The Ten Commandments

[thatonegirl320]

Is God our father?
Yes.

Is Jesus God?
Yes.

Therefore, Jesus is our father.

Is God our father?
Yes.

Is Jesus God's son?
Yes.

Therefore, Jesus is also our brother.

Who is Jesus' Mother?
Mary.

Because Jesus is our brother, we share the same mother, Mary



The Bible tells, rather, commands, us to honor our Father and Mother. Catholics honoring Mary is not against the Bible; in fact it's quite the opposite. We're just giving our Mom some love!

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[ezekiel_37]

but don't pray to her!

[thatonegirl320]

That's like saying, "be nice to your mom, just don't talk to her!". It just doesn't work that way.

[granite]

THE PARADOX OF THE 10 COMMANDMENTS

Christendom exhibits some interesting contradictions regarding the law of God as contained in the Decalogue:

On one hand, Christians refer regularly to the Ten Commandments as moral expressions worthy of display in public. On the other hand, we may feel the Ten are getting too much attention if they're displayed on the walls of our churches.

On one hand, many believers claim the Ten were nailed to the cross and disclaim their authority. On the other, they recognize that disobeying God's law is sin and is the reason they need salvation.

On one hand, some are willing to sacrifice a career defending the right to display the Decalogue. On the other, they ignore part of what is displayed there, regarding it as obsolete.

On one hand, most of Christendom recognizes that in Christ there is neither Jew nor Gentile. But on the other, some say that God expects Jews - but not Gentiles - to obey all ten commandments. Meanwhile, Roman Catholicism brazenly claims the God-given authority to alter them at will!

The Ten Commandments constitute the basic law of God for His people. The concepts of the Decalogue were understood and obeyed by the godly before the giving of the Law at Mt. Sinai, where God spoke them and wrote them on stone tablets. This law of God was perfectly fulfilled in the life and teachings of Jesus, was obeyed and ratified by the apostles of the Lord, James, John, and Paul, and is part of the law written in the hearts of believers under the new covenant. No part of it has been revoked or changed; to transgress any of it is to commit sin. Observing the Ten Commandments expresses our love to God and mankind.

Based on the unchanging nature and holiness of God, the first book of the Bible supports every principle of the Decalogue prior to the making of the Mosaic covenant. For example, Jacob knew to put away the idols that his family has accumulated (Genesis 35:1-4), and Joseph knew that adultery with the wife of Potiphar would be sin against God. (Gen. 37:7-9). This pre-knowledge of right and wrong is not true for most of the 613 laws enacted at Mount Sinai, but is true for the Ten.

The Ten Commandments are ranked according to the priority of God: Himself, and our worship of Him, followed by the importance of family and human life, our sexuality, property, reputation, and our thoughts. No other formal law code, inside the Bible or out, achieves so much that it is the classic bulwark of ethics, morality and liberty as well.

The Saviour who died for the people's transgressions of God's law, did not come to abolish that law but to fulfill it. And He did. He filled it full with meaning and applied it to the thoughts and intents of heart, amplifying and upholding it. With authority on another mount, Christ's sermon amended - even diminished - the demands of other laws in question, but it only amplified and strengthened the two commands of the Decalogue He addressed in that discourse (Mat. 5:17-48).

Jesus cited the Ten Commandments as a pathway to life (Mat. 19:17). He corrected popular disregard for the fourth and fifth commandments (Mark 3:4; 7:9-10). He called it vain to teach the commandments of men, thus insisting that God's commands be the foundation of doctrine (Mark 7:7). Jesus obeyed these commands perfectly and taught us to do the same (John 15:10)! Reading the Gospels, one can hardly conceive that this Christ would approve His followers' attempts to circumvent the Decalogue, as does Roman Catholicism and much of Protestantism, which by sanctifying Sunday and keeping other Catholic holidays has in effect "made an image to the beast."

[lauramarie]

Honor her, yes. But don't worship her. Big difference.

[granite]

Attempting to pray to or through Mary or any other deceased saint is the sin of necromancy!

"There shall not be found among you... a necromancer." - Deut. 18:11

When they say to you, "Consult the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter," should not a people consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living? - Isa. 8:19


And what Catholicism has done to the 10 Commandments is this:

#2 - Graven Images: Merged into #1, and most of the wording omitted.

#4 - The 7th-Day Sabbath: Changed to Sunday.

#10 - Coveting: Split in two, so it will look like they still have 10 commandments!

And the astonishing thing is, the Lutherans did not restore them as they should be, but merely adopted the Catholic alteration just as it is!

Roman Catholicism is the "MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT, AND MOTHER OF HARLOTS" (Protestant daughters) spoken of in Revelation 17:5!

"Shoot at her (Babylon), spare no arrows" (Jer. 50:14).