0, 2, 613, or 10 Commandments?
By: Karen Fish
As hard as it is to believe, the continued existence of life on Earth depends upon the Christian Muslim and Jewish people resolving once and for all, are there 0, 2, 613, or 10 commandments? Ask any school child. The answer is simple. There are 10 commandments. Ah that it were so simple.
Today, Nov. 8, 2005, the American people, courts, and armies of lawyers are locked in a battle to the end over whether or not it is legal to post the 10 commandments in courts, schools and government buildings. How would one post the 0 commandments?
3,200 years ago, God of Mount Sinai, aka God the Father, The Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, Allah, Elohim, Adonai, and Hashem, carved 10 commandments Himself in stone on 2 tablets and handed them to Moses. Moses went down Mount Sinai and saw the Jewish people drinking and dancing and worshipping around a golden cow. In his disgust, Moses smashed the 2 tablets to the ground, and went back up Mount Sinai. There, Moses carved the 10 commandments in stone himself, and went down the mountain, where the 10 commandments were placed into an ark, the Ark of the Covenant where they remained in various tents, until King Solomon built The Temple of God of Mount Sinai on Mount Zion in Jerusalem in 900 BC.
This is all according to the Old Testament, the Jewish Holy Bible, which has now been incorporated as the Holy Scripture of Christianity and Islam also. Now here is where the trouble begins. According to the Old Testament, after Moses comes down Mount Sinai God takes him off to the side, and proclaims another 603 commandments, making a total of 613 commandments for the Jewish people to obey each and every one of them or else God will wipe them all out, as He drowned every person on Earth in the flood, for not obeying Him, all except for Noah, his wife, his 3 sons, and their wives. And, as God had incinerated the 2 cities of Sodom and Gomorrah for not obeying Him. And as God had banished Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden for not obeying Him. And as God parted the Red Sea and drowned the Egyptian Army for enslaving the Jewish people for hundreds of years.
1,200 years after God carved the 10 commandments at Mount Sinai, a Jewish born Rabbi, Jesus Christ, the Messiah of Christianity and Islam was born. Islam also incorporated the New Testament into their Holy Scriptures and then added on The Koran. According to the New Testament, the 4 Gospels plus 23 other books, the spirit of Jesus Christ told Paul to abolish all 613 commandments of God of Mount Sinai, leaving zero commandments. Only faith in Christ was required. During His lifetime, according to the New Testament, Jesus boiled down the 10 commandments to 2 commandments. Jesus also ordered everyone to obey the 10 commandments. Jesus also commanded everyone to obey every word that proceeded out of the mouth of God, all 613 commandments. It is hard to obey the Word of God when you don’t know what it is, don’t you think?
The Temple of Love http://www.thetempleoflove.com/unites Christianity Islam Judaism and Everyone else, and the countries they all live in as the first step towards World Peace, by tying them all together with their common threads, and resolving all of their differences once and for all, including the number of commandments: 10. The school child was right, according to God through every Biblical Prophet.