Out of the 613 commandments in the Old Testament, the Ten Commandments are the most well-known, obviously because they are so much more important than the others. Disobeying a commandment is a sin, but I think that some are worse than others. Many people say that all sins are equal; after all, killers and liars supposedly end up in the same place. But I think itÃÂs easy to see that the Ten Commandments are more important to God than the others. Why else would He have made such a big deal out of them? Besides, I doubt that people would be denied GodÃÂs favor just because they didnÃÂt keep kosher or something like that, which is one of those 600 or so commandments that werenÃÂt in stone. There are still others who say that these ten are commandments, and the others are just good deeds. That still doesnÃÂt work, because in the Torah, itÃÂs the same word.
Another interesting thing about the Ten Commandments is how different religions divide them up. In the Torah, itÃÂs not exactly clear where each commandment starts and ends. Some Reformed Jews divide them differently from Orthodox Jews, and in Catholicism itÃÂs different from both ways. The Ten Commandments are important in my life, and I think everyoneÃÂs life. How would we know right and wrong without them?I think the Works of Mercy would be commandments, too. In our textbook, the word ÃÂmustÃÂ is used when talking about them, not ÃÂshould.ÃÂ I guess it means that you ÃÂmustÃÂ to really be Christian. TheyÃÂre all very important. Most of them I, and probably many other people, did without knowing that they were called works of mercy.
The Beatitudes are also rules of a sort, even though their not saying right out that you have to do...
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You should of added even more detail :)
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