EPISODE 0024 | The Metalaws of Humanity
THESE NOTES ACCOMPANY EPISODE 0024
Today Pastor Stephen discusses the Ten Commandments and how they emphasize the distinction between the moral and the immoral, the decent and the profane. Comparing each commandment to its secular humanist counterpart, this episode highlights how these opposing worldviews shape our understanding of freedom and truth.
Understanding The Ten Commandments
1. God is first. (I am the Lord…) You will be accountable to God. God is first, even if He isn’t first in your life.
Kings were not God like Pharoah was worshipped as God. They were accountable to God. Revolutionary in every area of human progress.
2. We are the created. (I am the Lord Your God) We all know this is true – we are finite, God is infinite.
Absolute or Objective Truth vs. Subjective truth. Truth is discovered or revealed by man not created.
3. God delivers us from slavery. (out of egypt)“…I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt…”
What our world calls freedom is actually slavery. Slavery is both a place AND a mindset. Before it is a place, it is a mindset.
4. God delivers us to freedom. (out of slavery) “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.”
You can remove the slave from Egypt but not Egypt from the slave.
Freedom is both a place and a mindset. Before it’s a place it’s a mindset. We have to choose it before we live it.
TWO WORLDVIEWS COLLIDE
1. The Biblical Worldview is man with God.
2. The Secular Humanist Worldview is man without God.
Three Types of Old Testament Laws:
1. Moral Law – For all people at all times.
2. Civil Law – Built on the spirit of the moral law but unique to the Jewish Nation at that time and place.
3. Sacrificial Law – This was a OT picture of a NT reality. Jesus is the ultimate once and for all sacrifice for our sin.
Absolute Truth is discovered or revealed, it is not invented or created by man
Biblical Commandment 1: You shall have no other gods before me.
"I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me." (Exodus 20:2-3 NIV)
Secular Humanist Commandment 1: There is no God.
"Religion is the opium of the masses." - Karl Marx
Biblical Commandment 2: You shall not make for yourself an idol.
"You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below." (Exodus 20:4 NIV)
Secular Humanist Commandment 2: Worship Mother Earth.
"If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels." – Paul Ehrlich
"We are a plague on the Earth. It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde of people, [and] nobody wants to face it." – David Attenborough
Biblical Commandment 3: You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God.
"You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name." (Exodus 20:7 NIV)
Secular Humanist Commandment 3: There is no absolute truth or morality.
"There is no God and there is no soul. Hence, there are no needs for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is dead and buried." - John Dewey
Biblical Commandment 4: Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
"Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy." (Exodus 20:8 NIV)
Secular Humanist Commandment 4: The individual is sovereign and determines their own purpose.
"The human being is at the center of the universe." - Julian Huxley
"The individual has been liberated from the tyranny of both the state and the church." - Jean-Paul Sartre
Biblical Commandment 5: Honor your father and mother.
"Honor your father and mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you." (Exodus 20:12 NIV)
Secular Humanist Commandment 5: Society or the state has ultimate authority over children.
"The care for the child must be transferred from the family to society." - Vladimir Lenin
Biblical Commandment 6: You shall not murder.
"You shall not murder." (Exodus 20:13 NIV)
Secular Humanist Commandment 6: The ends justify the means.
"The establishment of a central power of the state in all its capacities is the necessary condition for the liberation of the individual." - Vladimir Lenin
Biblical Commandment 7: You shall not commit adultery.
"You shall not commit adultery." (Exodus 20:14 NIV)
Secular Humanist Commandment 7: There is no sexual morality just mutual consent.
"The brave new world of tomorrow will have to create its own forms of sexual ethics." - Margaret Sanger
Biblical Commandment 8: You shall not steal.
"You shall not steal." (Exodus 20:15 NIV)
Secular Humanist Commandment 8: Individual labor belongs to the society or state.
"The state must seize the means of production." - Karl Marx
Biblical Commandment 9: You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
"You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor." (Exodus 20:16 NIV)
Secular Humanist Commandment 9: There is no absolute truth.
"The truth is always relative." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Biblical Commandment 10: You shall not covet.
You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor." - Exodus 20:17 (NLT)
Secular Humanist Commandment 10: Embrace and Celebrate all human desires and ambitions.
"The world is divided into two classes, the oppressors and the oppressed. The first is the possessing class; the second is the proletariat. The former live off the labor of the latter. The possession of the means of production gives the oppressors power over the oppressed." - Karl Marx
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