Topic(s): God's Sovereignty, Youth

Links to this entire series:

• Why Were the Ten Commandments Removed?: Part 1
• Why Were the Ten Commandments Removed?: Part 2

According to television news, the monument on which the Ten Commandments are inscribed had to be removed from the public’s view because of a federal statute that ordered them removed. The real reason, of course, was much deeper.

Have you thought about the fact that many men have their words etched in government monuments and buildings, and that many of their words are very important to our laws?

Have you also thought about the fact that the people who adamantly argued that Judge Roy Moore to remove the monument do not believe that God wrote the Ten Commandments? Many of them likely do not believe in God anyway.

Then consider that the reason that Judge Moore argued that the monument should stay was not because the Ten Commandments are from God, but because the Ten Commandments are the foundation of the American legal system. According to this argument, whether or not God wrote the Ten Commandments does not even matter in the discussion.

So what was the big problem? If, as some argue, mere humans wrote the Ten Commandments, and many other humans have their writings etched in big letters on walls and have their statements written on treasured papers that really matter to our laws, why couldn’t the Ten Commandments stay right where they were?

You understand the reason. The monument had to be moved because some people believe that God really did write the Ten Commandments. Many people are afraid to face that possibility. The suggestion that there is a God that was described in the Bible and that He really has rules that men must follow makes many people afraid. We need not be afraid if we obey God, though. John 12:48 says, “He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.” —Caleb Colley

Read Part 2 of this article.

Parenting:

Topic(s): Family, Youth

“Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at de sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off of the ground.”
—Zora Neale Hurston

By the time that a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he is wrong.
—Charles Wadsworth