Cruz , Jan Sebastian G.

BSBA -LM

I. The ten commandments, in order, are:

1. “I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt not have any strange gods before Me.”
a) Worship and believe only in one God.
b) Do not commit idolatry and worship false gods and goddesses.
2. “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.”
a) The faithful are required to honor the name of God. It makes sense that if
you’re to love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, then you’re
naturally to respect the name of God with equal passion and vigor.
b) To call upon God to bear witness to lie; to use the Lord's name out of anger;
calling down evil on a person, place or thing or wishing bodily harm;
blasphemy

3. “Remember to keep holy the Sabbath Day”

a) to give due honor to God by putting time aside to worship Him.

b) missing mass purposely; not keeping Holy Days of Obligation; unnecessary

work on Sundays.

4. “Honor your father and your mother”

a) to respect and love our parents; to obey them and to help them; to respect and
obey those in authority

b) disrespect; unkindness; disobedience, to our parents and all those placed in

legitimate authority.

5. “You shall not kill”

a) to respect life; to love others and to respect the spiritual well-being of others
and yourself.

b) murder; suicide; fighting; anger; hatred; revenge; drunkenness; reckless

driving; injuring someone's soul by giving bad example.
6. “You shall not commit adultery”

a) to be pure and modest in our behavior.

b) All impurity and immodesty in words, looks, and actions, whether alone or
with others; masturbation; impure conversations; dirty jokes;ty. looking at
impure pictures or movies; impurities with others; undue familiarity with the
opposite sex; homosexual activity.

7. “You shall not steal”

a) to respect what belongs to others; to live up to business agreements; and to

pay our just debts

b) stealing; cheating; dishonesty; keeping what belongs to others; damaging

someone’s property; accepting a bribe; we are also obliged to repay or restore
any stolen goods or their value, when we are able.

8. “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor”

a) to speak the truth in all things.

b) lies, harming the good name of others; rash judgement; detraction; slander
(calumny); telling secrets we are bound to keep.

9. “You shall not covet your neighbor's wife”. (Desire)

a) to be pure in thought and desire.

b) impure thoughts and desires. (If they are brought on by ourselves or if we

entertain them once they pop into our thoughts.)

10. “You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor”

a) that we should banish our desires for whatever does not belong to us. 
 b) all desires to take or to keep what belongs to others; to envy the success of
others.

II.
a) Divorce
i. Christian views on divorce find their basis both in biblical sources dating
to the giving of the law to Moses and political developments in the
Christian world long after standardization of the Bible. According to
the synoptic Gospels, Jesus emphasized the permanence of marriage, but
also its integrity. In the book of Matthew Jesus says "Because of your
hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the
beginning it was not so. And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife,
except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery".
b) Same Sex Marriage
i. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, a text which contains dogmas
and teachings of the Church, names “homosexual acts” as “intrinsically
immoral and contrary to the natural law,” and names “homosexual
tendencies” as “objectively disordered.” While the Catholic Church does
not consider “homosexual orientation” sinful in and of itself, it does have
 a very negative attitude toward it. The 1986 Letter states, “Although the
particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is a more
or less strong tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil; and thus
the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.”
c) Contraception
i. Christian ideas about contraception come from church teachings rather
than scripture, as the Bible has little to say about the subject. As a result,
their teachings on birth control are often based on different Christian
interpretations of the meaning of marriage, sex and the family. First, God
commanded his people to "Be fruitful and multiply," and contraception
is seen as specifically flouting this instruction. Second, Onan was killed
by God for "spilling his seed," which is often taken as divine
condemnation of coitus interrupt us. The first of these examples is
normally rebutted by demonstrating that contraception has not prevented
human beings from being fruitful and multiplying.

d) Death penalty
i. The new evangelization calls for followers of Christ who are
unconditionally pro-life: who will proclaim, celebrate and serve the
Gospel of life in every situation. A sign of hope is the increasing
recognition that the dignity of human life must never be taken away,
even in the case of someone who has done great evil. . . . I renew the
appeal I made . . . for a consensus to end the death penalty, which is both
cruel and unnecessary. Each of us is called to respect the life and dignity
of every human being. Even when people deny the dignity of others, we
must still recognize that their dignity is a gift from God and is not
something that is earned or lost through their behavior. Respect for life
applies to all, even the perpetrators of terrible acts. Punishment should be
consistent with the demands of justice and with respect for human life
and dignity.