You know the commandments: 'Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.'" (Mark 10:19)
Jesus selected a few phrases from the later part of the Ten Commandants and suggested the rich man who asked about eternal life. These are murder, adultery, stealing, false testimony, defraud and honoring his father and mother. Its order is a little different from that of the Ten Commandants. It is written in a reverse order. Jesus seemed to have suggested him the later part of the Ten Commandants in a general manner.
The first part of the commandments is about God and the later part is about man. The first four phrases deal with the vertical relationship and the later six phrase deal with the horizontal relationship. The brief summary of the commandments is ‘to love God and to love our neighbor’. It means that these are the most important structural elements in human life.
The amazing point here is whether we are able to incorporate love in the commandments. The command, do not murder, mentioned above is one of the important commandments. However many do not clearly understand that murder is a serious sin against God. The problem is that there is conventional acceptance of murder as something legal. The Jews who received the command ‘do not murder’ participated in the war. They massively murdered people irrespective of age or sex; a great number of people-young and old, men and women were murdered in Jericho and Ai. They interpreted their acts as part of God’s command. False testimony and honoring one’s father and mother were also frequently manipulated for quenching men’s greed.
In this connection, the commandments have a character of dualism. One the one hand it prohibits the society but on the other hand it cleverly rationalizes man’s selfishness. Even today, such thing happens in our society just as it did in the past. All evil activities have now been disguised as acts of legality. Today we have to deal with these commands in two ways- as a religious law and as a positive law. Firstly, we can develop the command to protect the weak in society as much as possible. Secondly, we can transcend the limit of the command with the eschatological imaginative power.
Jesus selected a few phrases from the later part of the Ten Commandants and suggested the rich man who asked about eternal life. These are murder, adultery, stealing, false testimony, defraud and honoring his father and mother. Its order is a little different from that of the Ten Commandants. It is written in a reverse order. Jesus seemed to have suggested him the later part of the Ten Commandants in a general manner.
The first part of the commandments is about God and the later part is about man. The first four phrases deal with the vertical relationship and the later six phrase deal with the horizontal relationship. The brief summary of the commandments is ‘to love God and to love our neighbor’. It means that these are the most important structural elements in human life.
The amazing point here is whether we are able to incorporate love in the commandments. The command, do not murder, mentioned above is one of the important commandments. However many do not clearly understand that murder is a serious sin against God. The problem is that there is conventional acceptance of murder as something legal. The Jews who received the command ‘do not murder’ participated in the war. They massively murdered people irrespective of age or sex; a great number of people-young and old, men and women were murdered in Jericho and Ai. They interpreted their acts as part of God’s command. False testimony and honoring one’s father and mother were also frequently manipulated for quenching men’s greed.
In this connection, the commandments have a character of dualism. One the one hand it prohibits the society but on the other hand it cleverly rationalizes man’s selfishness. Even today, such thing happens in our society just as it did in the past. All evil activities have now been disguised as acts of legality. Today we have to deal with these commands in two ways- as a religious law and as a positive law. Firstly, we can develop the command to protect the weak in society as much as possible. Secondly, we can transcend the limit of the command with the eschatological imaginative power.
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