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Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. What does all of this mean? It means that the Catholic Church isn’t hiding the commandment to forbid images, we just group it with the commandment “You shall have no other gods before me” as it is related to that.“And God spake all these words, saying, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
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THOU SHALT NOT MAKE UNTO THEE ANY GRAVEN IMAGESģ.) Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vainĤ.) Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holyĩ.) Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbourĮven in early circles of Protestantism, it is understood that this commandment is included in the commandment “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” For example, Lutherans, based on Luther’s Large Catholicism, removes the commandment that forbids graven images:ġ.) Thou shalt have no other gods before me.ĩ.) Thou shalt not covet neighbour’s houseġ0.) Thou shalt not covet neighbour’s wife, neighbour’s servants, animals, or anything else THOU SHALT NOT MAKE UNTO THEE ANY GRAVEN IMAGESĢ.) Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vainģ.) Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holyĨ.) Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbourĩ.) Thou shalt not covet neighbour’s wifeġ0.) Thou shalt not covet neighbour’s house, servants, animals, or anything elseĪctually it is written in the official list of the Catholic Church! However, sometimes, due to the length of the first commandment, it is sometimes shortened to “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” Why? Because Catholics understand that the commandment to forbid graven images is related to the very gist of the first commandment, which is that you shall have no other gods but Yahweh.Įven in the Jewish Talmud, Jews consider the commandment “not to build any graven image” as part of the commandment “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”ġ.) I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.Ģ.) Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
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Some Anti-Catholics will use this claim to support their Anti-Catholic rhetoric that the church actually hides the Church’s “sin” of making graven imagesįirst, let’s take a look at the Catholic List, according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church:ġ.) I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.