Posted on 03/10/2020 3:49:37 PM PDT by pastorbillrandles
Good thread for a FReeper today who didn’t see anything wrong with using the Lord’s name in vain in a post. Another one to whom the rules of FR do not apply!
Actually it’s nine commandments. The first one is a statement.
Finally to take the name of God in vain, means to bear the name of God, as a cloak to do evil. There are those who use the term Christian, to gain peoples confidence, that they might take advantage of them, or even worse, the modern scandal of ministers claiming to represent the name and cause of God, who use the ministry to exploit children or rob Widows, but who claim the be of God, are guilty of breaking the third commandment. Literally the Hebrew says, Thou shalt not bear the name of God in vain .
The interpretation I am about to exposit comes from a Hebrew instructor, Michael Heiser, and Dennis Praeger, who is a Jew who understands the Torah (first five books of the Bible).
Both of the above state that "taking the name" is better interpreted as "bearing the name", as in representing.
The closest use of the Hebrew word occurs when Moses is describing the breastplate worn by the high priest when he enters into the Holy of Holies. The breastplate has 12 stones representing the 12 tribes of Israel. The meaning is that the priest is "bearing the names of the 12 tribes of Israel"; i.e., representing the 12 tribes, to God.
Thus, when WE, and not just pastors, represent God and God's words to others, we are "bearing the name of God" to those others. The commandment is an admonition that we must not misrepresent God to others. When we act in God's name we must faithfully convey God's character as well as we are able.
Trying to defend homosexuality as accepted by God or abortion as accepted by God is clearly taking God's name in vain.
Those of us who do not promote abortion or homosexuality must still examine ourselves to make sure we do not mislead people by misrepresenting our God by our manner of speech or behavior!
And we all say Amen
so true, thanks
The discussions these provoke are wha I am shooting for
A lot of FReepers take God’s name in vain. Like “OMFG”. Makes me shudder that they have no idea of the attributes of God.
There are 10 commandments and the first is not to take the Lord’s name in vain. The fourth is “Honor thy father and mother”
Thanks for sharing this, No I hadn’t heard it yet...but will
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.
That is a statement.
"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you."
That is a commandment.
The 4th is Keep the Sabbath Holy. The RCC changed the 10 Commandments because they worship idols and changed the Sabbath to Sunday. Then they took the 10th and made it into 2 Commandants so it would add up to 10..
Look up the Commandments the Protestants have for what God wrote and not some pope. We have 10 Commandment's given by God, not just 9. From Genesis to Revelation God told us 100 times to observe the 7th day Sabbath but the RCC changed it to Sunday to worship the sun god. Some use the verses that speak about the church meeting on the 1st day of the week, but they met all times of the week. Others speak about Jesus rose from the grave on Sunday so that should be the day, but that was just to get rid of the Leviticus 23 Feast days and ignore First Fruits, the real day Jesus rose. God chose the day and never changed it. Men changed it. WWJD is a phrase Christians often say, but we know for a fact that Jesus went to Synagogue on Saturday and when He ascended the Apostles went on Saturday and taught to do so until Constantine changed it in the 300 years after the Apostles died. The RCC did away with the Leviticus 23 Feast Days of the Lord and substituted Easter and Christmas. Easter never appears on Passover or First Fruits. Easter is just the English name for Astarte and Christmas celebrates the birth of Tammuz, the son of Nimrod, the founder of the church of Babylon. Thyatira is the name of the daughter of Nimrod found in Revelation 2. That represents the RCC,....the whore of Babylon.
common sense, Truth
Thanks as always for posting.
They are profitable.
Quote-You shall have no other gods before Me.
That is a statement.
Skydancer, That’s the 1st Commandmemt,not part a ‘statement’.
"I Am Your Lord Thy GOD" First line, that is a statement. 1st.Commandment: Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.
2 ...10 commandments.
The original Hebrew calls them devarim (words or sayings) in Exodus 34:28. It does not use the words typically translated as commandments.
Do you have a breakdown of your ten Commandments?
Thanks!
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