by Lynda Phillips

Created on: August 12, 2011   Last Updated: August 14, 2011

The Ten Commandments matter just as much as breathing clean air. Note the word clean. If we breathe dirty, contaminated air, our lungs will labor and we will begin to gasp. It has been said that most fire fatalities are due to smoke inhalation killing the victims even before the fire burns them. Every year people die with carbon monoxide poisoning. In short, clean air is essential to healthy physical living, and laws or commandments are essential to healthy moral living.

The commandments are laws to live by among other people, and teach us ways not to degrade our own moral character. They emulate methods of respecting the rights and properties of others, and respecting the higher authority that gave them to humanity. Without laws the world would be void of moral conscience, and  recklessness, mayhem and terror would consume the planet until we self-destruct. Even with them, the land is in constant chaos.

Around 1936, a colorful pagentry hit the big screen by producer Cecil B. DeMille, titled, The Ten Commandments. it starred Charleston Heston and Yul Brynner. Years later, movie star Burt Lancaster portrayed a solemn Moses in a movie with the same name.

The Ten Commandments has been done yet another time in 2007, starring Dougray Scott as Moses, and David Suchet as his dark eyed brother Aaron.

The movie Moses was remade in 2006 with Ben Kingsley.  Neither movie received as much acclaim and praise as the original Ten Commandments that most baby-boomers watched every Easter Sunday.  America no longer comes to rest on this day, anticipating prime time airing of the epic of DeMille's masterpiece.  When it is aired, it just kind of passes through the network like a cool drizzle, barely noticed. as people go about their day and evenings.  The two new millenium versions are generally aired on Christian networks, and usually don't even make the prime times.

The Ten Commandments are from where Europe and America founded many of their laws of civil government and democracy, long after Israel was living by these laws which they passed on to the Gentiles.

Even Islamic millions accept the laws of Moses, and Moses the man, having acknowledged that he indeed did live for a time among the people of Arabia, and married a Midianite woman.

Having watched all of The Ten Commandment movies and Moses, I have made comparisons of the inaccuracies all of the versions have. I believe it would just be wonderful if at least one feature dared tell the story

• 1
• 2
• 3
• Next Page >>