Posted on 09/03/2010 8:30:12 AM PDT by Salvation
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Also called the Decalogue, they are the divinely revealed precepts received by Moses on Mount Sinai. Engrave on two tablets of stone, they occur in two versions in the Bible. The earlier form (Exodus 20:1-17) differs from the alter (Deuteronomy 5:6-18) in tow ways. It gives a religious motive, instead of a humanitarian one, for observing the sabbath; and in prohibitin avarice, it classes a man's wife along with the rest of his possessions, instead of separately.
With the exception of forbidding graven images and statues and the precept about the Sabbath, the Ten Commandments are an expression of the natural law. More or less extensive sections of the Decalogue are found in the law of other ancient people However, the Ten Commandments excel the moral codes of other religious systems in their explicit monotheism, their doctrine of god's awesome majesty and boundless goodness, and their extension of moral obligation down to the most intimate and hidden desires of the human heart. The following is a standard Catholic expression of the Ten Commandments:
1. I, the Lord, am your God. You shall not have other gods besides me.
2. You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain.
3. Remeber to keep holy the sabbath day.
4. Honor your father and your mother.
5. You shall not kill.
6. You shall not commit adultery.
7. You shallnot steal.
8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
9. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.
10. You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.
See Also: CHRISTIAN DECALOGUE
The Ten Commandments as part of the Christian religion. Christ on several occasions confirmed the binding character of the Decalogue (Matthew 5:21-27; Mark 7:10, 10:19; John 7:19) and even made them more stringent. He deepened and supplemented them in the Sermon on the Mount, and summed up their obligations in the double precept of loving God and one's neighbor (Matthew 12:29-31).
From the beginning the Church considered the Ten Commandments a standard way of teaching the faithful. At the Council of Trent the theory was condemned that "the Ten Commandments do not pertain at all to Christians" (Denzinger 1569).
There are two arrangements of the Decalogue in use among Christians. The Catholic Church, along with certain Protestants, e.g., Lutherans, follow the Massoretic (traditional) text in combining the two prohibitions about false worship into one. the number ten is made up by dividing the precept against covetousness into the last two commandments.
See Also: TEN COMMANDMENTS
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The Essentials of the Catholic Faith, Part Three: The Will of God, Christian Morality
The Essentials of the Catholic Faith, Part Three: The Will of God, The Ten Commandments
The Essentials of the Catholic Faith, Part Three: The Will of God, First Commandment
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
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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
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Salvation can I get your perspective of “Thou shall not kill”?
I have asked my priest on this and his response did seam to dispute what the bible says.
I do not see how kill in today’s meaning IE any thing/circumstance stands considering right after God gave the Israelite’s the Commandments he then has them wipe out other nations.
Murder or some other meaning to kill seams like a better fit than kill period.
If you don’t mind I’d like to get your thoughts.
Belay that, Your links answered my question. Sorry.
Maybe it’s time for me to post something about “Just War”!
Just got done reading it on that web site you had, Good Info on there. Thanks
Conditions for a Just War. St. Augustine was the first early Christian writer to give extensive attention to the conditions that would justify war. He said war may be undertaken for the good of society. His basic reason was that armed force is permitted when the purpose is to attain peace.
Since the sixteenth century, Catholic thinking, approved by Church authority, has come to identify the following reasons for a just war.
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It must be on the authority of the sovereign, that is, of the one (or ones) having supreme jurisdiction in the State.
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There must be a just cause: For example, the independence or vital possessions of the State are gravely threatened.
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Other means short of war have been sincerely tried but have failed.
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The belligerents must have a valid purpose, namely the advancement of some moral good or the avoidance of some evil.
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The war must be waged by proper means, since even a morally good end may not be sought by using means that are morally bad.
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There must be due proportion between the foreseeable benefits and the known evils that accompany war.
The rise of modern warfare with its massive destruction and the availability of nuclear weapons have made the Church speak out very plainly on the morality of war.
Popes Benedict XV, Pius XI, and Pius XII wrote extensively and urgently before and during the First and Second World Wars. Then the Second Vatican Council made the longest declaration on the subject of any ecumenical council in the Church’s history.
Their teaching may be briefly stated in a series of moral principles:
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Although war is not of its very nature morally evil, nuclear war is very difficult to justify in practice.
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War that tends indiscriminately to destroy entire cities or wide areas with their inhabitants is a crime against God and man.
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Those conscripted into military service may assume that their nation is right and engage in conflict.
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Volunteers should seriously inquire whether their country’s cause is a just one before they enter military service.
No single issue of modern life has been more urgently pleaded for than peace among nations. But peace between people depends on peace within people. Peace within persons is possible only if their wills are conformed to the will of God. Each individual contributes to world peace to the extent that he or she cooperates with divine grace in the depths of his own soul.
http://www.therealpresence.org/essentials/commandments/acc29.htm
What are the mortal sins against the Fifth Commandment?
i Murder, the unjust killing of an innocent person.
ii Abortion, deliberately causing the death of an unborn baby.
iii Suicide, taking your own life.
iv "Mercy killing", killing an innocent person who is dying of an incurable disease.
v Sterilization, making the sex organs unfruitful.
vi Getting drunk.
viiSerious anger and hatred.
viii Helping another to commit a mortal sin.
I really had not considered "Thou Shalt not Kill" as encompassing your own life (I mean, beyond not actively committing suicide) but, rather, extending it to committing a slow death by drinking, drugs, loose living, whatever.
Thank you always, Salvation, for your thought provoking posts. Have a wonderful weekend!
We currently have a substitute Priest for 2 months. His sermon last Sunday was on the 5th commandment. He said it was a sin against that commandent to not have health care for everyone including illegals.
This Priest is in charge of Social awareness for the Diocese so I suppose it was to be expected.
Oh, my. More from the Department of "Social Justice". Wow. Just wow.
Well, at least he is a substitute. But, still...
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