Please dont tell me they are all equally important, I know they re all important and that if you break one you break them all, but I also think most people have their own 'rating' system on sin, this is a 'big' sin, that is a 'small' sin.
I'm just curious to see how people apply this to the Ten Commandments.
2007-10-12 22:40:16 · 25 answers · asked by CatKween 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Have no other god. The first is most important. That one forms the moral authority that we ought to obey. Without the first, we will treat all the others as mere suggestions for how to seek happy feelings. And there is no moral authority in a feeling.
2007-10-12 22:53:44 · answer #1 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The ten commandments do not apply to Christians, therefore they do not define sin for a Christian.
Keeping a or the commandments does nothing to affect the heart. You can refrain from murdering someone, but still be guilty if you harbor hatred of someone.
Love "fulfills" the law. Love is an affect upon the heart. People do not murder those they love.
People need to get past the physical aspect of the commandments and focus on the spiritual.
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2007-10-13 11:15:28 · answer #2 · answered by Hogie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart mind soul and strength, and thy neighbour as thyself, on these two hang all the Law of the Prophets.
Since Jesus was the fulfilment of the law, then His New Commandment, is important here which is, "A new commandment I give into you, that you Love one another as I have Loved you, by this shall all men know that you are my disciples".
2007-10-13 06:17:59 · answer #3 · answered by seven_sunny_daze 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None of them is important in the way they were given to the Israelites. The Ten C's, the Decalogue, now apply to no-one as laws. The moral parts of the Law of Moses was only a crystallisation of natural moral law that we all know merely through being human. Murder, theft, adultery and false witness were wrong for thousands of years before Moses, and they still are, but the requirement to keep them as a way of pleasing God no longer applies- if it ever did. Remember, Paul wrote of the Mosaic Law as being only a 'schoolmaster' to bring people, particularly the Israelites, to Christ.
It is best for unbelievers to regard the Decalogue as a guide, but for unbelievers to regard it as promise. Those who are being sanctified fulfil the promise 'You shall not kill'. But they will go beyond the commandment not to kill, because neither will they hate, or make spiteful remarks, and they will love their neighbours just as much as they love themselves. They will not just refrain from stealing; they will be content in all circumstances, with whatever they have, and will not covet anything, or anyone.
There is just one commandment that is fulfilled in a different way. The Israelites were given a periodic rest day, when they did no work. This commandment was, in reality, a sort of divine joke. The Israelites were never really expected to achieve God's standards by keeping Mosaic Law. As James wrote, one only has to sin once to fall short of God's glory. Had Abraham been saved by keeping the Law, or even the natural law? Certainly not- it was by his faith in God that he was deemed as righteous as if he had never broken any law. And the Israelites were not going to be justified before God any other way, however hard they tried. So God gave one commandment in among the others that was different- a clue that all this working for salvation was useless, a promise that made the other nine commandments, and the other 600+ commandments given to the Israelites, null and void, from the start.
So the rest every seventh day was just to make the Israelites think- a reminder of Abraham, a friend of God, yet one who lived before Moses. The sabbath rest for them was just a picture of the real rest that comes through Christ, through faith in his finished work on the cross.
Remember the man who collected wood on the Sabbath, and was stoned? That man died so that you and I will realise that to work for salvation, as so many do through their false religion, is deadly. The real Sabbath rest is the whole Christian life, in which the saints join with God in his eternal sabbath, won for us on the cross.
So the most important commandment by far is to keep the sabbath, not once in seven days, but every day.
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2007-10-13 11:39:47 · answer #4 · answered by miller 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus Christ fulfilled the 10 Commandments. They do not pertain to us today. To follow the 10 Commandments, one must make sacrifices. Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice.Jesus said there is only 2 commandments He leaves with man, (1) to love God with all your heart, soul, mind. (2) To love your neighbor as yourself. He said if one does this, all the 10 commandments will be met.
2007-10-13 06:58:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The first one :Exo 20:3 Thou shalt have none other gods before me.
If I obey this one, then ALL the others follow. No wonder it's listed as Number 1.
2007-10-13 15:43:47 · answer #6 · answered by flandargo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thanks for reminding people of one of my favorite verses. If you aren't humble before you read it, you better be after!
James 2:10 - stumble on one point of the law, you are guilty of it all.
If you have only ever stolen small things of little value, or only told "white lies" (or better yet, pink lies), you are still a sinner, as a murderer or a rapist, or a child molester is a sinner.
This is why the most important commandment is to love thy neighbor as thy self.
2007-10-13 05:49:23 · answer #7 · answered by Wire Tapped 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Deu 6:5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Mat 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
This is the number one and most important that will take care of all the rest!
Why? Because how can anyone fall short on the other commandments given by God if they love God and Lord Jesus Christ?
Can you say and claim you love the LORD God Most High, if you continually living in sin? Doing habitual and willful sins?
Although, no one can do such obedience to God and Lord Jesus Christ without the help of the Holy Spirit of God, John 3:16; John 14:26!
Therefore, one must be Born Again in the Spirit of God, John 3:3; John 3:7. in order to trully can obey Him in spirit, in truth and in love!
Joh 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. AMEN.
2007-10-13 06:06:27 · answer #8 · answered by Ephesians 2:8 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would have to say that for me the most important of the ten comandments is to honor thy father and mother. because if you honor your parents you dont wish to bring them shame, and that will keep you from breaking the other imporant ones like dont kill dont steal and dont lie
2007-10-13 05:47:43 · answer #9 · answered by stacy o 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to many Christians here, the Old Testament (where the Ten Commandments, plus 603 others are located) is no longer applicable.
2007-10-13 05:43:48 · answer #10 · answered by gelfling 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋