Are the 10 commandments still relevant today?

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Are the 10 Commandments still relevant and important to society, 3000 years later?

In this essay I am going to working my way though the 10 commandments, trying to get a equal perspective on there significance to today’s society; then I shall make up my own mind.

The first commandment says “I am the Lord thy God”, which translates as “put god first in your life.” To believers this rule is very important even 3000 years later. Its called the Christian Faith because you have to have faith. If you believe in God you should want to put him first and follow Jesus because he is the Son of God and because what he did on the cross. If you had the choice between going to church on a Sunday and going out, they should want to go to church because its what Jesus did. God should be your main priority, so that means in your school, work, friends, money ect you should try and make God involved and they should revolve around God.

 A non-Christian might think there is no God so why put him first. Most people don’t believe in God because they can’t see him. But I once heard a great description; “God is like the wind, you cant see it physically but you can see the effect of it and it working in things.” You can see the wind working in fans ect, like you can see God working in people.

 I believe this rule is not relevant to society any more, because it only really affects the Christians, its in the top 4 religious rules of the commandments. It could affect society if the people wanted it to, and became believers. But as science has evolved less and less people have belief. As the new cultures have evolved we have seen a lot more people grow up with a very selfish attitude “I can have and do whatever I want”.  I think if you asked this question in Jesus time everyone would have said it was very relevant because everyone did what Jesus said, but because society moves on, not that many people care anymore. I think this commandment is quite important to me, I wish I could stick to it, but its so hard with everything else going on and our busy culture nowadays.

The second commandment is “Thou shalt have no other Gods before me”, this law interpreted as “Don’t love anything more than you love God.”  I think this law is very relevant to the minority because its one of the four religious commandments instead of the 6 moral commandments. I think the is rather irreverent to the main society because people worship and are obsessed with things like celebrities, money and image.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

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The third command is “Thou shalt not take the Lord thy God in vain”, in modern language this indicates “Give respect to everything that is Holy, especially the name of God.” Its culturally changed because not many people think God is not important to society, most people swear from an early age upwards and don’t think it matters. Some people just don’t care and when we were given the Gideon bible in year 7, they just ripped them up and lit them on fire in science and the teacher just watched. I try not to swear because I believe ...

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