The Ten Commandments<\\/h2>\\n They are found in Exodus 20, verses 1-17. God spoke a specific set of words for Moses to pass on to the Israelites. Ten commands that sum up the heart of Torah, which is to love God with all our hearts, our souls and our minds, and to love our neighbors as ourselves.<\\/span><\\/span><\\/span><\\/span><\\/p>\\n So why do people find it acceptable, even cute, to create \\u201cpersonalized\\u201d sets of commands?<\\/span><\\/span><\\/span><\\/span><\\/p>\\n

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The Ten Commandments<\/h2>\n They are found in Exodus 20, verses 1-17. God spoke a specific set of words for Moses to pass on to the Israelites. Ten commands that sum up the heart of Torah, which is to love God with all our hearts, our souls and our minds, and to love our neighbors as ourselves.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n So why do people find it acceptable, even cute, to create \u201cpersonalized\u201d sets of commands?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Cowboy\u2019s Ten Commandments?<\/h2>\n For example, a few days ago, I was scrolling on Facebook and saw a post titled \u201cCowboy\u2019s Ten Commandments.\u201d And the commands that followed were not only paraphrased to be cute, even funny, but became heretical in their interpretation and were not even in the proper order. They read like this:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Cowboy\u2019s Ten Commandments \u2013 Is this what God told Moses?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nJust one God<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n Honor yer Ma and Pa <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n \n No tellin\u2019 tales or gossip<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n \n Git yerself to Sunday meetin\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n \n Put nuthin\u2019 before God<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n \n No foolin\u2019 around with another fella\u2019s gal<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n \n No killin\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n \n Watch yer mouth<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n \n Don\u2019t take what ain\u2019t yers<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n \n \u00a0Don\u2019t be hankerin\u2019 fer yer buddy\u2019s stuff<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n What Did God Tell Moses?<\/h2>\n Now let\u2019s read what the Lord actually told Moses in Exodus 20: <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n And God spoke all these words: 2 \u201cI am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 3 \u201cYou shall have no other gods before me. 4 \u201cYou shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments. 7 \u201cYou shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. 8 \u201cRemember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. 12 \u201cHonor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. 13 \u201cYou shall not murder. 14 \u201cYou shall not commit adultery. 15 \u201cYou shall not steal. 16 \u201cYou shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. 17 \u201cYou shall not covet your neighbor\u2019s house. You shall not covet your neighbor\u2019s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.\u201d (From NASB)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n After comparing the Cowboy\u2019s commands to God\u2019s, we can see where the Cowboy is mistaken. The Ten Commandments are divided on two tablets \u2013 the commands pertaining to loving God on one, the command for loving our neighbor on the other. But this novelty set of commands mixes them. We will also notice the Cowboy\u2019s command to \u201cget yerself to Sunday meetin\u2019.\u201d The true command clearly states we must remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy. Scripture defines itself, and we can clearly search for the Sabbath in the Word and find it is the seventh day (Gen 2:3; Deut 5:12-14; Lev 23:3). And this has never changed. Not Biblically.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Man Changed The Sabbath<\/h2>\n It was man who made the decision to worship on the first day, on Sunday. And that man was Constantine, who changed the day for two reasons. He was a Roman who, before becoming Christian, worshiped the sun god on the first day (Sunday), and because he did not want Christians having anything in common with who he called \u201cdetestable Jews.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n From Jewishcurrents.com: \u201c<\/span><\/span><\/span>In 325,\u00a0Constantine convened the Council of Nicaea, which formally disengaged the Church from the Hebrew calendar and separated the Easter holiday from Passover. \u201c[I]t appeared an unworthy thing,\u201d Constantine declared in a letter to the churches summarizing the Council, \u201cthat in the celebration of this most holy feast we should follow the practice of the Jews, who have impiously defiled their hands with enormous sin .\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0Let us then have nothing in common with the detestable Jewish crowd .\u00a0.\u00a0.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n I could go on, but am diverting a bit from the point, which is, God\u2019s Word is truth (John 17:17) and should not be mocked and in no way should be altered \u2013 added to or subtracted from (Deut 4:2). When we create novelty versions of the Ten Commandments, it may seem harmless and cute, but when these versions change the meaning of scripture, they are not only disrespectful to God\u2019s Word, but they become false teachings and tickle ears, pleasing one\u2019s sense of humor, not edifying their soul.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Shalom!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Ten Commandments They are found in Exodus 20, verses 1-17. God spoke a specific set of words for Moses to pass on to the Israelites. 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