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Originally posted by Jon Miller
Hello all.

What is the deal with the 5th commandment? The first 4 deal with man's relationship with God, the last 6 deal with man's relationship with man. We have:

Don't murder (6)
Don't commit adultery (7)
Don't steal (8)
Don't lie (9)
Don't covet (10)

These are all pretty general..

But number 5 is to honor your father and mother. And this has extra associated with it (that your days may be long upon the earth).

What is special about honoring your mother and father? It seems to be one of the general things that is common in all cultures, but I am looking at it from a Judeo-Christian prospective.

Jon Miller Whoever was sitting around making up commandments that he was going to claim were written by God had a son who didn't listen to him, so he stuck one in there about that.