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NASB | Deuteronomy 5:21 ¶ 'You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, and you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field or his male servant or his female servant, his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.' |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Deuteronomy 5:21 ¶ 'You shall not covet [that is, desire and seek to acquire] your neighbor's wife, nor desire your neighbor's house, his field, his male servant or his female servant, his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.' [Luke 12:15; Col 3:5] |
Subject: Why change order of commandments? |
Bible Note: Emmaus: Please remind me of where I have accused you of idolatry directly. It is pretty clear that the angels on the ark and the bulls in the temple and the bronze serpent were not crafted as objects of worship. And, while I disapprove personally of human renderings of God the Father, most do not use them as objects of veneration. The pictures of "saints" are no different than pictures of my pet boxer as far as the worship value assigned to them. The golden calf, the Asherah poles, the statues of Dagon and Baal and Molech are clear Biblical examples of the use of statues for veneration. The bronze serpent itself fell into use as an idol and was broken into pieces as a result (see 1 Kings 18:4). The question is where Catholic statues and imagery falls on the continuum between mere works of art and objects of veneration and worship. And, biblically speaking, all Catholics are NOT Christians, any more than are all Protestants. And whether or not you worship statues, you need to pay a visit to Latin America to see just how idolotrous that strand of Roman Catholicism is when it comes down to lying prostrate before statues and making offerings to statues and wearing medallions with Mary to protect oneself, etc., etc. You cannot honestly tell me that you don't know of those things going on without a word of rebuke from Rome. --Joe! |