Over the break I read the lastest in my stack of Worldwide Church publications: "The Ten Commandments." Like so much of the other pamphlets itemizing the now deprecated views of the Worldwide Church of God, this booklet explores each of the ten commandments and insists that we hold not the letter of the law, but also the spirit of the law - to the extreme! Some of these are more insistent than others.
The booklet offers some sound advice on how to apply the ten commandments to everyday living, denouncing materialism, labor unions which abscribe to "steal" wealth from honest employers by not exchanging an honest day's work, as well as the employers who might "steal" an honest day's wage from laborers.
A lot of these things make sense, like don't lie to one another, but that is taken a step further by saying, you shouldn't "swear" to tell the truth in court, but rather "affirm" that you will tell the truth. Really? This semantic difference is going to adhere to or violate God's commandments?
As I have said of this literature before, there is something that can be gained by reading different perspectives, but study what is being declared as truth before believing it as such.
Until next time,
Matt
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