Why people are wrong about the Ten Commandments

[jennifer_bloom]

The bible says there are ten things that Moses wanted you to do to build your relationship with God. Those ten things are the Ten Commandments. Most people with even a casual familiarity with Western religions has at least heard of it before.

The thing most people do not understand is that obedience to the Ten Commandments should only be performed under a context that endorses self-respect and respect for your relationship with God.

I had many people tell me I’m a bad person because I did not love my abusive mother or father but Ecclesiastes 8:5 says obedience to God’s commands does not lead to harm, meaning I should not trust my parents or bond with my abuser in an emotional way where they are able to harm my mental and spiritual health.

Jesus said if a parent is bad, you honour them for God’s sake and not for theirs and the New Testament says that you are allowed to rebuke those who offend you and you are only required to forgive if the person is sorry for their behaviour or stops sinning against you.

The way I see it is, your service to your family should not exceed your service to God so if your family slanders you or tells you that you are evil for believing and honouring God, you are allowed to rebuke them and hate them, because you have to love God enough to hate your parents if they try to sabotage your salvation and your ability to serve God.

For me, honouring an evil parent means washing the dishes and giving them medical support when they are sick. It does not involve internalizing their abusive remarks or smiling at them when they slander you and steal your money.

You are allowed to be hostile if they provoke you, in the same way that Jesus was hostile to the religious leaders when Deuteronomy said not to disrespect a religious leader. The command not to disrespect a religious leader should only be observed if obedience to the religious leader does not compete with your obedience to God. In the same way, you should only honour your parents when your attempts to honour them, do not compete with your desire to honour God and does not violate your mental and spiritual well being.

[purplepoppy]

There are actually 613 commandments in the bible if you include things like "You shall not suffer a witch to live".
Even the traditional ten is actually 14-17 in various versions of the bible. 14 commandments

[RichSD]

And the very first commandment from Genesis is "Be fruitful and multiply." :)

Everyone has to make their own interpretations of any of the bible, but I tend to go by what the original language and original author intended, whether it's popular by today's standards or not.

[alance99]

Nice Mytake

[Floppy2112]

So you're feeling guilty about not liking one of your parents who is an asshole? Forgiveness does not require you to snuggle up to those who have done you wrong, parent or no parent. I had a similar situation, a parent did unbelievably evil shit and was a tremendous con-artist on top of all that.
The only solution was for me to support the other parent as much as I could and help them not be raked over the coals by what turns out to be a pathological narcissist. After that I had no contact until they passed.
What does forgiveness look like in this situation? Well, I had the opportunity to do a lot of harm, but I did not. I did not pursue any kind of recourse or revenge. I didn't wish them bad or do anything to cause them harm, that is about the best I could do to a person who betrays their entire family.
Betrayal is worse than death. Anybody who does not understand that has not been betrayed. Sure, you may have been wronged by others in life, that's normal. Full on conscientious betrayal? That's in a whole other category.

And I am a family-first person. I staked everything on family. I lost everything because I staked it all on family. And after all that, something managed to be worse darkened my door. Something I have to deal with sooner or later and I don't know how.
I learned, recently my parent wasn't the worst person in the world. My ex-wife's parent is. I didn't know this until I saw his name in the Buffalo news paper a few weeks ago. He's a rapist, a child rapist. Bonafide, court documents and all, but the incident he was charged with happened a long time ago.
However, he continued that behavior all the time I knew him. I didn't know he was doing THAT! But he always worked with troubled teens for the whole time I knew him... He "worked" with these teens outside of school too, sometimes for days. I saw some weird things. I did not understand them until now
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How the hell do you tell your kids that their grandfather is a child-rapist? How do you protect them from someone like that, who in their eyes, is a saint. I believe they are entitled to know the truth, they are old enough. But if it comes from me, I will look like I am trying to get revenge against the ex-wife and nobody will believe me. Even though I have the evidence and confirmation it's true, nobody in my family will believe me. Now that's a pickle right there...

[raven6933]

I guess this is the southern version of the ten commandments 🤣. There are entirely too many people who use the parts they twist to justify their evil deeds. These religious nutjobs telling people that they're going to hell because they're not following some political leader. All the while thinking that they can control and continue their evil misdeeds and ask for forgiveness on their deathbeds. It doesn't work that way. But hey, they'll learn the hard way. If they want to continue their tax free status then the should remember speration between church and state. It says to love thy neighbor as thy live thy self but constantly belittle anyone who doesn't conform to what they want you to be. I have seen some party hard in every aspect and then get up and preach the gospel come Sunday morning 🙄. I had person on FB that I deleted after saying that no one cared about a village being lain to waste and blaming Europeans for thinking it was okay to be nude in public. My thought is still "if God wanted you to wear clothes then you would be born with them". Constantly blaming others for their problems and never accepting responsibility. I generally try and avoid religious discussions but liked this version of the commandments.

[najekim]

The religious 10 Commandments are dictates to whatever the clergy tells them to do, say, think, or act.

Mine are more realistic:
1. Do no purposeful harm to others, except for the physical defense of you and yours.
2. You, and you alone are responsible for your actions.
3. All peoples are the same and have the right to be treated in a respectfully dignified manner.
4. Make your actions and words ethical and honorable. Use common sense.
5. Accept constructive criticism and learn from your mistakes.
6. Be tolerant. You have your morals, beliefs and practices and others have theirs.
7. Find the even ground in what you do.
8. Seek out pleasure.
9. Look for facts. Truths are arbitrary.
10. Believe in yourself first and foremost.

[Joshua_L_Blackmon]

most of the time its abusive parents who use God as an excuse, but Christ said its better to drown.. then to take the children away from him.. i believe that extends to abuse.

[t-8900]

NGL it felt masochistic to follow the bible but with my takes like this maybe I was wrong. Please do more of these for misinterpreted verses to help us out. Ty! 🙏

[Anonymous]

1. Never obey anyone’s command unless it is coming from within you also.

2. There is no God other than life itself.

3. Truth is within you, do not search for it elsewhere.

4. Love is prayer.

5. To become a nothingness is the door to truth. Nothingness itself is the means, the goal and attainment.

6. Life is now and here.

7. Live wakefully.

8. Do not swim—float.

9. Die each moment so that you can be new each moment.

10. Do not search. That which is, is. Stop and see.

[Opinion Owner]

By osho

[AviatorTom]

Comedian George Carlin RIP has a beautiful act where he consolidates the 10 Commandments to just two. You can find it here

https://www.youtube.com/embed/CE8ooMBIyC8

[Joshua_L_Blackmon]

the 2 commandments

[Justneedtokno]

And it’s a great movieMost people want to take the rules and bend them to whatever fits them. Like she was never really in love with her husband anyway or they were about to get a divorce. These things gets people in all the time

[PuNishant]

Are they sure about no Idols 🤣😂
Every church I visit have a idol of crucified Jesus.

[PuNishant]

So 1st commandment was the reason while crusader and missionary are so ruthless.

[Gracie811]

That's not what it means by idols. That commandments refers to worshipping an object as a god or worshipping an object as if it were God himself. Churches use crosses as symbols, but they don't worship them.

[PuNishant]

It's you prohibiting Idol worshiping. Follow the Muslim way. They kill if you made even a picture of Muhammad pbuh 😂