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Is following the 10 commandments required for salvation?

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No one is in Heaven yet!
That's not quite true.
(what's this called ? ..... I forget what this type of phrase is called.... "not quite true" meaning humongously and quite obviously for all time to all to view it is "very false" = not even close to true by any stretch of reality....
i.e That's blatantly false and in total opposition to YHWH)
 
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You're quoting the old covenant. The law was not written on peoples minds and placed on their hearts under that covenant
 
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No one has ever entered Heaven except the one who came from Heaven, the son of man John3:13
 
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For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.” John 6:40
 
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You're quoting the old covenant. The law was not written on peoples minds and placed on their hearts under that covenant
ו Waw
41 Let Your mercies come also to me, O Lord—
Your salvation according to Your word.
42 So shall I have an answer for him who reproaches me,
For I trust in Your word.
43 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth,
For I have hoped in Your ordinances.
44 So shall I keep Your law continually,
Forever and ever.
45 And I will walk at liberty,
For I seek Your precepts.
46 I will speak of Your testimonies also before kings,
And will not be ashamed.
47 And I will delight myself in Your commandments,
Which I love.
48 My hands also I will lift up to Your commandments,
Which I love,
And I will meditate on Your statutes.
 
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As I said........

My friend, if you need to read the literal letter of the law in the OT to know stealing, murdering, bearing false witness, committing adultery is sin you are in a lot of trouble
 
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As I said........

My friend, if you need to read the literal letter of the law in the OT to know stealing, murdering, bearing false witness, committing adultery is sin you are in a lot of trouble
ז Zayin
49 Remember the word to Your servant,
Upon which You have caused me to hope.
50 This is my comfort in my affliction,
For Your word has given me life.
51 The proud have me in great derision,
Yet I do not turn aside from Your law.
52 I remembered Your judgments of old, O Lord,
And have comforted myself.
53 Indignation has taken hold of me
Because of the wicked, who forsake Your law.
54 Your statutes have been my songs
In the house of my pilgrimage.
55 I remember Your name in the night, O Lord,
And I keep Your law.
56 This has become mine,
Because I kept Your precepts
 
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Do not bring your servant into judgement, for no one living is righteous before you psalms 143:2
 
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Do not bring your servant into judgement, for no one living is righteous before you psalms 143:2
ח Heth
57 You are my portion, O Lord;
I have said that I would keep Your words.
58 I entreated Your favor with mywhole heart;
Be merciful to me according to Your word.
59 I thought about my ways,
And turned my feet to Your testimonies.
60 I made haste, and did not delay
To keep Your commandments.
61 The cords of the wicked have bound me,
But I have not forgotten Your law.
62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks to You,
Because of Your righteous judgments.
63 I am a companion of all who fear You,
And of those who keep Your precepts.
64 The earth, O Lord, is full of Your mercy;
Teach me Your statutes.
 
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And many after drinking the old wine don't want the new, for they say. The old is better
Luke5:39
 
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And many after drinking the old wine don't want the new, for they say. The old is better
Luke5:39
ח Heth
57 You are my portion, O Lord;
I have said that I would keep Your words.
58 I entreated Your favor with mywhole heart;
Be merciful to me according to Your word.
59 I thought about my ways,
And turned my feet to Your testimonies.
60 I made haste, and did not delay
To keep Your commandments.
61 The cords of the wicked have bound me,
But I have not forgotten Your law.
62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks to You,
Because of Your righteous judgments.
63 I am a companion of all who fear You,
And of those who keep Your precepts.
64 The earth, O Lord, is full of Your mercy;
Teach me Your statutes.
 
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And many after drinking the old wine don't want the new, for they say. The old is better
Luke5:39
ט Teth
65 You have dealt well with Your servant,
O Lord, according to Your word.
66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge,
For I believe Your commandments.
67 Before I was afflicted I went astray,
But now I keep Your word.
68 You are good, and do good;
Teach me Your statutes.
69 The proud have forged a lie against me,
But I will keep Your precepts withmy whole heart.
70 Their heart is as fat as grease,
But I delight in Your law.
71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted,
That I may learn Your statutes.
72 The law of Your mouth is better to me
Than thousands of coins of gold and silver.
 
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The fifth command also I'd add. Parent child relationships are overseen by law in the U.S. . And as you noted in the above commands, in most countries of the world.


Really , if the ten commands were required to be obeyed for our salvation then that work , being the ten commandments of God predated Jesus, would have made Jesus sacrifice unnecessary.
All we'd have to do to be saved is obey the ten commandments. Which wasn't even an issue in the OT times being animal sacrifices were necessary to cover the sins that occurred regardless of obedience.
 
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This is the covenant I will make with them after that time says the Lord
I will write my laws in their minds
And place them on their hearts
Then he adds
Their sins and lawless deeds I will remember no more
Heb 10:15-18
 
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Amen.
Paul continually states the christian has a righteousness/ justification before God APART from the law. But:

Many after drinking the old wine don't want the new, for they say:
The old is better
Luke 5:39
 
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Actually, I have found in life that those who most stress the ten commandments must be obeyed for salvation are the people who least reflect in their lives what Christ termed the higher points of the law.
They cannot obey the ten commandments themselves, but insists everyone else must to be saved( matt23:1-4)
 
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This is the covenant I will make with them after that time says the Lord
I will write my laws in their minds
And place them on their hearts
Then he adds
Their sins and lawless deeds I will remember no more
Heb 10:15-18
י Yod
73 Your hands have made me and fashioned me;
Give me understanding, that I may learn Your commandments.
74 Those who fear You will be glad when they see me,
Because I have hoped in Your word.
75 I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are right,
And that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
76 Let, I pray, Your merciful kindness be for my comfort,
According to Your word to Your servant.
77 Let Your tender mercies come to me, that I may live;
For Your law is my delight.
78 Let the proud be ashamed,
For they treated me wrongfully with falsehood;
But I will meditate on Your precepts.
79 Let those who fear You turn to me,
Those who know Your testimonies.
80 Let my heart be blameless regarding Your statutes,
That I may not be ashamed.
 
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The measure you use to judge others will be used to judge you
Matt7:2
 
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You state that me following the ten commandments means thst if I have an impure thought I can not be in a saved stste according to my thoughts. How so?

I never said "keep" the ten commandments I said "follow". I.E. That is the way to live my life by the tenants of the ten commandments. The bible is quite clear on this. Jesus said not everone who called his name would enter the kingdom of God but those that did yhe will of his father in heaven. And God showed us His will in the ten commandments. We are told in many places who will not enter the kingdom of God and it lists liars, adulterers, murderers, etc... everything the ten commandments says not to do.

Again, I said "follow" not "keep". Just the same way to "believe in" Jesus is to follow his teachings.

This whole thing comes from a documentary I was watching on TV where an assassin for the mexican cartel pulls out a prayer and reads it nefore he goes off to murder someone because he believes he doesn't have to follow the ten commandments to be saved.

Please, inderstand the difference between keepong and following the ten commandments. Look at the definitions if you need to. You are putting beliefs in my head that aren't there because you are not understanding what I am yrying to say wjen I say "follow the ten commandments"
 
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Why do you keep mentioning the ten commandments?
Why not the beatitudes instead?
Lets clarify.
If you look at a woman with lust in your eye you have already committed adultery with her in your heart.
Do not just say. I do not murder. If you get angry with your brother you are in danger of the fires of hell.
Why are you not saying
If you fail to follow the beatitudes you cannot be saved?
 
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