In Exodus 32 the Israelites were worshipping the true God. If you have an image and you are bowing down to it, is that not putting another god before the true God, as is forbidden by the First Commandment? What is the difference between the First and Second Commandments? Surely, one would think, this Second Commandment is covered by the First Commandment. (4) Thou shalt not make unto 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 water under the earth: (5) Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the 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 (6) And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. (3) Thou shalt have no other gods before me. The Difference Between The First and The Second CommandmentsĮxodus 20:1-6 And God spake all these words, saying, (2) I am the thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Worshipping God in spirit and in truth - This is what the Second Commandment is all about. The principle of food offered to idols - This principle is discussed in the New Testament and is clarified for the Church in the conference recorded in Acts 15. Syncretism - the mixing of ideas, Pagan ideas particularly, with Christianity. Not bowing down to a limited image is the heart and core of the Second Commandment. The limited image - An image is not the True God. On the surface it appears that the Second Commandment is merely restating an aspect of the first commandment. The difference between the first and the second commandment. In doing this, we will look at five specific areas. Let us look at the second of God's Ten Commandments and, as we did with the first commandment, magnify it, get to the principle of not having graven images, and understand the mind of God who gave it. We are living in a culture that is moving more and more away from God and His Ways, going with anything that will replace Him. Continually these kinds of news articles appear in our papers. They say homosexuality must be given equal status to stop the spread of 'bigoted' attitudes in schools and university campuses. And from an article in the Daily Mail entitled "Don't teach that marriage is best say academics":Īcademics are calling for teachers to be banned from promoting marriage in the classroom. Two men who are members of Gideons International, the Christian organization that is famous for, among other ministries, placing Bibles in motels and giving them to children, have been arrested after trying to hand out Bibles on a public sidewalk in Florida. Notice another article from the same source with the subheading: "Gideons arrested after school officials complain they were handing out Bibles." A workshop in tribal dance will be held at the university Student's Association. The pagan conference will feature presentations on a variety of topics, including Magic and Witchcraft in the 21st Century, Pagan Parenting, Pagan Marriage, Pagan Symbolism and Practice and Ancient Greek magic.
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Scotland's UNIVERSITY of Edinburgh, after proposing a ban on Bibles and denying a Christian campus group the right to hold a conference on the immorality of homosexuality, has extended the welcome mat to the school's Pagan Society to hold its annual meeting on campus next month.This illustrates the way in which society is moving, not just in the United Kingdom or in Europe generally, but in America, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia as well.
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Notice this excerpt from a recent article from, entitled "University OKs pagan festival, bans Christian event":ĭruids, heathens, shamans and witches welcomed at school that banned Bible. Today we live in a culture that is moving further and further away from God and His Way.