Forum Post: NO Such Things As The Ten Commandments

To resolve this worldly problem we need Gods help. Do people agree on that? Lets get down to some real truths.

Neale Donald Walsch said in his book, "Conversations with God" There are no such things as the Ten Commandments. The Word of God was a covenant, not a commandment.

Ten Commitments

You shall know that you have taken the path of God ,and you shall know that you have found God. ...for there will be these signs, these indications, these changes in you;

These are your freedoms, not your restrictions.

1. You shall love God with all your heart,all your mind all your soul. And there shall be no other God set before Me. No longer will you worship human love, or success, or power, nor any symbol thereof. You will set aside these things as a child sets aside toys. Not because they are unworthy, but because you have outgrown them.

And, you shall know you have taken the path to God.

1. You shall not use the name God in vain. Nor will you call upon Me for frivolous things. You will understand the power of words, and of thoughts, and you would not think of invoking the name of God in an unGodly manner. You shall not use my name in vain because because you cannot. For My name-the Great "I Am" - is never used in vain (that is, without result), nor can it ever be. And when you have found God, you shall know this.

And, I shall give you these other signs as well;

1. You shall remember to keep a day for me, and you shall call it holy. This, so that you do not long stay in your illusion, but cause yourself to remember who and what you are. And then shall you call every day the sabbath, and every moment holy.

2. You shall honor your mother and your father - and you will know you are the Son of God when you honor Father/Mother/God in all that you say or do or think. And even as you so honor the Mother/Father/God, and your father and mother on Earth (for they have given you life), so, too, will you honor everyone.

3. You know you have found God when you observe that you will not murder (that is, willfully kill, without cause). For while you will understand that you cannot end another's life in any event (all life is eternal), you will not choose to terminate any particular incarnation, nor will not change any life energy from one form to another, without the most sacred justification. Your new reverence for life will cause you to honor all life forms - including plants, trees and animals - and to impact them only when it is for the highest good.

And these other signs will I send you also, that you may know you are on the path.

1. You will not defile the purity of love with dishonesty or deceit, for this is adulterous. I promise you, when you have found God, you shall not commit this adultery.

2. You shall not take a thing that is not your own, nor cheat, nor connive, nor harm another to have anything, for this would be to steal. I promise you, when you have found God, you shall not steal.

Nor shall you...

8.Say a thing that is not true, and thus bear false witness.

Nor shall you...

1. Covet your neighbor's spouse, for why would you want your neighbor's spouse when you know all others are your spouse?

2. Covet your neighbor's goods, for why would you want your neighbor's goods when you know that all goods can be yours, and all your goods belong to the world?

You will know that you found the path to God when you see these signs. For God's promise is that no one who truly seeks God shall any longer do these things. It would be impossible to continue such behaviors.

So I don't have to keep the Ten Commandments in order to get to heaven?

There is no such thing as "getting to heaven." There is only a knowing that you are already there. There is an accepting, an understanding, not a working for or a striving.

You can not go where you already are. To do that, you would have to leave where you are, and that would defeat the whole purpose of the journey.

The irony is that most people think they have to leave where they are to get to where they want to be. And so they leave heaven in order to get to heaven - and go through hell.

Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now.

You are on a journey to nowhere.

Heaven - as you call it - is nowhere. Let's just put some space between the w and the h in that word and you'll see that heaven is now...here.

Lets bring in some self-realization of who we are as a person and as a nation.

Michael,