2006-08-31 03:54:13 · 18 answers · asked by Chris D 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There are actually three versions of the Ten Commandments, Jewish, Catholic (and Lutheran), and Protestant taken from Exodus Chapter 20:1-17 and Deuteronomy Chapter 5:6-21.
With the new revelations of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit in the early Catholic Church, a slightly different emphasis was placed on different commandments.
Then 1500 years later, the Protestant in objecting to certain Catholic practices, once again changed the emphasis of the Ten Commandments.
+ Jewish Ten Commandments (before 1000 BC)
1. I am the Lord your G-d who has taken you out of the land of Egypt.
2. You shall have no other gods but me.
3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your G-d in vain.
4. You shall remember the Sabbath and keep it Holy.
5. Honor you mother and father.
6. You shall not murder.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not bear false witness.
10. You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.
Source: http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Scripture/Torah/Ten_Cmds/ten_cmds.html
+ Catholic (and Lutheran) Ten Commandments (about 100 AD)
1. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them.
2. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain
3. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work; but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; in it, you shall not do any work.
4. Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
5. You shall not kill.
6. You shall not commit adultery.
7. You shall not steal.
8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
9. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.
10. You shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his ***, or anything that is your neighbor's.
Source: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt3sect2chpt1ind.htm
+ Protestant Ten Commandments (about 1600 AD)
1. You shall have no other gods but me.
2. You shall not make unto you any graven images
3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain
4. You shall remember the Sabbath and keep it holy
5. Honor your mother and father
6. You shall not murder
7. You shall not commit adultery
8. You shall not steal
9. You shall not bear false witness
10. You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor
Source: http://www.biblicalheritage.org/Bible%20Studies/10%20Commandments.htm
With love in Christ.
2006-09-01 17:55:02 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I strive to be a true Christian. Since I am imperfect, I fall short every day.
I know the ten commandments, it is the rest of the thousands of commandments in the Mosaic law that I have trouble remembering.
Deuteronomy 5 lists the10, the following chapters list the others.
Jesus said that the law could be summed up with the first two:
Matthew 22:37-39: to love God and neighbor. If one really loves God, they will not commit any of the others, and if one really loves his neighbor, then he would not commit them against others.
2006-08-31 11:08:16 · answer #2 · answered by grammy_of_twins_plus two 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I used to think I was a "true" Christian. I claimed to be if I was asked. But what is a "true" Christian?....the word itself means to be Christlike. How many people are really Christlike? I know none of us can be perfect, but I would venture to say that few people are truly even approaching the attributes of being Christlike. Thank God for grace. Believing is only part of it because demons believe and it causes them to tremble. Many people claim to believe, but what does "believing" really mean? If you really believe in something, you will live that belief to the fullest. If a person is really a Christian, they will at least be trying to support the belief. To be a true Christian, one must love (everyone) without condition, do not speak idle words, do not judge, forsake all that is not holy, etc. I am not saying that if a person does not adhere to all these things they are damned to hell (we have Grace through Christ), but can we really claim to be Christlike? I cannot. Sorry, I had a "bee in the bonnet".
I know the 10 Commandments, but just knowing them doesn't mean much.
2006-09-01 11:35:41 · answer #3 · answered by TNGuy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I am a christian and I can name all 10 of the commandments
2006-08-31 11:06:24 · answer #4 · answered by WhatIf 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am a true Christian and yes I know the 10 commandments, although knowledge of the 10 commandments is *not* required of Christians.
Jesus says there are two great commandments by which all the others are descended. Do you know what they are?
Besides the two great commandments, there is also the fact that the wages of sin is death and there is only one provision to escape the "second death" lake of fire.
Do you know what the provision is?
2006-08-31 11:00:27 · answer #5 · answered by Just David 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The "true Christian" realizes Love for God and man is the greatest commandment and that memorization without application is useless.
Mark 12:28
One of the teachers of religious law was standing there listening to the discussion. He realized that Jesus had answered well, so he asked, "Of all the commandments, which is the most important?"
29Jesus replied, "The most important commandment is this: `Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is the one and only Lord. 30And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.'[f] 31The second is equally important: `Love your neighbor as yourself.'[g] No other commandment is greater than these."
2006-08-31 11:04:16 · answer #6 · answered by williamzo 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We should not only know the Ten Commandments but all the bible. kids today can quote there baseball teams name and there score but are not able to quote even the Ten Commandments.
2006-08-31 11:06:18 · answer #7 · answered by Robert C 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
thou shalt have no other gods before me
thou shalt have no graven images.
thou shalt not take the lords name in vain
remember the sabbath (which was actually saturday, not sunday, haha)
honor your parents
thou shalt not kill
commit adultery
steal
lie
or covet thy neighbor.
I think that pretty much covers it.
And I am NOT Christian....
EDIT: haha isnt it funny how all of the Christians who don't know the commandments say that they dont need to know them!
2006-08-31 11:00:27 · answer #8 · answered by m_thurson 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is no use in just knowing the ten commandments. its about keeping them in your life.
2006-08-31 10:58:58 · answer #9 · answered by TLB 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ephesians 2:15 Through his body on the cross, Christ put an end to the law with all its commands and rules. He wanted to create one new group of people out of the two. He wanted to make peace between them.
Galatians 2:16 We know that no one is made right with God by obeying the law. It is by believing in Jesus Christ. So we too have put our faith in Christ Jesus. That is so we can be made right with God by believing in Christ, not by obeying the law. No one can be made right with God by obeying the law.
Galatians 2:21 I do not get rid of the grace of God. What if a person could become right with God by obeying the law? Then Christ died for nothing!
Galatians 5:4 Some of you are trying to be made right with God by obeying the law. You have been separated from Christ. You have fallen away from God’s grace.
2006-08-31 11:04:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋