Deuteronomy 5:1-33
The Ten Commandments
1 Moses summoned all Israel and said:
Hear, Israel, the decrees and laws I declare in your hearing today. Learn them and be sure to follow them. 2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. 3 It was not with our ancestors that the LORD made this covenant, but with us, with all of us who are alive here today. 4 The LORD spoke to you face to face out of the fire on the mountain. 5 (At that time I stood between the LORD and you to declare to you the word of the LORD, because you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain.) And he said:
6 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
7 “You shall have no other gods before me.
8 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 9 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 parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 10 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.
11 “You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.
12 “Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you. 13 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 14 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 male or female servant, nor your ox, your donkey or any of your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns, so that your male and female servants may rest, as you do. 15 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.
16 “Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
17 “You shall not murder.
18 “You shall not commit adultery.
19 “You shall not steal.
20 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
21 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not set your desire on your neighbor’s house or land, his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
22 These are the commandments the LORD proclaimed in a loud voice to your whole assembly there on the mountain from out of the fire, the cloud and the deep darkness; and he added nothing more. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.
23 When you heard the voice out of the darkness, while the mountain was ablaze with fire, all the leaders of your tribes and your elders came to me. 24 And you said, “The LORD our God has shown us his glory and his majesty, and we have heard his voice from the fire. Today we have seen that a person can live even if God speaks with them. 25 But now, why should we die? This great fire will consume us, and we will die if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer. 26 For what mortal has ever heard the voice of the living God speaking out of fire, as we have, and survived? 27 Go near and listen to all that the LORD our God says. Then tell us whatever the LORD our God tells you. We will listen and obey.”
28 The LORD heard you when you spoke to me, and the LORD said to me, “I have heard what this people said to you. Everything they said was good. 29 Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!
30 “Go, tell them to return to their tents. 31 But you stay here with me so that I may give you all the commands, decrees and laws you are to teach them to follow in the land I am giving them to possess.”
32 So be careful to do what the LORD your God has commanded you; do not turn aside to the right or to the left. 33 Walk in obedience to all that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.
Our God was different than the other gods that people looked up to in the past...Our LORD and Savior is a moral God...We were made in His image...Since we are made in His image, we have a conscious and in us an innate want for things to be be good...Human conscious throughout the entire world, has in their nature to want right and dislike wrong...Humans everywhere know there is a right and wrong (sometimes this right and wrong gets narrowly looked at, such as only in the family unit (and gets less looked at in the community for some people) -but this right and wrong feeling is a worldwide phenomenon)...We know we should be loving, caring, good, charitable, and just to everyone (and not just our ourselves and our families) -but we can't be quite like this...We know and try to be good, but something escapes us....These morals that we want others to follow don't quite get followed...For some reason we and our neighbors cannot quite be as loving, caring, good, charitable, and just (as we know we should be)...Because we are created in His image -this makes us want to be like Him and be loving, caring, good, charitable, and just...We owe this wanting the world we live in to be moral is because God Himself is Perfectly Moral...He created us in this image which is His image...We inherently feel that the world should be loving, good, charitable, and just...This inherent feeling we have is from God and being created by Him, in His image...No one can get around this, because everyone is created by God...Even the least believing atheist believes that the world should be loving, caring, good, charitable, and just -but believes it comes from the majesty of man and not our LORD...The atheist wants us to believe that wanting good morality throughout communities and the world comes randomly from each and every man throughout the world...The atheist does not believe that since he is created in the image of God -that that has anything to do with his wanting morality...
The non-believer who actually believes that goodness and morality comes from only man...When man does not live up to the non-believer's expectations why should they be mad or upset...When they are tread upon and treated unfairly in their (the non-believer's) rights it should be the same as being treated fairly...After all, if there is no God, then each man can do as he pleases, because man is majesty of his own morals and treating others unfairly is as equally as being fair -if that is what that man wants to do...
God gives us the Ten Commandments these are also moral commandments...He gave us these commandments for a reason...They show He is moral...The mythical gods like Zeus and Apollo were not moral like our LORD and Savior... When God sent Jesus to earth and put the spiritual into more context, we see that His Son was perfectly moral...In His teachings He taught us to be loving, caring, charitable, and just...He taught what was in the mind of our Father...Followers of Jesus realize that God gives us our morals, because we are created in His image...The only correct and appropriate moral authority is from God...When Jesus came and walked the earth, He had an authority...This authority is written about...Since He came from His Father, He was also perfectly moral...His being perfectly moral was actual somehow seen and felt as He taught...He had an authority that was somehow seen and felt...The Son's authority came from His Father, who is perfectly moral...