A TIMELY CHALLENGE

These are trying days and times for America. Only recently, our President , while speaking in Turkey in behalf of the American people, said: “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation; we consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.” Sad to say, President Obama is correct! We are a country divided, with two principal nations currently trying to coexist within the same country; there are irreconcilable differences on the big questions of life. These two principal warring nations fundamentally consist of left versus right.
America’s shores once assimilated different cultures and religions into its existing “one nation under God.” Today America is a much more diverse place. The problems, however, are not census numbers and diversity, but that Christian morality has been systematically undermined in lower education, academia, media and govern-ment (particularly the U.S. Supreme Court) for several decades. The problem was never the traditional Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus – they, for the most part, are happy to live in a country founded on faith in the Judeo-Christian God in which they may live freely, enjoying the practice of their particular religions. Indeed, the basic morality of right and wrong of traditional religions is strikingly similar. The vast gulf in morality is between the far left and traditional Americans.
When the U.S. Supreme Court in 1892 observed that “this is a Christian nation”, it wasn’t that people of other religions as well as non- believers were nonexistent in America at the time. The observation could be made because people of all beliefs largely respected the Judeo- Christian system and accepted it as SOCIETY’S basis for right and wrong and moral order.
Time has proven that we cannot LEGISLATE moral order and ethical behavior. Is it not time to return to the Judeo-Christian guidelines upon which America was founded?

What better way to start than by reminding ourselves and teaching our children to live by the Ten Commandments.

Below is an easy-to-learn version of both the Old Covenant and New Covenant Commandments. They're all the same....simply worded differently.

OLD COVENANT TEN
COMMANDMENTS
1. No other Gods.
2. No idols.
3. Do not take God’s Name in vain.
4. Keep Sabbath holy.
5. Honor Parents.
6. Do not murder.
7. Do not commit adultery.
8. Do not steal.
9. Do not give false testimony.
10. Do not covet.

EQUIVALENT NEW
COVENANT LAWS
1. Do not love the world; worship and serve God only.
2. Do not make idols nor be full of greed.
3. Do not swear by anything, avoid hypocrisy.
4. Jesus Christ is our Sabbath Rest.
5. Obey and honor parents.
6. Do not be angry with or hate brothers or sisters.
7. Do not be filled with lust, do not divorce or marry one who is divorced.
8. Do not take from others, and be generous to those in need.
9. Do not give false testimony or speak evil against your brother.
10. Be content; do not worry.

TEACH THEM TO YOUR CHILDREN