THOU shalt not ADMIT adultery?

Question

which of the 10 commandments is important to you and why?

Answer 1

thou shalt not covet another man's wife.
I can honestly say I have never coveted anothers mans wife.

Answer 2

well...theres this one, then another, and a couple more..therefore out of the ten commandments that are important to be I would say 10 of them are actually important to me. Because this was the law that God set up. Although the "Thou shalt keep the Sabbath day holy" is very rarely done or even has the same meaning anymore. But never the less it is still important. I mean now we have Jesus (if you are a Christian that is) so that you can be forgiven if you break one of the commandments and not be fire-bombed from heaven, but that doesnt mean go break them because you will be forgiven anyway.
Because then...God will make an exception and fire-bomb you anyway :) hehe jk about the last part.
Edit:
out of the ten commandments the bible gives us in the OT, not considering Christ's saying of love, which is the most important. But out of the OT text.

Answer 3

The Ten Commandments were all a part of God's Word, but they were part of the Old Testament, which is no longer binding on men.

Romans 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

Which law is Paul speaking of?

Romans 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

Men today are under the New Testament, and need to obey those commands.

Answer 4

Here is my problem with the ten commandments- why exactly are there 10?

You simply do not need ten. The list of ten commandments was artificially and deliberately inflated to get it up to ten. Here's what happened:

About 5,000 years ago a bunch of religious and political hustlers got together to try to figure out how to control people and keep them in line. They knew people were basically stupid and would believe anything they were told, so they announced that God had given them some commandments, up on a mountain, when no one was around.

Well let me ask you this- when they were making this **** up, why did they pick 10? Why not 9 or 11? I'll tell you why- because 10 sound official. Ten sounds important! Ten is the basis for the decimal system, it's a decade, it's a psychologically satisfying number (the top ten, the ten most wanted, the ten best dressed). So having ten commandments was really a marketing decision! It is clearly a bullshit list. It's a political document artificially inflated to sell better. I will now show you how you can reduce the number of commandments and come up with a list that's a little more workable and logical. I am going to use the Roman Catholic version because those were the ones I was taught as a little boy.

Let's start with the first three:

I AM THE LORD THY GOD THOU SHALT NOT HAVE STRANGE GODS BEFORE ME

THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THE LORD THY GOD IN VAIN

THOU SHALT KEEP HOLY THE SABBATH

Right off the bat the first three are pure bullshit. Sabbath day? Lord's name? strange gods? Spooky language! Designed to scare and control primitive people. In no way does superstitious nonsense like this apply to the lives of intelligent civilized humans in the 21st century. So now we're down to 7. Next:

HONOR THY FATHER AND MOTHER

Obedience, respect for authority. Just another name for controlling people. The truth is that obedience and respect shouldn't be automatic. They should be earned and based on the parent's performance. Some parents deserve respect, but most of them don't, period. You're down to six.

Now in the interest of logic, something religion is very uncomfortable with, we're going to jump around the list a little bit.

THOU SHALT NOT STEAL

THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS

Stealing and lying. Well actually, these two both prohibit the same kind of behavior- dishonesty. So you don't really need two you combine them and call the commandment "thou shalt not be dishonest". And suddenly you're down to 5.

And as long as we're combining I have two others that belong together:

THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTRY

THOU SHALT NOT COVET THY NEIGHBOR'S WIFE

Once again, these two prohibit the same type of behavior. In this case it is marital infidelity. The difference is- coveting takes place in the mind. But I don't think you should outlaw fantasizing about someone else's wife because what is a guy gonna think about when he's waxing his carrot? But, marital infidelity is a good idea so we're gonna keep this one and call it "thou shalt not be unfaithful". And suddenly we're down to four.

But when you think about it, honesty and infidelity are really part of the same overall value so, in truth, you could combine the two honesty commandments with the two fidelity commandments and give them simpler language, positive language instead of negative language and call the whole thing "thou shalt always be honest and faithful" and we're down to 3.

THOU SHALT NOT COVET THY NEIGHBOR"S GOODS

This one is just plain fuckin' stupid. Coveting your neighbor's goods is what keeps the economy going! Your neighbor gets a vibrator that plays "o come o ye faithful", and you want one too! Coveting creates jobs, so leave it alone. You throw out coveting and you're down to 2 now- the big honesty and fidelity commandment and the one we haven't talked about yet:

THOU SHALT NOT KILL

Murder. But when you think about it, religion has never really had a big problem with murder. More people have been killed in the name of god than for any other reason. All you have to do is look at Northern Ireland, Cashmire, the Inquisition, the Crusades, and the World Trade Center to see how seriously the religious folks take thou shalt not kill. The more devout they are, the more they see murder as being negotiable. It depends on who's doin the killin' and who's gettin' killed. So, with all of this in mind, I give you my revised list of the two commandments:

Thou shalt always be honest and faithful to the provider of thy nookie.

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Thou shalt try real hard not to kill anyone, unless of course they pray to a different invisible man than you.

Two is all you need; Moses could have carried them down the hill in his frickin' pocket. I wouldn't mind those folks in Alabama posting them on the courthouse wall, as long as they provided one additional commandment:

Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself.

Answer 5

Guess you need to refer back to the 10 commandments and get this one right - smile
However all are important - they each gives us a guideline on how to live an ethical and moral way of life - It is not the individual 'rule' that is important but the message behind the rules - a code of conduct that teaches us how to behave towards others that avoids our creating our own karma.

Answer 6

lol Ah that whacky Bible and its typos.

Let's see...
Thou shalt not kill...Graeme Taylor, despite eveything

Thou shalt have no gods before [God] - except maybe Wayne Rooney if it comes down to penalties...

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, nor his a*s, nor his ox...though his 42inch plasma screen is fair game...

Thou shalt not steal - except by means of a fair tackle.

Thou shalt not bear false witness - unless it be to get a 'fair' judgement from the Argentinian ref.

Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy - for it shall be known as "match day".

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain - save that for the linesman.

Honour they mother and thy father - you may need to borrow money from them to get to Germany for the duration.

Thou shalt not commit adultery - no matter how much male bonding goes into the Trinidad & Tobago celebrations

Thou shalt worship no graven images...except maybe one, which shalt be made of gold and represent the whole world...

Answer 7

Mathew 22:36 - 39

"Teacher, whcih is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
Jesus replied, "Love the Lord you God with all your heart and with al your soul and with all you8r mind. This is the first and greatest commandment.

Answer 8

LOL. I don't take any of the commandments seriously, nor any other religious law for that matter. Such rules are always impossible to follow; by turning normal human desires and behavior into "sins," they set the believer up for failure. Failure leads to guilt; guilt leads to fear; and fear keeps 'em coming back to church. It's a scam.

Answer 9

Exodus 20:7 Thou shalt no longer take the call of the LORD thy God in ineffective; for the LORD received't carry him guiltless that taketh his call in ineffective. Exodus 20:8 keep in suggestions the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Exodus 20:9-11 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy artwork: besides the indisputable fact that the seventh day [is] the sabbath of the LORD thy God: [in it] thou shalt no longer do any artwork, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that [is] interior of thy gates: For [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them [is], and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Exodus 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mom: that thy days would nicely be lengthy upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Exodus 20:13 Thou shalt no longer kill. Exodus 20:14 Thou shalt no longer commit adultery. Exodus 20:15 Thou shalt no longer thieve. Exodus 20:16 Thou shalt no longer bear pretend witness adversarial to thy neighbour. Exodus 20:17 Thou shalt no longer covet thy neighbour's domicile, thou shalt no longer covet thy neighbour's spouse, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ***, nor any component that [is] thy neighbour's.

Answer 10

thou shalt not listen to bee gees.

i live by that one

Answer 11

I hink they are all OK. A bit dated but they served their purpose whne moses wrote them.

He got a bunch of people to blindly follow them, much like some people follow the bible today