What kind of world would we live in if we lived according to the 10 commandments?

Question

People always say,the God is a myth, Christianity is judgemental blah blah blah. How would it all look like. Share your views.

Answer 1

They are commandments...not suggestions so....I would say it would be much, much better.

Answer 2

Alot quieter, I expect, but I would rather use Robert Fulghum's model from All I really need to know, I learned in kindergarten...
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup? The roots do down and the plant goes up and nobody really know how or why. We are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK.
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. The rules of ecology and politics and equality and sane living.
If you take any one of those lessons you learned in kindergarten and apply them to your family life or your work or your government or your world, they will hold together true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or if all governments had a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and clean up their own messes.
And it is still true no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

Answer 3

The ten commandments were written for a tribal society living on the edge of life and death. They really do not help one survive in an industrial society. They are negative commands, don't do this, but they do not tell you what to do affirmatively. Moreso, they prohibit alternative ways of thinking. Innovation is impossible. There is but one God and He reveals everything that needs known. We would be living in a non-industrialized world. In a sense, it is Protestantism that broke the culture that lived the commandments, permitting the enlightenment with its anti-Christian motif and moving science into the real world. So, we would still be in 1150.

Answer 4

Our world would be no different from what it is today. What benefit is it to live by the Ten Commandmanets if your heart is not right with God? The Father gave us the Ten Commandements to live by; what others can see; such as murder, lying, stealing, etc. However, The Father still had to send His only begotten son Jesus, who died on the cross to deliver us from not only sins others can see but sins others cannot see, sins of the heart such as hatred, bigotry, jealousy, envy etc. In other words the Ten Commandments did not and does not address the issues of the heart.

Answer 5

Oh it would be a better place if we lived by the commandments that ruled on morality. Just as the world would be a much better place if people obeyed the non-religious laws already on the books. Its the commandments requiring subservience to God that I have trouble with.

Answer 6

Well it is impossible for anyone except Christ to keep fully the 10 commandments. If you break one commandment you are guilty of breaking them all. The law was added to show us our own inability to keep the commandments. We need to see our own sin and inability so that we can understand that we are all in need of a Savior. However, if we could all keep the 10 commandments we would be in a perfect world, but as it is man is sinful. That is why God sent His son to be our righteousness. If we receive Gods grace and believe in His son we will one day spend eternity in heaven , the perfect world.

Answer 7

1. You shall have no other gods before me.
2. You shall not make for yourself a graven image.
3. You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.
4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
5. Honor your father and your mother.
6. You shall not murder.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10.You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his ***, or anything that is your neighbor's.

The first four of these injunctions have nothing whatsoever to do with morality. As stated, they forbid the practice of any non—Judeo-Christian faith (like Hinduism), most religious art, utterances like "God damn it!," and all ordinary work on the Sabbath—all under penalty of death. We might well wonder how vital these precepts are to the maintenance of civilization.
Commandments 5 through 9 do address morality, though it is questionable how many human beings ever honored their parents or abstained from committing murder, adultery, theft, or perjury because of them. Admonishments of this kind are found in virtually every culture throughout recorded history. There is nothing especially compelling about their presentation in the Bible. There are obvious biological reasons why people tend to treat their parents well, and to think badly of murderers, adulterers, thieves, and liars. It is a scientific fact that moral emotions—like a sense of fair play or an abhorrence of cruelty—precede any exposure to scripture. Indeed, studies of primate behavior reveal that these emotions (in some form) precede humanity itself. All of our primate cousins are partial to their own kin and generally intolerant of murder and theft.
They tend not to like deception or sexual betrayal much, either. Chimpanzees, especially, display many of the complex social concerns that you would expect to see in our closest relatives in the natural world. It seems rather unlikely, therefore, that the average American will receive necessary moral instruction by seeing these precepts chiseled in marble whenever he enters a courthouse. And what are we to make of the fact that, in bringing his treatise to a close, the creator of our universe could think of no human concerns more pressing and durable than the coveting of servants and livestock?
If we are going to take the God of the Bible seriously, we should admit that He never gives us the freedom to follow the commandments we like and neglect the rest. Nor does He tell us that we can relax the penalties He has imposed for breaking them.
If you think that it would be impossible to improve upon the Ten Commandments as a statement of morality, you really owe it to yourself to read some other scriptures. Once again, we need look no further than the Jains: Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: "Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being." Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept

Answer 8

It'd be a lot nicer world than it is now that's for sure! God gave us the 10 Commandments (written with His finger in stone) for our own good and happiness! The devil is trying his best to change God's law. The Catholic church leaves out the second com. about making images and bowing down to them and made two com. of the tenth! They also claim they changed the seventh day Sabbath of the fourth com. to the first day! I go with the Bible only.

Answer 9

If people actually held to the Ten Commandments, or better yet the two Great Commandments, then what a beautiful world it would be!

Blessings, Gypsy Queen

Answer 10

Even more intolerant than it is now. The Ten Commandments is a poor set of fundamental laws. You'll learn infinitely more about human behavior spending an afternoon sitting in the back of your kindergartner's classroom and observing how kids interact than a lifetime spent pondering the scriptures.

Answer 11

Most of us do live by the commandments that matter. Kill and steal etc.

Just think what the world would be like if we just loved God and forgot all that religious crap? A lot less hate and bigotry would be one advantage.