Wednesday, September 23, 2009

The command "Thou Shall Not Steal" is about more than unlawfully taking physical objects

"You shall not steal," is the eighth commandment given by God to Moses at Mt. Sinai. In the Bible, stealing is defined as depriving another person of what is rightly his. This command is necessary because man is sinful and as a result tempted to steal at times. Stealing occurs because fallen man always wants more than he or the others around him have. 

But there are other forms of stealing than just the taking of a physical object or possession from someone else. One common area of theft in modern life is the theft of time...

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