Read the Catechism in a Year
Day 251 - Are the 10 Commandments Random or Outmoded?
Are the Ten Commandments a random list?
No. The Ten Commandments form a unity. One commandment refers to another. You cannot arbitrarily toss out individual commandments. Someone who breaks one commandment is violating the whole Law.
What is remarkable about the Ten Commandments is that all of human life is included within them. Indeed, we men are related at the same time to God (Commandments 1–3) and to our fellow men (Commandments 4–10); we are religious and social beings.
Aren't the Ten Commandments outmoded?
No, the Ten Commandments are by no means the product of a particular time. They express man’s fundamental obligations toward God and neighbor, which are always and everywhere valid.
The Ten Commandments are commandments of reason just as they are also part of the binding revelation of God. They are so fundamentally binding that no one can be dispensed from keeping these commandments. (YOUCAT questions 350-351)
Dig Deeper: Corresponding CCC section (2069-2082) and other references here.
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