Many people today have the following mindset:  "If I follow the Ten Commandments then I should be pleasing in God's eyes."  Is all that is necessary in Christianity just to follow ten rules?  Let us notice two thoughts in connection with this attitude and the aforementioned question.
    First, the Ten Commandments (found first in Exodus 20) are not binding today as they were in Old Testament times.  The book of Hebrews pointed out that the old law (which consisted of the Ten Commandments and 603 other laws) was replaced, due to the death of Christ, by the new law (i.e. the Christian system) as recorded in chapter 8:6,7 and other references.  This is also what the allegory in Galatians 4:21-31 teaches.  What is binding today is that which from the New Testament is (a) a direct command, (b) a necessary inference, or (c) an approved example.  Only nine of the Ten Commandments are repeated in the New Testament as being part of the new law (the command to honor the Sabbath day is discarded and worship is to be done on the first day of the week as in Acts 20:7).  Of these nine all are repeated in the New Testament at least four times, one over fifty.
    Second, even if the Ten Commandments were binding today merely following or adhering to them would not be sufficient for salvation because they are too limited.  Notice two examples:
    1.  Jesus in giving the two greatest commands listed two that were not even found in the Ten Commandments (Matthew 22:34-40)
    2.  As Guy N. Woods wrote, "It is forbidden to kill.  Suppose, however, one beat his neighbor half to death, which precept, or principle, of the decalogue (Ten Commandments-DFC), would he violate?"  The answer is none, and the point is well taken.