| No consequence? Why isnt it obvious that if you disobey one of these commandments God will do something really mean to you...after you die...or give you some terrible disease. At which point all the small-town minded people will say "surely the Lord hath smote him for his blasphemy"
Seriously, the ten commandments are great guidlines for day to day living, dont steal, dont murder etc. But really they are just common sence. Like if God in his omnipotence forgot to add murder to the list, do you think there would be any more murders today than there are already? How many people think before they kill someone "I better not do this, it says so in the ten commandments" Not many, if any.
The Ten Commandments exist because they needed to exist, Israel needed the "10 easy steps to living" so to speak when it was leaving Egypt and Mose...GOD! was more than happy to oblige.
-Starstruck |