TRANSPARENCY #8

Eight of the Ten Commandments are negative commands. Five out of those eight have reference to possible negative relationships with one's fellowman. Jesus said that the most excellent positive ,love of God and our fellowman, sums up the Law and the Prophets.(Mt. 22:40) So negatives exist when love is disregarded.
Agape towards our fellowman is an action of the will. Negatives towards our fellowman are also actions of the will. Their existance is no happenstance; they are products of our will.
The Holy Spirit's omniscience about all this is illustrated in the way attention is given by inspiration to the various negative responses one might have to his fellowman. And these various negatives are enumerated and explained in scripture.

Beta negatives:
blasphemos--"...rumor..." "...to be abusive..." "...destroying one's good name..."
"...in the last days..." "...people will be..." "...abusive(blasphemous, scoffers)..."(blasphemoi)(II Tim. 3:1,2)(Amplified)

blasphemia--"...verbal abuse against someone which denotes the very worst type of slander...""...wounding someone's reputation by evil reports..." "...with false witnesses..."
"But what comes out of the mouth has its origins in the heart; and that is what defiles a man. Wicked thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, perjury, slander--..."(blasphemiai)(Mt. 15:18-19)(N.E.B.)
"Let all bitterness and indignation and wrath(passion, rage, bad temper) and resentment(anger, animosity) and quarreling(brawling, clamor, contention) and slander(evilspeaking, abusive or blasphemous language)(blasphemia) be banished from you, with all malice, (spite, ill will or baseness of any kind)."(Eph. 4:31)(Amplified)
"But now put away and rid yourselves(completely) of all these things: anger, rage, bad feeling toward others, curses and slander and foulmouthed abuse(blasphemian) and shameful utterances from your lips!"(Col. 3:8)(Amplified)

blasphemeo--"...to blaspheme..." "...to hurt the reputation or smite with reports or words..." "...to slander..."
"...speak evil(blasphemein) of no man,...be no brawlers,...gentle...shewing all meekness unto all men."(Titus 3:2)(K.J.V.)

barus--"...burdensome..." "...heavy burdens..." "...burdensome precepts..."
"...they do not practice what they preach..." "They tie up heavy(barea) loads and put them on men's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them."(Mt. 23:3,4)
"...His commands are not burdensome..."(bareiai)(I Jn. 5:3)(N.I.V.)