If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.
We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.
God's commandments are not given to limit or punish us.
The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.
Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.
Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go backwards through the 'begats' and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, 'Hang on, that's a big punishment for eating one lousy apple... There's a human-rights issue.'
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