"If you are not, the Ten Commandments do not apply to you and never did."
"News to me. At least I don't have to feel bad about stealing candy from Ben Franklin's 5&10 when I was little!"
Yes you do. Because the 7 Noachide Laws, the laws that God laid down to Noah and his offspring long before Moses and the Ten Commandments, apply to ALL of mankind.
If you're not a Jew, then you're either a son or daughter of Ham or, if you're European or Asian in origin, a son or daughter of Japheth. All we really know about you, Biblically, is that Ham is cursed but Japheth is blessed.
And we know the 7 laws that God handed down for all the sons and daughters of Noah:
(1) Do not murder.
(2) Do not steal.
(3) Do not worship false gods.
(4) Do not be sexually immoral.
(5) Do not eat the limb of an animal before it is killed.
(6) Do not curse God.
(7) Set up courts and bring offenders to justice.
Those are the 7 Commandments that apply to all men. The 12 or 13 (Christians say "10", but there are more than 10 in the 10) commandments are just part of the 613 Commandments in the Law of Moses, all of which are applicable, on their face, to Jews.
If you're not a Jew, the 7 Noachide laws apply to you.
Damn.
Thanks.