Ex. 20,01-7 reads ".............I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt, where you were slaves . 3) Worship no god but me 4)Do not make for yourselve immages of anything in heaven or on earth or iin the water under the earth 5)do not bow down to any idols or worshiup it,because I am the LORD your GOD and I tolerate no rivals,I bring punishment on those who hate me and on their descendants to the third and fourth generation.But ...."7)Do not use my name for evil purposes,for I the LORD your GOD will purnish anyone who misuse my Name.
For the Catholics EX 20, 1-6 is one Commandement which is sumarised for cathchesm purposes as
1) I am the LORD your GOD thou shall have no other god but Me.
2) Ex 20, 7 You shall not call the Name of the LORD your God in vain.
To some Churches Ex 20,1-7 is three commandements:
1) I am the LORD your GOD thou shal have no other god but Me.
2) Yo shall not make any immage or bow down before them
2) Ex 20, 7 You shall not call the Name of the LORD your God in vain.
To these Churches the Catholic Churc has wilfully omited the second commandement in other to justify her use of Idols.
Has the Catholic Church falsified the Bible?
in my understanding non for the following reasons:
1) The extract of Ex 20, 1-7 is from the Good News Bible a catholic Bible
2)Ex 20,1-3 is the first commandement, Ex 20, 4-6 explains in details the first commandement.
To understand well Ex 210 4-6 one needs tokunderstand what prevails in the World after the first fall of man and the sacking of Lucifer and his angels from heaven to the earth.
The fallen angels have profited from God distancing Himself from man to think they could replace God in the eyes of man .You_ had god of the sun, god of the moon, god of the children,god of fertility etc etc man caved out immages for the different gods.
When God decided to gradually reconcile with man through Abraham and his descendants including Moses . He had to set things straight Those immages do not represent me the true God so do not make and worship them again.
Read Acts 17,16-31."......... I found an alter , on which is written ,' To an unknown God' that which you worship, then even though you do not know it , is what I now proclaim to you God..."
3) there is no immage of God in the Catholic Church.
Do God forbid immages of other celestial being other than Him ?
Non:
Ex 36,8 The most skilled men among those doing the work made the tent of the LORD's presence .They made it out of the ten pieces of fine linen with blue , purple and red wood and embroidened with figures of winged creatures.
Numbers 21, 8-9 then the Lord told Moses to make a metal snake and put it on a pole , so that any one who was bitten could look at it and be cured....."
The snake in Numers 21, 8-9 prefigures Christ our Saviour read Jn 3, 14-16
Accusing the Catholic Church to have falsified the Bible is either because of an approximate knowledge of the Bible or a deliberate attempt to derail believers from the Church which has as its founder Jesus Chist Himself.
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