Numbering the Ten Commandments

NC Register ^ | February 12, 2010 | MATTHEW WARNER

[Iscool]

The protestants added it in later years. It does not appear in that of the original Jewish or Catholic collections.

Naw, God added it long, long before your church showed up...Besides, it's one of the 'Thou Shalt Nots'...Is there any reason your religion may have left that one out???

[TheZMan]

In the case of Southern Baptist-styled doctrines we don’t really pay a lot of attention to the “10 commandments” (quotes intentional) regardless of the stylings.

The commandments are read as needed from the KJV to explain morality/values/etc but by and large we consider the blood of Christ our saving grace to not be held accountable “under the law” since living the law is impossible for mere mortals - by design IMO.

[WorldviewDad]

As a former Catholic (confirmed, alterboy of the year, and parish council member) and now having left a protestant Church (Sunday school teacher, Elder, etc.) and looking for a new home church I found this discussion interesting.

In both cases I left the churches because people in the leadership got hung up on their beliefs instead of what God’s Word states.

As a Christian I would look to Matthew 22:36-40 “Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”

Having this as the starting point I would understand the “Ten Commandments” that are being discussed as filling in the detail of what God would expect to see if we actually followed these two commandments...If we love God with all our heart, soul, and mind then obviously there would be no other god, no idols (common among religions of the time), we would respect His name and His day. If we love our neighbour as our self then we would honor our parents (God gave us to them to raise us), we would not murder, commit adultery, steal, lie (false witness), or covet (want to take what is somebody elses). This would tell me that the actual numbering of a list of the “Ten Commandments” does not mean a thing and could actually be harmful if it is being used to avoid actually reading God’s Word to understand what He is trying to communicate to us, His people.

God Bless

[onedoug]

I once did a survey of the 613 Biblical commandments and realized (minus those which include the yet destroyed Temple) I believed in or affirmed the Godliness of 356, or appx. 3/5 of them.