What are the twelve commandments and why are they so important???

Question

Why did Jesus have long hair???

Answer 1

The "twelve" commandments are not important because...there are no twelve commandments! Jesus' hair was long because it was traditional. =<)

Answer 2

I assume you refer to the 10 commandments from the old testament, and the 2 commandments that Jesus gave which superseded the original 10.

The 10 are no longer of importance, except historically. I don't know why so many christians still use them.

Answer 3

That should have been a bakers dozen, meaning thirteen
Very interesting! Weird!

Allen Sloan Newsweek July 11 2006


I am pasting the article here.
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July 11 issue - You may think that the Supreme Court ruled last week that the state of Texas could continue to display a Ten Commandments monolith on its capitol grounds in Austin. But you'd be wrong. Look at the monolith—you can find it at tspb.state.tx.us/spb/gallery/monulist/10.htm—and you'll notice that it doesn't contain 10 commandments. It has 11. And if you count "I am the Lord thy God" as a commandment, which Jews do but Christians don't, the Supreme Court has approved a Twelve Commandments monolith, rather than the traditional Decalogue.

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This monolith, sponsored by the Fraternal Order of Eagles, was part of a PR campaign for "The Ten Commandments," Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 Biblical epic starring Charlton Heston. Yes, the Supreme Court was ruling on the legality of a Hollywood promotion. The Eagles' grand secretary, Bob Wahls, explained to me last week that the text is a compromise drawn up by Jewish and Christian clergy to respect everyone's beliefs. So rather than bearing Ten Commandments that are the Word of God, the monolith bears 11 or 12 commandments that are the Word of a Committee.

This may all sound like hairsplitting and mockery, but it's not. Regardless of whether you believe in the literal truth of the Bible (or, as most call it, the Old Testament), the Ten Commandments are a vital underpinning of Judeo-Christian culture. But while it's one thing to be in favor of ethics and morality in public life, it's a whole different thing to think—as I suspect most Americans do—that there is one single Decalogue. The complex textual history of the Commandments suggests that the more you study the Bible, the less certain you become of your ability to divine the precise Word of God. That's a useful lesson in this divided time.

Most public displays of the Ten Commandments, including the ones in Texas and Kentucky that the Supreme Court dealt with, are based on Exodus 20, verses 2-14, where God speaks directly to the Israelites. But if you grew up as I did, studying the Bible in its original Hebrew, you know that there's a second, equally valid version in Deuteronomy 5:6-18. And the two versions differ. In Exodus, God says to remember the Sabbath because he created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. In Deuteronomy, Moses recounts that God told the Israelites to observe the Sabbath because the Lord liberated them from Egyptian bondage. So which is it? The traditional Jewish answer is that God uttered both versions simultaneously, but fallible human ears heard it two separate ways. So how can you post one version or the other and declare it the Ineffable Word of God? You can't.

Then there's the numbering problem—which is how the Eagles ended up with more than 10 commandments. During the Monica Lewinsky uproar, Bill Clinton said he hadn't violated the Sixth Commandment. But whose Sixth Commandment? To Roman Catholics and Lutherans, it's the no-adultery commandment. But to Jews and members of Orthodox and Reformed churches, Clinton was saying he hadn't murdered or killed, respectively.

The rules of the game require all religions to end up with 10 commandments (or "utterances," to use the literal Hebrew translation) because that's the Bible's number. (See Exodus 34:28 and Deuteronomy 4:13 and 10:4.) Jews count "I am the Lord thy God" as the First Commandment, while Christians consider it part of "You shall have no other gods before me," which Jews count as No. 2. Some Christians split "don't covet" into two commandments; others split up the prohibitions on having other gods and making graven images. We won't even get into translations: whether God is speaking against murder and swearing false oaths (the Jewish version) or killing and taking the Lord's name in vain (the Christian one).

So rather than fighting about the Ten Commandments, perhaps we should turn to Micah 6:8. The Lord, says the prophet, requires us "only to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God." To which all of us can say, amen
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this is the link to the picture
http://www.tspb.state.tx.us/spb/gallery/monulist/10.htm

Answer 4

The TWELVE commandments were made up so senseless people like you would spend your entire life trying to figure out what they were and not bother anyone else.

Looks like it didn't work -

Answer 5

There were ten commandments and their purpose was to make mankind aware of sin and the consequences of commiting them. Most men wore their hair long in Jesus' day, probably because they didn't have hair clippers in those days. lol

Answer 6

Twelve? Hah! What a jerk!

You left two of them out!

Answer 7

He was a heavy metaler.. so he had long hair.