Which
Moral Law? by J. Parnell McCarter
The “Ten Commandments” of modern America read this
way:
1.
Thou
shalt not be a racist or a homophobe. A racist is anyone who does not support any
of the following: multiculturalism, open borders, affirmative action, Dr.
Martin Luther King as hero, rap music, hip hop music, or the like. A homophobe is someone who is not accepting
of gays.
2.
Thou
shalt not be a racist or a homophobe. A racist is anyone who does not support any
of the following: multiculturalism, open borders, affirmative action, Dr.
Martin Luther King as hero, rap music, hip hop music, or the like. A homophobe is someone who is not accepting of
gays.
3.
Thou
shalt not be a racist or a homophobe. A racist is anyone who does not support any
of the following: multiculturalism, open borders, affirmative action, Dr.
Martin Luther King as hero, rap music, hip hop music, or the like. A homophobe is someone who is not accepting
of gays.
4.
Thou
shalt not be a racist or a homophobe. A racist is anyone who does not support any
of the following: multiculturalism, open borders, affirmative action, Dr.
Martin Luther King as hero, rap music, hip hop music, or the like. A homophobe is someone who is not accepting
of gays.
5.
Thou
shalt not be a racist or a homophobe. A racist is anyone who does not support any
of the following: multiculturalism, open borders, affirmative action, Dr.
Martin Luther King as hero, rap music, hip hop music, or the like. A homophobe is someone who is not accepting
of gays.
6.
Thou
shalt not be a racist or a homophobe. A racist is anyone who does not support any
of the following: multiculturalism, open borders, affirmative action, Dr.
Martin Luther King as hero, rap music, hip hop music, or the like. A homophobe is someone who is not accepting
of gays.
7.
Thou
shalt not be a racist or a homophobe. A racist is anyone who does not support any
of the following: multiculturalism, open borders, affirmative action, Dr.
Martin Luther King as hero, rap music, hip hop music, or the like. A homophobe is someone who is not accepting
of gays.
8.
Thou
shalt not be a racist or a homophobe. A racist is anyone who does not support any
of the following: multiculturalism, open borders, affirmative action, Dr.
Martin Luther King as hero, rap music, hip hop music, or the like. A homophobe is someone who is not accepting
of gays.
9.
Thou
shalt not be a racist or a homophobe. A racist is anyone who does not support any
of the following: multiculturalism, open borders, affirmative action, Dr.
Martin Luther King as hero, rap music, hip hop music, or the like. A homophobe is someone who is not accepting
of gays.
10.
Thou
shalt not be a racist or a homophobe. A racist is anyone who does not support any
of the following: multiculturalism, open borders, affirmative action, Dr.
Martin Luther King as hero, rap music, hip hop music, or the like. A homophobe is someone who is not accepting
of gays.
**BUT** the real Ten Commandments
(summarizing the moral law of God) read this way:
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
13 Thou shalt not kill.
14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15 Thou shalt not steal.
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Which Ten Commandments should we
follow? We should follow the ones which
follow this principle: “Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you,
neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the
commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.” – Deuteronomy 4:2