murder but even a verbal insult is a sin; not just physical adultery, but internal lust is a sin.
• He never said anything about making images, -- but we hear a lot about He Himself beign an image, an icon of invisible God.

For these reason you will hear Catholics saying that while the Ten Commandments are not directly given us we obey them as a part of Natural law and also the Church law. The Grace given us indeed prevents us often from sin, and if we stumble, -- which we do -- we have a recourse to sacramental confession under Grace (John 20:21-23).