THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM

According to the  Old Testament book of Moses, God gave him the ten commandments on Mount Sinai after he led the Israelites out of Egypt.  These ten commandments have been the foundation of both Judaism, Christianity and Islam.  

However, as we enter space, as we begin to manipulate the human genetic code, as we through the internet consider religions and concepts of God that were not previously as accessible to us as they are now, we have to consider that the ten commandments need to be re-evaluated.

God is not religion and religion is not spirituality.  God is the Infinite Potential of all things.  Religions are bureaucracies established to disseminate the teaching of the various founders of the various religions.  Spirituality is a knowing by experience that there is an invisible presence that guides our lives.

If you break a social law, you have committed a crime against the government.  If you break a religious law, you have committed a sin against a religion: and the religion argues that to sin against the religion is to sin against God.

I believe that you can sin against a religion but I do not believe that you can sin against an immortal, infinite God out of which we were each created. 

I have placed before each commandment the word God or the word Society.  When I use the word God it means the commandment relates to religion and God.  When I use the word society, it means that the commandment really has to do with the social law irrespective of God.  Moses was trying to set up a Theocracy where the laws of God were the laws of society.  It did not work.  

So before you allow yourself to negatively react to the following comments on the ten commandments, consider that only four actually relate to God.

John WorldPeace

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

1)  You shall have no other gods before me.
We are the father/mother God, we are one, and yet we are known by many names.  You shall not in any one of our names harm another human being.  We are the all inclusive God, we are the one God, and there is no greater confusion, no greater wrong than subordinating or killing another human being because that human being identifies with us through a religion to which you do not belong.

2)  You shall not make yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them;

You shall not make yourself a graven image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth below, or that is in the water under the earth and then bow down to that image or serve it for such images are no more than dust and the transient manifestations of the physical universe and they are inferior to our oneness out of which all things are created.

for I the Lord your God am a jealous God,

We are the one God, and as All That Is has manifested from us, we have nothing to be jealous about.  Is the artist jealous of his art?  Is the sculptor jealous of her creation?  How ridiculous!

visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me.

The confusion of each soul is not a burden of the children of the physical body which that soul inhabits.  The wrongs of the parent are never never transferred to the child even though the child must surely compensate for the actions of the parents as the child grows and matures within the home of the parents: under the parent's control.  Each child is conceived by its parents and birthed from its mother but each is unique and does not inherit the wrongs of the parents.

but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Our love is available to all, denied none.  We are at one with each life, with each being, with each soul because from us, each has manifested and because each is at one with us.

3)  You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who take his name in vain.

You will not use the name of your God to bolster your lies.  

4) Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.  Six days you shall labor, and do all your work; but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord you God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, you manservant, or your maidservant, or your cattle, or the sojourner who is within your gates;

You should disengage from your toils upon the earth for a portion of one day in seven.  The particular day of the week does not matter for each religions has sanctified its own particular sabbath.  Without rest, the body and mind become dull.  As the body sleeps each night, it should rest one day in each week and one week in each year.

for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it.

The heavens and earth were not made in six twenty-four hour days and we did not rest at the end of creation for a twenty-four hour period and we did not designate one particular day as hallowed.  It was humanity who divided time into days, weeks, months and years and then applied that arbitrary division to the story of creation.

5) Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

Acknowledge your father and your mother and your sons and your daughters as well.  For your parents are the sacred yet imperfect vessel from which you manifested into this reality and your choice to become parents was a choice lasting a lifetime; a commitment which ends only in physical death, yours or your children's.

6) You shall not kill.

You shall not place yourself in a position where you determine that the only solution to whatever problem is confronting you is the death of another human being.  

This is not to be confused with your obligation as a judge or juror in a trial to order the death of the physical body of a human being who has demonstrated a disregard for the lives of others.

Killing does not apply to animals and plants which are to be consumed as food for your bodies.

7) You shall not commit adultery.

You should respect the family institution.  The lives of children should not be disrupted by the extra sexual affairs of the parents.  Those who insert themselves into a family with children and parents who disengage from the family in order to pursue their sexual desires are no doubt negatively impacting the lives of defenseless children.

The institution of marriage should be not be entered into carelessly and children should not be conceived without considering the tremendous responsibility one accepts when conceiving a human being.

8) You shall not steal.

9) You shall not bear false witnesses against your neighbor.

10) You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's. 

It is all right to desire to own things but it is not all right to determine to steal the possessions of others.  The possession of things is often a burden and an impediment to a life of peace and harmony.