They should call it It's All Relative Magazine, where the 10 Commandments aren't commandments, just guidelines whose purpose was merely historicist and instrumental, not timeless and fundamental. Heaven and earth must have passed away when we were not looking! Murder, theft, and adultery? What antiquated concepts!
Why Do Christians Want to Post the 10 Commandments and Not the Sermon on the Mount?:
The Ten Commandments played a significant
role in God’s creation of the nation of Israel. It gave them moral
guidelines and helped separate this new nation from their neighbors.
This was part of the formal agreement (or covenant) God created with his
people, but Jesus’ death and resurrection signaled the end of that
covenant and all the rules and regulations associated with it. Jesus didn’t issue his new command as an additional commandment to the existing list of commands. He didn’t say, “Here’s the 614th law.” Jesus issued his new commandment as a
replacement for everything in the existing list. Including the big ten.
Just as his new covenant replaced the old covenant, Jesus’ new
commandment replaced all the old commandments.
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 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 5:17f.
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the
kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in
heaven. -- Matthew 7:21
