Is the ten commandments the right set of rules to live your by?

Answer 1

If you look beyond the religious aspect, they are simple rules of ethic and moral and make it possible for people to live peacefully in any society.
It's pretty much common sense to follow them if you don't want to get yourself into trouble and have a peaceful sleep with a clear conscience..

Answer 2

If people believe the ten commandments, more than 2000 years old set of rules, as the right set of rules, why they don't follow the nomadic life of the time of the Jesus?

Only superstitious and orthodox people can say the ten commandments as the right set of rules, and not the persons who can apply their mind well. Today's developed world need hundreds of commandments to follow to live their lives.

Answer 3

The ten commandments are basically guidelines for a good life, so if everyone keeps them the world is happy. God set them down for the israelites as a parent sets down rules for a child, to keep them safe and happy. I'd say they're as good a set of rules as any.

Answer 4

Jason K, if you are a history buff as I am you would realize that as shown in the film "Mel Brooks History of the World" Moses actually had three tablets when coming down the mountain, indicating more that ten commandments, probably fifteen, but alas, he dropped and broke one tablet so we will never know the others. At least the first ten are a good start.

Answer 5

yet they are no longer 'commandments'. The Hebrew word used in Torah is d'varim, that it relatively is asserted, no longer mitzvot. So some thing like words, sayings, or utterances is closer. would not paintings so nicely in English, yet English is a clumsy language during which to comprehend Torah or translate Hebrew. Jews comprehend that they are categories which comprise yet do no longer specifically element the finished image of Jewish regulation. And sure, Jews are envisioned to worship the Jewish G-d and the Jewish G-d on my own. How is that a bad element? this is our awareness of our particular courting with the Divine. even nonetheless there is lots of elementary morality in them, the ten D'varim have been under no circumstances meant as some kind of familiar rule e book. they seem to be a shorthand precis of the Jewish contract with G-d.

Answer 6

Some Wiccans follow a code of twelve to thirteen couplets, the way people SHOULD live.
Basically most religions, including Christianity, have a primary ethical code related to treating others as you would want to be treated.

An It harm none, so be it in love, do what ye will --A variant of the Wiccan Commandment.

Do unto others as you would have them unto you -- "The Golden Rule" paraphrased from the King James Version of the Bible.

All men are friends. You can have no enemy if all men all friends. -- Translated text from an unknown tribe in Nigeria, Africa.

Look up these words on the web, "Ethical Reciprocity."

Answer 7

The Right set of rules is the Koran
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Answer 8

No - the commandments of Christ are - however, as you study the commandments of Christ, you will find that the commandments of Love would include each of the ten given in the Old Testament - therefore making them excellent principles to incorporate into your life.

Answer 9

Smile...at Christ-ians who do not know Christ "abolished the law of commandments" (one lousy tree law of plural & contrary grace & law commandments): Ephesians 2:15.

Thereby Christ abolished all law written in stone and in ink, which is notably all to be "done away" (as a ministration of condemnation and a ministration of death): 2Cor 3, since all other laws were notably "added", and "because of the transgression", which the woman, being deceived, was notably in: 1Timothy 2:14. Yet where no law, there no transgression: Romans 4:15. So, for the woman to have been in the transgression, long before the ten commandments were written in stone and over 600 more written in ink, there had to be a law somewhere. Aha, the tree law in Genesis 2:17, which makes an oxymoron out of Genesis 2:16 + 17 (every tree, but not every tree); Which are notably not the commandments of God, but of the LORD God, which is allegory for LAWED Grace, which makes Grace "no more grace" in the OT so law can be of force.
Then in the NT law is the dead testator so grace can be of force: Heb 9.

The law (and lie) was given by Moses (not God),
but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ: Jn 1:17

He taketh away the first (law),
that he might establish the second (grace): Heb 10:9

All laws (ordinances, principles) are to be "done away"(1Cor 13; 2Cor 3) as the old "put off"(Col 3:8), the lie(Col 3:9), to "put away"(Eph 4:31) because it is "corrupt"(Eph 4:22), and to the point of "blotting out" what's "against us": Col 2:14. "Touch not, taste not, handle not", for by the using of ordinances(laws) all perish (since law is a sin imputing ministration of death): Col 2:20-22. Even to the point of what's old, faulty, and ready to vanish: Heb 8:13, "shall vanish": 1Cor 13:8. Poof goes the dragon, sin and death with it.

The "grace" of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

Answer 10

Yes, definetly for me. Think about it, that is all we really need in the world is if people would follow the moral laws (not necessarily the first ones about G-d) than the world would be a better place.