what is like the ten commandments because it guides us in making choices ?

Answer 1

The Holy Spirit is what guides and leads a Christian in the choices they make, so in a sense, the ten commandments are a precursor to the Holy Spirit.

The differences though are greater than the similarities.

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Answer 2

The first five commandments only relate to worship and aren't helpful or even adhered to. The second five are the only ones that could be considered moral, but were really a given anyway, and largely adhered to before they were explicitly stated due to maintaining social order (that is, stealing, adultery, murder, etc.)

Answer 3

The Real Ten Commandments
keep hearing this chant, variously phrased: "The Ten Commandments are the foundation of Western morality and the American Constitution and government." In saying this, people are essentially crediting Moses with the invention of ethics, democracy and civil rights, a claim that is of course absurd. But its absurdity is eclipsed by its injustice, for there is another lawmaker who is far more important to us, whose ideas and actions lie far more at the foundation of American government, and whose own Ten Commandments were distributed at large and influencing the greatest civilizations of the West--Greece and Rome--for well over half a millennia before the laws of Moses were anything near a universal social influence. In fact, by the time the Ten Commandments of Moses had any real chance of being the foundation of anything in Western society, democracy and civil rights had all but died out, never to rise again until the ideals of our true hero, the real man to whom we owe all reverence, were rediscovered and implemented in what we now call "modern democratic principles."

The man I am talking about is Solon the Athenian. Solon was born, we believe, around 638 B.C.E., and lived until approximately 558, but the date in his life of greatest importance to us is the year he was elected to create a constitution for Athens, 594 B.C.E. How important is this man? Let's examine what we owe to him, in comparison with the legendary author (or at last, in legend, the transmitter) of the Judeo-Christian Ten Commandments. Solon is the founder of Western democracy and the first man in history to articulate ideas of equal rights for all citizens, and though he did not go nearly as far in the latter as we have come today, Moses can claim no connection to either. Solon was the first man in Western history to publicly record a civil constitution in writing. No one in Hebrew history did anything of the kind, least of all Moses. Solon advocated not only the right but even the duty of every citizen to bear arms in the defense of the state--to him we owe the 2nd Amendment. Nothing about that is to be found in the Ten Commandments of Moses. Solon set up laws defending the principles and importance of private property, state encouragement of economic trades and crafts, and a strong middle class--the ideals which lie at the heart of American prosperity, yet which cannot be credited at all to Moses.

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Let us now turn to the Ten Commandments of Solon (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 1.60), which run as follows:

1. Trust good character more than promises.
2. Do not speak falsely.
3. Do good things.
4. Do not be hasty in making friends, but do not abandon them once made.
5. Learn to obey before you command.
6. When giving advice, do not recommend what is most pleasing, but what is most useful.
7. Make reason your supreme commander.
8. Do not associate with people who do bad things.
9. Honor the gods.
10. Have regard for your parents.

Answer 4

try the code of hammurabi the predecessor of the lesser commandments . or the justice system completely outside of the Christian loop if you look at it's source in history for it's basis.take off the blinders and look at the whole picture .

Answer 5

Our own conscience? A careers officers' report? The Bhavagad-Gita?

Answer 6

The Eight "I'd Really Rather You Didnt's"

Answer 7

The only 2 you really have to worry about is don't steal and don't murder. Basically don't steal my stuff or I'll murder your ***.

Answer 8

do you really have to have a list? You can't think for yourself?