Importance Of The Ten Commandments

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Do the Ten Commandments apply the world we live in today? Billy Graham put it this way “The Ten Commandments are just as valid today as when God gave them to Moses over 3,000 years ago. Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law” (Matthew 5:18),” Billy Graham. Every passing day it seems christianity becomes more and more meaningless. Keeping the ten commandments is necessary for Christianity. Each commandment is translatable to the world we live in today. The first and second commandment are summarized as, have no other gods before God and don’t make yourself an idol (Exodus 20:3-6 HCSB). During biblical times false gods included Baal, Ashtoreth, and many others. In present time false idols can be almost anything, that is what makes it so hard for us, and why we need the ten commandments to remind us. For me personally sports were my god. I put forth so much effort into getting bigger, faster, stronger which there is nothing wrong with, but it came to a point when that was all I wanted to do. Until I realized that sports are going to end. That is when I fell back onto Jesus. So it may not be …show more content…

The sixth commandment is this, “ Do not murder.” (Exodus 20:13 HCSB) This in general is just a great thing not to do. The seventh commandment states,”Do not commit adultery.” (Exodus 20:14 HCSB) The generation we live they make it is socially acceptable to commit adultery. Committing adultery means you have sexual intercourse with someone you are not married to. The eighth commandment states in Exodus 20:15 HCSB,”Do not steal.” This commandment is also self explanatory simple do not steal something that is not yours. I put these three together because they are all similar in that they are easy to understand, and they are still general rules in today 's society excluding the seventh

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