What Christ, Thomas Paine, and Allan Kardec Want You to Know And Religion Doesn't by William Moreira

Author:William Moreira [Moreira, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780595277858
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Goodreads: 19901962
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2003-07-02T05:00:00+00:00

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“I HAVE NOT COME TO DESTROY THE LAW”

1. Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill, for verily I say unto you, till Heaven and Earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled (Matthew, 5: 17 & 18). MOSES

The Mosaic law is divided into two distinct parts: The Law of God as announced on Mount Sinai and the civil or disciplinary law determined by Moses. The first is immutable and the other was appropriate to the customs and character of the people and is mutable itself according to its epoch.

The Law of God is verbalized on the following Ten Commandments:

I. I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the land of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or 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: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them.

Let’s analyze each one of the Commandments with today’s intelligence, embracing with the help of science and philosophy

Moses mentioned in the time he received the spiritual message that it was from God (not particularly God because as I mentioned before our Creator, as the supreme Intelligence and creator of all things, does not have to appear to any soul or spirit. No one is morally and intelligently advanced to be closer to His level and I wonder if anyone ever came even closer. Moses or anyone can proclaim anything they want in their free will and that doesn’t mean I have to believe him just because the uneducated Joe Due does. I am what I am and anyone is what he is or want to be and this stops any argument. Moses’ emphasis’ on Egypt is because it was a recent episode in their lives and meant the maximum for the people that had just came from slavery. In Egypt and generally for other peoples, everything was a reason for a god, but the necessity to concentrate on one and only one God was a breaking point toward the beginning of moral evolution. This God has no image, but is an energy that commands the universe. Moses said he could not see God, but only a light and he was right because to deserve to see a morally higher spirit, we need virtues. What Moses saw wasn’t God, but a spirit as any medium could momentarily see sometime (I take the example of myself) because God is too supreme to go around chattering to his ignorant creation, giving explanations and offering rewards as He had nothing to do in His boundless universe.

II. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.

This is the

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