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To: ladyL

You wrote:

“Do the Catholics have a different Ten Commandments?”

Nope. They’re just numbered differently. Remember, the Bible doesn’t number them.

“I know they took out the 2nd Commandment about graven images because of all their statues of saints but I thought they “fixed” that?”

We never did what you suggested. What you mistakenly call the Second Commandment we correctly consider part of the first. So do Lutherans. I gues syou’re going to accuse them of removing the commandment now too, right?

“Obviously, I am not well informed about all this so I think I’ll stick with the Torah’s Ten Commandments, I understand they were written by the finger of God. Much more authentic than the finger of man, don’t cha think?”

I don’t think you know the difference. There are no numbers attached to the Decalogue. None at all.

You might want to read this. You might be very surprised about a few things: http://www.ewtn.com/library/ANSWERS/NUMBERNG.HTM


6 posted on 05/26/2010 7:26:43 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Part of the Vast Catholic Conspiracy (hat tip to Kells))
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To: vladimir998; ladyL; markomalley
So do Lutherans.

This is correct. (I am a Lutheran minister.) Roman Catholics and Lutherans--and others, as well--follow the historic numbering of the Ten Commandments, which still is the majority view in Christendom. So we didn't "change" anything. The ones who changed were the groups that number differently.

The historic Christian numbering considers "graven images" part of the First, the "coveting" commandments are Ninth and Tenth, and that's how you have ten. If some groups separate out "graven images" as Second, then they have to combine the two coveting commandments to keep the total at ten.

7 posted on 05/26/2010 7:43:47 AM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Lutheran pastor, LCMS)
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