Are The Ten Commandments Still Relevant Today?

ALL of the ten commandments are relevant for today. There are timeless principle in all scripture. To understand the 10 commandments you gotta understand what God's plan was and still is since day one of creation. But to put it plainly, the commandments aren't really Commandments.  In its original language, Hebrew, God was essentially describing what He wants His people to behave like. Its not like "I command you to not steal." Its much more like "My people do not steal. If you want to be called my people you will not steal." God wanted and still wants us to show Him love by our own choice. No one wants love that is forced. God is no different, in this regard.  Yah digg?

The ten commandments handed down to Moses apparently by the Lord God on two stone tablets are problematic in a lot of cases:

1 You shall have no other gods before Me  Hmm, this is tricky because Allah and others are around now.  This seems like a great way to prevent people having other thoughts.

2: 'You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.  Seems to make sense.

3 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain. - seems good too, don't use curse words in other words

4 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. - remember, have a break in the week

5 Honour your father and your mother. - gone a bit awry in contemporary society, but an important one nonetheless

6 You shall not murder. - sounds great, but George Bush is a Christian and Texas still has the Death penalty.

7 'You shall not commit adultery. - it happens a lot more.  This is the one that John Proctor can't remember I think in the Crucible.

8 You shall not steal. - let's just add, unless it's Iraqi gold or oil to this one to make it more reasonable.

9 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour - unless  you are acting in the interests of National Security.

10 'You shall not covet your neighbour's house; you shall not covet your neighbour's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbour's. - Again a good one, you shouldn't want your neighbours wife or his ass.

Yes because they are the foundations of the christian religion and many other religions for example the jewish and hebrew. If we ignore the ten commandments then what are the rules that we all follow ? They are the basic guidelines and rules  of life and many people follow them devoutly as many christians have since the tablets were handed to mosses all the hundreds of years ago . If you dont believe in the ten commandments or you have murdered or sinned then can you really call yourself a true christian can you call yourself one of gods people when you have gone against one of the commandments that all christians are supposed to believe in without any doubt what so ever

I guess if i applied the rule of proverbs here id have to answer a fool acording to his folly-but I wont,yes they are relevent jesus completed the reasons behind the law -not to do away with the law-simply meaning we arent under the curse ot burden of the law but he never said disreguard the law nor can observation of the law save us we gladly do those things writen within the law because it seems good to god that we do them.

5 Honour your father and your mother. - What if your mother or father is abusive? Respect should be earned.

6 You shall not murder. - What if it's out of self defense? If you have the chance to save yourself from a murderer but it involves murdering. You either a) murder and sin or you b) basically commit suicide. (your choosing your death) which I think is a sin but I'm not christian, I wouldn't know. Also, does this mean that killing animals for food or eating vegetables, fruit, picking a flower, using paper, etc is a sin?

8 You shall not steal. - What if your a kid in a developing country who is starving and steals a loaf of bread?

10 You shall not covet. - If this law was in place the economy would destroy itself, greed is a human emotion and everybody wants something, they can't help that. You can't help if you want something, EVERYBODY wants something.

That is why I don't think the 10 commandments are that relevant. The 10th one is actually impossible to keep. I know all you people saying the are relevant, can you not say you not coveted at least once? Look up covet in the dictionary.

Yeah they are and no one should lie steal or any thing like that

Most definitely they are more than ever.  For a world where no seems to any caring for the fellow human being, going back to the Bible is the only hope left for us

No, we live under grace! You don't need "rules" to follow when the Holly Spirit is there to guide you.  The 10 commandments were given to show the them that they can not do it on their own, that they need God.

All but keeping the sabbath. Unless it's Black Sabbath. I'm definitely holding on to those albums.