The C church changed the 10 commandments to accommodate their idolatry.
'Nuff said
And this is
precisely the kind of stupid,
uninformed anti-Catholic remark I'm here to
expose.
Time for
another Bible 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.”
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. We must 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.
Nobody
"changed" anything.
