I argue with my mom on this issue. We are both Christians.
The difference is that I have a simple moral code that God has given me.
I think a lot of religious people complicate the subject of faith.
My faith resolves around this. It's all I need.
Add in the Golden Rule as well
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You shall have no other God before me.
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Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven images.
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Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
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Remember the Sabbath day and keep it Holy.
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Honor your father and mother.
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Thou shalt not kill.
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Thou shalt not commit adultery.
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Thou shalt not steal.
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Thou shall not bear false witness.
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You shall not covet.
All the other stuff isn't worth the time to argue about in my view.
They are common sense to me. Common sense is the way to go.
Not following you?
When I say common sense.
When God gave the commandments to Moses. Human beings were a lot more primitive at that time.
God had to give the people something so simple. That anyone can understand it.
Pretty sad that the powers of evil had the world in such a state that God had to tell people to obey these simple guidelines.
Sadder still to think of what the world must have been like for God to have to "test" whether or not Abraham was willing to sacrifice his firstborn. What a terrible world it must have been with false gods running around telling people to sacrifice their children "for the lord."
Man had a knowledge of Good and was deceived into gaining the knowledge of evil, which separated man from God severing communication between man and God. Occasionally a righteous God loving man or woman would come along and God would put Spirit upon them, but not in them as now in we who are born again. God gave us great power.
And why isn't anyone keeping these laws?
Because no one is hammering them at home. Most religious people teach scriptures, and quotes and argue over the meaning of the word.
They do not drill the basics into their children.
My dad taught my brother a very simple 10-commandment style of morals.
He hammered them over and over again. Rarely did he go into scripture unless we asked him about it.
None of what you says matter.
Just follow them and move on.
That's it.