Missing Commandments?

Motion Pictures and Television because of their combined visual and audio affects can have strong impacts. Take for instance the response to "The Passion Of Christ" or how the Movie "The Ten Commandments" elevated Charlton Heston's status so when he proclaims the right to bare arms, to us it's like a Commandment.

I have also been influenced by movies. Two in particular are "History of The World Part I" and "Back to the Future."

In "history of the World, Part I" (1981) Mel Brooks, portraying Moses, comes down from the mountain with three tablets containing 15 commandments. While dropping one he said something like "I have 15. hmm, I have 10 Commandments " for you to live by. That scenario is not that far fetched: Moses was an old man, and just spent 40 days on the mountain. Walking down the mountain side, with heavy tablets, angered by the presence of the golden calf idol made by impatient disbelievers, he could have dropped one. It's a possibility. History and the scriptures teach us that "10 Commandments" aren't enough, and that God, through Jesus and Muhammad, has given us additional teachings and Commandments. It's humanity's failing that we don't comprehend this.

In "Back to the Future" (1985) A 17 year old boy Marty McFly, played by Michael J. Fox, travels back in time and inadvertently influences events that make his world, when he gets back to the future, much different. Many of us dream of time traveling, with the possibility of making a change to improve our current situation, but it's not possible. However, in a different sense it is possible and we is often done. This is how: By observing current events, making measurements we can predict the future and if that prediction is not to our liking, we can change current events to improve the future. For example we stop drinking, smoking and other dangerous activities, we intervene in our children's lives to correct their behavior, and we vote politicians out of office when their policies are leading in the wrong direction, we tweak the economy, the business model or manufacturing process. This we do from knowledge of current and past events and by predicting the future.

By observing aspects of our society, it's possible to predict a bleak future, one with few good paying jobs, too much poverty, massive national debt, and the collapse of Social Security. This is opposite of our scriptural goal to "be fruitful and become many". Then if the observed trends are accurate, how can they be reversed or changed? It won't be possible until most people see the trend and the inevitable outcome. To impart this understanding into society a massive overhaul of our education system with adult re-education is needed. Therefore, if education is required to accomplish our scriptural goal, then education must be a missing Commandment. Have we endangered our future by systematically allowing educational progress to lag? If so, a missing Commandment such as "Educate Thy Children to their fullest potential" would be its definition.

Reading the scriptures reveal other missing Commandments and although time is running short, we can still make the needed changes to insure when we get "To The Future" it will be to our liking. It is still possible to make our world, a "heaven on earth."

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