The Ten Commitments
By Harry Jay
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The Ten Commitments is a book of suggestions and like the Ten Commandments, it gleams truisms and meaning from the Holy Bible. How do we live our Lives? What is the meaning of life? What is the way to a peaceful and quiet existence? This book answers these questions and more. The greatest fraud the world has ever known is revealed in The Ten Commitments. The questions are real and so are the religious answers. The last thing to die in a man is made known in this book. It discusses how our reach must exceed our grasp, how we are born nobodys and strive to become somebodys, why the word is evil and justice seems to be elusive. It is all about YOU! It is not a book on spiritualism and in fact it is a book of spirituality vs religion. It delineates what are the differences in religions and speaks about religion spirituality. If you have a desire to better understand God’s will in your life and your position amongst the saints, you should read this book and pass it on to all believers and unbelievers as an evangelical tool.
Harry Jay
Dr. Harry Jay is Director of Research for AppliedMindSciences.com, a mental health and mind research group of Applied Web Info, and is the author of over 100 books and research papers as a behavioral scientist. In his 31-year career, Dr. Harry Jay has contributed many new mental health treatment treatments and protocols using some of the new advances he has discovered in Energy Psychology. He specializes in addictions of all kinds, sexual abuse, child predation and gender relationships. He is also a board member to ePubWealth.com and serves on the science committee assisting non-fiction science writers in book publishing and promotion. As a leading behavioral scientist, he provides profiling services to the company's ForensicsNation.com unit as well as criminal psychology research to aid in identifying and apprehending child predators and cyber-criminals of all kinds. He resides in Southern Utah and enjoys the outdoors, fishing and photography.
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The Ten Commitments - Harry Jay
Introduction
The Ten Commitments unlike the Ten Commandments are suggestions and not commandments. They are designed as a foundation to creating a peaceful and happy lifestyle.
Too often, our lives become wrapped up in stresses and anxieties and we are constantly in motion, attempting to complete a set of goals or chores that simply exhaust us.
As a Christian and a behavioral scientist, it is important to me to demonstrate that a peaceful life is possible and this is the whole premise of this book.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.
( Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 )
In the first eight verses of Ecclesiastes 3 there is a remarkable listing of 28 times
arranged in 14 pairs of opposites (e.g., a time to be born and a time to die
). Every timed event is planned by God and has a purpose
( v. 1 ), and everything is beautiful
in God's time for it ( v. 11 ).
Although it is beyond our finite comprehension, it is still bound to be true that the infinite, omnipotent God worketh all things after the counsel of his own will
( Ephesians 1:11 ). Even when in our time we may not understand how a particular event can be purposeful or beautiful, we can have faith that if it occurs in God's time for it, it is ( Romans 8:28 )!
The time of our birth is, of course, not under our control, but we can certainly have a part in determining the occurrence of all the other thirteen times,
even the time of death. With the exception of those still living at the time of Christ's return, each of us will eventually die. God has appointed a time for each individual, and it is wrong for him or her to shorten that time (by suicide or careless living, which can never be part of His will for any of us).
We should say with David: My times are in thy hand
( Psalm 31:15 ), and seek to live in ways pleasing to Him as long as He allows us to live. We should pray that, when our time is finished, He will enable us to die in a manner that will be beautiful in his time
( Ecclesiastes 3:11 ).
Not one of us knows when that ordained time to die
may be for us, so we must seek daily to walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time
( Colossians 4:5 ).
There are many things in our relationship with God that we simply do not understand and maybe we will never understand. As a doctor, I have witness numerous example of illness and pain.
The difficult question of pain forms a thorny question on which volumes have been written. Why do the innocent suffer? Why do we face all these diseases? Why the suffering of millions because of natural disasters or the tyranny of demagogues?
I do not pretend to have all the answers, but one thing I know: pain is a universal fact of life. Likewise, there are moral dimensions in the way we phrase our questions concerning pain, and every religion explicitly or implicitly attempts to explain pain.
But why do we even ask these questions about suffering within the context of morality?
Why have we blended the fact of physical pain with the demand for a moral explanation?
Who decided that pain is immoral? Indeed, almost every atheist or skeptic you read names this as the main reason for his or her denial of God's existence.
In the Judeo- Christian framework, pain is connected to the reality of evil and to the choices made by humanity at the beginning of time. The problem of pain and the problem of evil are inextricably bound. So when we assume evil, we assume good. When we assume good, we assume a moral law. And when we assume a moral law, we assume a moral law- giver.
You may ask, " Why does assuming a moral law necessitate a moral lawgiver?"
Because every time the question of evil is raised, it is either by a person or about a person—and that implicitly assumes that the question is a worthy one. But it is a worthy question only if people have intrinsic worth, and the only reason people have intrinsic worth is that they are the creations of One who is of ultimate worth. That person is God. So the question self- destructs for the naturalist or the pantheist. The question of the morality of evil or pain is valid only for a theist.
And only in Christian theism is love preexistent within the Trinity, which means that love precedes human life and becomes the absolute value for us. This absolute is ultimately found only in God, and in knowing and loving God we work our way through the struggles of pain, knowing of its ultimate connection to evil and its ultimate destruction by the One who is all- good and all- loving; who in fact has given us the very basis for the words good and love both in concept and in language.
One of my patients is a young woman who was born with a very rare disease called CIPA, congenital insensitivity to pain with anhydrosis. Imagine having a body that looks normal and acts normally, except for one thing: You cannot feel physical pain. That sounds as if it would be a blessing. But the reason it's a problem is