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The Ten Commitments
Is it true that the book “Conversations with God” says that there is no such thing as the Ten Commandments? Yes, in fact it was one of the first paradigm-shattering statements of the entire ten-year dialogue. There could not be a list of "commands" from God, CwG says, and who would God command? And who would God punish if God's commandments were not kept? There is no one and nothing BUT God.
Then is the entire story of Moses, and the revelation that God gave him, a fiction? No, says CwG. God brought a great revelation to Moses, and Moses did indeed bring it down from the mountaintop, to share with his people. All of us who "go to the mountaintop" in earnest searching for the highest truth will find it; all of us will be given our own personal revelation. Seek and ye shall find. Knock and it shall be opened unto you.
What humanity has been given, CwG says, is not a list of Ten Commandments, but a list of Ten Commitments. Tell me, Moses pleaded, that I am on the right path. Give me a sign, give me a signal. How shall I know? What can I tell my people? Thousands are looking to me for some indication, some wisdom. What shall I say to them?
Moses, you see, knew that he was a Messenger. A true Messenger of God, who---by his life, lived---sent a message TO life ABOUT life, through the process of Life Itself. He knew that people were watching him, depending on him, listening to what he had to say and observing his actions every day.
So, too, is it with all of us. We are all Messengers of God...and most of us don't know it. Yet there are people watching us, too, our children and our grandchildren, our family and our friends, our neighbors and our co-workers and even strangers on the street. Yes, even people around the world.
Do you not think that Christians are watching Muslims? Do you not think that Muslims are watching Christians? Do you not think that Jews are watching both? Do you not think both are watching Jews? And what about Hindus? And Buddhists? And members of all the world's faith communities? Do you now think we are watching each other?
And are blacks not watching whites, and whites not watching blacks? And are men not watching women, and women not watching men? And are liberals nor watching conservatives, and conservatives not watching liberals? And are the poor not watching the rich, and the rich not watching the poor? And are straights not watching gays, and gays not watching straights? And are the young not watching the old, and the old not watching the young? And are you not watching me, and am I not watching you?
I tell you this: We are all watching each other, each of us searching for signals, each of us scanning for signs, each of us hoping to find the path, each of us seeking the way back Home.
All of us, in the end, want to be Home with God, in a life that never ends.
So God gave us these Ten Commitments, as explained in exquisite detail in this excerpt from Conversations with God - Book 1:
You shall know that you have taken the path to God, and you shall know that you have found God, for there will be these signs, these indications, and these changes in you:
You will know that you have found the path to God when you see these signs. For I promise that no one who truly seeks God shall any longer do these things. It would be impossible to continue such behaviors.
These are your freedoms, not your restrictions. These are my commitments, not my commandments. For God does not order about what God has created---God merely tells God's children: this is how you will know that you are coming home.
Moses asked in earnest---"How may I know? Give me a sign." Moses asked the same question that you ask now. The same question all people everywhere have asked since time began. My answer is likewise eternal. But it has never been, and never will be, a commandment. For whom shall I command? And who shall I punish should my commandments not be kept?
There is only Me.
Then is the entire story of Moses, and the revelation that God gave him, a fiction? No, says CwG. God brought a great revelation to Moses, and Moses did indeed bring it down from the mountaintop, to share with his people. All of us who "go to the mountaintop" in earnest searching for the highest truth will find it; all of us will be given our own personal revelation. Seek and ye shall find. Knock and it shall be opened unto you.
What humanity has been given, CwG says, is not a list of Ten Commandments, but a list of Ten Commitments. Tell me, Moses pleaded, that I am on the right path. Give me a sign, give me a signal. How shall I know? What can I tell my people? Thousands are looking to me for some indication, some wisdom. What shall I say to them?
Moses, you see, knew that he was a Messenger. A true Messenger of God, who---by his life, lived---sent a message TO life ABOUT life, through the process of Life Itself. He knew that people were watching him, depending on him, listening to what he had to say and observing his actions every day.
So, too, is it with all of us. We are all Messengers of God...and most of us don't know it. Yet there are people watching us, too, our children and our grandchildren, our family and our friends, our neighbors and our co-workers and even strangers on the street. Yes, even people around the world.
Do you not think that Christians are watching Muslims? Do you not think that Muslims are watching Christians? Do you not think that Jews are watching both? Do you not think both are watching Jews? And what about Hindus? And Buddhists? And members of all the world's faith communities? Do you now think we are watching each other?
And are blacks not watching whites, and whites not watching blacks? And are men not watching women, and women not watching men? And are liberals nor watching conservatives, and conservatives not watching liberals? And are the poor not watching the rich, and the rich not watching the poor? And are straights not watching gays, and gays not watching straights? And are the young not watching the old, and the old not watching the young? And are you not watching me, and am I not watching you?
I tell you this: We are all watching each other, each of us searching for signals, each of us scanning for signs, each of us hoping to find the path, each of us seeking the way back Home.
All of us, in the end, want to be Home with God, in a life that never ends.
So God gave us these Ten Commitments, as explained in exquisite detail in this excerpt from Conversations with God - Book 1:
You shall know that you have taken the path to God, and you shall know that you have found God, for there will be these signs, these indications, and these changes in you:
You will know that you have found the path to God when you see these signs. For I promise that no one who truly seeks God shall any longer do these things. It would be impossible to continue such behaviors.
These are your freedoms, not your restrictions. These are my commitments, not my commandments. For God does not order about what God has created---God merely tells God's children: this is how you will know that you are coming home.
Moses asked in earnest---"How may I know? Give me a sign." Moses asked the same question that you ask now. The same question all people everywhere have asked since time began. My answer is likewise eternal. But it has never been, and never will be, a commandment. For whom shall I command? And who shall I punish should my commandments not be kept?
There is only Me.
| 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, money, or power, or 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 because: |
| 2. | You shall not use the name of 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 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: |
| 3. | 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 soon call every day the Sabbath, and every moment holy. |
| 4. | You shall honor your mother and your father---and you will know you are the Son of God when you honor your 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. |
| 5. | 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 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: |
| 6. | 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. |
| 7. | You will not take a thing that is not your own, nor cheat, nor connive, nor harm another to have any thing, 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. . . |
| 9. | Covet your neighbor's spouse, for why would you want your neighbor's spouse when you know all others are your spouse? |
| 10. | ICovet 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? |
THE TEN COMMITMENTS