Here's your big chance to play God. Create an 11th commandment?

Question

Please explain why you think your new commandment deserves to be added.

Answer 1

Respect and love everyone regardless of differences in race, religion, sexuality, and creed...

It needs to be added because people seem to have forgotten the golden rule...

Answer 2

You mean the Bible only has 10 now. I heard that in the Old Testament alone there are over 600 the New Testaments adds afew dozen more. I'm not sure of the total number of Commandants but It must be well over 800. Good thing all we have to keep to be saved by our own Good Deeds is just one. "Be perfect even as your Father in Heaven is perfect". Either that or trust Jesus for your salvation and use His righteousness.. :)

Answer 3

I don't think I'd want to play God. That would be making a huge (and false) presumption that I have enough wisdom and knowledge to dictate important tenets to the whole of humanity. And I definitely do not.

It's a nice idea, though! Wish I could suggest an eleventh commandment, but I just don't feel that it's my place (even in jest) to add to or detract from God's Word.

Answer 4

11. Always remember to love and keep the above ten commandments for they lead to true happiness.

I am NOT about to play God. If God saw it fit to give ten, how can I improve on that? Does that mean that I am brainwashed and all the others who gave an 11th commandment are free thinkers?

Answer 5

If God's 10 commandments are not acceptable to you, why do you need to create an 11th? Why not just start with #1 of your own set of your own rules? Why implicate God at all?

Answer 6

Thou shalt not FORCE the first 10 commandments on anybody but YOURSELF.


Because I'm sick of people pushing prayer in schools and the displaying of religious documents in public buildings. Whyc an't these people jsut be happy and comfortable with their beliefs without them having to force the crap on everyone else?

Answer 7

True religion is not about safety, or the salvation of the individual from naked confrontation with suffering and pleasure and death and love.

True religion is about the difficult evolution and ultimate transcendence of the individual, and mankind, and Man.

Therefore, we must awaken from our self-protecting illusions of religious safety, and we must surrender to the Current of life in which the body and the mind are swimming forever.

There is no "Holy Substitute" for Man.

There is no "representative" sacrifice.

There is no true alternative to awakened consciousness and unqualified love in the case of each individual.

Every one of us is the necessary sacrifice of God.


CHAPTER SIX

The Secret Identity of the Holy Spirit of God

A Prophetic Criticism of Great Religions

The religious consciousness of Western Man is trapped within an archaic structure of myths, dogmas, and social conflicts that no longer serve the true religious and spiritual process of true Man. These myths are largely Christian, Judeo-Christian, and broadly Semitic in origin, and they are held in place by the large-scale cultural, political, and economic dominance of the ancient religions of the Middle East, including Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.

The dominance of specifically Christian cults, myths, and dogmas is especially apparent in Europe and America. And if the dominance of Judaism and Islam is less apparent in Europe and America, the power of these ancient cults is certainly apparent throughout the Middle East (with clear, practical effect on the rest of the world).

Man himself cannot awaken to his evolutionary spiritual Destiny until the spell of mythological and self-possessed thinking is broken. And the future whole bodily culture of Man, in which East and West will realize a new cultural Synthesis, cannot take place until all the old religions are surrendered to the higher Principle or Truth that is the ultimate Master of religion.

We tend to think of "religion" as a benign influence on individual thought and behavior, and this is indeed the case when the higher aspects of religious consciousness begin to inform the thought and behavior of any individual. But religion is only rarely found to be an influence of such a kind. Very few individuals become truly creative personalities, mystics, saints, or even reliably good men or women as a result of religious associations.

Religion is, in general, an exoteric cultic phenomenon that controls the thought and behavior of individuals through external and psychologically manipulative techniques. And the principal religious phenomenon that is common in the world is not true or free religious consciousness and benign behavioral habits on the part of individuals. The principal phenomenon of religion is the institutional "Church", or all the central and centralizing institutions that contain and otherwise manipulate broad and massive segments of the human population.

The "Church" (or the primary institution within any religious tradition) is religion, insofar as religion basically affects the world at large. And large-scale institutional religion is not primarily a benign power in the world. We have only to look at the cultural and political conflicts in Europe and the Middle East to see how the immense institutions of ancient religion have now become, for the most part, contentious, absolutist, and the sources of petty social conflicts. And the problem is made extreme by the immensity of these institutions, each of which controls millions of people.

Answer 8

God pretty much covered everything, he needs to go into the sabbath deeper, some ppl are lost with the 4th commandment....and the 11th should be thou shall not fart in public? i dont know

Answer 9

Hey soul searcher, i doubt sputnik here wants to read a freakin novel. Thou shall dis-regard all other commandments on account a' they was written by rednecks.

Answer 10

Thou shalt not create a book, call it a Bible, and claim it is the word of God.

Answer 11

Thou shalt question everything that you know, in order to gain a better understanding of life, ethics, morality and existence.