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Date Posted: 18:54:41 02/27/12 Mon
Author: George
Subject: Re: What is we actually obeyed the commandment?
In reply to: Lois 's message, "What is we actually obeyed the commandment?" on 10:34:02 02/27/12 Mon

>I posted this last night, but sometimes
>voyforums has little glitches. If the original post
>shows up again, so much the better.
>
>Just imagine if we actually obeyed the commandments of
>the Lord. God didn't give us commandments so that He
>could punish us if we disobeyed them. He gave us
>commandments for our well being.
>
>I'm going to list the ten commandments. Then I will
>pick one of them and list some of the ills of
>the world that we have because we don't obey it.
>--------------
>
>You shall have no other gods before me.
>
>You shall not make for yourselves any graven image.
>
>You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in
>vain.
>
>Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
>
>Honor your father and your mother, that your days may
>be long upon the land which the Lord your God gives
>you.
>
>You shall not kill.
>
>You shall not commit adultery.
>
>Here we go, this is an easy one.
>
>Rape, Roe vs. Wade, abortion clinics, most divorces,
>hostile exes, custody battles over children, grownups
>having to go see therapists because of crummy
>childhoods, unwed mothers, sexually transmitted
>diseases, tainted blood supplies, right-to-lifers
>shooting abortion doctors, pro-lifers and pro-choice
>people screaming and yelling at each other, murders
>committed because of jealousy, deadbeat dads who don't
>pay child support. I tell you, the list could go on
>for pages. But just imagine if these were all gone
>simply because people took this one commandment
>seriously.
>
>You shall not steal.
>
>You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
>
>You shall not covet anything that is your neighbor's.
>-------------
>
>Lois

Lois, the problem is that each individual wants everyone else to obey the commandments, in order to escape having to obey them himself.

For instance, the adulterer is very anxious and concerned that the husband of his girlfriend not kill.

Likewise, the thief also wants to make sure that the homeowner doesn't kill either.

The man caught breaking any of the commandments immediately accuses the witnesses against him of "bearing false witness." The Community of Christ reads the ninth commandment as "Thou shalt not be a homophobe."

An so on. The Community of Christ practices, through subterfuge, a kind of lie. It has stated that it practices this because it fears violence, or even murder of its apostles abroad, because those outlanders overseas won't obey the Ten Commandments. The thought that their fear might simply be a natural consequence of the commandments they themselves have broken, and are breaking, does not occur to them.

Illegal aliens break civil laws, and by so doing put themselves in a legal limbo, in which they cannot call the police, or file complaints against those who threaten them. Then they protest against the evil people who are "racists."

in the secular sense, that's sort of what people with (in a spiritual sense) the commandments in this land where the breaking of them has been institutionalized. And while in the act of breaking them, the breakers pray aloud publicly for God's blessing on their endeavor.

George

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Re: What if we actually obeyed the commandments? -- Lois, 23:05:15 02/27/12 Mon

Re: What if we actually obeyed the commandments? -- George, 19:26:36 02/28/12 Tue