Please don't lecture me on the 9th commandment when papists changed the 4th from Sabbath to Sunday, ripped out the 2nd which condemns the images which fill papal churches, and tore the 10th into two in order to make up the difference.
Time for a
BIBLE and a
Hebrew lesson . . .
In
Exodus 20, where we first see the list of Commandments, we read in verses
3 and
5 that this is not simply a commandment against the
making of statues and images. It is clearly talking about not making
gods out of them and not
bowing to them and
serving them. The Church has always condemned this practice as well.
If this were a Commandment against the
creation of images and statues, then God would have violated His own law by
commanding Moses just a few chapters later to create
2 golden images of Cherubim to place atop the Ark
(Exod. 25:18-22). His supposed hypocrisy would have also extended to
commanding Moses later on to create a
bronze serpent and place it on a pole so that those who looked upon it would be healed
(Num. 21:8-9). We also read other examples of God being
pleased with the creation of statues
(I Kings 6:23-28, 9:3). When we read those verses in
context, we see that God’s prohibition is against making
idols to
worship and not the creation of images. This is
ALL covered in the
Catholic rendering of the first Commandment about having
“other gods”.
Exodus 34:28 tells us that there are
“Ten” commandments, even though Bible
doesn’t number them. As a matter of fact, if you were to count all of the
“You shall nots” alongside the other two that command the keeping of the Sabbath and honoring your father and mother – you would wind up with at least
thirteen. Numbering them depends on exactly which
“You shall nots” you group together and which ones you leave separate.
Protestants commonly
split up the
first Commandment into
two and combine the
last two into
one, where we see a prohibition against the coveting of your neighbor’s
wife and of his
property. Women and property are
NOT the same thing.
Gal. 3:26-28 tells us that there is
NO difference among those belong to Christ:
“For through faith you are all children of God in Christ Jesus. For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free person, there is not male and female; for you are all ONE in Christ Jesus.”
An
ignorant anti-Catholic like
YOU might take the position that you are simply taking the text at
face value and that this is what is being taught. Oh,
really? Remember that there are
TWO versions of the listing of the Commandments in the Old Testament. To put them in their proper
context, we need to examine
BOTH listings.
In
Deuteronomy 5, we see another version of the list. Here, we see a
CLEAR distinction between a man’s
wife and his
property. A
different word for the desire of a man’s
property is used than that of the desire for his
wife.
Chamad (תחמד), is used to describe the coveting a man’s
wife as opposed to
'Avah (תתאוה), which is used to describe the desire for a man’s
property.
Chamad has a connotation of
sexual desire and lust, whereas,
‘Avah means to crave or to be greedy for something
material.
We now see that there are two
different Commandments here and not
ONE jumbled,
all-inclusive commandment. Remember that in
Gen. 2:24, God declared that, in the union between a husband and wife, the two become
ONE flesh. Jesus reiterates this fact in
Mark 10:8.
There
ends the lesson for now.
Since you seem
content to wallow in
ignorance - the above is more for thee people who want to
learn . . .
