Why is it that the Cathloic Church eliminated the second commandment { Exodus 20:4-6 } about man made idols and separated the tenth commandment into two to compensate for the missing one? Please read the scripture before you respond.
2006-09-20 12:35:30 · 7 answers · asked by wbyrnes2008 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There are actually three versions of the Ten Commandments, Jewish, Catholic (and Lutheran), and Protestant taken from Exodus Chapter 20:1-17 and Deuteronomy Chapter 5:6-21.
With the new revelations of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit in the early Catholic Church, a slightly different emphasis was placed on different commandments.
Then 1500 years later, the Protestant in objecting to certain Catholic practices, once again changed the emphasis of the Ten Commandments.
+ Jewish Ten Commandments (before 1000 BC)
1. I am the Lord your G-d who has taken you out of the land of Egypt.
2. You shall have no other gods but me.
3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your G-d in vain.
4. You shall remember the Sabbath and keep it Holy.
5. Honor you mother and father.
6. You shall not murder.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not bear false witness.
10. You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.
Source: http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Scripture/Torah/Ten_Cmds/ten_cmds.html
+ Catholic (and Lutheran) Ten Commandments (about 100 AD)
1. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them.
2. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain
3. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work; but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; in it, you shall not do any work.
4. Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
5. You shall not kill.
6. You shall not commit adultery.
7. You shall not steal.
8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
9. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.
10. You shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his ***, or anything that is your neighbor's.
Source: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt3sect2chpt1ind.htm
+ Protestant Ten Commandments (about 1600 AD)
1. You shall have no other gods but me.
2. You shall not make unto you any graven images
3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain
4. You shall remember the Sabbath and keep it holy
5. Honor your mother and father
6. You shall not murder
7. You shall not commit adultery
8. You shall not steal
9. You shall not bear false witness
10. You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor
Source: http://www.biblicalheritage.org/Bible%20Studies/10%20Commandments.htm
With love in Christ.
2006-09-23 18:38:40 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i have no idea. although i always wondered why christians made idols even though it says in the ten commandments that man-made idols are forbidden. i just assumed it was part of the whole "jesus fulfilling the law" thing so they figured they didn't have to pay attention to it. i didn't know they actually REMOVED the commandment.
EDIT
"there are actually 261 commandments in the bible.
we never obey most of them anyway regardless"
there are 613 commandments in the bible actually :) but G-d only cares about jews following them, nobody else is obligated to.
2006-09-20 19:38:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fact that God chose to become a man and manifest himself to us as the flesh IMAGE of his own Father (the Logos) changed forever the way the faithful would relate to God.
And since Jesus perfectly fulfilled all of the old law and set it aside, it was left up to his church to re-adopt and re-adapt the commandments to the new realities of the new covenant, in his blood.
Those who showed up 1500 years late, after the world had been converted to Christ, and after all the hard work was already done, couldn't possibly know this, because they disclaim all the sacred and apostolic Tradition which chronicles the great work of the church in the world since the time of Christ, and they much prefer to follow their own false traditions of men.
2006-09-21 01:19:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually the Code of Hammurabi is considered one of the influential texts on the 10 commandments.
2006-09-20 20:01:33 · answer #4 · answered by Dave 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you question answers itself. they needed to get rid of the idol graven image thing because they love idols and graven images, so they made the last one into two so they could still say it was ten. it was a plain manipulation of the texts to get the result they wanted. typical religious hypocrits and phonys.
there are actually 261 commandments in the bible.
we never obey most of them anyway regardless.
2006-09-20 19:39:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ask a Catholic priest... Maybe he'll tell you... Their version of the Bible is different, also...
2006-09-20 19:39:49 · answer #6 · answered by KnowhereMan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
who cares?
2006-09-20 19:43:22 · answer #7 · answered by CrazyCat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋