At a website specializing in Puritan writings from other centuries includes a list of 1,050 commands in the New Testament for Christians. The list found via Michael Barber is pretty extensive and kind of funny to read with heading like Three "Ask’s", Seventy-four "Be’s", and Three things to cast out or away: Good thing that God didn’t dump these on Moses because either he would have been squashed or at the minimum pulled something coming down the mountain.
New Testament Commands [PDF]
Though I like Jesus’ list much better because it is so much easier to memorize since it contains only two.
"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
This website does have a sense of humor though. Under What’s New it says "There is nothing new under the sun." Ecclesiastes 1:9."
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Well, according to Jewish tradition, there are actually 613 mitzvos (commands) that were given to Moses and are included in the Torah (Pentateuch), although not necessarily in the Top Ten List. You’re right, though; if they’d all been on the tablets, Moses would have needed a moving van to get them down the mountain.
GKC about commandments: “It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.” [GKC, ILN Jan 3, 1920 CW32:18]
GKC about new things: “…it is not at all easy to regard the New Testament as a New Testament. It is not at all easy to realise the good news as new.” [GKC, The Everlasting Man CW2:319]
I like this verse from Ecclesiastes 10:19, “Money is the answer to everything.”
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