In a lifetime one encounters many experiences that would make it impossible to stick to all the 10 Commandments in the determination to become the perfect Christian soul. Nobody is perfect, only God is Perfect, which is why He provided to mankind these Commandments for a reason.
First of all, the Commandments are simply ten solid commands that are unified under one entire strict law of God. Meaning, to break even just one of these commandments is to already have violated the entire law of God.
This is made clear in James, Chapter two, verses ten and eleven, wherein it clearly states that any person who keeps the whole law and then breaks one of these points, this person shall be found guilty of all. Seeing this in this light, the question that remains is, why did God even give people these Commandments in the first place?
The Commandments were revealed to the people because they were unable to recognize their own sins for what they were. God simply wanted to point out that people are already condemned sinners, and that no works of any kind can save mankind as they are already sinners even from the time of Adam.
Being condemned from the very beginning, man really cannot save himself by acts and works alone that he feels may be pleasing to God. The 10 Commandments were not provided to be an instrument of salvation, but an instrument of revelation for mankind to recognize that he is a sinner.
The 10 Commandments were to allow man to identify the standards that are God’s Perfect Law that should be followed, and to make man realize that he is condemned unless he follows the way set forth by God’s Only Son. The only way into the Kingdom of Heaven is for man to redeem himself by accepting Jesus Christ as his Savior.
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