Wherefore the Law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto
Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Galatians 3:24
Then God spoke all these words, saying,
"I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
1. You shall have no other gods before Me.
2. You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
3. You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His
name in vain.
4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh is a
sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any
work, you nor your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays
with you. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and
made it holy.
5. Honor your father and your mother, that your days may
be prolonged in the land in which the LORD your God gives you.
6. You shall not murder.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10. You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to
your neighbor."
Exodus 20: 1-17
SUMMARY OF TEN COMMANDMENTS:
And God spake all these words saying, "I am the LORD thy God ...
I. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.
II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.
III. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain.
IV. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
V. Honor thy father and thy mother.
VI. Thou shalt not murder.
VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
VIII. Thou shalt not steal.
IX. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
The two most powerful commissions charged with approving public
displays like our proposed Ten Commandments monument at the
National Ministry Center have signed our permit application papers,
removing the two greatest obstacles to installing the nearly
900-pound sculpture.
The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts was created by Congress to evaluate proposed national monuments and other artistic displays of national interest. Because of the "controversial nature" of our proposal to install a monument of the Ten Commandments across the street from the
U.S. Supreme Court, the Department of Regulations and Consumer Affairs required that we petition the entire commission, rather than simply see
a clerk in the Public Space division. The Commission met to review
our application in June and approved it, paving the way for the second most important sign-off from the HIstoric Preservation division.
Those two signatures should have resulted in the release of the permit,
but it didn't! The paperwork was lost mysteriously for several weeks.
When it was finally "recovered," we were told that we had to start the
process over again because we had "used the wrong forms." It is obvious
that certain people within the permit office do not want to grant a
permit for the Ten Commandments to be displayed.
We are proceeding aggressively with all due respect to those involved.
But we are determined to secure the permit, and expect that we will
within the next several weeks.