Frog said:

silversoul7 said:

Frog said:

Oh, you're calling the 10 commandments "demands". I see, now.

Yes, God makes demands of us. He demands that we do the right thing. But because we weren't doing the right thing, He put the right thing in writing in the form of the 10 commandments.

You could compare this to the state in which you live making laws. Because people are inclined to kill one another, a state will enact a law that says "it is a crime to kill another human being."

It's like a law or something, when God makes a demand upon us.

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It's interesting you make the comparison to a state, because that's kind of the point. The same question applies to the state: By what right does the state make demands of us?

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It's not that the state has a right to make demands. It's that we have agreed to let the state make demands of us, after we agreed to be part of society. In the same context, God doesn't make demands of us "before" we decide to believe in Him.

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