Is God saying murder is like stealing only it's a little bit worse because it's up there as the number one sin?
2007-08-30 16:16:56 · 8 answers · asked by Dreams 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, the way I remember it, "Thou shall not murder" is the 6th commandment, "thou shall not steal" is the 8th. If the order of the 10 commandments suggests priority, then "Thou shall have no other God's before me" is the "number one sin" and four others are more serious than murder (worshipping idols, using God's name in vain, failing to keep the sabbath, and not obeying your parents)!
The way I see it, the first four commandments are the ones related to hurting ourselves and our relationship with God. The last six deal with the ways we hurt ourselves and our relationship with other people (love God and love one another as I have love you).
Honoring/obeying your parents is the first of the "other people" commandments and if I had to guess, I would say that God put it before murder and stealing because this is where our problems with other people start! Disobedience to the legitimate authority of our parents is sort of like a "gateway drug"...failing to obey and respect your parents leads a person to disobey other rules/laws and disrespect other people as they get older.
I'm not certain which one (murder or stealing) is really "worse"...in fact, I tend to believe that sin is sin. Certainly the legal penalties for murder are more severe than the penalties for stealing, but I'm not sure which is actually "worse" in terms of the effects on the victims...is it worse to be dead or to live for years with the fear, insecurity, violation, and even self-doubt that being a victim of a violent mugging can cause? If death is a doorway to a better life, then I'd say the thief did more damage than the murderer...if it isn't, the the murderer did far more damage than the thief. I just don't know which is truth and without more information I couldn't choose between them in a "which is worse" contest!
2007-08-30 16:43:56 · answer #1 · answered by KAL 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are not listed in order of seriousness, they are all equally bad.
If you have even broken one moral Law, then you have sinned against God and therefore will "surely die," for the "wages of sin is death." and we are all guilty of breaking not just one, but multiple Commandments. Not one of us is as perfect as we are commanded to be (Matthew 5:48), neither is our heart pure.
We are all guilty of violating the Law a multitude of times, yet if we repent, God can forgive us because Jesus stepped into the courtroom 2.000 years ago and paid the fine for us.
2007-08-30 23:28:30 · answer #2 · answered by jeffd_57 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Alot of the commandments can be summed up with...
Do not be selfish.
If you want something that isn't yours, you know it's really not something you cannot pay for... and you take it anyway?
That is hurtful and selfish...
If you want someone dead and you take that persons life, killing them in cold blood...
That is hurtful... Selfish...
If you want to be sexually intimate with someone but you are married to someone else... yet, you are sexually intimate with the person anyway...
That is hurtful and selfish.
When you lie or gossip about someone else... (thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor) because you dislike someone or want to feel better about yourself.. etc.
That is hurtful and selfish..
2007-08-30 23:41:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because sin is a slippery slope ... and one thing tends to lead to another.
2007-08-31 01:24:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sin is sin...tell a lie, murder, theft. The Bible tells us if you've broken one commandment then you've broken them all. Since the wages for sin is death...and we all will die b/c all have sinned....then I don't see why it really matters.
2007-08-30 23:30:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's just a list of things you shouldn't do. It doesn't have anything with "One is worse than the other".
2007-08-30 23:28:32 · answer #6 · answered by papadego 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
****, I didn't know that was number one. Well gg guys, I'm going to hell.
2007-08-30 23:24:45 · answer #7 · answered by Red 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, you are interpreting it that way.
Does US law consider them similar? they are both illegal.
2007-08-30 23:44:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋