Exodus 20:1-17
The Ten Commandments
1 And God spoke all these words:
2 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
3 "You shall have no other gods before me.
4 "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing love to a thousand {generations} of those who love me and keep my commandments.
7 "You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.
8 "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. 11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
12 "Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
13 "You shall not murder.
14 "You shall not commit adultery.
15 "You shall not steal.
16 "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
17 "You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."
Matthew 22:34-40
Two Great commandments
34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
13 This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
19 We love because he first loved us. 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
St. John was an Original Disciple of Jesus...He wrote that God is LOVE...And he adds that love comes from God...We love because God first LOVED us...And I think that is a very interesting topic and it is about a potential completely moral world...
C. S. Lewis writes about a Natural Law in Mere Christianity...This Natural Law is a Moral Law, a law of right and wrong that is universal...Natural Law is everywhere...How it got everywhere, you have to decide...Lewis says we learn about God from these Natural Laws He gives us...Lewis wrote, "Now this Law or Rule about Right and Wrong used to be called the Law of Nature...Nowadays, when we talk of the “laws of nature” we usually mean things like gravitation, or heredity, or the laws of chemistry...But when the older thinkers called the Law of Right and Wrong “the Law of Nature,” they really meant the Law of Human Nature...The idea was that, just as all bodies are governed by the law of gravitation and organisms by biological laws, so the creature called man also had his law—with this great difference, that a body could not choose whether it obeyed the law of gravitation or not, but a man could choose either to obey the Law of Human Nature or to disobey it...We may put this in another way...Each man is at every moment subjected to several different sets of laws but there is only one of these which he is free to disobey...As a body, he is subjected to gravitation and cannot disobey it; if you leave him unsupported in mid-air, he has no more choice about falling than a stone has...As an organism, he is subjected to various biological laws which he cannot disobey any more than an animal can...That is, he cannot disobey those laws which he shares with other things; but the law which is peculiar to his human nature, the law he does not share with animals or vegetables or inorganic things, is the one he can disobey if he chooses...This law was called the Law of Nature because people thought that every one knew it by nature and did not need to be taught it...They did not mean, of course, that you might not find an odd individual here and there who did not know it, just as you find a few people who are color-blind or have no ear for a tune...But taking the race as a whole, they thought that the human idea of decent behavior was obvious to every one...And I believe they were right...If they were not, then all the things we said about the war were nonsense...What was the sense in saying the enemy were in the wrong unless Right is a real thing which the Nazis at bottom knew as well as we did and ought to have practiced?...If they had had no notion of what we mean by right, then, though we might still have had to fight them, we could no more have blamed them for that than for the color of their hair."...
And these are God's Laws that Lewis is talking about...And God gives us free will to obey or disobey them...Without this overarching Natural Law, this Law of God, the world is like the wild west, where anything goes...Evil, without morals, could lead the way in the world...If there are no High Moral Laws then what each and every man thinks and decides is the law in his eyes...Each one of us would be subject to his desires, his pleasures, and his ways, if there are no Natural Laws...Why even have man-made laws, if only evil exists and each man in that world and environment and culture is permitted to do as he pleases...The new thinkers think these are not laws, but just something innate from an evolving man... But they were written down by a man who had met and believed in God on the Sacred Mountain...And so these older thinkers believed in these laws and that they believed they came from Someone, a Great Source, from a Great Moral One...And many of these Natural Laws were to have come and give life on earth a foundation...And this foundation is very important part of each and everyone's life...And this foundation starts from the Ten Commandments that God gave Moses, to give to the Hebrews and to the world...Moral's, in the Ten Commandments, start here...While the new thinkers believe that these Natural Laws are old fashion and out of date, while the older thinker called them the "Law of Nature" and believed they are from God...They believe they come from an Outside Source and are not from man...And I believe the older thinker thought like and thinks like Lewis in this respect that at any choice and at any moment man may disobey or obey these rules of right and wrong and thus they have disobeyed God...And if these Laws are from God, they are Laws that are not only to be obeyed and are to be followed to allow one's life to better, but also for the world to be better and a better place to live...These are the fundamental principles of God's Word, and thus the world would be a much better place, a great place if each and every man, woman, and child followed each and everyone of these Ten Commandments...These are the moral fundamentals to life...
So we must ask ourselves about these Natural Laws and can we learn more about God about them, or can we believe they come from a man who has evolved?...Is there an Absolute Legitimate Source of this Moral Goodness or is man to be credited with morality?...Does truth, grace, forgiveness, mercy, virtue, wisdom, discipline, diligence, justice, beauty, goodness, and love come from man alone and what he has done over the years or do these things come from God?...
The last question we might ask is can our world not get back to these Natural and Old Fashion Laws?...If we can then we can look in the mirror and say shouldn't we want more truth, more grace, more forgiveness, more mercy, more virtue, more wisdom, more discipline, more diligence, more justice, more beauty, more goodness, and much, much more love in our lives and in our world...
God is LOVE...Love is the Greatest of the Natural Laws...And One Old Thinker, One who the four gospels are written about believed that all the Old Testament revolved around these commandments and the Word of God...And that they are and be summed up in Two Commandments...And these Commandments are completely surrounded and submersed in love...Love God, love neighbor...