Do you follow the precepts in the Sermon on the Mount?
89387
Not nearly enough. Thanks for the reminder.
924606
I assume you mean the ten commandments?\n\nYes, hundreds of millions follow such a lifestyle, regardless of race, religion or location.  \n\nI consider myself to be a Christian, but my faith was shaken when I lost my family to my wife's lust.  However, I have not let it shake my integrity.  I treat each person like they are my best friend, until they show me cause to do otherwise.  I never lie, cheat or steal anything.  I conduct my personal and professional life as I wish everyone else would.\n\nI may never become rich, because of this, but I will be remembered well by my friends and business partners.\n\nYou are correct, even though it appears we may reside on opposite sides of the isle, integrity, respect, and honesty are sadly lacking in society today.  But I bellieve that the vast majority do conduct themselves well.  I have to, or what are we trying to save?
368388
Um no\nbelieve in Him for can you to tell the sun to rise?Can you tell the clouds to rain? Did you make the stars shine in the night time sky? Were you there when He layed the foundations of the heavens and the earth? Mad all the animals in their various ways? Did the ocean come from your womb? Did you incept your soul? Do the heavens obey your commands? Have you raised the dead? Have you told the earth to quake? Has your only Son been Crucified so our sins may be forgiven? Can you bind the Pleiades? Have you let the wild donkey free? Have you cut the channels for the rain, a path for the thunderstorm? Have you fathered the rain and the dew? Have you fixed limits for the seas and told its waves to halt? Were you there when the morning stars snag together and the angels lept in joy? Did you shut up the sea in its gates? Haave you been shown the gates of the shadow of death? Jave you jjourneyed to the springs of the ses or walked in the recesses of the deep? What is the way to the abode of light? Where does darkness reside? What is the way to the place from which the lightning is spread over the earth? Have you been to the origins of the east winds? Have you seen the storehouses of the snow and hail? Have you ever give orders to the morning, or shown dawn its place? Have you the wisdom to count the clouds or the stars in their glory? Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you loose the bounds of orion, or bring the constellations forth in their seasons? Do you provide food to the raven when its young cry out in hunger?\nCan you tip the waterjars of the heavens when the dust grows hard? Have you made the desert wastes sprout with grass? DO you send the lightning forth and it reports back to you saying i am here? Do you command the gates of death? Can you take away the labor pains of the sheep on the mountain and the doe in the forest? Do you satisfy the hunger of the lions as they wait in the thicket? Did you set up Gods dominion over the Earth? Can you look on proud and haughty men and bring them low? Can your voice thunder from the clouds? Did yyou give the horse his strngth or the hawk its wisdom? Are you a Savior of Man, the Son of God? Does the moon stay in its orbit and shine every night because you told it to? Can you block out the light of the sun and rein in the moon? Will show all the world your glory, and slay many from your words? Can you judge all peoples and bring them to eternal life or forced to bring them to eternal damnation?....................... He has, He is, and He will forever.\nI believe because I chose my path, which is the only to salvation, that is, through The Lord Almighty, Jesus Christ.
695275
As Y / Answers team says: keep going -you're on a roll! \nYeah, the bible is full of contradictions as are the folks who follow it. Forgive them, for they know not what they do.
154437
Do you mean the ten commandments or what church laws?\n\nif yes\n\nDo not worship any other Gods\nDo not worship Idols\nYou shall not use my name in vain\nYou shall respect the sabbath and keep it holy\nHonour your father and Mother\nYou shall not kill\nYou shall not steal\nYou shall not commit adultery\nYou shall not give false witness\nYou shall not covet your neighbours property
88398
To follow the teachings of Jesus.
109990
This is from Matthew Henry's Commmentary: \n\nPro 30:24-28 - \nI. Agur, having specified four things that seem great and yet are really contemptible, here specifies four things that are little and yet are very admirable, great in miniature, in which, as bishop Patrick observes, he teaches us several good lessons; as, 1. Not to admire bodily bulk, or beauty, or strength, nor to value persons or think the better of them for such advantages, but to judge of men by their wisdom and conduct, their industry and application to business, which are characters that deserve respect. 2. To admire the wisdom and power of the Creator in the smallest and most despicable animals, in an ant as much as in an elephant. 3. To blame ourselves who do not act so much for our own true interest as the meanest creatures do for theirs. 4. Not to despise the weak things of the world; there are those that are little upon the earth, poor in the world and of small account, and yet are exceedingly wise, wise for their souls and another world, and those are exceedingly wise, wiser than their neighbours. Margin, They are wise, made wise by the special instinct of nature. All that are wise to salvation are made wise by the grace of God.\nII. Those he specifies are, 1. The ants, minute animals and very weak, and yet they are very industrious in gathering proper food, and have a strange sagacity to do it in the summer, the proper time. This is so great a piece of wisdom that we may learn of them to be wise for futurity, Pro_6:6. When the ravening lions lack, and suffer hunger, the laborious ants have plenty, and know no want. 2. The conies, or, as some rather understand it, the Arabian mice, field mice, weak creatures, and very timorous, yet they have so much wisdom as to make their houses in the rocks, where they are well guarded, and their feebleness makes them take shelter in those natural fastnesses and fortifications. Sense of our own indigence and weakness should drive us to him that is a rock higher than we for shelter and support; there let us make our habitation. 3. The locusts; they are little also, and have no king, as the bees have, but they go forth all of them by bands, like an army in battle-array; and, observing such good order among themselves, it is not any inconvenience to them that they have no king. They are called God's great army (Joe_2:25); for, when he pleases, he musters, he marshals them, and wages war by them, as he did upon Egypt. They go forth all of them gathered together (so the margin); sense of weakness should engage us to keep together, that we may strengthen the hands of one another. 4. The spider, an insect, but as great an instance of industry in our houses as the ants are in the field. Spiders are very ingenious in weaving their webs with a fineness and exactness such as no art can pretend to come near: They take hold with their hands, and spin a fine thread out of their own bowels, with a great deal of art; and they are not only in poor men's cottages, but in kings' palaces, notwithstanding all the care that is there taken to destroy them. Providence wonderfully keeps up those kinds of creatures, not only which men provide not for, but which every man's hand is against and seeks the destruction of. Those that will mind their business, and take hold of it with their hands, shall be in kings' palaces; sooner or later, they will get preferment, and may go on with it, notwithstanding the difficulties and discouragements they meet with. If one well-spun web be swept away, it is but making another.\n\n\nAnd this is a commentary from my Bible:\n30:24-28   Ants...rock badgers...locusts...spider: The identified characteristics of these creatures summarize the teaching of the entire book.  The ants demonstrate foresight; the rock badgers, security; the locusts, cooperation with others; the spider, usefulness (in eliminating less desirable insects).  The alternate reasing for spider, "lizard" would be
895339
St. Paul preached the NT-----this is not part of the Bible (the Holy Scriptures). I will stick to those writings in the Holy Scriptures, thank you.
685008
I would still practice mine.  I follow mine, not because i believe it to be true, but because it instills self-discipline.\nI want to be able to break away from this mortal coil, to not be controlled by it.  I should eb the one controlling it, not the other way around.  But to the undisciplined, they are controlled by their bodies.  Their bodies tell them when to eat, when to go to the restroom, and when to sleep and breath.  I am suppose to be the one controlling it, not it controlling me.\nLiving this life, even though i can break away from it at any point, is a true testament.  But to be able to do that, one must be complataly self-disciplined., which the tenants of Judaism instill.  It does not give an easy oout, "oh Jesus died for my crap because i was to undisciplined to care."
370154
Yes in the New Testament:\n\n"Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good" (Rom. 12:9). And, "we should not lust after evil things" (I Cor. 10:6). Also, "Test all things; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil" (I Thess. 5:21-22)
388091
The ten commandments.
1094762
God's "current" commandments have been summarized as.\n\n1. "Love your (true) God with all your heart."\n\nAnd \n\n2. "do unto others as you would have them do unto you"
822441
It says just the oposite.\n\n                           Matthew 28:19-20\n19Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: \n\n 20Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
500370
Yes. The Bible tells it.
532748
Ok here goes.\n\nFirst off, you need to revise your question. Matthew 7:9-10 says,"\n\n\nAnd Mark 7:9-10 says this " He said to them, "All too well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.  For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.\n\n\nNow in the OT (Old Testament) that was the Law.\n\nIn this passage though, it was allegory. If you read before and after these verses you will see that the Pharisees were trying to stump Jesus with another question/accusation, and ended up making themselves look like fools. Lets examine this, shall we?\n\nk, lets put things into context.\n\nMark 7\n\n2 Now when they (pharisees) saw some of His disciples eat bread with defiled, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault(they found something with which to accuse him). \n\n3 For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands in a special way, holding the tradition of the elders. \n\n4 When they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other things which they have received and hold, like the washing of cups, pitchers, copper vessels, and couches.\n\n5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, "Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?"\n\n6 He answered and said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: 'This people honors Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me.\n\n7 And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'\n\n8 "For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men*--the washing of pitchers and cups, and many other such things you do."\n\n9 He said to them, "All too well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.\n\n10 For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother';  and, 'He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.'\n  \n11 But you say, 'If a man says to his father or mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban"--' (that is, a gift to God),\n\n \n\n12 then you no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother,\n\n   ***They ended up making Gods law void by picking and choosing what they would and would not follow. See the next verse***\n\n13 making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do(that aint the only thing you do)."\n\n14 When He had called all the multitude to Himself, He said to them, "Hear Me, everyone, and understand: \n\n15 There is nothing that enters a man from outside which can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are the things that defile a man.\n\n   ***Nothing you enters you from the mouth makes you unclean, it is the things exit your mouth which defile you.***\n\n16 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!" \n\n17 When He had entered a house away from the crowd, His disciples asked Him concerning the parable. \n\n18 So He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him, \n\n19 because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, thus purifying all foods?"\n\n20 And He said, "What comes out of a man, that defiles a man. \n\n21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, \n\n22 thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. \n     \n***These are the things that defile a man, examine the above two verses carefully***  \n\n23 All these evil things come from within and defile a man." \n\nAs for the commands to kill you are refering to, yes they are not metaphor, They where rules for capital punishment. \n\nIf a
572244
No, speak boldly YEA or NAY.\n\nPut on the whole gospel armour of God. Always have your shield of faith Jesus Christ. Always wield the sword which is the Word of God.
908684
That's a terrific idea, and I believe that is what Christ was telling us to do. He called it the "Church of God" and that simply is the group of people called by God, to worship in spirit and in truth. Obeying the Commandments is focusing on peace, charity, knowledge and love. \nThe worlds churches seem to be man made laws and so far removed from the truth, in some cases. So, why not learn from all of them, keep what's good and true and as God says, "prove all things'...and when you do, you can have real spirituality. No contradictions, negativity, judging of others, hatred, etc... Just a personal relationship with God.\nWhen you look at the reality of the history of churches, they are all splinter groups, which broke off of larger churches, and has been going on for a very long time. Everytime some group of people have a differing view of something than what the church teaches, they break away and form a new group...an on & on it goes. Just do as you suggest, ( which is how I also feel) and you'd cut right to the core of true spiritualty, and pure truth.