IFS Ten Commandments Course
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A free course inside the Everything IFS Academy
Course Introduction
The Ten Commandments are often treated as rules to obey, standards to measure up to, or moral boundaries meant to restrain bad behavior. Over time, they’ve been flattened into a list of prohibitions detached from the story that gave them life.
This course exists to restore their original context.
The Ten Commandments explores these words as covenant language spoken to a liberated people, not legal demands imposed on the fearful. The course approaches each commandment as a statement about allegiance, relationship, and freedom—grounded in Scripture and historical context, and thoughtfully informed by an Internal Family Systems (IFS)–informed lens.
This is not a therapy course, and it is not an attempt to psychologize the commandments. It is for readers who want to understand what these words were actually doing when they were first spoken and how they continue to shape the human heart.
What This Course Offers
This course invites you to encounter the Ten Commandments not as abstract laws, but as relational orientation spoken by a God who rescues before He instructs.
Inside the course, you’ll explore:
Why the commandments begin with allegiance, not morality
How ancient covenant treaties shaped their structure and tone
What “no other gods” meant in a world full of competing powers
How prohibition functions as protection, not punishment
Why Sabbath, desire, truth, and loyalty are placed where they are
How freedom precedes obedience in the biblical story
Throughout the course, insights from Internal Family Systems (IFS) help illuminate how these commandments meet the inner world how fear seeks control, how loyalty fractures, how false centers form, and how the heart reorients toward what truly holds.
This approach does not replace theology. It does not turn Scripture into psychology. It offers another lens for noticing what is already there.
Course Outline
Lesson 1: You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me
Lesson 2: You Shall Not Make for Yourself an Idol
Lesson 3: You Shall Not Take the Name of the LORD Your God
Lesson 4: Remember the Sabbath Day, to Keep It Holy
Lesson 5: Honor Your Father and Mother
Lesson 6: You Shall Not Murder
Lesson 7: You Shall Not Commit Adultery
Lesson 8: You Shall Not Steal
Lesson 9: You Shall Not Bear False Witness
Lesson 10: You Shall Not Covet
How This Course Is Different
You won’t find:
Moralism detached from covenant
Commandments framed as threats or leverage
Abstract rules divorced from lived experience
You will find:
Historical and covenantal context that restores meaning
Careful attention to language, structure, and tone
An IFS-informed lens that illuminates inner allegiance without reframing the text as therapy
Each lesson includes historical notes and optional reflective integrations designed to support slow, honest engagement rather than performance or compliance.
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