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For me, the controversy raging over the display of the Ten Commandments is not really about legality or the constitution. No. It really seems to be all about irony.
As the news reported daily of this battle, I soon began to wonder if anyone else was finding the whole thing paradoxical. As this huge outcry for for the Ten Commandments to be displayed in schools, courthouses, and in other public places reached a feverish pitch in Internet chat rooms, on talk-radio shows, and in news magazines, I understood that most Christian churches in the country still teach that all or a part of them were nailed to the cross. (A belief that teaches the Commandments and/or their penalties are no longer in force for Christians.)
Proponents of that stance say that America should have them on display because they are a part of our Judeo-Christian heritage, even as they also say that Christ did away with the Commandments when He died. In fact, some also say He left just two new commandments with which believers should concern themselves.
Yet this is confusing: If the Commandments are no longer in effect, why are they, as Christians and Americans, trying to force them on every other citizen by displaying them as a government-sanctioned artifact? Also, if Jesus did away with them, can they really be part of a common Judeo-Christian heritage? Wouldnt the most correct course of action be to post the two new covenant commandments of Jesus for a Christian nation?
On the other hand, if the Ten Commandments were so important to this nations Founding Fathers, why should we not be compelled to obey them implicitlyevery one of them, with or without the benefits of graceif America is to return to its glorious roots? If the Founding Fathers established this nation on the pillar of the Ten Commandments, might they have reasonably expected them to be followed to the letter by like-minded Christian citizens?
What are you thoughts; does God make mistakes and go back on His own word He gave twice?
As the news reported daily of this battle, I soon began to wonder if anyone else was finding the whole thing paradoxical. As this huge outcry for for the Ten Commandments to be displayed in schools, courthouses, and in other public places reached a feverish pitch in Internet chat rooms, on talk-radio shows, and in news magazines, I understood that most Christian churches in the country still teach that all or a part of them were nailed to the cross. (A belief that teaches the Commandments and/or their penalties are no longer in force for Christians.)
Proponents of that stance say that America should have them on display because they are a part of our Judeo-Christian heritage, even as they also say that Christ did away with the Commandments when He died. In fact, some also say He left just two new commandments with which believers should concern themselves.
Yet this is confusing: If the Commandments are no longer in effect, why are they, as Christians and Americans, trying to force them on every other citizen by displaying them as a government-sanctioned artifact? Also, if Jesus did away with them, can they really be part of a common Judeo-Christian heritage? Wouldnt the most correct course of action be to post the two new covenant commandments of Jesus for a Christian nation?
On the other hand, if the Ten Commandments were so important to this nations Founding Fathers, why should we not be compelled to obey them implicitlyevery one of them, with or without the benefits of graceif America is to return to its glorious roots? If the Founding Fathers established this nation on the pillar of the Ten Commandments, might they have reasonably expected them to be followed to the letter by like-minded Christian citizens?
What are you thoughts; does God make mistakes and go back on His own word He gave twice?