Are you following the 10 Commandments?

I want to see what people have admitted to doing without knowing they are breaking god's law...

I'll go first.

I have broken the law of using the lord's name in vain, not keeping the sabbath holy, not honouring my father/mother, commiting adultery, and stealing.

I've never killed anyone, except for small bugs like flies, and ants (when I was little)

9, 10, 2 and 1 i've never broken...

I've personally commited 6/10 holy crimes. And I do regret and repented of those crimes, and I can only hope that god can forgive me...I think a new commandment is claiming jesus as your personal saviour, which i've done...

Anyone else want to make known what kind of holy crimes they've committed?

Here are his laws in numeric order:

ONE: 'You shall have no other gods before Me.'

TWO: 'You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.'

THREE: 'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.'

FOUR: 'Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.'

FIVE: 'Honor your father and your mother.'

SIX: 'You shall not murder.'

SEVEN: 'You shall not commit adultery.'

EIGHT: 'You shall not steal.'

NINE: 'You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.'

TEN: 'You shall not covet your neighbour's house; you shall not covet your neighbour's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbour's.'


The Laws given to Moses are found at Leviticus 19
Lev 19:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

Lev 19:2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.

Lev 19:3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

Lev 19:4 Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.

Lev 19:5 And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, ye shall offer it at your own will.

Lev 19:6 It shall be eaten the same day [the 1st day] ye offer it, and on the morrow [the 2nd day]: and if ought remain until the third day [the 3rd day], it shall be burnt in the fire.

Lev 19:7 And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it shall not be accepted.

Lev 19:8 Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people


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Also can someone who is familiar with the following explain if this is part of the bible and more divine rules to live by?

Here they are, and there are lot's.

Sundry Laws
Lev 19:9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.

Lev 19:10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.

Lev 19:11 Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

Lev 19:12 And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.

Lev 19:13 Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

Lev 19:14 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.

Lev 19:15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment [do not pervert justice]: thou shalt not respect the person of [do not show partiality to] the poor, nor honor the person of [nor favoritism to] the mighty: but in righteousness [fairness] shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

Lev 19:16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer [spreading slander] among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of [do not do anything that endangers] thy neighbour; I am the LORD.

Lev 19:17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour [frankly], and not suffer sin upon him [so you will not share in his guilt].

Lev 19:18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.

Lev 19:19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind [do not mate different kinds of animals]: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed [do not plant your field with two kinds of seed]: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee [do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material].

Lev 19:20 And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

Lev 19:21 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a trespass offering.

Lev 19:22 And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him.

Lev 19:23 And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.

Lev 19:24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD withal.

Lev 19:25 And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the LORD your God.

Lev 19:26 Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.

Lev 19:27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

Lev 19:28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

Lev 19:29 Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

Lev 19:30 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

Lev 19:31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.

Lev 19:32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.

Lev 19:33 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.

Lev 19:34 But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

Lev 19:35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.

Lev 19:36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Lev 19:37 Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.

[edit on 23-8-2005 by TrueLies]

ONE: 'You shall have no other gods before Me.'

Yep, I'm good.

TWO: 'You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.'

Hmm, makes me wonder about crosses. Also would that include images such as whales, fish, stars, moon, angels. I might be guilty here, need to explore this one.

THREE: 'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.'

Guilty, but do much better in the last 2 years than before.

FOUR: 'Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.'

Well, I go to church but I still do things, is that unholy? Jury out on this one.

FIVE: 'Honor your father and your mother.'

I do. Now as a child I had a few nasty words but I outgrew them.

SIX: 'You shall not murder.'

I don't.

SEVEN: 'You shall not commit adultery.'

I have not.

EIGHT: 'You shall not steal.'

I don't, however, I did once when I was young. Does forgetting to return pens and paperclips to work count as stealing??? (uh oh)

NINE: 'You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.'

I don't think I have unless I am not understanding the meaning.

TEN: 'You shall not covet your neighbour's house; you shall not covet your neighbour's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbour's.'

Ok, I don't want any donkey's etc but I have thought I would love my neighbors flower garden. I think I am ok on this one.

Great post, it gets you thinking.

I would rightfully be found in the Lake of Fire if it were not for the shed blood of Jesus Christ. By my study of the Holy Bible I have indeed violated all ten of the commandments. The fourth commandment no longer applies to Christians but in keeping with your question I have violated that as well.

Exodus 20:8
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Jesus clearly stated that the whole law was kept by simply observing two commandments.

Luke 10:25-27
And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

Remember that the Ten Commandments were given to the Jewish people as were the 600+ laws they were to keep. Having said that, a careful reading of the scripture from Luke above gives us certain liberty and also new restrictions.




I’ve violated this one as well but you left an important part out of it. The commandment wasn’t against making images of heavenly things but was against bowing down and worshiping those created things.

Exodus 20:4-5
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 thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me;

According to my Bible I’ve also committed murder.

1 John 3:15
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

And I’ve committed adultery.

Matthew 5:28
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

So when all is said and done I have indeed broken all ten of the commandments. That’s a harsh reality that brings me back to the mercy seat time and time again.



Machine

Outwardley, I am able to follow the commandments, tho too often I fail to follow the first one.

inwardly, in my thoughts, i might as well be breaking all of them. ANd to GOd that is enough to say I have allways been breaking them.

As far as the Levitical laws, those are more cultural and societal laws taht were mainly designed to give the Hebrews a code of coduct, and seperate themselves from everyone else at the time. Heck even jews don't follow all of the Levitical law today. But once Jesus died on the cross and said "It is finished" we were no longer judged by God with those laws, but Judge by our desires to Obey God, and clothing ouselves with the Holy spirit

Machine and Jehosaphat are very right. Anyways, since we have all hated or lusted, we are all guilty of murder and adultery. (well 99% of us)

lol, how hard it is to be righteous, nobody can get to God without Jesus and God is great for giving us that.