Question on the 5th Commandment

[Ezekiel]

The fifth commandment is, "Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee."

Besides the obvious, would this commandment extend to honoring one's ancestors too? I mean living one's life that is not only pleasing to the Lord but to his ancestors as well (in addition, preserving his culture)?

 

[Christusregnat]

It seems implied.

 

[paranymph]

If you are getting at Joel Webbon's ideas of preserving heritage...no.

 

[Ezekiel]

If you are getting at Joel Webbon's ideas of preserving heritage...no.

I'm not getting at his ideas at all!

My forebears took to the wilderness when they got to the New World. Once in the wilderness, they had to be self-reliant, or else they perished.

Their independence was tempered somewhat by basic neighborliness and hospitality. It was necessary to help each other on the frontier, to help each other build houses and barns and to take people in when night caught them on the road.


I might have gotten it all backwards, but I read that self-sufficiency is considered the sin of pride.

 

[KDD]

The fifth commandment is, "Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee."

Besides the obvious, would this commandment extend to honoring one's ancestors too? I mean living one's life that is not only pleasing to the Lord but to his ancestors as well (in addition, preserving his culture)?

The obvious biblical example would be the Rechabites.