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To: SENTINEL
Are you serious? The Catholic Church has never tried to remove the second commandment. Look at ANY Catholic-produced copy of the commandments, the 2nd is right there.

Additionally, each and every Catholic Bible that I've ever owned contains the Book of Revelations.

When I see such strange arguments, I really wonder if you are smoking something mind-altering. Because the areguments you just made are unfounded and so easily refutable as to boggle that the mind that anyone would try to make them.

93 posted on 07/03/2012 11:45:36 AM PDT by Celtic Cross (The brain is the weapon; everything else is just accessories. --FReeper Joe Brower)
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To: Celtic Cross
I will admit that I made a mistake about the book of Revelation, although not ALL Catholic bibles include it, but I digress.

The 2nd Commandment (Thou shalt not worship idols) was REMOVED from the Catholic "version" of the ten commandments, and the 10th split into two to get the total number back up to 10.

Here is an idol in the Basilica itself, that has been worshiped so much the bronze toes are worn smooth.


On this ancient bronze statue, St. Peter has his right toes worn down by centuries of pilgrims who traditionally kiss and touch the foot.

Here is the Christian version of the first two commandments:

And God spoke all these words, saying: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

1. You shall have no other gods before me.

2. You shall not make for yourself any carved 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 nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

10.Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

Here are 1,2, 9 and 10 Catholic version:

1.I am the LORD thy God. Thou shalt have no strange gods before Me.

2. (Actually 3) Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain.

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9.Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife.(The Tenth Commandment is split into two to get back to Ten Commandments.)

10.Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's goods.

124 posted on 07/03/2012 12:27:12 PM PDT by SENTINEL (Romney is to Conservatism what Mormonism is to Christianity.)
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To: Celtic Cross; SENTINEL
Additionally, each and every Catholic Bible that I've ever owned contains the Book of Revelations.

The Book of Revelations is not in my Bible.
Rev 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ,
which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants,
the things which must soon take place; and He sent
and communicated it by His angel
to His bond-servant John,
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
132 posted on 07/03/2012 12:35:30 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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