ten commandments / relevance Flashcards
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second commandment and relevance
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- you shall not take the name of the lord your God in vain
- calls people to respect that names of God
- disrespectful use of the name weakens relationship
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third commandment and relevance
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- keep holy the lords day
- human relationships deepen as they give their time to eachother
- a persons relationship with God deepens as they give the sabbath to God
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fourth commandment and relevance
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- honour your mother and father
- God created family to provide physical, emotional, religious, social and other needs of its members
- calls us to contribute to the community life of family
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fifth commandment and relevance
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- you shall not kill
- inner harmony grows with inner peace and good health
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sixth commandment and relevance
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- you shall not commit adultery
- for inner peace you need healthy sexuality
- affects unity between whole person, conscience, emotions, thoughts, sexual feelings and love to function as one
- calls us to develop chastity
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seventh commandment and relevance
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- you shall not steal
- calls us to ensure that we respect others, give to the poor, provide others what they need
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eighth commandment and relevance
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- you shall not bear false witness against your neighbour
- there cannot be real harmony with others unless there is basic trust
- required truthfulness between people
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ninth commandment and relevance
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- you shall not covet your neighbours wife
- people need to avoid seeing others in ways that stir sexual desires
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tenth commandment and relevance
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- you shall not covet your neighbours goods
- develop inner harmony people need to avoid developing excessive desired for material things
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first commandment and relevance
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- I am the lord your God, you shall not have strange gods before me
- calls people to draw on the power of the holt spirit to develop personal harmony with God
