then which of the 10 commandments can we ignore?
Ezekiel 20:25
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel%2020:25&version=9;
2006-07-28 19:53:34 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
2006-07-28 19:53:59 · update #1
cause Jehovah/Yaweh is clearly saying here, that a few of them don't apply, and I'm really hoping its the one about not coveting your neighbours ***, or wife...or his wife's ***..or somthing
2006-07-28 19:59:39 · update #2
cassie i did read the surrounding verses. i read the whole chapter. and god is clearly saying that when the people were wandering in the desert and polluting his sabbath that he gave them the laws....and then here he says some of them are fake. how do i know which ones are fake?
2006-07-28 20:02:26 · update #3
I don't buy the argument that the NT superseded the rules of the OT, because god is quoted as saying some of his laws are false IN the OT. He was telling this to Ezekial after all, not to Paul or any of the disciples.
2006-07-30 07:07:38 · update #4
RT clearly have no sense or irony or humor. And I trust no one who says "trust me" I'm just playing with the kristian kids kult
2006-07-30 11:30:46 · update #5
You can ignore them all if you want, but 3 of them carry legal consequences even today (4 in some states).
2006-07-28 20:09:29 · answer #1 · answered by lenny 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ignore none. Following the 10 commandments will keep you out of heaps of trouble.
If you are lusting (coveting) after your neighbor's wife, covet to your heart's content, but do not act on it. Flirting with a married gal will bring great harm upon your head. Go find an unattached lady, and be happy.
Actually, rereading your question I am now not sure what it is you are coveting. If it is not your neighbor's wife, or your neighbor's pet, then get in your car, go to the local Walmart, buy it, and covet no more.
2006-07-29 21:22:02 · answer #2 · answered by Matilda 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians understand the Jesus Christ actually replaced the old Jewish system of worship, 'discharging', 'abolishing', 'blotting-out' the Mosaic Law and the Ten Commandments.
(Romans 10:4) Christ is the end of the Law
(Romans 7:6) But now we have been discharged from the Law, because we have died to that by which we were being held fast, that we might be slaves in a new sense by the spirit, and not in the old sense by the written code.
(Ephesians 2:15) By means of his flesh he abolished the enmity, the Law of commandments consisting in decrees, that he might create the two peoples in union with himself into one new man and make peace
(Colossians 2:14) [Christ] blotted out the handwritten document against us, which consisted of decrees and which was in opposition to us; and He has taken it out of the way by nailing it to the torture stake.
However, that verse in Ezekiel is not about that. Instead, it is a sad pronouncement with a tone of regretful irony:
(Ezekiel 20:25) And I [Jehovah] myself also let them have regulations that were not good and judicial decisions by which they could not keep living
It was only because they disobeyed God's laws that the end result for the Israelites was "not good" and it was shown that 'they could not live by the judicial decisions'. Compare this with these similar Scriptures:
(Psalm 81:12) And so I let them go in the stubbornness of their heart; They went walking in their own counsels.
(Isaiah 66:4) I myself, in turn, shall choose ways of ill-treating them; and the things frightful to them I shall bring upon them; for the reason that I called, but there was no one answering; I spoke, but there were none that listened; and they kept on doing what was bad in my eyes, and the thing in which I took no delight they chose.
(Romans 1:24) Therefore God, in keeping with the desires of their hearts, gave them up to uncleanness, that their bodies might be dishonored among them
(2 Thessalonians 2:11) So that is why God lets an operation of error go to them, that they may get to believing the lie
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2006-07-29 06:47:52 · answer #3 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would best to ignore none of them.
read the surrounding verses.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel%2020:20-30;&version=9;
2006-07-29 02:56:41 · answer #4 · answered by TOGA TOGA 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the old testament, under the old law, one had to perfectly keep every single commandment, or end up in hell, when they died.
That's why God could say he gave them faulty statutes. He was right.
He did this to demonstrate that no man was just, and that all men needed a redeemer.
God was right, of course. That's why he sent his son Jesus, to save us.
2006-07-29 07:32:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, we can't be completely sure that God was referring to the 10 commandments. There can be plenty of things that this statement applies to. Good luck with finding out which one
2006-07-29 02:58:03 · answer #6 · answered by someone in the world 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think your overdoing your anti- God bit. Try to relax and enjoy your short time on the planet, like the rest of us, I dont mean any disrespect, just my way of thinking. Trust me.
2006-07-30 18:25:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ignore none of them and read the Bible without looking for loopholes.
2006-07-29 03:06:15 · answer #8 · answered by keeperlast 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no no noo no. Thts not what he meant. The statutes and things where punishments!
2006-07-29 02:58:24 · answer #9 · answered by miho9000 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is not the word of god, it was all written by human beings, dont let them fool you, and its been changed many times.
2006-07-29 02:59:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋