Ten Commandments

  • When we speak of the Mosaic law, we are referring to those commandments and precepts given to the chosen Hebrew people through the prophet Moses and other Old Testament prophets, which were later...
  • The First Commandment proclaims that God is One, and the Second Commandment defines his worship, warning against the worship of false, pagan gods. Pagan worshipers can still be found among the...
  • Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down...
  • This commandment forbids us to pronounce the holy Name of God without reverence, and forbids any trivial mention of God in superficial conversation. The Third Commandment safeguards prayer, which is...
  • Our main concern must be to follow the path toward God, away from Whom we can find no rest. The Old Testament Sabbath was the image of God's resting after His creation of the world. It was also the...
  • The Fifth Commandment call us to love our parents. It tells us that must love those closest to us before one can love anyone else. In his first epistle to Timothy, the Apostle Paul writes: But if any...
  • The sixth commandment speaks to a set of moral issues: violent murder, suicide, abortion, euthanasia, and war, as well as many others aspects of killing. Therefore, we shall devote more words than...
  • All societies have attached great importance to death and dying. Our many forebears who lived in agricultural communities accepted death fatalistically: Death was just in the nature of things and...
  • Abortion is a burning issue in the contemporary United States. A ruling of whether to permit or not to permit abortions, in the opinion of many of the country's social and political figures, strikes...
  • Let us consider the appropriateness of the death penalty from the point of view of Christian ethics. We shall begin with the arguments advanced for and then those against the death penalty. The first...
  • In this commandment, the Lord God tells husband and wife to be faithful to each other, and for the unmarried to be chaste, that is, to be pure in deed, word, and desire. From the beginning, God set...
  • The Bible repeatedly warns us against breaking the Eighth Commandment. For example, in the Book of Proverbs: Sweet to a man is bread obtained by unrighteousness, but afterwards his mouth shall be...
  • We must be sure what a lie is before speaking about the Eighth Commandment, in which the Lord forbids us to slander our neighbors. A lie is a distortion or concealment of the truth. A lie is...
  • The Tenth Commandments warns us against sinful inner desire for taking another's worldly property. This commandment does not so much forbid actions as it forbids sinful thought and imagination. These...

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