The 10 commandments?

Question

Where did people get the idea that with out the ten commandments there would be no law?

Do they not understand that laws have existed before the time of the bible and will long after it has faded into obscurity?

Steve caps lock is not cruise control for cool.

I got the idea from a few post when people answered that our law is founded on the 10 commandments.

again for the other person that missed it caps lock is not cruise control for cool

Answer 1

I have no idea.

I also want to know where people got the idea that the Ten Commandments are the entirety of the law.

Even people who ascribe to this way of thinking have to realize that the civilizations that the nation of Israel ran into had laws, and that they weren't based on the Ten Commandments.

Answer 2

Our law is not based on the ten commandments, and thank God for that!

Furthermore, law was never meant to be based on the ten commandments. Don't ask me why people have gotten so obsessed with the first ten of the six hundred thirteen commandments intended for Jews.

According to the Hebrew Bible, the universal laws for all of mankind are the SEVEN commandments of the children of Noah. The ten commandments are requirements for Jews (as evidenced by "I am your God WHO TOOK YOU OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT" and the command to keep the Sabbath).

The seven commandments - the universal commandments for all mankind - are:

1) Don't worship idols (this does not include paying respect to a concept a statue represents as a Buddhist does)
2) Do not curse the Creator (this necessitates acknowledgment that He exists as well as denial of His greatness or goodness)
3) Do not murder
4) Do not commit immoral sexual acts (this is different from the mere "no adultery" of the ten commandments as it includes rape and incest)
5) Do not steal (as opposed to the "do not kidnap" of the ten commandments)
6) Pursue Justice (set up a court system to uphold laws - no lynching or vigilante justice)
7) Don't eat flesh taken from a live animal

According to the Jewish religion, anyone, regardless of religion, politics, ethnicity, race, nationality, astrological sign, etc. who keeps a minimum of these basic laws merits a share in the world to come. As a side note, I find it much more believable that a compassionate God would create this system over, "Belong to my secret club or burn in Hell forever."

Answer 3

Well Steve, if you'll come into the 20 century, you might learn something. Regardless of the re-writes in the history books, most major laws in the West are based on the Ten Commandments You may not like that but that does not change the simple truth of it. Do not Kill, Do not still, Do not lie (perjury) Honor mother and father, ( that is why kids are by law the wards of their parents) Oh by the way you owe your day of rest to it as well, remember the Sabbath? Now I sure there are many misguided souls out there who will disagree, so if that is the case simple do a such on the "bronze doors of the supreme court" try that on for a "separation of church and state"

Answer 4

I have to infer from this that you are generally having a problem with the commandments, and possible political or social issues with a christianocentric (sp?, or is that a word...) point of view that this country has about the whole subject.

All I can tell you is that the country was founded when a bunch of Christians left europe to practice their particular version of Christianity without being oppressed. They trampled the locals, brought disease, killed a bunch of each other, bought things, made things, built an economy, oppressed people, killed MORE people, killed each other again... then started settling down to oppressing people through the nicities of law. Later, people here were worried that if they allowed all the people they hurt to have any power, they'd lose their law - which THEY created, not God.

If you want the change to happen, all you have to do is wait for a while. White people, and particularly WASPS (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants) are becoming scarce worldwide. The U.S.(and Canada) is basically the only large country with a majority there. The most common male name for newborns in the UK is Mohammed.

Keeping all of that in mind, you get to make a choice - do you want to be oppressed by, uh, whitie? or would you rather be repressed by followers of the Koran? How about China - for the athiests out there?

Go fight for your individuality, and your freedom of choice, but keep in mind that it's all wrong, any group. Mutual respect and cooperation between individuals is the only way to move forward - even if I think you're gonna burn/have virgins in the afterlife/become worm food.

Answer 5

To be more accurate, there are 613 commandments, of which the 10 commandments make up 10 of them. All 613 commandments can be broken down into two catagories: Our relationship with God and Our relationship to fellow mankind. The very frist law was the law of marriage/procreation given in the Garden of Eden to Adam and Eve.

Answer 6

Of course laws existed before the 10 commandments. Even in the Bible. What they claim is that the majority of Western civilizations laws are (or were) based on the 10 Commandments and other Judeo/Christian principles.

I believe it was Justice O.W. Holmes who said that it has taken the American people 100,000 laws to enforce the 10 Commandments.

Answer 7

What you've said is true... people put far to much stock in the Ten Commandments as a basis for law, however, the commandments were created and used by Moses to effect law over a society that had far to few laws - the tribes of the Sinai desert.

I'm convinced that at least part of the purpose of the Ten Commandments was intended to undermine obedience to the established government of Egypt. That by putting the ten commandments in place, imprinted in the minds of the Jews, a borderless set of laws stood for the nomad tribes to adhere to without regard to whatever governmental laws were common for any land the wandering Jews happened to pass through.

I'm put off by the word "commandment" in the first place but I do find that some of the ideas of the commandments are quite useful and truly timeless. "Do unto others..." is as valid today as it was in the time of it's ancient beginning as are the commandments, "don't kill and don't steal." The remainder are questionable and some are relatively useless to the point of becoming bad advice, i.e., "Honor thy father and mother.." which begs for the question: Are they honorable enough in character to be honored?

I personally think it's time to create an updated and secular set of basic behaviors that all people can comfortably adopt. It would allow us to move away from the shortcommings of the god-idea religions while keepin one of the only good things that came out of them.

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Answer 8

I see many people saying that a majority of our laws are based on the 10 commandments. False! stealing and murdering are the only two that are actual laws. The rest just talk about observing the sabbath (not a law) or not coveting (again, not a law) or not worshiping other gods (AGAIN, not a law).

Answer 9

The Ten Commandments were not the first "laws"... and they were not given, directly, to The Church.... But their validity was confirmed by Christ Jesus... and they were included in The Bible of The True Christian Faith because they are binding upon those of The Faith... though only through The Teaching and commandment of Jesus. Keeping The Ten are not a requirement for receiveing God's free gift of Salvation.

Answer 10

Our law is obviously not based on the ten commandments. Since when is it illegal to work on weekends or worship a non-christian god. Of course at least 90% of Christians have no idea what the ten commandments actually say.