2 Responses to The Commandments

1. La voz de la razón says:

   September 6, 2024 at 7:59 pm

   It is interesting that Luther, in both his small and large catechisms, gives a severely truncated version of the First, Third, and Fourth Commandments. (We cannot pick and choose which phrases of Scripture we desire to preach, teach, and follow.) Meanwhile, Luther (while leaving out much of God’s own words documented in Scripture) follows his version of each of the commandments with an humongous exposition.

   As a Jewish friend of mine once commented to me, “Why do you Christians embrace the First Ten Commandments but ignore the remaining 603.”

   Martin Luther it seems, decided to completely alter the meaning of the Third Commandment even stating in the large catechism: “According to this external observance, this commandment was given to the Jews alone.”

   Seeing that the great majority of Christians are Gentiles, I ask the question: Were all the commandments given to the Jews alone?

   If we as Christians wish to espouse the first Ten Commandment, we at least ought to observe and teach them exactly as stated in Scripture.

   Random observations of a Student of Scripture,

   Shalom,

   Frank

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2. La voz de la razón says:

   September 6, 2024 at 8:47 pm

   On another note, it is highly doubtful that the finger of God engraved the Tablets of Stone in Roman Numerals.

   die Stimme der Vernunft

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