The Ten Commandments...

A couple of days ago my attention was caught over a video of a man who was pinned by the knee of a police officer over his neck. It all resulted in the man's death. Later I found out that his name was George Floyd.

It all stirred up a massive outrage in the USA and all across the planet. The reaction was natural although based on half of the story which makes me wonder. It was a horrible sight to witness by all means. A black man lost his life under the foot of a white police officer. That of course fueled immediately the racist issue which has been used by the neo-marxist propaganda for far to long, giving it unnecessary fuel.

I am not going to to talk about what triggered the events. There is no doubt in my mind that every death is a tragedy in itself has died. My mind refuses to believe that this tragedy was racially based and I can't help but wondering what has triggered all rhis. Disobeying the law, can easily deteriorate in very dangerous situations, where both sides become extremely defensive for different reasons. It is important to keep a sober mind and to be in support of justice, rather than revenge. 

The only questiom, a fair one I might add, that remains is if  the police officer has taken the life of a human being deliberately or not while on duty, knowing that everything was being caught on camera. As I was debating all this through comments on several different Facebook posts, I remembered that the Bible, as does the penal law everywhere, speaks and makes a difference between those who killed on purpose and those who caused the accidental death of a person.

"You shall select for yourselves cities to be your cities of refuge, that the manslayer who has fkilled any person unintentionally may flee there.

The cities shall be to you as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands before the congregation for trial.

The cities which you are to give shall be your six cities of refuge. You shall give three cities across the Jordan and three cities in the land of Canaan; they are to be cities of refuge.

These six cities shall be for refuge for the sons of Israel, and for the alien and for the sojourner among them; that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.

But if he struck him down with an iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death."

(Numbers 35:11-16 NASB)

It is important to remeber also that "Though shall not kill" is the sixth commandment. No one is entitled to take anyone's life. Few days after I wrote the first lines in this article I started thinking about the ten commandments, and as I was reading them I realised what the real problem was. Have a look at those ten commandments and be honest with yoursleves: which one is a general standard for the world today really?

1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me
2. Honour thy father and thy mother
3. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy
4. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image
5. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain
6. Thou shalt not kill
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery
8. Thou shalt not steal
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour
10. Thou shalt not covet

What is your answer to the question "Am I living this"? Do you ever wonder how the world would look like if a vast majority would live by the moral standards given to us by God? Isn't breaking the ten commandments the source of ALL the problems this fallen world is facing today?

I was reminded once again that this one amazing book, the Bible has an answer for everything really. Personally, since I really went deep into studying it, I found put that truly one can find all the answers to every big question one can think of in life. That is why it is called the living word of God. And having read the above, I had yet another confirmation that the Christian moral standards are indeed the foundation  of all the Christian nations and that whenever those Christian moral standards are under attack disaster strikes.

Following up, we can now see people rioting. Violent riots. Violent riots in protest of something that we have incomplete, little or no knowledge about. And it seems to me that they are out for revenge, not for justice. It seems to me that revenge is being confused with justice. And, like in 1992, there are some who will use this to steal and destroy, raiding and looting even the work and property of their own community and race.

Here is a proof to that. One of the most emotional things that happened during the1992 L.A. riots, revisited some six months later. People will never learn they say, but this is rather proof of the fact that they have no knowledge and fear of God.

Indeed it all appears to be about the lack of faith in God that stirs the actions in a godless society. A society that speaks hypocritically about love and moral standards all day long, but fails to act upon it whenever the going gets tough and perverts justice into revenge being animated by feelings rather than facts, reason and truth.