The Ten Commandments: A Concise Summary for High School Students (and Adults)

CERC ^ | May 29, 2014 | DEACON DOUGLAS MCMANAMAN

[NYer]

Ping!

[GladesGuru]

Commandment 5 is described in error.

Murder is forbidden, not killing.

The original is quite clear, so this is either an error driven by agenda or sloppy writing.

[Gamecock]

To worship something is to make it the center around which your life revolves. There are many possible things around which a person might center his life.

Like Mary?

[Viennacon]

Very correct. To kill is simply to end life. It carries no moral connotation.

[SkyDancer]

Actually nine with one statement.

[Tzimisce]

The 10 commandants were written to keep old Jewish men in charge.

[GreyFriar]

Using “kill” in place of “murder” is, I’ve been told, based upon the KJV translation. When “kill” was commonly understood to mean what we now call murder. Something premeditated. such as Cain murdered Able.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

A note should be made that Jews do not consider Christians to be the inheritors of Mosaic law, but instead are covered by the seven laws of Noah, the Noahide Laws.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Laws_of_Noah

They see it as somewhat paradoxical that Christians would generally disregard the Hebraic laws, statutes and judgments devolving from Mosaic law, which is according to Christian doctrines, yet embrace just the Ten Commandments.

And even stranger that Christians would cherry pick *some* of the Hebraic laws, statutes and judgements, even though their doctrines tell them they have been superseded.

[verga]

Thankfully there is not single Catholic that does this, in spite of the constant violation of the eighth commandment by prots about this.

[Gamecock]

It is quite evident that they do.

[Salvation]

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The Essentials of the Catholic Faith, Part Three: The Will of God, Second Commandment
The Essentials of the Catholic Faith, Part Three: The Will of God, Third Commandment
The Essentials of the Catholic Faith, Part Three: The Will of God, Fourth Commandment
The Essentials of the Catholic Faith, Part Three: The Will of God, Fifth Commandment
The Essentials of the Catholic Faith, Part Three: The Will of God, Sixth and Ninth Commandments
The Essentials of the Catholic Faith, Part Three: The Will of God, Seventh and Tenth Commandments

The Essentials of the Catholic Faith; Part Three: The Will of God, Eighth Commandment
Catechism of Aquinas |SUMMARY OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS| THE OUR FATHER & FIVE QUALITIES OF PRAYER
A Brief Catechism for Adults - Lesson 34: The First Commandment
A Brief Catechism for Adults - Lesson 35: The Second Commandment
A Brief Catechism for Adults - Lesson 36: The Third Commandment
A Brief Catechism for Adults - Lesson 37: The Fourth Commandment
A Brief Catechism for Adults - Lesson 38: The Fifth Commandment (w / special prayer request)
A Brief Catechism for Adults - Lesson 39: The Sixth and Ninth Commandments
A Brief Catechism for Adults - Lesson 40: The Seventh and Tenth Commandments
A Brief Catechism for Adulst - Lesson 41: The Eighth Commandment

[brent13a]

What christianity has labeled as the “Ten Commandments” is a blunt and complete misrepresentation of what Moses was given by God. In the Tanakh what was inscribed on those stone tablets are called “The Ten Words or “The Ten Sayings”. They were the Ten Words because there were only ten words inscribed on the tablets.

The first time the hebrew name Asereth ha-D'bharîm was mistranslated as the “Ten Commandments” was the Geneva Bible in 1557ad. The King James Bible followed and the Asereth ha-D'bharîm has been mistranslated in christianity as the Ten Commandments ever since. However, the Septuagint did properly translate the Ten Sayings as the dekalogos literally meaning the “Ten Words”.

The two stone tablets of which Moses famously brought down from Mount Sinai were also not labeled the “Ten Commandments” or the “Commandments Tablets”, or any variation thereof. In the Tanakh they are called Luchot HaBrit or the the “Tablets of the Covenant”. The first tablet, containing the first five declarations, identifies duties regarding our relationship with God, while the second tablet, containing the last five declarations, identifies duties regarding our relationship with other people.

The above facts have significant meaning because the Ten Words were never considered to be the “core commandments” nor were the Ten Words considered to be a “paring down of the Law of Moses”. Simply put, from the inception of the Law of Moses, the Ten Words were a simple categorizing of the Law, or the summary headings of the whole Law. Each word on the tablets corresponds to a whole section of the Law, each word represents a whole chapter of the Law.

The significance is awesome in that while christianity has erroneously taught that the Torah or Mosaic Law has a singular purpose, the ancient biblical and cultural understanding of even the Ten Commandments shows that the Torah is not singular in purpose. Jesus taught as much and whether it was First Temple Judaism or Second Temple Judaism the meaning of the Ten Words never changed and Jesus himself never changed them. Just as Jesus taught the whole of the Law and Torah, you cannot have the Ten Words separate from the Law and Torah. The Ten Words are the written Mosaic Law and vice versa.

[SkyDancer]

Was just saying.

[ravenwolf]

Just one thing I disagree.

Keep holy the Sabbath day:
The Christians worship on the first day of the week but it
can not be their Sabbath if they also believe in the father.

Exodus 20
8Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work,

[verga]

It is quite evident that they do.

And every Catholic wishes that the prots would quit violating the eighth commandment. Start a trend be the first.

[Elsie]

Like Mary?

ARRRGH!!!

Not another Catholic-bashing thread!!!!

[Elsie]

Thankfully there is not single Catholic that does this, in spite of the constant violation of the eighth commandment by prots about this.

"Just look carefully, I only want you to look carefully. Do not repeat the lies of liars. Do not become like them. Once again, I blame Al-Jazeera before it ascertains what takes place. Please, make sure of what you say and do not play such a role."

[Elsie]

It’s really interesting that AFTER the ‘ten’ were given; there seems to be NO ‘explantion’ of them to be found in the Bible...

[Elsie]

What christianity has labeled as the “Ten Commandments” is a blunt and complete misrepresentation of what Moses was given by God.

"Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport."