2007-11-17 01:30:18 · 32 answers · asked by elvis l 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus made it simple. 1. Love the Lord thy God with all your heart, mind, soul & strength. 2. Love others as your self.
Because all the commandments of God fall under these two. Do these & you fulfill Gods commandments. Jesus came to not destroy the commandments, but to fulfill.
If you compare the 10 commandments in Exodus20; you will see the first group of commandments are loving the LORD God & the second group is loving others.
But this was one of my early questions. Because it seemed that people listed the 10 commandments differently. So I asked God.
Exodus20 is the answer. And how does Israel see them. The first is the identity of the LORD God.
1. I AM the LORD thy God who brought you out of Egyptian bondage. (For us Christians that would be who saved us from the bondage of sin. Savior) Thou shalt have no other Gods than me.
2. Don't make images of things in heaven, in or under the earth, or in or under the water. Don't bow down thyself to them nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the 3rd & 4th generations of them who hate me; & shewing mercy unto thousands generations of those who love me & keep my commandments.
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His Name in vain.
4. Remember the sabbath day to keep it Holy. Six days shalt thou labour & do all thy work: But the 7th day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shall not do any work, nor anyone else in your home. In six days the LORD made the heaven & earth, the sea & all that is in them & rested the 7th day where the LORD blessed the Sabbath day & hallowed it.
5. Honour thy father & mother that thy days may be long upon the land that the LORD thy God gives you. (This would also be honouring our Heavenly Father.)
(1. Love the Lord thy God with all your heart, mind, soul & strength.
2. Love your neighbor as yourself.)
6. Thou shalt not kill.
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery (fornications).
8. Thou shalt not steal.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
10. Thou shalt not covet what others have.
As a Christian we are we are not under the law of sin & death. We are under grace. So? We choose to follow after the Spirit. Die to the lust of the flesh (not reacting by cussing, yelling, etc.) But choose to follow after the spirit (faith, hope, love, joy, peace patience, truth, honesty, etc...)
So? Trust & obey, there is no other way, to be happy in Jesus, is to trust & obey. That is also obeying the personal instruction daily by following after the Spirit.
Also in the OT there are the laws of nature & the laws of beasts what to eat & what not to eat. Nature itself follow these laws.
2007-11-17 01:35:04 · answer #1 · answered by t_a_m_i_l 6 · 4⤊ 3⤋
There are over 1,000 commandments, directives, admonishments, dos and don ts etc. ( call them as you will), in the bible. See: https://www.cai.org/bible-studies/1050-new-testament-commands & http://www.gospeloutreach.net/613laws.html Bad news t_a_m_i_l, it s not all love and flowers. Many of the commandments have to do with when and how to kill people, how badly one is allowed to beat one s slaves, how harshly a man can treat his wife and children. etc. Much of it is not pretty or rational, much of it is just about rules to live by in a time when the only codified law was the religious text of the day, much the same as sharia law is practiced today.
2015-12-28 10:26:22 · answer #2 · answered by TxRed 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually God handed down two stone tablets to Moses. On these were 5 each refering to true worship and practical ones for living properly.
He also directed Moses to lead his people and as a leader Moses had to add hundreds of smaller commandments to the original "10". Read Exodus and the book known as the book of laws. Exodus and Leviticus.
Essentially Proverbs advises us of the need for WISDOM.....hence my name.
2007-11-17 01:43:19 · answer #3 · answered by Wisdom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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No ... the Bible was not around before the Commandments
2016-04-08 21:46:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible itself has no commandments as it was a series of books written by mortals like you and me, condensed like the reader's digest into one volume, and that was named the Bible.
The ten commandments was written on two stone tablets by a guy named Moses when he decided to go up on MT Zion for a sabbatical. The two are unrelated.
2007-11-17 01:40:26 · answer #5 · answered by Mezmarelda 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
613 and that includes the 10 Commandments
2007-11-17 01:32:16 · answer #6 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, if you really read the bible from an objective view point, you will see that it was an effort to create a working society and government. Not only that, but you will also note that while the laws are semi-consistent the rest isn't.
2007-11-17 01:37:57 · answer #7 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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If you really read the Bible. How many COMMANDMENTS does it have?
2015-08-04 17:13:14 · answer #8 · answered by Viole 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well,I know the New Testament,,Jesus says Love your Father in Heaven and Love your Neighbor as yourself,,If you do these things,you will not desire to do those things bad that are in the old testament..So there are two commandments in the New testament,which Jesus came on this earth to fulfill the old testament..
2007-11-17 01:36:40 · answer #9 · answered by I give you the Glory Father ! 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Two main ones in the NT and 10 main ones in the OT plus over 600 minor ones in the OT - according to the Protestant Bible. This is not the view of Jews and their Torah.
2007-11-17 01:36:59 · answer #10 · answered by cheir 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Jewish Bible has 613 LAWS, but the Ten commandments count as the only ten because they are the only ones actually called commandments.
2007-11-17 01:33:11 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋