How many commandments have you broken/are breaking

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Maybe he wants to murder someone?

me too

I've broken 3, 4, and 9 I guess, but all is forgiven (also I guess). These commandments are irrelevant to my beliefs though.

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Catholics do violate the second one, about the graven images. However, Catholics have renumbered the Ten Commandments, so that the injunction against graven images is not a stand-alone commandment--it just gets grouped together with something else, and another one somewhere else becomes a stand-alone commandment, to make a grand total of ten.

However, Catholics will tell you that they are not really violating the second commandment--that the images used in their worship are not officially worshipped, rather, it is the saints, or concepts, or inhabitants of Heaven which the idols represent that they are worshipping, through the idols.

Here are the Jewish, Catholic and Protestant Ten Commandments, side by side:

http://www.biblicalheritage.org/Bible%2 ... dments.htm

Notice, the Catholics ignore the "graven image" bit, and have split "You shall not covet your neighbor's wife" into a commandment by itself. In the Jewish and Protestant versions, "You shall not covet your neighbor's wife" is combined together with "anything that belongs to your neighbor."

The ten commandments applied only to men. Few heterosexual women would covet their neighbors' wives. And, adultery only applied when the woman was married.

why i should care ? according to your christianity i am born as a sinner in the first place.

Well, technically, you're not commanded to care, so I guess that you can get away with it.

HEATHENS!! !! Pray to The Great Cat God so that she may kill you and save you from being even BIGGER HEATHENS!! !

Mmm... Yes and no. The issue is debatable. There is the view that people are born with the tendency to sin, not as if they had already sinned, but practically bound to sin eventually.

As to the actual topic, I'd like to point out that there are multiple interpretations of the commandments.
The third commandment, for instance, may not refer to using the name of G-d (which no one on Earth knows anyway) in swearing, but rather to performing an act "in the name of G-d" that G-d would not do, for instance, robbing a bank "in the name of G-d".
Also, the commandment "Thou shalt not kill" is a mistranslation. Killing is perfectly acceptable!
Murder isn't acceptable though. The commandment, when properly translated, forbids murder.

ONE: 'You shall have no other gods before Me.'
I have no God/s.
TWO: '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.'
Broken this one, but I didn't worship it.
THREE: 'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.'
Break it all the time.
FOUR: 'Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.'
Break it all the time.
FIVE: 'Honor your father and your mother.'
What does it mean to do this?
SIX: 'You shall not murder.'
Have not broken this.
SEVEN: 'You shall not commit adultery.'
Have never been married, but have had sex.
EIGHT: 'You shall not steal.'
Broken once, got caught.
NINE: 'You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.'
Would not even think of breaking this.
TEN: 'You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.'
Broken this. (Damn I wish i had that ox.)

Not really keeping track.

Tim

Keeping track would make me feel too depressed so I don't.

Through Adam's fall, we sinned all.

Once again, that is only one interpretation of the concept of original sin.

'You shall have no other gods before Me.'
Not broken this.
'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.'
I do not understand this commandment.
'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.'
I have done it a lot.
'Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.'
I have kept this commandment.
'Honor your father and your mother.'
Not sure.
'You shall not murder.'
I have never commited murder, but want to.
'You shall not commit adultery.'
I have never had sex.
'You shall not steal.'
I've done it, but not in a criminal manner.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.'

'You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.'
I have not broken this.