Is it possible to keep the 10 commandments?

[TheBibleIsTruth]

Yes. Any marriage made under false pretenses is not a valid marriage but a marriage based on a lie.

In any church that practices annulment, this is the rule.

ONLY in Italy!

 

[GodsGrace101]

What does this mean?

Do you mean that God tries and fails? Or do you mean Paul tried to reach them and he (Paul) failed? Who is the "He" in the statement?

The HE is God.
God did not fail.
MAN failed.
God tried to tell us in every way what He wanted from us...
It's US that would not listen and obey Him.
Jesus was the last revelation.

 

[dqhall]

No, the Jewish Sabbath is very different. Read the Old Testament and see the "do's and don't" for the Sabbath Day, which is not the same as the Lord's Day.

Christian doctors work on Sunday, they take public transport, or even drive to get to Church, which is forbidden for the Jewish Sabbath. Exodus 35:3 says, "You shall kindle no fire in all your dwelling places on the Sabbath day". So, cooking, hot water and heating are not allowed on the Sabbath Day. Does any of this apply under the New Covenant? Are all Christians who do these, break the very Law of God, in disobeying the Fourth Commandment?

The Jews also have Talmudic laws about how to do Sabbath observance from sundown Friday til sundown Saturday, the seventh day of the week on the Hebrew calendar. There are 39 types of work forbidden on the Sabbath. It was against the law to light a lamp or candle on the Sabbath. While I was touring Israel, I read an English language web site on the Israeli Internet that stated turning on a light switch on the Sabbath is forbidden because it is like lighting a candle on the Sabbath. Orthodox neighborhoods in Jerusalem put temporary barricades across their streets to block traffic on the Sabbath. The ambulance service operates, but the buses do not. Some non-religious Jews drove on Sabbath, but these might be ostracized by religious Jews. At a hotel near Ben Gurion Airport the elevators stopped on every floor during Shabaht (Sabbath). This was because the Orthodox rabbis decided pushing an elevator button is work.

In Matthew 3:1-6 Jesus went into a synagogue and healed a person on the Sabbath. The Jews objected to this as physician's are not supposed to heal people on the Sabbath. The punishment for working on the Sabbath is stoning the person to death as recorded in the Torah. Another time Jesus and his disciples broke the Sabbath by gleaning wheat from a field. The poor were allowed to gather some grain for themselves in certain parts of a grain field, but they were not allowed to do this on the Sabbath.

The law is not perfect as parts of the Torah are comprised of the laws made by men that were not given by God.

 

[GodsGrace101]

We a couple come before the Lord and get married, regardless of whether they decided to have a 100 babies, and then one says no, this does NOT in any way mean, even if they get divorced and have their marriage "annulled", that they were NEVER married! They WERE, is FACT can never be denied to have actually happened. Maybe the whole thing on marriage in Italy is different to the rest of the world?

God is the same the world over.
No use to continue this conversation.
You could check it out with your individual church.

 

[GodsGrace101]

We a couple come before the Lord and get married, regardless of whether they decided to have a 100 babies, and then one says no, this does NOT in any way mean, even if they get divorced and have their marriage "annulled", that they were NEVER married! They WERE, is FACT can never be denied to have actually happened. Maybe the whole thing on marriage in Italy is different to the rest of the world?

P.S.
Just to be clear...
He would have NOT wanted children BEFORE getting married and LIED just to get married.

NOT that he changed his mind later...

 

[DeaconDean]

Hi Deacon Dean,
I know monks who are under the categories you have listed.

They believe they sin.

The as yet "future" Pope, Peter sinned at least twice after the crucifixion and Pentecost. One time he was guilty of disobeying God, and one time he was guilty of hypocrisy.

The Apostle Paul was guilty also. He was guilty of reviling a high priest (the Temple was as yet, not destroyed) and also was guilty of disobeying the Holy Spirit.

And here we are some 2100 years later. If both Peter and Paul could not make it just a few years without sinning, what makes people think we can do something that no man in history has done, or will ever do?

God Bless

Till all are one.

 

[GodsGrace101]

The as yet "future" Pope, Peter sinned at least twice after the crucifixion and Pentecost. One time he was guilty of disobeying God, and one time he was guilty of hypocrisy.

The Apostle Paul was guilty also. He was guilty of reviling a high priest (the Temple was as yet, not destroyed) and also was guilty of disobeying the Holy Spirit.

And here we are some 2100 years later. If both Peter and Paul could not make it just a few years without sinning, what makes people think we can do something that no man in history has done, or will ever do?

God Bless

Till all are one.

I think you've misunderstood me.
I said we CAN sin.

 

[TheBibleIsTruth]

God is the same the world over.
No use to continue this conversation.
You could check it out with your individual church.

I check out with the Holy Bible!

 

[GodsGrace101]

I check out with the Holy Bible!

That's very good.
But if you ever want a divorce, or annulment, you'll have to speak to your church!

 

[TheBibleIsTruth]

That's very good.
But if you ever want a divorce, or annulment, you'll have to speak to your church!

Here in England we need lawyers not the church

 

[DeaconDean]

I think you've misunderstood me.
I said we CAN sin.

No, I understood.

I was simply backing what I said.

God Bless

Till all are one.

 

[Kaon]

we are NOT the Lord Jesus Christ, so your argument is moot!

We are CHRISTians - images of the Word of God. The Most High God wrote the Word of God on our hearts - that isn't a metaphor; we don't need tablets or ink to know what is right or wrong for the Most High God (just like antediluvian Hebrews.)

God demands perfection, and the Word of God told us that whoever does the will of His Father is His brother and sister.

Sanctification is a process, but you have to actually find joy and reason with following the word of the Most High God.

 

[GingerBeer]

Is it possible or not to keep the 10 commandments?

If it's not possible to keep the commandments, why do Jesus and also Paul say we are to keep the commandments?

John 14:15
"If you love Me, you will keep My commandments."

John 14:21
He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him.”

John 15:10
If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

Matthew 5:19
Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 19:17
And He said to him, “Why are you asking Me about what is good? There is only One who is good; but if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

1 Corinthians 7:19
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but what matters is the keeping of the commandments of God.

1 Timothy 6
13 I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate, 14 that you keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

If the ten commandments are read at face value and nothing added to them by fanciful theology then keeping them may be possible or at least may have been possible in the times that immediately followed their first proclamation.

 

[Phil 1:21]

"for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God," Romans 3:23

 

[JoeP222w]

The HE is God.
God did not fail.
MAN failed.
God tried to tell us in every way what He wanted from us...
It's US that would not listen and obey Him.
Jesus was the last revelation.

Sorry, maybe just semantics, but God does not "try" anything. "Try" implies a potential for failure. What God says, He does. God is successful in everything single thing He decrees.

The reason man does not listen is because he (man) is not the elect of God. God's calling on the elect is effectual. Man does not have any power to overrule God.

 

[DamianWarS]

I doubt it, at least not for long.

I know that I have broken all 10.

You must be writing this from a prison cell

 

[Yeshua HaDerekh]

Only the moral Law of the Old Testament is what Christians are required to keep. the Fourth Commandment is NOT for any Bible-believing Christian, because it was given to Israel. We worship the Risen Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ on Sunday, the First Day of the week, and not the Jewish Sabbath Day. This Command was never reconfirmed in the New Testament.

The Sabbath was made for MAN. I don't remember Him saying it was made for JEWS. Sunday is fine for worship and to remember the resurrection, but it is NOT THE Sabbath. MANY times in the NT, the Sabbath was kept. Do not add or subtract from the Commandments... Matthew 5:19

 

[stevenfrancis]

A repentent sinner living in faith, and praying for God's grace can be given the grace to comply with the 10 commandments, which are actually pretty natural and are supported by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in our conscience. It is the smaller, or what we would call venial sins in the Catholic faith that Christians find themselves falling into after being forgiven of all previous sin, and entering Christian life. But yeah....in a grace filled life, in cooperation with God, one shouldn't be compelled to break any of the big 10. Not only is it possible with God's grace, but it should be the normal assumed state of authentic Christian life. Does it happen anyway? I imagine it does, but even then, the faithful Christian can retain salvation by repentance and a true turning away from the sin when we fall.

 

[Yeshua HaDerekh]

"Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath" (Colossians 2:16)

So WHO is he speaking about? Who was passing judgement? The Jews who also keep them or the pagans who didn't?

 

[TheBibleIsTruth]

The Sabbath was made for MAN. I don't remember Him saying it was made for JEWS. Sunday is fine for worship and to remember the resurrection, but it is NOT THE Sabbath. MANY times in the NT, the Sabbath was kept. Do not add or subtract from the Commandments... Matthew 5:19

You fail to realise that till the cross the OT Law stood. After this it had no bearing on salvation. See Galatians and Romans