Essay On The Beatitudes

The Beatitudes, the Code of Hammurabi, and Ten Commandments are laws or rules that are placed on the people that they are set to. These docs however are similar without us even realizing it. They both allow or restrict people from being able to do things that are seen as wrong or good. They all have the ability to affect a person's life as well. For example; those who follow the Ten Commandments the way that they are supposed to be followed, are living a life of vocation and faith. The Code of Hammurabi’s consequences are primarily death. Breaking a rule meant the taking of your life and leaving behind everything that you had accomplished in the little life that you had. The Beatitudes are the same as the Ten Commandments, following The Beatitudes meant a life of vocation and faith; which would ultimately lead to the gift of being in the Kingdom of God with the Creator of Life. There are differences between the two however.

The Code Of Hammurabi was created by the Babylonian king, Hammurabi, in 1754 B.C.E. The Code of Hammurabi was enforced on the Babylonians with an eye for an eye method. For example, “ If a man bring an accusation against a man, and charge him with a (capital) crime, but cannot prove it, he, the accuser, shall
The Beatitudes tell us what it means to be a Catholic and also to teach us how to reach blessedness. The Beatitudes were given to us from Jesus so that we can restore peace and justice within the world. These are a challenge for us because it gets us out of our comfort zone. We are also afraid to do this because we are not sure what the outcome of this will be since it is something new that we are trying. The consequences with The Beatitudes is there will be no peace and justice in this world if we don’t complete this. We have to complete and live out The Beatitudes if we want peace within our world. Violence is within our world because we do not live out what we are called to