Monday, 23 September 2013

God’s Gift - “Ten Words"


One! - is the I AM, Yahweh. Honour Yahweh as god, as No.1, as God the only One!
2.        No technological images to worship! (They miss the most important thing about Yahweh - LIFE. The only allowable images of him are those living images of Yahweh, created by him & procreated by us, in fulfilling his mandate to us)
3.        Honour God’s name! (Names are important & linked to the person, at least through language, which must be important in linking the human race too
4.        Copy God’s  (use of time, & his priority of regularly celebrating not only his work,     but his friends/family,)   Sabbath.
                                                  5.    Honour your earthly parents (who are meant to mirror and concretize God’s authority/ relationship to  you).
                                                  6.    Dishonour not  the other sex nor your word to them (nor the covenant relationship of a man & woman leaving their own father & mother & being formed into a new family unit - by God)
7.     Dishonour not  the right to existence of an image of God in God’s world (as though you yourself could choose whether another image of God should live on God’s earth or not. For who made you a ruler or judge over others?).
8.        Dishonour not  people’s capacity (as images of Yahweh) to rule over the stuff (things & places) of God’s world (since God has given us such authority).
9.        Dishonour not  your neighbour’s nearness & trust (since it is God who ordained the boundaries of our existence in time & space; and you know more about your neighbour who lives beside you trusting you. You are responsible for that knowledge, to use it to bless, not curse, your neighbour).

10.      Dishonour not  your own lack of things (in general & in particular, even though you have the capacity to change many things there are some things you are simply stuck with - or without) at God’s ultimate discretion, since Yahweh (not others, or our own self,) is our god, our number One!

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