The Catechism of the Catholic Church lists the Ten-C as follows: 
1. I am the Lord your God. You shall not have strange gods before me.
1. I am the Lord your God. You shall not have strange gods before me.2. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
3. Remember to keep holy the Lord’s Day.
4. Honor your father and your mother.
5. You shall not kill.
6. You shall not commit adultery.
7. You shall not steal.
8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
9. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.
10. You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.
Catholic churches and schools in the Philippines display two stone tablets that list the Ten-C accordingly. Now take note of the corruptions:
Again the LOVE commandment—Commandment No. 1—is omitted!
Commandment No. 10 is fragmentized into two (as Commandment No. 9 and Commandment No. 10) to hide the omission.
Do not commit murder in Commandment No. 5 is altered to read “Do not kill.” It makes a big difference. “Do not commit murder” gives the God-worshiper the right to defend himself and, if necessary, to kill in self-defense. “Do not kill” inculcates the wrong teaching that he should not kill at all, not even in self-defense.
Commandment No. 2 (which forbids idolatry) is cut short. These words are omitted:
4 You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to idols or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me, 6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments. EXODUS 20
In Commandment No. 4, Lord’s Sabbath is replaced with “Lord’s Day.” What’s the difference? Rest to the Lord is moved to the first day of the week (Sunday). Overruled is God’s command for everyone to rest from secular or mundane work, and to attend “sacred assembly,” on the seventh day (Saturday).
9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but He rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. EXODUS 20
21 If they love their lives, they must not carry any load on the Sabbath. They must not carry anything in through the gates of Jerusalem 22 or carry anything out of their houses on the Sabbath. They must not work on the Sabbath. They must observe the Sabbath as a holy day, as I commanded their ancestors. JEREMIAH 17
3 The seventh day is a day of sacred assembly. LEVITICUS 23
The Seventh-Day Sabbath is only one of the Sabbaths. “Observe My Sabbaths,” says God in Exodus 31:13 and Leviticus 19:30. Sabbath observance is limited to one, to the wrong one.
Terrible Consequences
God has spoken but His Word is being corrupted. What’s the bottom line?
False teachings fill our minds. We become ignorant of the truth and accept the counterfeit as genuine.
The light of reason is obscured and the human will goes astray. Our actions and religious orientation become anomalous. They do not tally with the Word of God.
Christianity has continued but not in its original form.
False teachings keep us in bondage. We insist on observing killer lies, take pride in them and espouse them to our loved ones. We are given to practices that disobey the Word and to a mindset that says it’s okay to disobey. We think that what we are doing is righteous and acceptable to God, when in fact it is not.
Division, conflict and alienation creep in as we are given to different faiths.
God is greatly displeased. The impure stay impure. Lucifer loves it!
Stop the corruption! He who breaks any one of God’s instructions—the Love Commandment or the Sabbath Commandment for example—sins (1 John 3:4). He shares the fate that awaits murderers, adulterers and plunderers. He shall enter the Second Death, which is the second level of the realm of the dead. The humankind currently walks on the first level.
3 “God did say, ‘You must not eat from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’” 4 “You will not surely die,” the serpent [Lucifer] said to the woman. GENESIS 3
12 Sin entered the world through one man… and in this way death came to all men. ROMANS 5
On the Day of Judgment, nothing impure will enter the kingdom of God (Revelation 21:27). God is a God of purity and His kingdom, a kingdom of purity. The impure will be thrown into the Second Death. Revelation 19:20 describes it as the lake of fire and sulfur. The impure will be degraded further and estranged farther from God. Their poverty and suffering will intensify.
A Catholic friend remarked, “I may be ignorant of the Word but if in good faith I remain faithful to the teachings of my church, then perhaps God would spare me. Maybe I could escape the Second Death.”
Brother, ignorance of the Word is no excuse for our sins; it’s death.
17 If a person sins and does what is forbidden in any of the Lord’s commands, even though he does not know it, he is guilty and will be held responsible. LEVITICUS 5
4 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. EZEKIEL 18 kjv
Recommended Course of Action
What does a journeyman who is disoriented and lost in the thick usually do? Open his eyes and ears for directional signs, right? When he finds someone who could give him proper direction, how would he feel? He would feel relieved and delighted, right? And would he disobey the instructions given him? Of course not! In fact, he would try hard not to forget any one of them. He would obey them 100% with gladness and excitement in his heart.
Now, are we not disoriented and lost in this spiritual journey called life? God no less has provided us the roadmap to the realm of the living. The roadmap requires purity, the strive to be holy (obeying God’s instructions 100 percent). Holiness requires conscientiousness, meaning thorough and diligent obedience of the instructions.
Conscientiousness starts with being realistic. We have to learn and accept what we are: spirits living in souls embodied in flesh (1 Thessalonians 5:23). We have to learn and accept that God is not after the state of our flesh but rather after the state of our spirits. It goes without saying that we must attend more to our spiritual well-being than our physical well-being.
Next is knowing God’s instructions. In applying for a job, we have to know the job requirements before we can comply with them. The same holds true in finding our way back to life. We have to know exactly what the instructions are. In the succeeding pages of this book, the decrees and ordinances of each commandment will be unfolded and taught. The desire to be loyal to God must be tempered with the knowledge of how God expects us to be loyal to Him.
11 Whoever wants to keep the Law must learn what the Law means. SIRACH 21
10 Find out what pleases the Lord. EPHESIANS 5
2 It is not good to have zeal without knowledge, nor to be hasty and miss the way. PROVERBS 19
Third is understanding the instructions. Psalm 119:142 says God’s instructions are the truth. Psalm 19:7-8 says, “The Law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul. The statutes of the soul are trustworthy, making wise the simple. The precepts of the Lord are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes.” But some of God’s instructions have been corrupted (the Ten made Nine is one blatant proof of this). It is not healthy for anyone’s spirituality to obey them at face value. Conscientiousness requires faith that is based on accurate knowledge (John 17:3). We must analyze the Law and figure out its flaws: which parts are insertions, which parts are altered, and which parts are omitted. The chaff must be taken away from the grain before full compliance is made. The instructions must be obeyed in their pure form.
17 …Understand what the Lord’s will is. EPHESIANS 5
Fourth is living by the instructions. In the Gospel of Barnabas God asked, “My instructions to you, are they given for knowing or for doing?” Conscientiousness requires making constant practice of obeying the instructions until it becomes a habit. This is the toughest part. Our rebellious spirits, sinful desires, compromising attitudes, and the false teachings lurking in our minds will have to be discarded. Prophet Ezra devoted himself to the study and observance of the Law, and to teaching its commandments and decrees (Ezra 7:10). Let us imitate him.
1 Let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God. 2 CORINTHIANS 7
Conscientiousness requires obeying God’s instructions with enthusiasm (Psalm 100:2) and without overlooking or altering any one of its specifications (Galatians 3:15). Rick Warren said, “Often we try to offer God partial obedience. We want to pick and choose the commands we obey. We make a list of the commands we like and obey those while ignoring the ones we think are unreasonable, difficult, expensive, or unpopular. I’ll attend church but I won’t tithe. I’ll read my Bible but won’t forgive the person who hurt me. Yet partial obedience is disobedience.”[1]
To overlook or alter a specification is to act against the will of God. It will keep us lost, impure, barred…
10 Whoever keeps the whole Law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. JAMES 2
How many sins did it take for Adam and Eve to be banished from the kingdom of heaven? Just one. Likewise, it takes one sin to keep us out of God’s heaven.[2]
Study Made Easy
The Ten-C are like jigsaw parts scattered in the 66 books of the Scripture (74 books if the apocryphal books are added). This book has pieced the parts together.
In sourcing study materials for each of the commandments, extrabiblical Christian literatures have been consulted like the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Barnabas (although we do not necessarily agree with all of their contents). Also, books which Born-Again Christians consider apocryphal—like the books of Tobit and Sirach (better known as Ecclesiasticus)—have been consulted. In Thomas, Barnabas, Tobit and Sirach are practical notes that elaborate the Ten-C better than we could. We took the liberty of quoting them for you so they could serve as commentary and give both emphasis and clarity to the lessons at hand.
Text integrity of quoted materials is kept. However, liberty is taken to replace “Jesus” and “Christ” with Y’shua and Messiah respectively. (Why we do so will be discussed in Commandment No. 3.) Also, New Testament verses quoting the Old Testament are identified in bold letters. The first letter of pronouns pertaining to God is capitalized.
In citing a Scripture verse, we have chosen that which is closest to the meaning or intended message of the original text. The Scripture was originally written in Hebrew Aramaic and subsequently translated: the Aramaic copy to Greek; the Greek, to Latin; the Latin, to different English versions; and the English versions, to other languages and dialects. In the event the translations before us are essentially the same, we cite the one which could give fresh understanding.
The objective behind all the above efforts is to frame God’s instructions and present them to you in a purer form—minus the satanic contaminations, distortions, insertions and omissions done to them.
In figuring out the satanic corruptions, we have relied on the Gospels as our primary resource material; the other books in the New Testament, secondary; and the Old Testament writings, tertiary. In rare cases where an irreconcilable conflict between an Old Testament verse and the New Testament exists, the policy is for the New to prevail upon the Old.
You will notice that extensive references are made to the Old Testament. That is because the New Testament teachings are given in the context of the Old Testament. In order to understand the New, we need to be familiar with the Old.
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