Why the Ten Commandments can't be cut to six
Why the Ten Commandments can't be cut to six
By Lauren Green
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/05/11/ten-commandments-theologically-cant-be-six/print#ixzz1uf3y4Z5y
May 11, 2012
When a U.S. District Judge suggested that reducing the Ten Commandments to six would help solve a dispute between the ACLU and The Giles County, Virginia School District, he was wading into deep theological territory...perhaps unknowingly.
To reduce the Decalogue to the last six is ignoring its comprehensive structure. In research for the book I'm working on, "The Lighthouse: God as a Living Reality," I look at the world through the prism of the First Commandment. It's a pretty easy claim to make that all the law, in fact the world, basically hinges on the first edict.
You see the Ten Commandments, the laws that the Bible says Moses brought down from Mount Sinai, are broken up into two categories, the first four commandments are about mankind's relationship to God.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By Lauren Green
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/05/11/ten-commandments-theologically-cant-be-six/print#ixzz1uf3y4Z5y
May 11, 2012
When a U.S. District Judge suggested that reducing the Ten Commandments to six would help solve a dispute between the ACLU and The Giles County, Virginia School District, he was wading into deep theological territory...perhaps unknowingly.
To reduce the Decalogue to the last six is ignoring its comprehensive structure. In research for the book I'm working on, "The Lighthouse: God as a Living Reality," I look at the world through the prism of the First Commandment. It's a pretty easy claim to make that all the law, in fact the world, basically hinges on the first edict.
You see the Ten Commandments, the laws that the Bible says Moses brought down from Mount Sinai, are broken up into two categories, the first four commandments are about mankind's relationship to God.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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