How could the venerable 10 Commandments be a cause for anything other than Peace for so many devout Christians, Jews and Muslims who follow its tenets as a broad common unifying thread within all three of these long standing great houses of religious traditions?
Is this even a fair question?
Let us begin first with a refresher of the list itself:
You shall have no other gods before Me.
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.‘
You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Honor your father and your mother.
You shall not murder.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not steal.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
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.
Now don’t these seem like a pretty good list of pretty good things to be doing?
Well, lets read closer… is any of one of these anything to be doing?
In fact, all but 2 of the 10 Commandments are commandments for things of things not TO BE DOING.
The two notable exceptions being:
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Honor your father and your mother.
What do those of us who study The Law of Attraction ( aka LOA, aka The Law ) know about what The Law does with what we think we should not be doing?
That’s right, IT DOES THEM.
All 8 of the not to dos in The 10 Commandments when given thought energy manifest dos.
8 of The 10 Commandments largely do not tell us what to do.
They focus the thoughts of those of us who study them most intently, most intently on what not to do.
On examination, clearly many of these commandments are about not being LIARs, CHEATs, and FAITHLESS.
On the face of it this seems intuitively positive as the negative of a negative. However, we know that throught action of The Law, focus on the negative of a negative manifests a negative.
What if the these had been written as The 10 Instructions to be TRUTHFUL, HONEST and FAITHFUL?
Can you feel then how they might have had more profoundly positive manifestations?
Yours in peace,
Yucel
I do not have an issue with the church referring to them as the Ten Commandments as opposed to calling them the Ten Instructions. But then again, I for one have never had a problem with authority. For those that don’t take kindly to forced capitulation, perhaps it would be wiser to give the Ten Commandments a less dictatorial designation.
In hoc,
John Y
Interesting tack focusing on the name itself.
Thank you for sharing!
Peace Brother,
Yucel
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