Thanks for the reply, GBA.
“My understanding is that the second one is covered all He said in that same paragraph and prior. He already covered it, so He moved on.”
I don’t understand. Where was the second one covered?
Based upon all I've read, I think we have made ourselves, others and our creations into our own personal idols and placed them/ourselves before Him as own personal objets d' art to worship with abandon.
(Can't imagine a reason why He would object. He's such a fan and admirer of human creations and achievements.)
I'm 100% sure you know your Bible better than I ever will, so I had to look it up. I didn't know what a graven image was.
Here is a possible meaning:
Question: "What is a graven image?"Please understand that I am out of my depth in this realm, never having been to Sunday school or Catechism or anything close to it, nor was I raised in a religious home or by believers.Answer: The phrase “graven image” comes from the King James Version and is first found in Exodus 20:4 in the second of the Ten Commandments. The Hebrew word translated “graven image” means literally “an idol.”
This is a handicap, true, but it is also liberating in a way for the same reason.
I have not been formally indoctrinated into an organized religion's educational and belief systems and have nothing to unlearn, either.
These are the common complaints of one side for the other in the Protestant v Catholic feud, so I figure it's a wash for me one way or the other.