All the good the Saviour gave to the world was communicated through this book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man’s welfare, here and hereafter, are to be found portrayed in it.
Abraham Lincoln, September 7, 1864
Holy Week and Passover coincide this year. Dennis Prager in the above video imagines what a paradise the world would be if everyone obeyed the Ten Commandments. Religion is not some extra element in Western Civilization, but at its very core. Take it away and what is left is an alien and self-destructive force, not long for this world and with no hope of the next.
How can we possibly know that they are True? Have you seen the tablets? I haven’t. And they didn’t have a tape recorder either. So who knows?
If we limit our knowledge of history to what we have seen with our own eyes than we have a May Fly view of existence. The Ten Commandments form the center of the Law of the Old Testament. That they are also True, i.e. good, can be determined by human reason alone, especially when pondering deviations from the Ten Commandments.
(JFK is parodying the abominable statement of the new Superior General of the Jesuits, linked below:
http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/jesuit-leader-no-one-recorded-jesus-words-marriage-its-nuanced-never-black)
The Dolores Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, by Anne Catherine Emmerick is the vision upon which Mel Gibson based his film The Passion of The Christ. It is available in audio book. “Love God with thy whole heart, mind and strength and thy neighbor as thyself” is the whole law and the prophets.
Everywhere in the Torah, the first five books of the Bible, the Ten Commandments are expounded, again and again.
that is: The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. It needed repeating.
“I AM WHO I AM” “TELL THEM: “I AM” SENDS YOU.”
Many, including some Catholics, have removed commandments and replaced it with Suggestions. False mercy and a disbelief in Hell have corralled many into honoring false God’s, ie LBGT as a normal acceptable forms of lifestyle to the point of discrimination laws muting the consciences of God fearing business owners. Abortion as Rights.
Sodomy, pedophelia, pornography… God’s of today to name just a few.
If we don’t come back to the basics, the Ten Commandments, we will suffer the fire from above..No deluge this time..but a fire that will rain down on much of humanity.
Our Lady, Queen of Peace, save souls from the fires of Hell.
Unlike posted speed limits, which are merely recommendations, The Ten Commandment are mandatory, true, and vital.
I saw on Facebook the latest detritus (“:Opinion is not truth.” Plato) from the head dastard at the so-called “Society of Jesus.” Those people never fail to disappoint.
The 10 Commandments, contrary as they are to the concupiscence of the eyes, flesh and the pride of life, are now being questioned indirectly by Pope Francis and directly by his spokesman Fr. Abascal, the new superior of the Jesuits. Can anyone have imagined this: that we are being invited to disbelieve the teaching of God by the Pope himself? I guess aside from praying for these people we should be thankful that we realize what is happening and inform others as this blog does so well.
“we are being invited to disbelieve the teaching of God by the Pope ” I hear you Michael Dowd and the confusion caused by what is happening in the Church, from top to bottom, hurts me almost physically.
When we travel we meet so many Catholics so effusive of the goodness of the pope that we are left speechless.
Oddly enough, I was marveling about how the very nature of our culture is dependent on Christian/Jewish morals… even the need to write it that way is odd but based on love of other, since like Mr. Prager pointed out on his radio show yesterday, the big argument between us is that we think the Messiah has come, and he does not. (I didn’t catch why it had come up, just that little snippet.)
It’s not going to fall, although it can get weaker or stronger; it is not a fast way, but it WORKS. Wonderfully made. 😀
It would have been 15 commandments if Moses hadn’t been such a klutz