2007-01-07 08:26:12 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A good start.
2007-01-07 08:28:48 · answer #1 · answered by Eva 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where ten laws given to Moses to usher in the Levitical code. There were others besides these. But these were given to Moses on Mt Sinai from God's revelation from the burning bush. Christ brought them all together in the greatest commandment - Thou shall love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your mind with all your soul and with all your spirit and the second is like unto it - you shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two hang all the law and the prophets.
2007-01-07 08:30:36 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you mean what do they say, refer to Exodus 20:1-17
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ex%2020:1-17;&version=47;
They were stated a second time in Deuteronomy 5:6-21
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%205:6-22;&version=31;
If you mean what kind of thing are they, they are a special set of laws that God proclaimed to the children of Israel whilst they were camped around Mount Sinai/Horeb in the desert, and then God wrote them down on two tablets of stone with his own finger and gave them to Moses (Moses broke the tablets in anger when he came down the mountain and found the people already breaking the laws on them but God later wrote them again for him on a new sets of tablets later). They are the only words in the Bible that are written by God hmself (a supernatural hand that wrote on the wall of Babylonian king Belshazzar's palace in the book of Daniel may also have been God's hand but it doesn't say for sure). The tablets were placed in a special box, the ark of the covenant.
The 10 commandments have several functions. They serve as a covenant treaty between God and his people, sort of like the role of wedding vows in a marriage. They spell out the duties of God's people in their relationship with God.
They serve as moral guidelines to tell us the difference between right and wrong from God's point of view. As such, they inform our conscience, tell us when we are doing wrong, remind us that we need God's forgiveness, and motivate us to try to be good people.
They also tell us about the character of God, about what he likes and doesn't like, what he considers right and wrong. They show that God wants us to love him and to love other people, he wants us to to always seek to benefit others.
2007-01-07 08:51:46 · answer #3 · answered by Beng T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a)Not the basis for American law
b)Not effective universal moral guidelines
c)Do not belong in state courthouses
d)All of the above
2007-01-07 08:39:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
5 moral rules..5 civil rules
2007-01-07 08:27:43 · answer #5 · answered by Royal Racer Hell=Grave © 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't steal
Don't lie
Don't cheat
Don't commit adultry
Honor your father and mother
Have no other gods before God
2007-01-07 08:29:19 · answer #6 · answered by gwolf3 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I. god should be first
II. no idols before God
III. dont say Gods name in vain
IV. keep sabbath day holy
V. honor mom &dad
VI. dont kill
VII. dont commit adultry
VIII. dont steal
IX. Dont lie
X. dont covet.
2007-01-07 08:29:46 · answer #7 · answered by lees 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋