What is the relationship between the Ten Commandments and Jesus' teachings?
2006-11-27 10:56:48 · 11 answers · asked by gregory 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Ten Commandments were given by Christ to the nation of Israel. They were "WRITTEN IN STONE". The purpose was (as Paul the Apostle taught) to give to men the knowledge of sin. The problem was that because men aree sinners by nature they had absolutley no ability to keep the commandments eventhough they were a perfect code of the demands of a Holy God. If people could have obtained eternal life through the commandments, there would have been no need for Jesus to have come. But no man is able to keep the commandments so Jesus came. Jesus gave a new set of laws, that are actually harder than the first set (eg - law says you shall not kill, Jesus said you shall not hate) to keep, but Jesus did not write this set of laws on stone, He wrote them on the hearts of His people, and with the new law he sent the Holy Spirit to live in the believer and give him the power to live by these new laws by changing the very heart of the believer. If someone walks by this new law he is exempt from the old, however if you do not live by the new law, you place yourself back under the old and are judged by it. Te new law is accomplished by faith and from a practical standpoint is explained in Romans 8:3 "For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, 7 because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, 8 and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him."
2006-11-27 11:08:58 · answer #1 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus explains the ten commandments in their original intent to the Hebrews, not the way they had been perverted by the pharisees...He is the fulfillment of the Law. For example Moses had given direction an eye for an eye...Jesus said love thy neighbour as yourself...
2006-11-27 19:00:20 · answer #2 · answered by Therapist King 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Ten Commandments were given by God through Moses and are part of the Law, or the Torah, or the Pentateuch.The Law was given to show us our need of a Saviour, who was Jesus Christ. Christ said that He came not to abolish the Law, but to fulfill it.
2006-11-27 19:04:06 · answer #3 · answered by Paulie D 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus summed up the 10 commandments into Love God and Love others.
2006-11-27 18:58:21 · answer #4 · answered by pinkee 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The 10 Commandments were a simple teaching of right and wrong. They were to precede the comming of Christ, who simplified them into the commands to love GOd, love your neighbor, and make disciples.
2006-11-27 19:01:54 · answer #5 · answered by Andy VK from Houston 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None! Jesus violated the Ten Commandments.
2006-11-27 18:58:47 · answer #6 · answered by robtheman 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
The Ten Commandments are encapsulated in CHRIST's two commandments: Love GOD above all things and love your neighbor as yourself.
2006-11-27 18:59:46 · answer #7 · answered by St. Mike 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
his teachings were based on all ten commandments
2006-11-27 19:35:23 · answer #8 · answered by lil kid 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus condenced them down to two. They are all included and more besides. Perhaps by this time people could think better because they had a superior language that being greek
2006-11-27 18:59:24 · answer #9 · answered by icheeknows 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
realitionship between those 2 is divine
2006-11-27 18:58:12 · answer #10 · answered by george p 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋