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The Fundamental Basis of Orthodoxy part 1: The Ten Commandments

Exodus 20:2–17 and Deuteronomy 5:6–21.


The Ten Commandments


  1. I am the Lord, Your God. You shall have no other gods before Me.

  2. You shall not carve images, or fashion the likeness of anything in heaven above, or on earth below, or in the waters under the earth, to bow down and worship.

  3. You shall not take the Name of the Lord your God in vain.

  4. There are six days for labor, for doing all the work you have to do. When the seventh day comes, it is a day consecrated to the Lord Your God.

  5. Honor your father and your mother, that it may be well with you and that your days may be long upon the earth.

  6. You shall not kill.

  7. You shall not commit adultery.

  8. You shall not steal.

  9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

  10. You shall not covet that which belongs to your neighbor.


The two Main Commandments of God


These two commandments, which our Lord Jesus Christ distinguished as the Great Commandments (Mt. 22:34-40) sum up the Ten Commandments of God and the entire teachings of the Law and the prophets. There were already present in the Old Testament (Deauteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18)


  1. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

  2. You shall love your neighbor as yourself.


The Church Commandments


The life of an Orthodox Christian is based on Holy Tradition and may be summarized in the following precepts:


1. Observe the ecclesiastical Holy Days.

2. Attend Church services on Sundays and Holy Days.

3. The grace of God and faith, in harmony with good works, are necessary to attain salvation.

4. After death, human souls are either in a state of bliss with the saints, prepared before all ages by our Heavenly Father, or in a place of suffering prepared for the devil and his angels.

5. The Church, which Jesus Christ established while He was on earth of which He is the Head, is governed through the mediation of the Holy Spirit, through the Bishops and is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic.

6. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church is part of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.









 
 
 

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