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Idiot's guide to the ten commandments

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Wadeinwater

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Idiot’s Guide to the Ten Commandments

1.You shall have no other gods before Me.

This means anything you get obsessed with. It can include girlfriends, cars, football and the board game “Risk”. Also it can mean another God for real. So like if you worship the devil, that would count.


2.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.

This does not mean that sculpting is out in art class. You can still make your elvis carven image, as long as it does not take the place of God. Art=good and worshiping art=breaking commandment 2

3. You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.

When you hit your finger with a hammer, try substituting your own name. How would you like it if someone shouted OH BOB!! Every time something bad happened?

4.Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Sundays are a time for football, wait…I mean church.

5.Honor your father and your mother.

Most likely both of your parents could take you out of this life just as easy as they brought you in.


6.You shall not murder.

If you commit murder but do not get convicted, it still counts.

7.You shall not commit adultery.

If your wife does not know about it, it still counts. If she does know about it, then tell her to refer to commandment number 6.

8.You shall not steal.

This commandment can be broken by breaking commandment 7and 10.
Paws off the goods unless they be yours.

9.You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Don't put the wrap on someone else,
Who smelt it delt it

10.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.

If your neighbor has everything you want, I would suggest moving in with him. If this is not an option, be grateful for your own wife and donkey.
 

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Wadeinwater said:
4.Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Sundays are a time for football, wait…I mean church.

Actualy, it says
Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle nor thy stranger that is within thy gates, for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it.

The seventh day. That would be uh... (*counts days on his fingers*) Saturday. Sunday is fine for watching football.
 
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Wadeinwater said:
So you go to church on Saturdays?

No. I don't "go to church" at all. The New Testament concept of chuch is totaly different from our idea of church today. "Church" as a religious orginization with special buildings where people go to hear the same CEO er... I mean pastor deliver a sermon every week is something that is totaly foreign to the scriptures. (There is plenty of scriptural evidence to support this view but since it is entirely outside the scope of this thread, I won't explain it right now.)

What I do do is have fellowship with other Christians any day of the week every chance I get, which is indeed often on Saturdays. As for the sabbath, I follow the Biblical command not to do any work from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. This includes not only my job but also such things as doing the laundry, vacuuming and going to the grocery store. The sabbath (sundown Friday to sundown Saturday) is to be totaly set appart (the real meaning of the word "holy") for the Lord. I use that time mostly for prayer and Bible study and do nothing that is exclusively for myself unless I absolutely can't avoid it.

Btw. That was the only point I disagreed with. I realy like your explinations, especialy the last part of

7.You shall not commit adultery.

If your wife does not know about it, it still counts. If she does know about it, then tell her to refer to commandment number 6.
 
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