This is the beginning of a series of messages on the Ten Commandments I have entitled, "Playing by the rules: God's game plan for godliness." We live in a universe that is governed by certain rules. In fact, if there were no rules, the cosmos would become chaos. If 2 + 2 did not always = 4, mathematics would be impossible; if E did not = MC2 , physics would go out the window. Without rules, football, basketball, baseball, and every other sport would be a thing of the past.
If we did not have rules, buildings would not stand, planes would not fly, computers would not even compute. When "anything goes" everything goes."
We are living today in a world where "anything goes." James Patterson and Peter Kim wrote a groundbreaking work entitled, The Day America Told the Truth. Under a c…