Thou shalt have no graven images free#

Metaphysically Interpreting Exodus 20:22-26 20:22And Jehovah said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. 20:21And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was. 20:20And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before you, that ye sin not. 20:19And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear but let not God speak with us, lest we die. 20:9Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work 20:10but the seventh day is a sabbath unto Jehovah thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 20:11for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore Jehovah blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.Ģ0:12Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.Ģ0:16Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.Ģ0:17Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.Ģ0:18And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they trembled, and stood afar off. 20:5Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them, for I Jehovah thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me, 20:6and showing lovingkindness unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.Ģ0:7Thou shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God in vain for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.Ģ0:8Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 20:3Thou shalt have no other gods before me.Ģ0:4Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor 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.

Thou shalt have no graven images free#

If this commandment was a law, it would violate free speech.Metaphysical Bible Interpretation of Exodus Chapter 20 Metaphysically Interpreting Exodus 20:1-21Ģ0:1And God spake all these words, saying, 20:2 I am Jehovah thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. government sets aside grants specifically to fund and encourage the breaking of this commandment by artists. This statement, ironically, appears on a graven image monolith of the Ten Commandments in many locations. The 2nd commandment is not a part of any U.S.Arguably, Christians obsessed with the Bible, so called Bible-based Christianity, are committing idolatry.Many Jewish divisions of the ten commandments also ignore this commandment, dividing up the 1st commandment into I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt and Thou shalt have no other gods before me. This is mostly because, some would say, Catholicism is all about the graven images.

It is telling that the Catholics (and Lutherans) downplay this particular commandment by merging it with the 1st and divide up the 10th commandment into coveting wife and house separately.

Some Christian denomination feature statues, pictures and icons.

' Verses 4 and 5 are to be taken together, the prohibition being intended, not to forbid the arts of sculpture and painting, or even to condemn the religious use of them, but to disallow the worship of God under material forms.'