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Welcome back @vinlyn
I'm in the guidance camp with a big dollop of Ehipassiko (seeing for myself]) thrown in for good measure...

Commandment = Something that must be obeyed ( like for example an order from a god )

Guidance =Advice or information aimed at resolving a problem or difficulty, especially as given by someone in authority. ( like for example the Buddha)

Ehipassiko = Here's the DIY guide...knock yourself out...

I think the difference is that following the precepts does not please a deity rather it is supposed to help the other areas of Buddhist practice. Wisdom, mindfulness, tranquility, meditation, equanimity and so forth become less obstructed as one stops harming themselves and others.

Interesting question. I'm currently going through the old testament with a friend so this bit was somewhat fresh and they do not look the same to me even if there is some overlap.

The segment of old testament where Moses receives the ten commandments from God.

https://www.biblestudytools.com/esv/exodus/20.html

5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
7 "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain..."

in comparison to a portion of the five faultless gifts

https://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sila/index.html

"There is the case where a disciple of the noble ones, abandoning the taking of life, abstains from taking life. In doing so, he gives freedom from danger, freedom from animosity, freedom from oppression to limitless numbers of beings. In giving freedom from danger, freedom from animosity, freedom from oppression to limitless numbers of beings, he gains a share in limitless freedom from danger, freedom from animosity, and freedom from oppression. This is the first gift, the first great gift — original, long-standing, traditional, ancient, unadulterated, unadulterated from the beginning — that is not open to suspicion, will never be open to suspicion, and is unfaulted by knowledgeable contemplatives & brahmans..."

@vinlyn
Long time no see.
I think that...
Buddhist Precepts are guidances, which run in accord with enlightened action.
Biblical Commandments are laws, which when broken are against mankind & God.

Which makes me wonder if
precepts apply to Buddhist concepts of no soul
whereas
commandments better apply to the concept of a God and of a soul in peril?

"If you are replacing a thought, with a thought of gratitude, you are not living in the present moment, you are still up in your mind too much, simply live in the present moment, study the noble eightfold path, the four noble truths, dependent arising, three marks of existence, any thoughts that crop up simply need be recognized and dropped, bringing concentration back to the present. "

Marc Hards

In Buddhism, is an inner confidence in something that is worthy of our trust. For example, we have faith in the Dharma, but that doesn’t mean we have to blindly swallow everything we read. Just because it is written in the holy books or because a lama says it, doesn’t mean we have to believe it. In the Buddhadharma, that kind of credulous, unquestioning, naïve belief is not necessarily considered to be a virtue at all. The quality of questioning in an intelligent manner, and really investigating and seeing for ourselves whether something is worthy of our belief or not, is very much encouraged.

• Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo