surenderer
Registered Senior Member
10 Commandments?
Peace People,
I have alotta Christian friends( although Im not Christian myself as most know here ) and pretty much to a person when asked if they want the 10 commandments up in school or in their workplace they say "yes" but my question is what about the punishments? should we obey God's laws but not carry out what he says to do to those who break them? for example-- Worshipping any other god should be punished by death. (Ex. 22:20) Blasphemy against God should be met with death. (Lev. 24:16) Performing any work on the Sabbath should be punished with death. (Ex. 31:15) Except making graven images, which doesn't carry the death penalty, but instead carries with it a punishment that shall be visited upon your children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren (provided you don't worship the graven image, in which case it's death again). Shall we post in our public, government run schools: "Thou shalt have no other god before me", and "Thou shalt make no graven images", and "Thou shalt keep the Sabbath day holy"? How do these Commandments equate to the First Amendment to the Constitution: "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof"? Can these Commandments possibly exist side by side with the First Amendment? They are, in principle, the exact opposite. The government of the U.S. cannot tell people how to worship, what to worship, or that they should worship at all. And the government cannot endorse or condone a particular religion's set of rules of worship.....thus the problem with seperation of church and state anyways i would like to hear you guys opinon on this.....peace to you
Peace People,
I have alotta Christian friends( although Im not Christian myself as most know here ) and pretty much to a person when asked if they want the 10 commandments up in school or in their workplace they say "yes" but my question is what about the punishments? should we obey God's laws but not carry out what he says to do to those who break them? for example-- Worshipping any other god should be punished by death. (Ex. 22:20) Blasphemy against God should be met with death. (Lev. 24:16) Performing any work on the Sabbath should be punished with death. (Ex. 31:15) Except making graven images, which doesn't carry the death penalty, but instead carries with it a punishment that shall be visited upon your children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren (provided you don't worship the graven image, in which case it's death again). Shall we post in our public, government run schools: "Thou shalt have no other god before me", and "Thou shalt make no graven images", and "Thou shalt keep the Sabbath day holy"? How do these Commandments equate to the First Amendment to the Constitution: "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof"? Can these Commandments possibly exist side by side with the First Amendment? They are, in principle, the exact opposite. The government of the U.S. cannot tell people how to worship, what to worship, or that they should worship at all. And the government cannot endorse or condone a particular religion's set of rules of worship.....thus the problem with seperation of church and state anyways i would like to hear you guys opinon on this.....peace to you
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