December 31, 2012 – Catechism 2052 – 2055

How fitting that we are talking about a new way of looking at the law in the Psalms and here in the Catechism we begin to look at the Ten Commandments.  We see that Christ does not do away with the Ten Commandments.  And some might even be under the assumption that He simplified them.  But when you look at His words and His teaching, He doesn’t.  Christ did simplify them in the fact that He showed their foundation in Love.  All of them are firmly founded in the command of Love.  But if you think that boiling the ten down to a command of love makes them easier, you are missing the words Christ used when talking about them.  Christ says it is written that you shall not kill, I say that if you if you are even angry to are going to be judged.  Christ says it is written you shall not commit adultery, but I say if you even look at another with lust, you have already committed adultery.  Christ doesn’t simplify them to water them down; He ratchets them up several notches.