Did you know that the Roman Catholic Church has a different set of the Ten Commandments than the Holy Bible has? It is true. The normal person will never find this out unless they open their Bible and place it beside the Catholic book, "A Catechism for Adults". As you read through the following list of the Ten Commandments of the Roman Catholic Church, see if you can find where the difference is:
1. I am the Lord thy God; thou shalt not have strange gods before Me. (Exodus 20:2,3)
2. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain. (Exodus 20:7)
3. Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath Day. (Exodus 20:8)
4. Honor thy father and thy mother. (Exodus 20:12)
5. Thou shalt not kill. (Exodus 20:13)
6. Thou shalt not commit adultery. (Exodus 20:14)
7. Thou shalt not steal. (Exodus 20:15)
8. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. (Exodus 20:16)
9. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife. (Exodus 20:17)
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods. (Exodus 20:17)
If you look closely at the first two commandments above, you will see a rather large gap between Exodus 20:2 & 3 and Exodus 20:7. When you look in the Holy Bible, you will see that the Roman Catholic Church has "conveniently" left out, Exodus 20:4 & 5 which says, "You shall not make for yourself a carved image - any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God..."
Why would the Catholic Church make these changes? The Catholic Church has through the centuries practiced idolatry by making "carved images" of Mary and Jesus Christ, and instructing their followers to "bow down" to them. Unfortunately, unless the person who is a practicing Catholic really studies their Bible - they will never find this "false teaching" being taught by their church.
So, when I found this out, I still had a problem because even though they removed the 2nd Commandment, they were still able to have ten Commandments. How was this possible? Again, you must look at Exodus in your Bible and then look at their list of the Ten Commandments in order to find this error. Look closely at the 9th Commandment and the 10th Commandment above. You will find that the Roman Catholic Church has taken the 10th Commandment and divided it into two parts - thus creating their own "Ten Commandments".
For those of you who don't know what the correct list of the Ten Commandments is, here they are taken directly from the Holy Bible:
1. I am the Lord your God. You shall have no other gods before Me. (Exodus 20:2,3)
2. You shall not make for yourself a carved image - any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, is a jealous God. (Exodus 20:4,5)
3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain. (Exodus 20:7)
4. Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God, in it you shall do no work. (Exodus 20:8-11)
5. Honor your father and mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you. (Exodus 20:12)
6. You shall not murder. (Exodus 20:13)
7. You shall not commit adultery. (Exodus 20:14)
8. You shall not steal. (Exodus 20:15)
9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. (Exodus 20:16)
10. You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.
(Exodus 20:17)
One other thing to note is the 4th Commandment regarding the 7th day Sabbath Day. If you take some time to look back in history, you will find that again it was the Romans who moved the Lord's holy Sabbath Day from Saturday to Sunday.
The Roman Catholics will even take credit for this change today! In their book, "A Catechism for Adults" on page 115 under "Note #1" it states, "The Church (meaning the Roman Catholic Church) changed the Lord's Day from Saturday to Sunday because our Lord rose from the dead on Sunday and the Holy Spirit came down upon the Apostles on Pentecost Sunday." Unfortunately, they fail to see that Jesus Christ RESTED in the grave on HIS Sabbath Day! And, as soon as the Sabbath was over, HE AROSE!! As His followers, we are to also rest on HIS HOLY DAY - Saturday, the seventh day of the week. Jesus called Himself, "the Lord of the Sabbath". It belongs to Him (not the Roman Catholic Church or any other denomination), and therefore, we have no authority to move it to another day.
In closing, ALWAYS be diligent to study the accuracy of what your spiritual leaders are teaching you. As I have just shown above, it is easy for a person to be deceived and to believe false teachings unless that person stays in God's Word, the Bible, on a daily basis.
Friday, July 18, 2014
Sunday, January 12, 2014
The Creation: Six Days or Seven Days?
There is a very subtle thing going on in Christian circles today, that everyone seems to be missing. I first noticed this a couple years ago when I attended a conference on Creation here in Springfield, MO. It was put on by the Creation Museum in our area. All day long I listened to speakers from the museum talk about the SIX DAYS of creation, but no one mentioned the SEVENTH DAY of the creation story. Since my blog is about "God's People Doing Away with God's Law in the Last Days", the Holy Spirit began to warn me that there is something wrong somewhere in all of this.
Since then, I have listened to Christian pastors speak about the Creation story, and again it is most often about the SIX days God created, and not the SEVEN. I have even heard them say that after the SIXTH day, God was finished with His creating! What? What ever happened to God creating the SEVENTH day?
Christians really need to learn to think with their heads today, instead of their ears. We know that God "rested on the SEVENTH day". (Gen. 2:2) Well, if He had not CREATED the SEVENTH day, how could He have rested on a day that He never created? Hmm. So, that gets me back to wondering if something bigger is going on here?
In fact, the first part of the same verse listed above says, "And on the SEVENTH day, God ENDED His work which He had done..." Wait a minute! I just heard an evangelical minister on the radio last week say "God ended His work after the SIXTH day!" This evangelical minister just lied, not only to his home congregation, but also to hundreds of his radio listeners! Genesis 2:1 says, "Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished." NOTE: It does not say that God was finished creating the DAYS!! God had one more day to create, and that was HIS HOLY day, the SEVENTH day, the Sabbath.
Let's take a minute to think about God creating this special SEVENTH day, a day God Himself named the "Sabbath Day". God had just finished creating the SIXTH day, which included creating mankind - Adam and Eve. (Just as a side point, let me point out here, that Adam and Eve were not "Jewish".) So, logically, that means Adam and Eve were present with God when He created His SEVENTH day, Sabbath. God loved His special creation, whom He created in His own image, so much that He wanted a very special day to be set aside FOREVER so they could come out from among the world, stop working 24/7 (rest from all work), and spend time alone with Him. What a wonderful gift He gave to Himself and to mankind when He created the SEVENTH day!
The real question, though, lies underneath all of this. The real question is, "WHY?" WHY are preachers and ministers not wanting to include the SEVENTH day in the story of Creation? Well, if I was a detective, I would be drawn to the conclusion that they don't want to think about the SEVENTH day Sabbath - and, they really don't want their listeners to start thinking about it, either. So they've made the decision to deceive their listeners by just leaving out "a little bit" of the story!
If ministers got convicted of the truth about the SEVENTH day Sabbath, they would have to give up their churches which meet on Sunday. Remember, "The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil." (I Tim. 6:10) Because they don't want to lose their jobs, most Sunday ministers will "do away with" the SEVENTH day Sabbath by not acknowledging it or by nullifying it as invalid for today's "New Testament" Christian.
The TRUTH is that God created SEVEN days - not SIX. Also, there is something extra special about this day compared to the other six days. This SEVENTH day of Creation is the ONLY day that God "blessed" and "sanctified" (made holy and set apart). (See Genesis 2:3) You will never read any where in the Bible where God called the FIRST day "blessed" or "holy". If you do any research on this subject, you will find that it was a Roman emperor who decided to call the FIRST day of the week, "Sunday", after their sun god. So, it definitely is not a "holy" day by God's Word, the Bible.
Again, I want to encourage you to keep your eyes and ears open to what is being said in these last days, in an attempt to take away from God's TRUTH revealed in His Word. Very silently, subtly, and slowly, God's Law is being eliminated - not so much by unbelievers, but by those who claim to be "followers of Christ"! Just be careful that you don't become like those "without understanding, who have eyes and see not, and who have ears and hear not..." (Isa. 5:21)
Since then, I have listened to Christian pastors speak about the Creation story, and again it is most often about the SIX days God created, and not the SEVEN. I have even heard them say that after the SIXTH day, God was finished with His creating! What? What ever happened to God creating the SEVENTH day?
Christians really need to learn to think with their heads today, instead of their ears. We know that God "rested on the SEVENTH day". (Gen. 2:2) Well, if He had not CREATED the SEVENTH day, how could He have rested on a day that He never created? Hmm. So, that gets me back to wondering if something bigger is going on here?
In fact, the first part of the same verse listed above says, "And on the SEVENTH day, God ENDED His work which He had done..." Wait a minute! I just heard an evangelical minister on the radio last week say "God ended His work after the SIXTH day!" This evangelical minister just lied, not only to his home congregation, but also to hundreds of his radio listeners! Genesis 2:1 says, "Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished." NOTE: It does not say that God was finished creating the DAYS!! God had one more day to create, and that was HIS HOLY day, the SEVENTH day, the Sabbath.
Let's take a minute to think about God creating this special SEVENTH day, a day God Himself named the "Sabbath Day". God had just finished creating the SIXTH day, which included creating mankind - Adam and Eve. (Just as a side point, let me point out here, that Adam and Eve were not "Jewish".) So, logically, that means Adam and Eve were present with God when He created His SEVENTH day, Sabbath. God loved His special creation, whom He created in His own image, so much that He wanted a very special day to be set aside FOREVER so they could come out from among the world, stop working 24/7 (rest from all work), and spend time alone with Him. What a wonderful gift He gave to Himself and to mankind when He created the SEVENTH day!
The real question, though, lies underneath all of this. The real question is, "WHY?" WHY are preachers and ministers not wanting to include the SEVENTH day in the story of Creation? Well, if I was a detective, I would be drawn to the conclusion that they don't want to think about the SEVENTH day Sabbath - and, they really don't want their listeners to start thinking about it, either. So they've made the decision to deceive their listeners by just leaving out "a little bit" of the story!
If ministers got convicted of the truth about the SEVENTH day Sabbath, they would have to give up their churches which meet on Sunday. Remember, "The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil." (I Tim. 6:10) Because they don't want to lose their jobs, most Sunday ministers will "do away with" the SEVENTH day Sabbath by not acknowledging it or by nullifying it as invalid for today's "New Testament" Christian.
The TRUTH is that God created SEVEN days - not SIX. Also, there is something extra special about this day compared to the other six days. This SEVENTH day of Creation is the ONLY day that God "blessed" and "sanctified" (made holy and set apart). (See Genesis 2:3) You will never read any where in the Bible where God called the FIRST day "blessed" or "holy". If you do any research on this subject, you will find that it was a Roman emperor who decided to call the FIRST day of the week, "Sunday", after their sun god. So, it definitely is not a "holy" day by God's Word, the Bible.
Again, I want to encourage you to keep your eyes and ears open to what is being said in these last days, in an attempt to take away from God's TRUTH revealed in His Word. Very silently, subtly, and slowly, God's Law is being eliminated - not so much by unbelievers, but by those who claim to be "followers of Christ"! Just be careful that you don't become like those "without understanding, who have eyes and see not, and who have ears and hear not..." (Isa. 5:21)
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