Grading on a Curve System
Since when did we start grading the 10 commandments on a curve system?
ONE: ‘You shall have no other gods before Me.’
TWO: ‘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.‘
THREE: ‘You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.‘
FOUR: ‘Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.‘
FIVE: ‘Honor your father and your mother.‘
SIX: ‘You shall not murder.‘
SEVEN: ‘You shall not commit adultery.‘
EIGHT: ‘You shall not steal.‘
NINE: ‘You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.‘
TEN: ‘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.‘
I think, and correct me if I’m wrong, but there are only four that can be punishable by American Standard law; commandments 6,7,8, and 9. After that there is maybe one, possibly two that are frowned upon in today’s society; commandments 5 and10.
The other four can quite possibly be thrown right out the door because in today’s society and by law, they are irrelevant. Spiritual pluralism and moral tolerance is the way to go these days.
But if our standards of laws were modeled after the Ten Commandments, what happened. How did four out of the ten make it be punishable by land laws? And that’s only if you bear false witness in the courts. It’s only frowned upon outside of court.
I thought sin was sin. Equal to one another. You break one, it’s like you broke them all. How did we ever get so far to start grading them saying one is worse that the other?
I just thought about this as I was driving back home and saw a huge monument in front of a church that looked like an over grown version of the tablets in the movie, the ten commandments.
