Comments on: Why Protestant and Catholic version different from the 10 Commandments?

By: Arf Bee

Arf Bee — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:17:20 +0000

You're right.
The Second Commandment refers to idolatry, and "jumped" in the Catholic version … Therefore, the rest and become the 10th Commandment was divided up to 9 and 10 commandments.
That is something that the RCC - NOT THE FAITHFUL - should address and respond to all today …
Time is now essential.
Peace to you!

By: zaki1968

zaki1968 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:17:20 +0000

Why are they different? This will depend on which translation you are looking at. The Bible has been translated through many languages throughout the centuries. Once you take into account the biases that the translator has given his time, culture, etc, the many shades of meaning that each language has, and then the shades of meaning that even a single word in a single language, it is not difficult to see how the different "end products" and you can see sound differently.
The meaning behind the 2nd commandment is that we do not want to create the cult of idols instead of God. God is not a statue. A picture of Jesus or Mary or any of the saints is well if the person seeking it realizes that the image is not Jesus / Mary / St. who himself.

By: jreality…

jreality… — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:17:20 +0000

I do not know about that, but I know that the Jews are the commandments "Do not pay retail"

By: Church Music Girl

Church Music Girl — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:17:20 +0000

I personally believe that it
PS look at the fact that Judaism as a different version of the Ten Commandments.

By: jack b

jack b — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:17:20 +0000

The key is the phrase: Do not bow down to them nor serve them - Catholics removed this so that they can still submit their statues.
It allows us to image, ie the art … but do not bow before them. To believe that they (the images) can do anything for or against us.

By: Gamla Joe

Gamla Joe — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:17:20 +0000

Some Protestants accuse the Catholic Church have fallen into one of the 10 Commandments. "You're idolators! You worship statues! And because you do, your Church dropped the commandment against images taxed! "
Although it might be true (which it probably is, seeing that the way to cover their pedophile priests), it is likely that the Latin is the list of Catholic and Protestant differently. Chapter and verse divisions are a medieval invention, however, and numbering systems of the Ten Commandments, how they are grouped, and the "short hand" that is used to them, vary between the different religious groups.
Exodus 20 is the version most often when speaking of the Ten Commandments, and what I understand, the Roman Catholic group these:
- Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
- You do not need to burden you any image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the soil or in the waters under the earth.
- You Do not bow down to them nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers to the children unto the third and fourth generations of those who hate me.
- And shewing mercy to thousands who love me and keep my commandments.
In his view, these groups together and get to the notion of "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me." The Latin Church of the shortening of the commandments is different from the typical Protestant version because of how they are grouped Commandments. So I'm guessing that is why we are accused of a fall against the idols.
But it is essential that we understand, care, and obey these commandments. And since they were placed for a reason.

By: impossbl

impossbl — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:17:20 +0000

No different, both come from Exodus

By: Nikki

Nikki — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:17:20 +0000

You made a good point. Many Protestants are against any kind of worship of the image (I do not believe that all Protestants are. It is very difficult to find something to agree on all Protestants).
Remember when Moses could down the mountain after receiving the Ten Commandments, the Israelites found worshiping a golden calf, which claims to represent God. Neither Moses nor God is pleased with this, but said that the Israelites by the idol worship, they were really worshiping God.

By: :Phil

:Phil — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:17:20 +0000

The 10 Commandments are found in Exodus 20:1-17.
1. "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me."
2. "Do not make any image or encumber any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the soil or in the waters under the earth: you do not bow to them or their service because I Your God Lorsd hours ajealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers to the children unto the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, and shewing mercy to thousands of them who keep my commandments. "
3. "Thou shalt not take the name of thy Lord in vain, for the Lord not to blame that he takes his name in vain."
4. "Remember the Sabbath day to sanctify it. Six days shalt thou labor and do all your 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, your 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 is in them, and rested the Sabbath day and hallowed it " ;. (similar Rev.14: 7; John 4:22-24; Sabbath is Saturday)
5. "Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long in the land the Lord your God is giving you."
6. "Thou shalt not kill."
7. "Do not commit adultery."
8. "Do not steal."
9. "Do not bear false witness against your neighbor."
10. "You shall not covet your neighbor's house, you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his ox, nor his ***, nor anything that is thy neighbor."
1John 2:3 "And we know that THIS know, if we keep His commandments."
Catholic Version
1. I am your Lord, your God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before Me.
(It was noted that the 2nd commandment is excluded)
2. You did not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
3. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day.
"A doctrinal CATECHISM. (Catholic) page 174 has the following questions and answers .–
"P. - Do you have any other way of proving that the Church has power to institute festivals of precept? "
"R. - If she had no power … could not have substituted the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, on Saturday, the seventh day, a change for which there is no authority of Scripture. "
4. Honor thy father and thy mother.
5. Thou shalt not kill.
6. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
7. You do not steal.
8. You do not bear false witness against your neighbor.
9. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods.
GENERAL CATHOLIC CATECHISM
"You think to change times and law." - Dan .7:25. R.V.
"That the man of sin … that it opposes and exalteth himself above all that is called God or is worshiped, so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing that he is God. "- 2Thess. 2:3-4

By: Rambo Smurf

Rambo Smurf — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:17:20 +0000

Because the concept of the 10 Commandments, like the rest of the Bible is a distortion of the original texts and it is incomplete.