All Ten Commandments have to be honored

I want to add to Steve Tanner’s letter in the Feb. 7 Daily Bee.

From the sound of his letter, we would assume he is a church-going Christian, his concern is abortion and the law being broken here is the sixth of God’s Ten Commandments found in Exodus 20, verse 13. He speaks of “honoring and obeying God” and “His law,” but in fact, how many Christians do? If one backs up a couple of verses from the “thou shalt not kill and read numbers eight to 11, you will see what I mean.

A couple of examples is appropriate. I was in a Baptist Church in Priest River one Sunday and the speaker said the “Ten Commandments were the Old Covenant and were no longer in effect.” Another Pentecostal businessman, after I mentioned the obligation of the Fourth Commandment, told me “nobody can keep that law.” Another (now a commissioner) actually forbade me to speak to him about this. Again, some youth from another Baptist church in Priest River told me there was no difference between Moses’ law and God’s 10. The modern Luther’s Small Catechism drops the commandment about idols and for the Sabbath, it says “you don’t have to keep it.” (They divide the last one into two to make 10 again.)

But there is a church in Bonners Ferry, where you live Steve, that believes in all 10 so you will find them there on Saturday and, if you want to promote God’s law, I think that is where one should find you. Otherwise, perhaps we need another letter telling that we really don’t have to keep them all. How about it?

FRANK THIEME

Sandpoint