The 10 Commandments
of the Bible
thought I would draw up this article for all of you in order to give you a complete list of the 10 commandments. Most Christians do not have all of them memorized.
I will give you the specific verse from Scripture where the 10 commandments are being given to us by the Lord, along with some of the additional statements that God makes under some of these commandments that you usually do not see on the little tablets of the 10 commandments at your local Christian bookstore.
Before I give you this verse, consider one thing. Even though the 10 Commandments are from the Old Testament, all of these commandments still apply to everyone in this day and age. No exceptions! I call each of these commands “stone commandments.”
The fact that God the Father would manifest 10 specific commandments on a tablet of stone tells me that He is very serious about these specific commandments!
This was one big huge event when it happened in the story of Moses. The fact that God would go this far in manifesting these special 10 commandments on a real live tablet of stone tells me that these commandments should never be taken lightly or for granted.
Most Christians have heard about these 10 commandments while going through grade school and high school and the story as to how they all came about. As a result, I feel that many Christians take these special ten commandments for granted and really do not realize the power and authority that is on these special commandments.
The 10 commandments come to us from Exodus 20:1-17. Here is the verse:
And God spoke all these words, saying: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- You shall have no other gods before me.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
- You shall not murder.
- You shall not commit adultery.
- You shall not steal.
- You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
- 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.”
The above 10 commandments need no explanation. They mean exactly what they are saying. It’s quite amazing how many of these commandments are being broken on a regular basis, even by Christians themselves. If you look very closely at each of these commandments, they really do cover a broad spectrum as to what God is expecting from each one of us.
These 10 commandments are good, basic, moral laws that will help keep us out of trouble with ourselves, family, friends, and neighbors. God knows what is best for all of us and He simply wants all of us to stay out of trouble in order that we may be able to live in peace and harmony with one another.
The fact that God would go so far as to have these basic 10 commandments manifested on a stone tablet really tells me they are very important, and that each Christian should know what they are and do their best to abide by them with the help of the Holy Spirit.
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Weed and others,
Wow, you are really making me work. But thanks, I am glad for the opportunity to “travel” through the Bible.
Weed,
Exodus 32:27-29 deals with Israelite themselves and not OTHER nations.
2 Chronicles 25:12 is a political battle – as there are political wars today – not a coercion of another nation to accept the religion of the Israelites.
Judges 12:5–6 Gileadites were Israelites – again a battle between Israelites themselves and not coercion of other nations to accept Israelite religion
Hosea 13:16 Samaria was the center of the Northern Kingdom of Israel – again doesn’t say anything about religious coercion of other nations.
1 Samuel 15:3, 8 – not coercion of others to accept Israelite religion.
1 Kings 20:28–30 This was a battle of survival and as we have seen throughout the OT, God uses nations to punish other nations for their sins. He used the Babylonians to punish Israel, and here – though it’s a battle of SURVIVAL for Israel (read from the beginning of that portion) – God is also using Israel to punish Syrians for their sin. He is NOT using Israel to coerce the Syrians into accepting the Israelite religion.
Deuteronomy 2:32–34; Deuteronomy 3:3–6 These 2 passages are similar. God promised Israelites that He would bring them to the Promised Land and that He would fight their battles by giving those that would prevent them to do so into their hands. These verses are also a variant of political battles since it was NOT a coercion of those nations to accept Israelite religion.
2 Kings 2:23–24 I don’t know why Elisha did this (there are commentaries on this) but AGAIN it is Israelite INTERNAL issue – not of other nations.
“In the bible the word slaughter appears at least 56 times, slay appears 118 times, slew shows up 171 times, & smote is written more than 226 times.”
I can Google also to see how many times it says the same thing in Quran. But in the BIBLE NOT ONE of those verses advocates killing, slaughter, slay, slew, smote for COERCION of other nations to accept Israelite (or, for that matter, Christian) religion.
Exodus 31:15, Leviticus 20:9 These verses also, are laws for ISRAELITES and do not talk of COERCION of others to accept their religion.
Hi Pricilla,
I always thought the Bible is for all Christians. Guess I was wrong. Sorry about my ignorance on that. Seems to me in the Bible, all the violence are only linked to the Israelites. So is the Bible for the Israelites only ? What about Christians who are not Israelites ? Do they have different Bibles ? Is the God of the Israelites different from the God of the other Christians ? Do the Bible have different laws for the Israelites and another set of laws for the other Christians ? Perhaps, you can enlighten people like me about this. After all, we are here not only to present our views but also to learn and correct our misconceptions.
“You keep repeating Luke 19:27 which is probably the only verse in which Jesus is talking about violence.”
I try to limit the verses that imply negatively about Jesus since the Quran speaks highly of Jesus, but, just to prove to you its not the only verse in the Bible, let me quote another verse that may imply Jesus preached by the sword and did not bring peace.
“Do not think that I have come to send peace on Earth. I did not come to send peace, but a sword.” Matthew 10:34
“Where did they get the idea if not from Quran?” Its sad that people continue to associate Muslim extremists with the Quran. Don’t hang the gun that kill but hang the man that pulls the trigger. I don’t think its right for me or anyone to associate Christian extremists with the Bible eventho’ you said all the verses that depict violence in the Bible are only associated with the Israelites. After all, all these Religious extremists need is an excuse for their violence acts in the name of God.
About the burning of churches in Malaysia, there are also mosques that are burnt too and heads of pigs thrown into the mosques compounds. However, the scale of the violence are not as ‘sensational’ as the medias, especially the foreign medias seem to project. I should know as I am here in Malaysia. This violent acts are carried our by small groups of people, mainly youths who probably has nothing better to do. Anyway, the Malaysian Law finally did allow the use of ‘allah’ in the Malay Bibles and that is that.
However, lets see why this dispute happened in the first place. It started because the Christian Church here wanted to have the Bibles translated to the local language, which is the Malay. This is not an issue, however, they wanted to use the word ‘allah’ for ‘god’ in their Malay Bibles. This became an issue as the One and Only God of the Muslims is also Allah. Their intention of using ‘allah’ is suspicious to the Muslims as all the English translated Bibles in the country do not have the word ‘allah’ so why do you need to have ‘allah’ in the Malay translated Bibles when the Christians knew the word ‘allah’ can be mistaken for ‘Allah’ who is the Almighty God of the Muslims. ‘allah’ is an Arabic word for god and the Malay word for god is ‘tuhan’. I can understand the Muslims concern here as there’s really no basis for the Christians to use the word ‘allah’ in their Malay-translated Bibles in Malaysia. Tolerance and respect should also be practiced by all religions if we are expected to coexist peacefully. Muslims should respect the Christians if they want to have a Malay Bible and the Christians should respect the Muslims and show tolerance and understanding by not using the word ‘allah’ in the Malay Bible as there is an alternative Malay word for god. Unlike Indonesia, the word ‘allah’ is used extensively by both the Christians and the Muslims alike, and in their Churches, Christians use ‘Tuhan Allah’ while in Malaysia, Christians commonly do not use ‘allah’ in their Churches.
“I must remind you that the whole purpose of my original comment in the beginning was to show that the WRITTEN Bible was NOT changed or corrupted and you have made a side-turn – which is also interesting but not the purpose of my original comment.”
Phew !…OK, I will comment this in my next posting.
May the One and Only God Bless us and guide us to the true and straight path.
Hi Pricilla,
About your earlier original comment that “satan distorted the Bible, NOT by changing what is WRITTEN in the Bible, but what is distorted/changed is the human “outlook/view” on those verses.” I am not sure about that as in reality what change/distort the human ‘outlook/view’ is what he hear and read. If satan want to confuse or lead people astray, the best place to start is to distort the verses of the Scriptures.
Will you consider contradicting verses in the Bible as distortions ? I would think so, as an example (not from the Bible), if one verse said ‘the cup is broken’ and another verse describing the same cup said ‘the cup is not broken’ then one of these verses must have been distorted as both cannot be true. That’s why God warned us in 2 Peter 3:16-17 that the Scriptures can be distorted.by man who are obviously moved or inspired by satan.
May the One and Only God Bless us and guide us to the true and straight path.
Seeking Truth,
Come on, Seeking Truth – I didn’t expect this of you.
Again you are getting to the nitty gritty. The Bible is for ALL humanity (not just the Jews and Christians) and we learn from the EXAMPLES in it. But the LAWS were for Israel and we LEARN how God dealt with their obedience or disobedience. You have to admit that the OT is the history of Israelite nation and God’s relationship to them – for blessing or for punishment. They were the only ones possessing the OT writings until it was translated into Greek. It was considered THEIR book. So, I would say “Yes” those verses were for Israel at that time. They were not given to other nations. But we can LEARN from them.
But, in any case, ALL THOSE VERSES (whether for Israel or for whole humanity) DO NOT TALK ABOUT WARS ON ANY OTHER NATION FOR RELIGIOUS PURPOSES (and that was the issue of our discussion, I think). God of the OT does not FORCE Himself on anyone through violence.
I KNEW
you were going to go for Matthew 10:34. But read it in context and you will see that the “sword” is metaphorical. Jesus knew that his teachings would bring discord among people. And the “sword” would “divide” families, friends, relatives into camps – for Jesus, or against Jesus. And, He was right. Even until this day.
You really challenge me. In answering you, I have to really think about the issues.
Hi Seeking Truth,
Let’s see what this verse says exactly.
2 Peter 3:16 (ESV) …as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are HARD to UNDERSTAND, which the IGNORANT AND UNSTABLE TWIST to their own destruction, AS THEY DO THE OTHER SCRIPTURES.
In my knowledge of English, I do not see that it says here that the people changed the WRITTEN words of the Bible.
1. “Some things are hard to understand” (things are NOT CHANGED – just hard to understand – maybe having a double/triple meaning).
2. The ignorant and unstable “twist” – i.e. INTERPRET – to suit their cause because they do not wish to obey anything that is hard for them.
3. As they do other scriptures – not only do they twist the MEANING of “hard things” but also of other scriptures.
In the English that I understand, this is not a verse that shows that the WRITTEN Bible was corrupted by “ignorant and unstable” – because the ignorant and unstable probably did not have the access to copying the manuscripts.
Now, if you have specific verses that you can quote that were corrupted and the date (estimated date) when that happened, in this case I await for enlightenment from you.
Hello to all,
Way to go Sister, I have forced myself to stay out of this one only knowing that a concrete answer would come about… I wasn’t surprised to see it would be you Priscilla
) I agree, the truth is not of man. Shalom to all, including he who seeks the truth 
), hello brother!
Hi Rams,
Nice to hear from you.
Hi Pricilla,
No, I don’t think its nitty gritty. I was really confused (or you confuse me
) as to which Christians the Bible was intended to. I know there are Christians who don’t believe in Trinity so do they read the same Bible ?
I know the verse Mathew 10:34 is out of context. I just put it anyway to prove a point that verses if read out of context can give a different meaning…just like many people have been quoting the Quran out of context. Muslim extremists or religious fanatics will quote the Quran out of context to concoct a religious justification for their violence acts while Islam-haters quote the Quran out of context in an effort to show that Islam promotes violence so that they can continue to abuse the Muslims. I am sure the same is happening to the Christians too as I can quote more verses from the KJV Bible which when read in isolation makes the Bible appear to be a primer for evil.
May the One and Only God Bless us and guide us to the true and straight path.
Hi Pricilla,
2 Peter 3:16 (ESV) …”…as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are HARD to UNDERSTAND, which the IGNORANT AND UNSTABLE TWIST to their own destruction, AS THEY DO THE OTHER SCRIPTURES. “
You don’t see anything in this verse as a warning from God as how Satan will use man to distort the Scriptures ? Really ? OK, lets leave it as it is then.
May the One and Only God Bless us and guide us to the true and straight path.
Hi Weed,
You cannot see Satan’s influence in the removal of the verses? Ephesians 6:11, Ephesians 6:12
Satan is is trying to decieve as many people as possible by using foul and cunning techniques to influence people to not believe in God. Satan knows John 15:5. Many responsible for the changes in the bibles were decieved and did not believe that Jesus was God and a few did not believe in God at all. For example they leave out dozens of references to the deity of Jesus Christ.
Example: Luke 2:33
American King James Version
And Joseph and his mother marveled at those things which were spoken of him.
New Living Translation
Jesus’ parents were amazed at what was being said about him.
My point was to choose your Bible carefully. In Galatians 1:8-9 Paul said that those that pervert the gospel will be accursed.
Experts recommend:
Protestants original Authorized King James (1611 – old English)
Catholics Catholic Douay Reims – older versions
Hi Brother Rams,
How have you been doing ? Hope everything is going well for you and your family.
May the One and Only God Bless us and guide us to the true and straight path.
Hi Seeking Truth,
Except for Mormons and Jehovah Witnesses (who DO have corrupt Bibles and additional Book of THEIR OWN prophet – not a Biblical prophet) – the rest of the Christian world uses the same Bible. These 2 I know of. Maybe there are others that have cropped up lately because satan is working really hard to discredit God…
Again, what can I say, the words speak for themselves. It is not only one single verse advocating violence, but many more than I even quoted. They are there black on white. It cannot be that they are ALL out of context.
But not to start getting antagonistic on this particular issue, should we wrap it up for now?
Hello seeking truth, thank you my brother the same feelings towards you and yours… as we continue a path to the one and only Creator
)
Hi Pricilla, thank you Sis, I pray you and yours as well are doing great!!! At times I like to just sit back and read, not an easy thing for me to do
) Much Shalom 
) in Y’Shua, Amein 
)
PS: On a tangent, maybe you guys could give me some input on my website… it is a business model I am working on, the premise of same is based on Genesis 1:28, where our Heavenly Creator gives us stewardship of His creation
), a creation most of us take for granted … If you have comments you can post them in the “contact us” link. Please do not post your remarks here… I feel this topic should follow it’s intended purpose, though we have gone off it’s track a few times. May we always Bless Him that we be Blessed 
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) Shalom.
Hi Seeking Truth,
2 Peter 3:16 “You don’t see anything in this verse as a warning from God as how Satan will use man to distort the Scriptures?”
Yes, I see that satan will use man to distort the scripture by INTERPRETING it the way he wants. It has been done since the beginning – and there have been many heretical sects throughout the 2,000 years of the NT and even longer for OT – but the WRITTEN words were the SAME THEN as they ARE NOW. ONLY THE INTERPRETATIONS of those words by man WERE DISTORTED.
Even today you have people who distort the written words of the Bible. I had a friend who got pregnant before getting married and she quoted to me this verse, knowing full well that we should not have intimate relationships with opposite sex before marriage.
Romans 8:28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
So, the WORDS were still UNCORRUPTED in the Bible, but they were corrupted in her MIND and USE of them – her INTERPRETATION of those words. As long as she got married, the pre-marital sex and pregnancy were for her “in all things God works for the good of those who love him” because that INTERPRETATION fit her purpose.
As I said, if you can show me anything distorted in WRITING, and what it said BEFORE it was distorted, I’d be glad to know.
I agree Pricilla, and the reason why in prior posts I touched on mans’ influence on the ancient text, how in order to better understand it’s depth and breath (also breadth) we must put religion aside, all religion. My point then as it is now is that our obligation as followers of the truth is to go back in history and understand how man has affected it. In this I believe we better define what we are called to do, to seek that we may find. Scripture is Holy, Set Apart, and man is called try to be, in that man has and will continue to fail as such the varied different points of view, that of religion. But you are correct, scripture is Holy.
Hi Pricilla,
Maybe we have a different understanding of what ‘distortion in the Scriptures’ means. My understanding of ‘distortion in the Scriptures’ is contradicting accounts of a same event by 2 (or more) different witnesses. In other words, one of these witnesses must be lying OR the event never happen in the first place.
As an example, if you read Matthew (28:1-11), Mark (16:1-20), Luke (24:1-12), and John (20: 1-18), you will find contradicting stories of the same event. They all agreed that the tomb was guarded for three days. However, they reported the discovery of the empty tomb differently.
- Matthew (28) and John (20) reported that Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were the first to discover the tomb.
- Mark (16) reports that Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, AND Salome were the first to discover the empty tomb.
- Mathew (28) reports that there was an earthquake that removed the rock from over the tomb. He says that an angel caused it. An important event but the other gospels do not mention of an earthquake.
- Matthew and Mark say that only ONE man in white clothes was sitting on the tomb when the woman arrived, and that he was an angel.
- Luke says that TWO men in white clothes, who were angels, were sitting. John says that the two women did not meet anybody the first time they came to the tomb, but when they returned, they thought they saw TWO Angels, but one was JESUS.
- Matthew reports that when the guards reported this to the chief priest, the chief priest paid them a large sum of money, telling them: “You have to say that his disciples came at night and stole his body.” He claims that the soldiers took money and spread the story around and since then, the story had been circulating among the Jews until today. The other gospels do not report of any such thing.
So whose account is correct ?
May the One and Only God Bless us and guide us to the true and straight path.
Shalom Seeking Truth,
So let me see, are you trying to say that the story of Y’Shua’s resurrection is not clear because varied witnesses did not record what they saw identically? Let me ask this, if you have a group of people that arrive at an incident, lets say the law is their too, will they all arrive at the same time? if they do, will they all be focusing on the same things? If they are, will they all see the same thing?… if asked to give a report of what they saw, would their words be identical? Or will they be so skewed that they each miss the main incident (event). Are you saying that a would be judge that is reviewing the event reports will rule that though the witnesses all reported the main incident (in this case main event) from what they each saw, that because their individual reports were not identical, the story is then not worthy of evidence? that even though the varied witnesses agreed that the main event occurred it is not valid because their reports are not identical? I don’t want to be repetitive here but I just want to make sure I understand what you are trying to say.
The fact is that one witness may have seen two angels, the other witness only one angel… even more, another may have said they did not recognize who the angels were and yet one might say they recognized one as the Messiah… the fact is that each witness will report what they saw… to expect any less is to expect a consensus and to expect a consensus is then to expect a lie, for certainly no one individual can report an exact account. The fact does remain however, that multiple witnesses saw that the Messiah was risen.
The varied accounts that you refer to are not identical but all agree on the main event, and the reason why Christianity exists… the story of the main event… that of the raising of the Messiah!!! I am not sure about you, but I would rather have many varied accounts than one account.
According to historians, the story of the writing of the Kuran culminates with the death of Muhammad, were it is thought that during 23 years the angel Gabriel gave him the verses to write; 114 chapters, but wait, we already agreed that he had scribes doing the writing – for he was not literate, at least I think we did, remember?. The problem with that is that historians do not have a record of witnesses (ie: scribes) to that effect.
Giving the benefit of the doubt, and considering there is no evidence of anyone else witnessing Muhammad’s work, one of several things then could have taken place… 1) Gabriel could have instructed Muhammad’s “unmentioned” scribes to write the words (but we know there is no mention of Mohammad using scribes ) 2) Muhammad was overcome by the holy spirit and was able to write the words down (regardless that he was illiterate), or 3) he remembered all the words and later asked his scribes, or wife, or Bakr (who eventually is thought to have compiled the writings), or Ulmar (his chosen successor) to write down a purported 23 years of material that the angel Gabriel would have passed to him. All those possibilities put side, the reality is that there is no record of any witnesses, there is only one witness that saw the reported original verses, that was Muhammad, and unlike the case of the varied witnesses that write of Y’Shua’s main event (that of his resurrection), Muhammad’s event (the verses that lead to the Kuran) only have one witness, himself.
Those that are reported to have known Muhammad are charged with passing down what is believed to later become the first writing of the Kuran (and again said to be compiled by Abu Bakr) and later revised to better represent the idiom of the indigenous language. Muhammad’s wife and Ulmar’s daughter are believed to have safe guarded the supposed works of Muhammad until their respective deaths.
This is what history points to my brother. I recommend that if you are ever called to conduct a fair trial (don’t worry I am not saying you plan to judge anyone), you should first expect that the witnesses will not have exact testimonies, in that you should then look for the main event and not the latter… what will matter most is that there are more than one witnesses. As they say, the more the merrier.
If I understand your argument, it is better to have one witness with one exact story than varied multiple witnesses to define an event… is that your point? I really am not sure. Shalom Brother.
Follow-up to Seeking Truth… On the second chapter I meant, “for certainly no two individuals can report an exact account.” versus ” for certainly no one individual can report an exact account.” I was falling asleep while writing this. Shalom brother.
Interesting thread guys although I haven’t read the whole lot… first time in this website.
I just can’t help but drop a question for Seeking Truth if I may: Are you really ‘seeking’ or trying to defend a ‘truth’ that you have already formed in your mind?
Hi Seeking Truth,
Rams beat me to it and he said it so well, that I won’t repeat it.
One thing that may bother you yet, is the account of the number of angels appearing at the tomb. Even today we have accounts of angels appearing to people, but as it happens, only one sees the angel and the person standing beside him does not – and that is probably because the angel did not want to make himself known to the other person for some reason.
As for the earthquake – it may not have been felt in some places. We had an earthquake a few days ago of some 5+ on the scale and I knew about it only the next day when I read the paper (and I live in a very small country where everybody feels everything!!!) At the time I was actually on the blog, but nobody in our home felt the earthquake although it was felt from the north to the south and across.
The difference in obseration and reporting of events is dependent on the individual – to some one thing is more important than to others and they are going to report what was important to them while the others are goitng to report what was important to others.
Just to add for Seeking Truth: I asked the question because what I see of what is being reported is not the exact number of people nor the earthquake – there’s a bigger event that is happening and is being reported here. I had to ask that previous question because if indeed you are seeking, you might want to consider some thoughts… the Bible conveys the same message consistently over ~1600years through 40 different people – many of these people don’t even know each other yet points to the same message!
About 1500 years earlier, God gave the Israelites instructions which was of prophetic significance. After Jesus’ burial were two Sabbaths on two consecutive days (a weekly Sabbath and a special Sabbath) – no work! So after 48hours, some of Jesus’ followers were so eager to visit the tomb and what they find is a fulfillment of a prophecy – an EMPTY TOMB! A message which the Gospel writers were trying to report – the event consistent in all those verses which you quoted.
The bigger picture is that the OT rotates around the lives of the Israelites but pointing to the Messiah (Jesus Christ) in the NT. What satan does is to destroy the truth about Jesus Christ because he is the fulfillment of God’s plan – in anyway satan thinks he could do it e.g. twisting the meaning of the Scriptures, diverting people’s attention from God, etc. Satan started his work since before by trying to eliminate the descendants of Jesus, by trying to kill Jesus himself when he was young, satan also thought that he had killed Jesus at the cross but death has no power on Jesus and even immediately after people found an empty tomb (the verse that you quoted), satan continued with his work to deny Jesus’ resurrection and victory over death! “…The chief priest paid them a large sum of money, telling them: ‘You have to say that his disciples came at night and stole his body.’” Until today, satan is actively working to destroy this truth.
My point is that, we could easily miss the message if we are trying to look for something to prove a ‘truth’ that we have already formed in our minds which is not according to God’s Word.
Hi Pricilla/Rams brother,
Ok, so now the Bible does not contain God or God-inspired words anymore but accounts of events as interpreted by man (Mark, Luke, John, Matthew, etc) which understandably, can be contradicting.
Anyway, lets leave it as it is as and move on. Moreover, I have a plane to catch in 3 hours time to Singapore and then another one to India. So, I may not be viewing this site for 2-3 weeks as I’ll be ‘on the road’ most of the time.
Thank you for strengthening my belief in my own faith, Islam.
Signing Off….for now.
May the One and Only God Bless us and guide us to the true and straight path.
Dear brother, are we seeking our creator’s truth? or something that is called religion. May you have a safe flight brother… I Hope to see you back some time soon; until then, may we bless YHVH that we be blessed… in Y’Shua, Amein.
Hi Pricilla/Rams
I humbly offer:
Muslims are asked not to question the authority of the scriptures of the Christians. Sura Ankabut 29:46 “And dispute ye not with the people of the book but say: We believe in the revelation which has come down to us and that which came down to you.”
God-inspired words
1 Corinthians 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
God-inspired words is the inspired words of God in the words of men. The truthfulness of Scriptures is not negated by the appearance or seeming discrepancies between one passage and another. No translation is or can be perfect and many discrepancies can be explained, but discrepancies do not destroy the wisdom of the inspired words of God.
2 Timothy 3:15 and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
All power and glory to God the Most High
George, thanks. I agree.
All power and glory to God the Most High