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To: NYer
Does it REALLY matter what "number" Thou Shalt Not Kill is?
Or is it more important that one doesn't kill?

This seems like nothing more than to pit one denomination against the other.
To make or allow someone to feel superior than another.

God much rather wants obedience over sacrifice. In fact, without obedience God doesn't want our sacrifices.

Arguing about the order takes away our true focus of obedience.

10 posted on 02/14/2010 6:56:20 AM PST by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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To: mountn man
Does it REALLY matter what "number" Thou Shalt Not Kill is? Or is it more important that one doesn't kill?

More likely that one follows the original translation of "thous shall not murder." God has surely commanded a lot of killing for His purpose.

20 posted on 02/14/2010 7:15:14 AM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: mountn man
Arguing about the order takes away our true focus of obedience.

It's not the order that's the issue...It's the content...

Deu 5:8 Thou shalt not make 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 waters beneath the earth:

The Catholics teach each other that this clear Commandment doesn't belong in the bunch...

And as a result, you see graven images of the Catholic religion all over the planet...

And here's the rest of the Commandment:

Deu 5:9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto 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,
Deu 5:10 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

And so we have Catholics thru out the universe bowing to the statues and apparently serving them even as far as popes bowing and praying to these idols...

But look at the verse...Now we can thank Jesus that we are under Grace, that He has paid the price for our sins but look at what the verse says...

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,
Deu 5:10 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

God says that those who make and bow to these statues 'hate' Him...And He gives them no mercy...

I wouldn't build or bow to a statue of Mary if my life depended on it...

And many Protestants did not bow to Mary, or that pope when their lives did depend on it...

25 posted on 02/14/2010 7:29:07 AM PST by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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