The ten commandments.

I use Yahoo!Answers a lot. It's a great way to have questions answered, and to help others. A few minutes ago I answered this question:

Why are Christians routinely breaking some of the 10 Commandments?

There are 10 Commandments, which even organized religions routinely ignore and break. If these are the the rules directly from your god, how can christians, and even the "church" break them? You shall have no other gods before me. DOES PRAYING TO MARY, JESUS, OR ANY OF THE PATRON SAINTS NOT COUNT? You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or 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; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. MY GOD, HAS ANYONE BEEN IN A CHURCH, ESPECIALLY A CATHOLIC CHURCH? THEY HAVE CORNERED THE MARKET ON GRAVEN IMAGES, AND YET NO HAS A PROBLEM WITH THIS. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain. SORRY, I AM GUILTY OF THIS ONE MYSELF Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. TELL THAT TO YOUR BOSS Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you. I AM GOOD ON THIS ONE You shall not murder. GOOD HERE TOO, NO MURDERS IN MY BACKGROUND You shall not commit adultery. DAMMIT, I WAS DOING SO GOOD TOO You shall not steal. I THINK THIS IS RIGGED AGAINST ME You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. ANOTHER IN THE GOOD COLUMN You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s."  WHAT IS THE WIFE I COVET ISN'T MY NEIGHBOR'S, WHAT IF SHE LIVES FAR, FAR AWAY? IS THAT A LOOPHOLE? I WAS DOING SO WELL ON THE MANSERVANT, MAIDSERVAN, OX AND DONKEY, DID NOT COVET ANY OF THOSE. I am poking a little fun, but the question why some commandments are ignored is still a valid question.

 My answer:

First off, no one said Christians were perfect. We are as broken as anyone else. We fail every second of the day. We are sinners, plain and simple. The difference is, we have accepted the love of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He is why we can stand. In him alone can we live, in him alone can we have salvation. He took my sin, and washed it all away, everything I have done, everything I will do (And I know there will be much more, for I am broken). Every time I fall, he picks me up, and the slate is wiped clean. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

As for your arguments:

Jesus is God. Mary, and the saints are not. If you pray to Mary or the saints you are breaking the commandment.

Catholics, in my opinion, are not saved. They try to earn their way to heaven themselves when the only way we can be saved is through Jesus Christ coming and saving us. This argument seems to really apply to Catholics, not Protestants (Christians)

Again, we are not perfect, we fail. It is impossible to follow the ten commandments, because our sinful natures actively opposes God. Yet, as Christians, we realize that creations purpose is to glorify God and enjoy him forever, so we fight the good fight, and try to endure. When we fall, we humble ourselves and let God carry us.

The sabbath was created so that man could rest. It was made for man, not man for it. There are times when you may have to work, but make sure that you remember that God is good.

Honoring your father and mother is a good thing, but you can't go down the list going "Oh, I'm great at that, I'm doing ok, I'm a good person." We are all broken, the greatest amount of good you can do, will never be able to cover the price needed to purchase you out of slavery to the world. We need a savior, and as I stated before, that savior is Jesus Christ.

The bible says that committing murder in your heart is just as bad as murder itself. It says that hating a man is murder, and I think everyone is guilty of that at one point. Again, God's grace covers your sin. I will say it again, we can not earn our way to heaven, we need a savior.

Committing adultery is probably one of the worst sins you could commit, but God's grace covers all sin. It wipes the sin away, sets the captive free, and gives us a clean slate. It is shown time and time again that we can not save ourselves, but that Jesus saves us.

Everyone who has ever lived has stolen. Again, it is not our works that save us, but by grace. Ephesians 2:8-10 says, "8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."

You shall not bear false witness, meaning lie. Everyone has lied. As before, grace, not works.

You shall not covet is basically what this commandment is saying, we are all guilty of breaking it, but again, grace not works.

I'll say it again, we break probably every commandment every day. We don't just ignore SOME of them, we ignore ALL of them. It is our nature to fight against God, we are rebellious creatures. Fortunately, God didn't give up on us, he sent his son, Jesus (who is 100% God by the way) to come down to earth, to live among us, to be tempted in every way, yet to not sin, and to die on the cross, the only perfect sacrifice for us all. To be buried, to continue under the power of death for a time, and on the third day, rise from the dead. In rising, he saved us, he triumphed over evil, and he reigns eternal.

Jesus wants you to be with him, he loves you, but you, as a human being, are running away. We all are really, but we need to let him turn us around, pick us up, carry us to the cross, and undo what we are. Please accept him as your Lord and Savior. There is no hope without him.

 This is what I believe. If you have any questions about this, please ask in the comments. If you'd like, go to the question and help him out. Remember, we are in a spiritual battle every day. God has given us a suit of armor for it, and we must use it. If we are not feeling any opposition in this battle, it is most likely because we are not fighting it. And the end of your life, I pray that you can say "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." God bless.

~Sheepdog

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