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You try to force your narrow interpretation upon God's Word in Exodus 20:2-6. In order to expose your error, here is the full passage:
2 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
3 "You shall have no other gods before Me.
4 "You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.
5 "You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,
6 but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
Now, verse 5 and 6 can stand alone as a complete sentence which carries this meaning:
"You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments." (Exodus 20:5-6)
In your narrow interpretation, you try to impose Exodus 20:5-6 to define the meaning of Exodus 20:4. Your interpretation defies the grammatical construct of God's Word! Verse 4 is a complete sentence that stand on it's own with:
"You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth." (Exodus 20:4)
There are two separate "You shall not" sentences.
Exodus 20:5-6 does not preclude the meaning of Exodus 20:4 as a stand alone sentence and command of God because Exodus 20:4 is exactly a command of God. At the same time, Exodus 20:4 adds meaning to Exodus 20:5-6, but Exodus 20:5-6 is leaning on Exodus 20:2 and/or Exodus 20:4 yet the reciprocal is not valid particularly because of the grammatical contructs of God's Word which can be seen in "Grammatical Explanation of Exodus 20:2-6 Post for the Logical Conclusion to Keeping the Old Covenant Law Post" (in this thread), with this being the "Logical Conclusion to Keeping the Old Covenant Law Post" (in this thread) in which a drivers license or some ID with a likeness of a person who keeps the Law of the Old Covenant remains logically and lexically correct.
God is the Master Orator, and God means what God says. I am thankful to God that I am free of the Old Covenant (Hebrews 8:13) by the power of the Blood of the New Covenant of Lord Jesus Christ (Luke 22:20), this Lord of the Sabbath that satisfies the Law (Matthew 12:8, Matthew 5:17)!
You have bound yourself to Exodus 20:4 because you have bound yourself to Exodus 20:8. You have bound yourself to the 10 commandments. James wrote "For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one [point], he has become guilty of all" (James 2:10).
At the same time that you have expressed your defiance of God's Word regarding Exodus 20:4 with your narrow interpretation of Exodus 20:2-6, at the very same time, you try to bind/teach/impose the words of Exodus 20:8-9 on we children of God whom are not bound by the Old Covenant as revealed by God's Word in "Exclusively Scripture With Bible Citations Post" (in this thread) clearly showing God's Word explaining believers covered by the Blood of Jesus of the New Covenant are not bound to the Old Covenant which includes the 10 commandments for the Lord Jesus said that He satisfies the Law which includes the 10 commandments as recorded in Exodus 20. The Lord Jesus satisfies the Law which includes the 10 commandments (Matthew 5:17); furthermore, the Lord Jesus established "the New Covenant" (Luke 22:20) and that when He said, "A new [covenant]," He has made the first obsolete (Hebrews 8:13).
You were being deceptive in the "AN EXPOSURE OF YOU TRYING TO LITERALLY ADD THE 10 COMMANDMENTS TO THE WORDS OF THE APOSTLE JOHN IN 1 JOHN 3:3-15 POST", and as scripture states, a little leaven does leaven the whole loaf; meanwhile, you committed that deception during the time that you have been trying to twist Exodus 20:4 into your narrow interpretation.
Listen to these words, for in the Word of God is life eternal:
"Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to satisfy." (Matthew 5:17)
"For the Law, since it has [only] a shadow of the good things to come [and] not the very form of things" (Hebrews 10:1)
"And in the same way [He took] the cup after they had eaten, saying, 'This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood.'" (Luke 22:20)
"When He said, 'A new [covenant],' He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear." (Hebrews 8:13)
Brother your just repeating yourself here while making accusations that have no basis in truth without addressing any of the scriptures in the post that you have snipped out that disagree with you. You are free to believe as you wish. We all answer only to God come judgment day *ROMANS 14:10; JOHN 12:47-48.
As posted earlier the CONTEXT you leave out of EXODUS 20:4 has lead you to errors in your interpretation of the scriptures. When CONTEXT is added back into EXODUS 20:4 and read with EXODUS 20:3-6 the interpretation of the scriptures are read in reference to making idols and serving other Gods as shown below.
EXODUS 20:3-6
[3], You shall have no other gods before me.
[4], You shall not make to you 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 water under the earth.
[5], You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
[6], And showing mercy to thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
When you add the context back in to EXODUS 20:4 with EXODUS 20:3-6 it does not say what you are claiming brother.
Now by all means brother, God's 1st and 2nd Commandments *EXODUS 20:3-6 are two of God's 10 commandments that in the NEW COVENANT give us the KNOWLEDGE of what SIN is when broken *ROMANS 3:20; ROMANS 7:7; 1 JOHN 3:4. According to God's WORD if we break any one of God's 10 commandments just like God's 4th commandments we stand guilty before God of sin *JAMES 2:10-11.
If you believe that for example you should not have any photos of anything or painting etc for the sake of not having them then by all means please go ahead and live by what you believe God's WORD is saying to you because it is written...
JAMES 4:17 [17], Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.
Now do you have any photos, paintings, replicas of anything in the heavens or under from the earth in your home and if you have does that mean you are sinning against God?
According to God's WORD in the NEW COVENANT God's ETERNAL LAW (10 commandments) is the KNOWLEDGE of GOOD and EVIL; SIN and RIGHTEOUSNES *ROMANS 3:20; ROMANS 7:7; 1 JOHN 3:4; PSALMS 119:172.
God's 4th commandment is one of God's 10 commandments that give us the KNOWLEDGE of what sin is when broken *ROMANS 3:20. According to God's WORD if we break any one of God's 10 Commandments we stand guilty before God of SIN *JAMES 2:10-11.
According to God's WORD all those who CONTINUE in KNOWN UNREPENTANT SIN will not enter into the KINGDOM of HEAVEN *HEBREWS 10:26-27 because they reject the gift of God's dear son *ROMANS 6:23. OBEDIENCE to God's LAW is not how we are saved it is the FRUIT of God's work in us as we BELIEVE and FOLLOW his WORD through love. If our faith has no fruit it is dead *JAMES 2:18-20; 26 and our tree will be cast down and thrown into the fire *MATTHEW 3:10; 7:19-20; 13:49-50.
It is JESUS that says all those who KNOWINGLY follow the teachings and traditions of men that break the commandments of God are not following God brother not me *MATTHEW 15:3-9. Who then do we BELIEVE and FOLLOW God or men *ROMANS 3:4. Yep I know who I believe. You provide your own words. My words are not my own but God's WORD. It is the Word of God that will be our judge come judgment day *JOHN 12:47-48.
Now where is the scripture that says God’s 4th Commandment has now been abolished and we are now commanded to keep Sunday as a Holy day? There is no scripture is there? If there is no scriprture for this tradition why do you not believe God’s WORD?
May God help you as you seek him through his Word.
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