Ten Commandments in Catholic theology Jesus into two "Great Commandments" that teach "love of God" and "love of neighbor", they instruct individuals on their relationships with both. The first three commandments demand respect for God's name, observation of the Lord's Day and prohibit the worship of other gods. The others deal with the relationships between individuals, such as that between parent and child; they include prohibitions against lying, stealing, murdering, adultery and covetousness. The Old Testament refers to ten individual commandments, even though there are more than ten imperative sentences in the two relevant texts: Exodus 20:1–17 and Deuteronomy 5:6–21. The Old Testament does not
Alternatives to the Ten Commandments historian, writer, social critic, political activist and Nobel laureate. He formulated these ten commandments: As detailed in the book "Atheist Mind, Humanist Heart: Re-writing the Ten Commandments for the Twenty-first Century" by Lex Bayer and the Stanford Humanist Chaplain John Figdor, it is devoted to the subject of creating a secular alternative to the Ten Commandments and encouraging readers to formulate and discover their own list of beliefs. These are the ten winning beliefs of the Rethink Prize, a crowdsourcing competition to rethink the Ten Commandments. The contest drew more than 2,800 submissions from 18 countries and 27 U.S. states.