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For every Christian, God's law is the guiding star. It is he who points the way to the Heavenly Kingdom. IN modern world The life of any person is very complex, which indicates the need for clear and authoritative guidance from God's Commandments. This is the reason why most people turn to them.

10 commandments of God and 7 deadly sins

Today, the 10 commandments of God and the 7 mortal sins are the regulators of life and the basis of Christianity. It is not necessary to read a large amount of spiritual literature. It is enough to strive to avoid what can lead to the spiritual death of an individual.

But in practice this is not at all easy. Completely exclude from your Everyday life The seven mortal sins and keeping the Ten Commandments is very difficult and practically impossible. But we must strive for this, and God, in turn, is very merciful.

The 10 commandments of God in Russian say what is needed:

1. believe in one Lord God;
2. do not create idols for yourself;
3. do not take the name of the Lord God in vain;
4. always remember about the day off;
5. honor and respect parents;
6. do not kill;
7. do not commit adultery;
8. don't steal;
9. don't lie;
10. don't be jealous.

The list of God's commandments allows you to live correctly, in harmony and understanding with the Almighty.

• The first three of the ten commandments relate directly to the relationship with God. A Christian must worship the true God, and others should not exist in his life. They also say that a person should not have idols or objects of worship, and the name of the Almighty is pronounced only in situations of a complex nature.
• According to the fourth commandment, a Christian must honor and be sure to remember the Sabbath day. For six days, people work tirelessly and do all their business, which makes it possible to devote the seventh day to the Almighty.

This commandment is violated not only by those who work on Sunday, but also by people who are lazy and shirk their daily responsibilities throughout the week. The covenant of the Lord God is also violated by those who have fun and amuse themselves on their days off, indulging in revelry and excess.

• The fifth commandment states that one must honor one's mother and father, regardless of age or situation. This will allow you to live not only happily, but also for a long time. The concept of respect for parents includes love, care, respect and support, as well as constant prayer to the Almighty for their health and well-being. Those Christians who slander their parents are punished with death.
• The next commandment says that you cannot take the life of not only yourself, but also other people, regardless of the current situation and offense. A very serious sin is suicide, which is caused by despair, lack of faith or murmuring against the Almighty. A person is guilty even if he did not take the life of his neighbor and did not stop the murder.
• One of the 10 commandments of God's law says that one must not commit adultery. The Lord God commands to remain faithful to your husband or wife throughout your life, as well as to be absolutely pure in your thoughts, desires and spoken words.

Observing this commandment, it is strongly recommended to avoid foul language, shameless songs and dances, viewing photographs and films of a seductive genre, as well as reading immoral magazines. Based on this, we can conclude that sinful thoughts must be suppressed in the very bud.

• The next commandment of the Lord says that false witness in relation to a loved one is unacceptable. In his commandment, He prohibits any lie, denunciation or slander, as well as false judicial testimony, gossip and slander.
• The last three commandments state that it is unacceptable to steal, lie and envy. God says that you need to rejoice in everything that you have, and not your neighbor. Only in this case can you receive the blessing of the Almighty.

In addition to 10 Orthodox God's commandments There are also seven deadly sins:

1. pride;
2. envy;
3. angry state;
4. laziness;
5. greedy attitude towards one's neighbor;
6. gluttony and gluttony;
7. fornication, lust and voluptuousness.

God's commandments and mortal sins

The most vicious of the seven deadly sins is pride, which the Lord God cannot forgive.

The commandments of God in Orthodoxy allow us to live correctly and harmoniously. It is undoubtedly very difficult to comply with them in everyday life, but you should always strive for the best. Many people who managed to begin to live according to God’s laws, after a short period of time simply stopped noticing changes in their daily existence. And, undoubtedly, the Lord God helped them in this.

The commandments listed above will definitely benefit you only if you make them your own. In other words, allow them to completely guide your worldview and actions. They must be in your subconscious, which will allow you to avoid their possible violation.

In conclusion, it is worth noting that people who live according to God’s law are always lucky, and their lives work out in the best possible way. They also manage to create strong families and raise a good generation. Live with the Lord, and he will definitely bless you with good luck and luck not only in life situations, but also in all, even the most hopeless, endeavors.

The Lord is always with you!

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6365 10.12.2004

I do not idealize this war - there was a lot of cruelty and dirt in it, and it will not be long before we learn the whole truth about it. But there was also a lot of genuine Christian sacrifice, when soldiers and officers, without sparing their lives, defended the interests of the Fatherland and defended the weak. The selflessness and sacrifice of soldiers remove the apparent contradiction between the commandment “thou shalt not kill” and military service

A question came to our website from a reader:
One of the commandments is: “Thou shalt not kill.” What about the war in Chechnya then? What is this? From this commandment it is clear to me that a Christian cannot kill anyone in the world. NOBODY... Not even a non-Christian. How to be here?

Answered by priest Konstantin TATARINTSEV, rector of the Church of the Ascension of the Lord outside the Serpukhov Gate, head of the Air Force sector of the Synodal Department for interaction with the Armed Forces and law enforcement agencies, captain of long-range reserve aviation.

— The Lord gave the Ten Commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai for the people of God who had not yet recognized Christ. But in Old Testament we also read how cruelly the Jewish people dealt with those who were in their way. Did he break the commandment “thou shalt not kill”? No, because before Christ this commandment meant “Jew, do not kill a Jew,” that is, “the faithful one who has accepted the Lord, do not kill someone equally faithful.” For that historical stage, this was a very high commandment - the people of Israel kept the truth, cleansing humanity from the filth of God-fighting and ignorance of God.
For us, Christians, the commandment “thou shalt not kill” has acquired its absolute meaning - we must not even kill our enemies, because we must love our enemies. Do the Christian understanding of the sixth commandment and military service contradict each other? This question was asked to Equal-to-the-Apostles Cyril and Methodius. When they were on a mission in Khazaria, the Khazars asked them: how do you, Christians, take up arms when the Lord forbids it? Saint Cyril in response asked them what is better for a believer: fulfilling one or two commandments? The Khazars replied that, of course, two. Equal to the Apostles had in mind the words of the Savior: “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13). He told the Khazars: you come to us with weapons, seize temples, destroy shrines, take our wives captive, and we defend our faith and our loved ones, we do everything so that they do not fall into captivity, and this is the fulfillment of the commandment - lay down your soul for others. It was precisely following the covenant of Christ that Christians have always considered the defense of truth from evil, including with arms in hand, to be righteous.
This is reflected in the iconography - the Archangel Michael is depicted with a fiery sword, the Great Martyr George the Victorious - with a spear, the martyred warriors - with weapons and armor. Christians have always been the strongest warriors precisely because they fearlessly went into battle and laid down their lives for the truth. And it is no coincidence that the first warriors in Rus' to be baptized were Prince Vladimir and his retinue in Chersonesos. (National baptism in Kyiv took place later). Having received grace in the sacrament of baptism, the warriors of Prince Vladimir valiantly carried out their service. This is written in the chronicles. And Russian soldiers have always followed these glorious traditions. Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov said that if other warriors go into battle to win, then the Russian warrior goes to die. Lay down your life for others. Do not kill your enemy personal, his love. But from the enemy who comes to your land to destroy your temple, your home, who is ready to humiliate or kill your relatives, you must protect family and Fatherland. How the Archangel Michael, having armed the heavenly army, became an obstacle to the devil and the hordes of fallen angels who were trying to seize the throne of God, and, including through military valor, drove them out of the heavenly abodes (Revelation, 12, 7-9).
And during the Chechen war, Christian courage was demonstrated more than once. Everyone knows the feat of the warrior Yevgeny Rodionov, who refused to remove his pectoral cross in the face of death. He simultaneously fulfilled his military duty, for which he was awarded the Order of Courage, and accepted a Christian martyrdom.
If the country has called you, you are obliged to protect people from bandits who have lost the image of God and commit atrocities against civilians. For decades, local Russians lived in peace with the Chechens, but now there are practically no Russians left in Chechnya - they were raped, killed, and sold into slavery. I do not idealize this war - there was a lot of cruelty and dirt in it, and it will not be long before we learn the whole truth about it. But there was also a lot of genuine Christian sacrifice, when soldiers and officers, without sparing their lives, defended the interests of the Fatherland and defended the weak. The selflessness and sacrifice of soldiers removes the apparent contradiction between the commandment “thou shalt not kill” and military service.

Interviewed by Leonid VINOGRADOV

Update from 11/24/06 Doesn’t participation in the Chechen war contradict the commandment “thou shalt not kill”?
The answer to this question, given by Father Konstantin Tatarintsev, was posted on the site back in 2004. But his words did not satisfy all of our visitors: the average rating given by them was three. Many readers in their reviews dispute the justification of this war.
Margarita writes: " One cannot but agree that it is necessary to defend one’s land, one’s relatives, one’s faith. But what does all this have to do with the war in Chechnya? Which of the guys who die THERE can say that they are dying for their Motherland? After all, their Homeland is HERE, here are their relatives and friends, here they can defend everything that they consider theirs, and this war (and similar known stories) is the most inhumane business. It is also impossible to deny the atrocities that our soldiers commit on foreign soil, and the fact that many of them return home as mentally ill people. Because human soul murder is disgusting, and the one who committed or saw it will no longer be able to be healthy and happy man if the necessary assistance is not provided». Andrey: « You cannot kill and claim that you love your neighbor. Our war is not against blood and flesh, but a war on a spiritual level, although I consider it reasonable to protect my family, my loved ones, and if necessary, I will not spare my life for them.. But the question was asked in particular about the Chechen war, in which my friends had to fight, it’s no secret to many what happened there. And to justify such a war means to become an accomplice to sin, corruption and deception.». Alexei: « Jesus never took up a sword, much less called for violence. “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends” - who are the friends and brothers for a Christian? All. Therefore, war for him is a war between brothers. And the Motherland has nothing to do with it».
We decided to return to this topic. And the first to be asked to answer again was Father Konstantin Tatarintsev, the author of the article that aroused objections among site visitors, head of the Air Force sector of the synodal department for interaction with the Armed Forces.

– Father Konstantin, how can you respond to the feedback from our visitors?
- Well, what to answer here? In general, this is true. I myself am in no way a defender of this war.
Of course, the war in Chechnya is both bloody and dirty. Like any war, it grinds the souls of people on both sides, it is a misfortune for everyone, and this wound will take a long time to heal. History and the Lord will judge who is to blame for this war - both on one side and on the other. But this seems to remain outside the brackets of the war itself. Because the most terrible sins: corruption, the inhuman blood business that Margarita speaks of, occurs when the mechanism is launched, a decision is made to begin military action. Responsibility, of course, lies with politicians - with those who have long been on the sidelines, in the shadows, who will no longer be punished by the law with its obvious or imaginary justice.
I knew Dzhokhar Dudayev as a colonel, I was an officer, and he was a division commander. He was a Soviet officer, a brilliant specialist, dedicated to his cause - long-range aviation, at that already difficult time for the army. And when the valiant aviator general, having retired, took upon himself the care of his people, this was a good intention. His trouble is that he found himself in a situation where, under the influence of Yeltsin’s call to take as much sovereignty as possible, many nationalist forces went berserk. Immediately clanism arose and property was redistributed. Dudayev, being involved in this policy, defended, as he saw it, the interests of his people.
I remember how he came repeatedly and proposed to conclude an agreement, following the example of the existing one between Russia and Tatarstan, but did not achieve good contact with the President Russian Federation, the answer was cynical disregard. Feeling responsible for the people, he accepted the path of war dictated by the clans, and, having stood on it, like on rails, he could no longer turn aside. He was to remain the banner of the Chechen Republic until the end; he was greatly respected. A Chechen general was a rarity in the Soviet army. I am sure that he wished good for his people, he is not a villain, he was driven down this path...
Even those who gave the orders to start it did not understand the meaning of the war, its deep goals. I remember how during the first campaign the Minister of Defense declared that we, with one airborne regiment and one tank regiment, would restore order in the republic and the Caucasus!
But when the war began, someone needed to lift its weight onto their shoulders. The people who did this are righteous.
It would be fortunate if our country did not have this purulent wound, if it could be treated with therapeutic (that is, political or police) rather than surgical methods. But it was impossible to tolerate the current situation. You are obliged to protect the weak entrusted to you. And the land, collected and watered with the blood of your ancestors, must be passed on to your descendants without being plundered. We cannot write off all the outrages that happened in Chechnya at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Russians who lived there were persecuted: they were expelled, made slaves, mocked, women raped - all this had to be resolved somehow. I will repeat my thought from the article before last year: a lot of time must pass in order to objectively assess the entire situation and draw final conclusions about how adequate certain actions of the Russian side were.

“But many people are already giving assessments, sometimes sharply negative, when talking about the army’s activities in Chechnya. Some directly accuse her of crimes. Do you know about something similar? How do the clergy who care for the federal troops in Chechnya act in such cases?
– The task of a priest in the army is to prevent looting and robbery, so that people do not become brutal, so that hatred is not projected onto the weak – women and children. It is necessary to help the soldier realize his human dignity. As in Suvorov’s style: Russian soldiers destroy the enemy in battle, and after the battle, starving and freezing themselves, they give the best to the prisoners. War is a dirty business. When the intoxication of despair and pain overwhelms a soldier, he is capable of inappropriate actions and cruelty. At confession, the priest calls on the soul to rise up and not fall, not become hardened.
On the icon of the holy warrior St. George the Victorious, the horse is most often white. This is no coincidence. You can enter into battle with evil and win - through your faith, courage, military valor and professionalism - only when there is absolute purity between you and evil, really. Like St. George the Victorious, you must be separated from that which is the subject of war, with purity and truth. Only on a white horse can evil be defeated. If this is not the case, then while fighting evil, you can unnoticed become a source of evil. So evil multiplies, is not defeated, but conquers, and even those who fight it become indistinguishable from those they fight. This paradox is very noticeable in law enforcement agencies - we saw this during the revelations of the so-called. werewolves in uniform: crime fighters themselves became criminals, and even those with much greater capabilities.
But still, these are exceptional cases, and as a rule, the people who work there are very sacrificial and worthy. Even young guys called up from college or after school put on military uniform, those who were poisoned by fate or some empty ideas in their youth, after the trenches and hostilities, completely rethought reality and returned home changed. Unbelievers became believers, empty ones became overloaded with responsibility and wise...

– Why is this transformation happening?
– How is war different from any other life situation? Because death is very close and you don’t know whether you will live in an hour or not. It is simply impossible for a young person full of vitality to remain in such a state for a long time. When you see death on TV, when it is somewhere far away, this does not happen. And when your close friend is torn to pieces by a grenade or died in torture, when you see the fading eyes of a dying person who is in pain, the question arises: after all, this could happen to me - and what then? Is my personality something more than a body that will sooner or later decay? Will she live after death, and if so, in what condition? Or am I like a plant – now I’m there, and then one day I’m not?
The proximity of death gives rise to fear for some, composure and responsibility for the life lived for others, but this is always a very deep religious feeling. When faced with this terrible truth you ask yourself: who are you? why are you? - a place appears for God, who may not be there in ordinary bustle. In ordinary life, we try to drown out these questions with bustle, loud music, rapidly changing circumstances, and television, where everything flashes by. In war there is time and there are no these irritants that seem to shield a person from himself. There it is more convenient to be alone with yourself and talk with God. And if such a dialogue takes place, then the question: are you an atheist or a believer is removed. Not because some knowledge was gained, but because the soldier felt with his inner being that there was Someone Who gave him this life, this personality. Of course, when the soldiers return home, they can again plunge into the hustle and bustle, but there is something that already remains unshakably in the soul, a certain experience that fundamentally builds a person as a person, as a person.

– Do the soldiers who believed in the war and rethought their lives have an urge to give up their weapons and go to a monastery? Or, for example, to love your enemy and go to fraternize with your enemy?
- No, such an act can only be inspired by the exaltation of an unhealthy person. Faith is not only the joy of communion with God, but also the desire to fulfill one’s military duty and not to let one’s neighbor, fellow soldier down. If you give up everything in such exaltation, it will end sadly. Caucasians, by their mentality, respect those who are strong, who are in power or armed - they are ready to listen to such people, to have an equal conversation with them. And when they see weakness, they take advantage of it, the weak will perish.

– But not only a fellow soldier is a neighbor? It turns out that a believing soldier has to simultaneously recognize the image and likeness of God in the enemy and still kill him? How to combine this?
- Well, if you think like that, you can go far. Maybe there is no need to lock the door, because a thief is the image and likeness of God? But I am sure that both Andrei and Margarita, who wrote their reviews, lock their houses so that what is dear to them is not looted. The border should also be locked. And if a scoundrel, a rapist, breaks into the house, then any father with any of the most humane ideas will have a desire to stop him, or even to reason with him, so that in future it will be discouraging. Also, when the Motherland is raped, the sons have a legitimate need and sacred duty to protect it
Ivan Ilyin has this reasoning. When can you take up a weapon in order not just to threaten, but to destroy the enemy? Only when you are ready, having appeared with him before God, before the Truth, which does not depend on circumstances, to give an answer for what you have done, and at the same time feel the correctness and righteousness of your action. Then the action can be performed.

– Do Russian soldiers meet this requirement?
“They are still boys, of course, we have not yet warmed all of them as they should, with the warmth of prayer, spiritual nourishment, many do not rise to such heights. But this is how it should be, this is what the Synodal Department works for.
The army, of course, must be armed with the feeling that it is defending a just cause, bringing order to chaos and resisting rampant banditry.

– Is there a prospect for an Orthodox mission among the Chechens and can Orthodox soldiers be missionaries for civilians?
– The mission must be very tactical. Since these people consider themselves to belong to a different religion, we must respect this and not take advantage of their position and not impose faith. You must try to be respectful of any manifestation of what is sacred for another person, even if from your point of view it is a delusion. Here it is worth talking not about religious tolerance, but about religious respect. But if someone is trying to find answers to some questions in Christianity, such a person, of course, needs help. Historically, this population was not Christian, but there were Cossack villages and churches, and everyone lived peacefully shoulder to shoulder.
The mission must be itself Christian life; if she calls someone, in this sense the mission is possible, but any obsession can, on the contrary, lead to anger and additional problems.

-Can we talk about the spiritual meaning of war?
– In the beginning, the Lord created the sky, i.e. spiritual hierarchy, and then the earth, i.e. the created world in which we live. The war began between good and evil even before the creation of man, when the Archangel Michael, by force of arms, fought the angels faithful to the Lord against the fallen Archangel Dennitsa, whom we call the devil. This is how the world works, we entered it in order to replenish the number of fallen angels, the number of heavenly warriors with our souls. The war between good and evil, which began before the creation of the world, is projected into it, and our current history is a continuation of Sacred history. From the creation of the world to the apocalypse, sacred history continues, and we participate in it. Now the border between good and evil passes not only through human hearts, but also through peoples, states, through everything that happens on earth. When the words of the Apostle Paul are quoted that our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the spirits of wickedness in high places, it means that our main war is waged in our own heart, in our inner space. But, living in this world, bearing responsibility for it, it is impossible to just blissfully contemplate what is happening; sometimes you have to leave the trench and walk into the bullets. This is the highest humility - to go towards death.
War in any case is a spiritual process. Good and evil collide; It never happens that good collides with good. Evil happens and collides with evil, but only to tempt good. More often than not, good fights against evil.
Where this border lies in the Chechen war is very difficult to determine. There are many people in Chechnya who were orphaned by military operations and bombings; lost their elderly or children... The Caucasian mentality demands that the blood of relatives be avenged; they cannot rest until the killer of loved ones is punished. This pushed many Chechens to armed struggle with the feds (although I note that I really don’t like this term: “federals”)...

But I don’t want to evaluate this war. It took place, Russian troops resisted separatism, defended the integrity of the state, and they showed a lot of valor. I repeat once again that any war is a spiritual phenomenon, and on both sides people have spiritually rethought their existence, their inner world and the outside world.
The war is slowly fading. There are no longer the same battles as before. Life is returning, the economy is recovering. I heard on the news that an airport was built, and even people far from construction specialties gathered to meet the deadline - for Ramzan Kadyrov’s birthday. A lot of money comes from Russia for restoration - both through taxes, and even some entrepreneurs donate. I know there was a time when police officers, going there on a business trip, took equipment and things with them for schools and children’s clubs. Perhaps this was also how the Russian people felt a sense of moral responsibility for what happened there.
And if step by step it comes external world, then I think that over time, after the healing of war wounds, inner peace will come.

In addition to Father Konstantin, we discussed the “Chechen” topic with Hieromonk Feofan (Zamesov), confessor of the Sofrino brigade of the Internal Troops, caring for veterans of the Chechen campaign and other recent conflicts and with Abbot Varlaam (Ponomarev), dean Orthodox churches Chechnya and Ingushetia, member of the Public Chamber of the Chechen Republic. You can read the full interview with Father Feofan and Father Varlaam.

Asked by Mikhail LEVIN

In this article we have listed the Ten Commandments of Christianity. We have also prepared for you an interpretation of God's laws.

Ten Commandments of Christianity

These are the Commandments that the Lord God of Hosts gave to the people through His chosen one and the prophet Moses on Mount Sinai (Ex. 20:2-17):

1. Dont kill.
2. Don't commit adultery.
3. Don't steal.

Truly, this law is short, but these commandments say a lot to anyone who knows how to think and who seeks the salvation of his soul.

Anyone who does not understand this main law of God in his heart will not be able to accept either Christ or His teachings. Whoever does not learn to swim in shallow water will not be able to swim in deep water, for he will drown. And whoever does not first learn to walk will not be able to run, for he will fall and be broken. And whoever does not first learn to count to ten will never be able to count thousands. And whoever does not first learn to read syllables will never be able to read fluently and speak eloquently. And whoever does not first lay the foundation of the house will try in vain to build a roof.

I repeat: whoever does not keep the commandments of the Lord given to Moses will knock in vain on the doors of Christ’s Kingdom.

FIRST COMMANDMENT

I am the Lord your God... You shall have no other gods before Me.

This means:

God is One, and there are no other gods besides Him. All creation comes from Him, thanks to Him they live and return to Him. In God resides all power and might, and there is no power outside of God. And the power of light, and the power of water, and air, and stone is the power of God. If an ant crawls, a fish swims and a bird flies, then it is thanks to God. The ability of a seed to grow, of grass to breathe, of a person to live - the essence of the ability of God. All these abilities are the property of God, and every creation receives its ability to exist from God. The Lord gives to everyone as much as he sees fit, and takes back when he sees fit. Therefore, when you want to gain the ability to do anything, look only in God, for the Lord God is the source of life-giving and mighty power. There are no other sources besides Him. Pray to the Lord like this:

"Merciful God, inexhaustible, the only source of strength, strengthen me, weak, and give me greater strength, so that I can serve You better. God, give me wisdom so that I do not use the power I have received from You for evil, but only for the good of myself and my neighbors for the magnification of Your glory. Amen".

SECOND COMMANDMENT

You shall not make for yourself an idol or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth below, or that is in the water under the earth.

It means:

Do not deify the creation instead of the Creator. If you climbed high mountain, where you met the Lord God, why would you look back at the reflection in the puddle under the mountain? If a certain person longed to see the king and, after much effort, managed to appear before him, why would he then look left and right at the king’s servants? He can look around for two reasons: either because he does not dare to face the king alone, or because he thinks: the king alone cannot help him.

THIRD COMMANDMENT

Do not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not leave without punishment the one who takes His name in vain.

What, are there really people who decide to commemorate, without reason or need, a name that awes - the name of the Lord God Almighty? When the name of God is pronounced in the sky, the heavens bow, the stars flash brighter, the Archangels and Angels sing: “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of hosts,” and the saints and saints of God fall on their faces. Then which mortal dares to remember the Most Holy Name of God without spiritual trembling and without deep sighing from longing for God?

FOURTH COMMANDMENT

Work six days and do all your work; and the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God.

This means:

The Creator created for six days, and on the seventh day He rested from His labors. Six days are temporary, vain and short-lived, but the seventh is eternal, peaceful and long-lasting. By creating the world, the Lord God entered time, but did not leave eternity. This mystery is great...(Eph. 5:32), and it is more fitting to think about it than to talk about it, for it is not accessible to everyone, but only to God’s chosen ones.

THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT

Honor your father and your mother, so that your days on earth may be long.

This means:

Before you knew the Lord God, your parents knew Him. This alone is enough for you to bow to them with respect and give praise. Bow down and give praise to everyone who knew the Highest Good in this world before you.

THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT

Dont kill.

This means:

God breathed life from His life into every created being. Life is the most precious wealth given by God. Therefore, the one who encroaches on any life on earth raises his hand against the most precious gift of God, moreover, against the life of God itself. All of us living today are only temporary carriers of the life of God within ourselves, guardians of the most precious gift that belongs to God. Therefore, we do not have the right and cannot take away the life borrowed from God, either from ourselves or from others.

SEVENTH COMMANDMENT

Don't commit adultery.

And this means:

Do not have an illicit relationship with a woman. Truly, in this, animals are more obedient to God than many people.

THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT

Don't steal.

And this means:

Do not upset your neighbor by disrespecting his property rights. Don't do what foxes and mice do if you think you are better than the fox and the mouse. The fox steals without knowing the law on theft; and the mouse gnaws at the barn, not realizing that it is harming anyone. Both the fox and the mouse understand only their own needs, but not the loss of others. They are not given to understand, but you are given. Therefore, you cannot be forgiven for what is forgiven for a fox and a mouse. Your benefit must always be legal, it must not be to the detriment of your neighbor.

THE NINTH COMMANDMENT

Do not bear false witness against your neighbor.

A this means:

Do not be deceitful, either to yourself or to others. If you lie about yourself, you know you are lying. But if you slander someone else, that other person knows that you are slandering him.

THE TENTH COMMANDMENT

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house; You shall not covet your neighbor's wife; neither his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.

And this means:

As soon as you desire something that belongs to someone else, you have already fallen into sin. Now the question is, will you come to your senses, will you come to your senses, or will you continue to roll down the inclined plane, where the desire of someone else is taking you?

Desire is the seed of sin. A sinful act is already a harvest from the seed sown and grown.

Many people say that the Bible is the basis of morality. Is it so? If you pay special attention to the “morality” of the Bible, you can assume that mostly people have in mind the famous 10 commandments, because they often hint that you just need to live according to the 10 commandments and everything will be fine. As if they are even more important than the criminal code or the constitution.

It is clear that virtually no one actually follows the 10 Commandments. The commandment about the Sabbath is generally ignored by almost all Christian denominations, although logically, of course, all commandments are “sacred” in equal measure.

But still, the most common “moral” commandment is precisely “thou shalt not kill.” Like, Christianity teaches the law! But what does the Bible itself say about this, almost immediately after “God’s people” learned about the commandments?

The outcome states:

26And Moses stood at the gate of the camp and said, “He who belongs to the Lord, [come] to me!” And all the sons of Levi gathered to him.
27And he said to them, Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Put every man his sword on his thigh, go through the camp from gate to gate and back, and kill every one his brother, every one his friend, every one his neighbor.
28And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and about three thousand of the people fell that day.

And in real life, as you can remember from history, Christians in general did not disdain murder. So the “moral” here is this: the commandment is relevant only when it comes to “our own people.” Others are not people.

Although “ours” is also a convention. After all, there were the Italian Wars, when Catholics (Italians, Spaniards and French) destroyed each other.

Therefore, if you look at the situation from the point of view of law and “morality”, then it is unlikely that these commandments gave anything at all in a positive sense, since in fact, obviously, they were simply ignored. Even in the Middle Ages there were still laws, since the commandments themselves were too primitive. It is not surprising, therefore, that the wave of religious murders and lawlessness on the part of the clergy stops only when the state begins to carry out secularization (this is clearly seen in the example of the Venetian Republic, England and other countries).

The Bible and savage laws do not stop heretics from killing heretics and breaking laws, but fanatics for the most part calm down when they face a prison sentence or even the death penalty for a “pious act.” At that time, especially in the Republic of Venice, there was talk of “insulting feelings” and curses from the Holy See for lack of spirituality, since the inhabitants, when they were allowed, stopped participating in crusades and committing senseless murders. So, we must first take into account that it is secularization that is the basis of modern law, by which many now live, and not at all the “commandments” of a slave-owning society, as some theologians and priests are trying to prove.

It doesn’t work in the modern, and rather non-modern, world either.

I'll explain.

The suicide takes a fully loaded revolver and shoots himself in the temple. - A clear violation of the commandment. Russian roulette: a suicide loads a six-shooter revolver with one cartridge, spins the drum so as not to know in what position the cartridge is located, puts it to his head, pulls the trigger, a shot is heard... Or it is not fired - still a violation of the commandment.

Car according to the rules traffic - vehicle increased danger, which is confirmed by statistics - over 30,000 people die on Russian roads every year. Moreover, they die not only due to the driver’s fault, but also due to the negligence of pedestrians, and due to the fault of drivers of other cars. Therefore, anyone who drives a car is essentially playing Russian roulette, has a chance to kill someone, therefore he is a violator of the commandment. But pedestrians are also aware of the mortal danger that awaits them even when crossing the road strictly according to traffic rules. Consequently, they too play Russian roulette, that is, commit suicide, and violate the commandment. In the flu epidemic that awaits us all, there are always deaths. Therefore, any interaction with people carries the risk of influenza infection and death. This means that anyone who communicates with any person is a suicide. A man went into the taiga so as not to communicate with anyone, not to intersect with vehicles, but even here he turns out to be suicidal, because in the taiga there are ticks, wolves, bears,...

In short, a person everywhere, consciously or out of stupidity (which is even more sinful, because he aggravates the sin of suicide with the sin of stealing his mind), is obliged to expose himself to mortal danger.

As Zhvanetsky said: “Can we change something at the conservatory?” Maybe before talking about sins, you should read the original source with comments in the original language, and not be content with retellings?

It is written in the Torah: “Whoever maliciously kills his neighbor through craftiness, then take him from My altar to die” (Shemot 21.14). This right even extended to the priest participating in the divine service. In other words, a frank and arrogant murderer cannot find shelter even at the altar, and cannot count on the fact that his crime will cover the sanctity of the Temple.

By requiring the death penalty for a murderer, the Torah imposes a number of restrictions and precautions on the Jewish court to ensure that there is no miscarriage of justice that could lead to the punishment of an innocent person. Even in the Temple era, when the courts were given the power to impose death sentences, to exercise this power in practice, i.e. sentencing a person to death was incredibly difficult. The Sanhedrin (Jewish Supreme Court), which handed down only one death sentence in 70 years, is called “bloody” in the Talmud.

And immediately a note in the margin: since Christ did not kill anyone, not only the High Priest but also the Sanhedrin were simply not able to sentence him to death. Therefore, Christianity is based on outright nonsense.

There is a special commandment in the Torah to prevent murder: “Do not stand on the blood of your neighbor.” Among other things, it includes the responsibility to stop a potential killer in time. Anyone who does not do this is actually encouraging crime. If you can stop a killer without killing him, then that's what you should do. In other words, in this case it is simply forbidden to kill him. But if it is obvious that “humane” methods will not produce results, then it is necessary to take an extreme measure of suppression.

Killing is also permitted in the following cases. In self-defense: if someone makes an attempt on your life, you are obliged to get ahead of him, kill this person (if there is no other salvation) before he carries out his criminal intention.

The commandment “thou shalt not kill” also does not apply to a person executing a court sentence.

It is permissible to kill the enemy in war, because war is considered a collective form of self-defense.

The commandment “thou shalt not kill” has a connection with the commandment about honoring one’s father and mother. It has been said: someone who is financially secure but does not help his old, needy parents is like a murderer. At the same time, this commandment warns us against the other extreme: for example, a loving son who jealously guards the honor and dignity of his parents is forbidden to attempt the life of their offender, and parents cannot demand this revenge from their children.