Subject: Re: 10 Commandments |
Author:
Hunter
|
[
Next Thread |
Previous Thread |
Next Message |
Previous Message
]
Date Posted: 21:17:32 12/15/02 Sun
In reply to:
Thinker
's message, "10 Commandments" on 22:03:51 04/07/02 Sun
>Should the Ten Commandments be Posted in Schools?
>-------------------------------------------------------
>--- NO,NO,NO only penis charts
>
>Notes: All scripture quotes, unless otherwise
>indicated, are from the New King James Version of the
>Bible. The views expressed below are not necessarily
>those of the author, but rather are intended to make
>people think. Feel free to distribute this essay
>anywhere you want, including web pages, newsgroups,
>forums, and e-mail.
>-------------------------------------------------------
>----
>
>Not only should public schools be allowed to post the
>10 Commandments, they should be REQUIRED to post them
>in each and every classroom. The lack of God’s word in
>everyday life is clearly the reason for immorality so
>common among today’s youth. If we force the Bible into
>every kid’s daily life, all of their troubles will be
>solved. The Ten Commandments are only a start.
>
>If the killers at Columbine or any other school had
>seen "thou shall not murder" every day, there is no
>question it would have stopped them from gunning down
>their classmates. Same with any other would-be
>shooter. It doesn’t matter if they’re being bullied
>and picked on. There have always been bullies, and
>kids have always picked on each other. It also doesn’t
>matter if firearms are too easily available to these
>kids. There will always be slip-ups. The bottom line
>is, none of the school shootings would have happened
>if the Holy Bible had been present in those buildings.
>
>Kids also need to see "Thou shall not steal". Kids
>today shoplift, and even commit auto theft. Obviously,
>these youngsters have no idea that stealing is wrong.
>We must allow God to tell them Himself, by posting His
>command not to steal where they see it every day.
>
>The complete text of Exodus 20:1-17, where the Ten
>Commandments are delivered to Moses, must be posted
>and made clearly visible in every classroom of every
>school. That way, God’s Word will speak for itself to
>our children, and they will absorb the full meaning.
>Take, for instance, the first two commandments:
>
>Exodus 20:2-6
>2"I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the
>land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
>3"You shall have no other gods before Me.
>4"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; 5you shall not bow down to them nor serve
>them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God,
>visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
>to the third and fourth generations of those who hate
>Me, 6but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love
>Me and keep My commandments.
>
>
>The meaning here is unmistakable. You had better
>believe in and worship the Judeo-Christian God, and
>only Him. We must put down everyone who rejects our
>God, whether atheist or pagan, by having this posted.
>The message here is that the one true God is extremely
>jealous, and will not tolerate any other gods being
>worshipped, so much so that if you commit the horrible
>sin of rejecting Him, your children, grandchildren,
>and great-grandchildren will suffer. Atheists and
>pagans must be constantly humiliated and brought to
>shame by seeing this message. It is their only hope of
>realizing the truth.
>
>It is so important to God that you worship only Him
>that he orders the death penalty for those who do
>otherwise.
>Deuteronomy 13:6-10
>6"If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or
>your daughter, the wife of your bosom, or your friend
>who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying,
>"Let us go and serve other gods,' which you have not
>known, neither you nor your fathers, 7of the gods of
>the people which are all around you, near to you or
>far off from you, from one end of the earth to the
>other end of the earth, 8you shall not consent to him
>or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor
>shall you spare him or conceal him; 9but you shall
>surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him
>to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the
>people. 10And you shall stone him with stones until he
>dies, because he sought to entice you away from the
>LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of
>Egypt, from the house of bondage.
>
>
>Immediately after that, God orders the genocide of
>cities which do not worship Him.
>Deuteronomy 13:12-16
>12"If you hear someone in one of your cities, which
>the LORD your God gives you to dwell in, saying,
>13"Corrupt men have gone out from among you and
>enticed the inhabitants of their city, saying, "Let us
>go and serve other gods"'--which you have not known--
>14then you shall inquire, search out, and ask
>diligently. And if it is indeed true and certain that
>such an abomination was committed among you, 15you
>shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with
>the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it, all that
>is in it and its livestock--with the edge of the
>sword. 16And you shall gather all its plunder into the
>middle of the street, and completely burn with fire
>the city and all its plunder, for the LORD your God.
>It shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built
>again.
>
>
>In the following passage, we find out how God dealt
>with some of the Israelites who built a golden calf
>and worshipped it instead of Him.
>Exodus 32:27-28
>27And he said to them, "Thus says the LORD God of
>Israel: "Let every man put his sword on his side, and
>go in and out from entrance to entrance throughout the
>camp, and let every man kill his brother, every man
>his companion, and every man his neighbor."' 28So the
>sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And
>about three thousand men of the people fell that day.
>
>
>Are you getting the picture? God places exceedingly
>high importance on worshipping Him and only Him.
>Absolutely no ignoring Him or turning to other gods is
>tolerated. We must not allow anyone who does not
>worship our God to forget for one day what grievous
>sin they are living in.
>
>
>Foul language is on the tongues of our youth today.
>Some even use God’s name as a swear word. Clearly,
>these kids don’t know the third commandment.
>Exodus 20:7
>"You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in
>vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who
>takes His name in vain.
>
>
>Could God be any clearer than that? He apparently
>holds this commandment above "thou shall not murder",
>since this is #3, while the latter doesn’t come until
>#6. What is the penalty for cursing God’s name?
>Leviticus 24:13-16
>13And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 14"Take outside
>the camp him who has cursed; then let all who heard
>him lay their hands on his head, and let all the
>congregation stone him.
>15"Then you shall speak to the children of Israel,
>saying: "Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.
>16And whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD shall
>surely be put to death. All the congregation shall
>certainly stone him, the stranger as well as him who
>is born in the land. When he blasphemes the name of
>the LORD, he shall be put to death.
>Leviticus 24:23
>Then Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they
>took outside the camp him who had cursed, and stoned
>him with stones. So the children of Israel did as the
>LORD commanded Moses.
>
>
>Clearly, God will not tolerate being blasphemed. We
>MUST make our young people aware of this. Let’s find
>out how God dealt with a group of children who
>blasphemed Him by mocking His prophet, Elisha.
>2 Kings 2:23-24 (KJV)
>23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he
>was going up by the way, there came forth little
>children out of the city, and mocked him, and said
>unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald
>head.
>24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed
>them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two
>she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two
>children of them.
>
>
>In this case, God used bears to deal with the kids who
>blasphemed Him. The point is, He does not tolerate any
>sort of disrespect toward Himself. It is our job to
>warn people to show Him reverence.
>
>Violation of the next commandment is commonplace
>today.
>Exodus 20:8-11
>8"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9Six days
>you shall labor and do all your work, 10but the
>seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it
>you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your
>daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female
>servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is
>within your gates. 11For in six days the LORD made the
>heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in
>them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD
>blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
>
>
>Could God be any clearer than this? No work on the
>Sabbath. Again, this appears to be more important to
>God than "thou shall not murder", since the latter
>does not come until #6, while this is #4. Why do we
>see stores open on the Sabbath day? That is a clear
>violation of God’s word. This must be stressed to
>young teens looking for part-time employment or
>planning for careers. You must not take a job which,
>even occasionally, forces you to work on the Sabbath.
>It doesn’t matter if you can’t get a good job and
>can’t pay your expenses. God knows best, and He says
>no work on the Sabbath.
>
>What is the Biblical penalty for infraction of the
>Sabbath? You can probably guess, if you don’t already
>know.
>Exodus 31:14-15
>14You shall keep the Sabbath, therefore, for it is
>holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be
>put to death; for whoever does any work on it, that
>person shall be cut off from among his people. 15Work
>shall be done for six days, but the seventh is the
>Sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any
>work on the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to
>death.
>
>Numbers 15:32-36
>32 Now while the children of Israel were in the
>wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the
>Sabbath day. 33And those who found him gathering
>sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the
>congregation. 34They put him under guard, because it
>had not been explained what should be done to him.
>35Then the LORD said to Moses, "The man must surely be
>put to death; all the congregation shall stone him
>with stones outside the camp." 36So, as the LORD
>commanded Moses, all the congregation brought him
>outside the camp and stoned him with stones, and he
>died.
>
>
>No violating God’s Sabbath law, and this includes
>picking up a few sticks. If you do, you will pay the
>price. The next commandment is also routinely broken
>by today’s youth.
>
>Exodus 20:12
>"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may
>be long upon the land which the LORD your God is
>giving you.
>
>
>You must honor your parents and obey their voice, no
>matter what their rules are. If this hurts you, or
>makes you an outcast, too bad. What is the penalty for
>disobedience? You guessed it.
>Exodus 21:17
>"And he who curses his father or his mother shall
>surely be put to death.
>
>Deuteronomy 21:18-21
>18 "If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who
>will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of
>his mother, and who, when they have chastened him,
>will not heed them, 19then his father and his mother
>shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders
>of his city, to the gate of his city. 20And they shall
>say to the elders of his city, "This son of ours is
>stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice;
>he is a glutton and a drunkard.' 21Then all the men of
>his city shall stone him to death with stones; so you
>shall put away the evil from among you, and all Israel
>shall hear and fear.
>
>
>Later, Jesus reiterated this commandment, condemning
>the Pharisees for failing to execute offenders.
>Matthew 15:3-4
>3He answered and said to them, "Why do you also
>transgress the commandment of God because of your
>tradition? 4For God commanded, saying, "Honor your
>father and your mother'; and, "He who curses father or
>mother, let him be put to death.'
>
>
>We all know about #6, which forbids murder. #7 forbids
>adultery. #8 forbids stealing. #9 forbids lying. The
>tenth and final commandment:
>Exodus 20:17
>"You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall
>not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant,
>nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey,
>nor anything that is your neighbor's."
>
>
>In addition to forbidding one to desire someone else’s
>belongings, this commandment also teaches us two
>forgotten but important truths. 1: A woman is her
>husband’s property. Your neighbor’s wife is
>categorized with his house, slaves, and livestock. 2:
>God has given us the right to own slaves, since He
>mentions them here with no hint of disapproval.
>
>Let’s examine a few other scriptures which demonstrate
>that a wife is the property of her husband.
>
>Genesis 3:16
>To the woman He said:
>"I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your
>conception;
>In pain you shall bring forth children;
>Your desire shall be for your husband,
>And he shall rule over you."
>
>
>Right after the Fall, God mandated that man rule over
>woman. We see in the following verses how a man can
>purchase a wife.
>Deuteronomy 22:28-29
>28"If a man finds a young woman who is a virgin, who
>is not betrothed, and he seizes her and lies with her,
>and they are found out, 29then the man who lay with
>her shall give to the young woman's father fifty
>shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife because
>he has humbled her; he shall not be permitted to
>divorce her all his days.
>
>
>Further proof that woman belongs to man is found in
>Numbers 31, when God commands the genocide of the
>Midianites.
>Numbers 31:17-18
>17Now therefore, kill every male among the little
>ones, and kill every woman who has known a man
>intimately. 18But keep alive for yourselves all the
>young girls who have not known a man intimately.
>
>
>The key words being "keep alive for yourselves" in
>reference to virgin girls.
>
>Ephesians 5:22-24
>22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
>23For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ
>is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the
>body. 24Therefore, just as the church is subject to
>Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in
>everything.
>
>
>Since Christ is God, a wife must treat her husband
>like a god, submitting to his every command and
>desire.
>
>As for slavery, God makes clear that a slave is his
>master’s property, with which the master may do what
>he pleases.
>Exodus 21:20-21
>20"And if a man beats his male or female servant with
>a rod, so that he dies under his hand, he shall surely
>be punished. 21Notwithstanding, if he remains alive a
>day or two, he shall not be punished; for he is his
>property.
>
>Leviticus 25:44-46
>44And as for your male and female slaves whom you may
>have--from the nations that are around you, from them
>you may buy male and female slaves. 45Moreover you may
>buy the children of the strangers who dwell among you,
>and their families who are with you, which they beget
>in your land; and they shall become your property.
>46And you may take them as an inheritance for your
>children after you, to inherit them as a possession;
>they shall be your permanent slaves. But regarding
>your brethren, the children of Israel, you shall not
>rule over one another with rigor.
>
>
>Slaves are commanded to treat their masters as if they
>were God, even if the masters are cruel.
>Ephesians 6:5
>Bondservants, be obedient to those who are your
>masters according to the flesh, with fear and
>trembling, in sincerity of heart, as to Christ;
>
>1 Peter 2:18
>Servants, be submissive to your masters with all fear,
>not only to the good and gentle, but also to the
>harsh.
>
>
>If the heretic Abraham Lincoln had read these verses,
>maybe he wouldn’t have torn America apart over slavery
>in the 19th century. And we wouldn’t have the
>unBiblical 13th Amendment in our Constitution, which,
>in defiance of God’s Word, forbids slavery.
>
>
>God takes sin so seriously that He demands that
>animals be ritualistically slaughtered before he will
>forgive the transgressions of men.
>Leviticus 5:5-10
>5"And it shall be, when he is guilty in any of these
>matters, that he shall confess that he has sinned in
>that thing; 6and he shall bring his trespass offering
>to the LORD for his sin which he has committed, a
>female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats as
>a sin offering. So the priest shall make atonement for
>him concerning his sin.
>7"If he is not able to bring a lamb, then he shall
>bring to the LORD, for his trespass which he has
>committed, two turtledoves or two young pigeons: one
>as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering.
>8And he shall bring them to the priest, who shall
>offer that which is for the sin offering first, and
>wring off its head from its neck, but shall not divide
>it completely. 9Then he shall sprinkle some of the
>blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar,
>and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the
>base of the altar. It is a sin offering. 10And he
>shall offer the second as a burnt offering according
>to the prescribed manner. So the priest shall make
>atonement on his behalf for his sin which he has
>committed, and it shall be forgiven him.
>
>
>Having the Bible in our schools will teach children a
>great respect for God and for life, as evidenced in
>the above scripture quotes. We must not wait to bring
>back God’s word. Who knows what could happen if our
>country continues to turn its back on God?
[
Next Thread |
Previous Thread |
Next Message |
Previous Message
]
| |