tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344810805089119836.post1768039874531260790..comments2023-11-03T00:49:27.673-07:00Comments on Ssnot!: Jewish and Catholic ten commandments skip the 2nd commandment?Tatarizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06655536699564744308noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344810805089119836.post-52931190180369009462012-06-10T03:29:49.774-07:002012-06-10T03:29:49.774-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Osama El Masryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11438079820692281246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344810805089119836.post-74726094375881507902008-12-02T07:35:00.000-08:002008-12-02T07:35:00.000-08:00Jewish, Catholic, and Protestants have no differen...Jewish, Catholic, and Protestants have no differences in accepting the commandments as given in Exodus 20. The different is how the verses are divided.<BR/><BR/>The Jewish tradition, in its division, sees parallels between their first and sixth commandments, the second and seventh, and so forth as they believe God wrote them on two parallel stone tablets. The first commandment appears to be a statement, however, it is easy to see it is a commandment to recognized God for who he is. The Catholic tradition modified this division by simplifying the commandments related to worshiping the one true God (2-6) and making a distinction between respecting family rights and property rights by dividing the tenth commandment. In turn, about a thousand years later, the Protestant reformers (Lutherans excluded) changed this division to recombine the ninth and tenth commandments back to the Jewish form, and divided out the reference to graven images as a separate commandment as a protest against use of religious art in worship (again, Lutherans excluded).<BR/><BR/>None of the major Jewish or Christian groups has added or deleted anything to the meaning of the commandments.<BR/><BR/>The ten commandments are rarely displayed in full text. It is important to examine the full text of scripture to understand the full message rather than fracturing it into disjoint individual verses or snippets of verses as the commandments are usually seen in modern rendering.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com