[Hoot Gibson]

No comments on the first commandment? 

Zero.

@TheRealThing

You ? 
Issues with idolatry?

The Ten Commandments were written to whom? Everybody, or the children of Israel?

They were written after God called the Jews out of bondage in Egypt, to prove to His people that they needed God to survive in the world. The law, that is the 10 Commandments, were all that existed at the time in written it's form, and thusly proved to the Jew across time that no man could ever live up to, or otherwise obey the law. Old Testament Jews looked forward to the coming of the promised messiah for atonement; but we New Testament saints look back to the time Jesus came as Messiah and His substitutionary death on the cross for atonement. Our system of dates reflects this tremendous before and after. Before Christ, BC; and After His Death, AD.

But in looking forward to the coming of the messiah, the Jews of the Old Testament made a yearly animal sacrifice. The blood of which would temporarily cover their sins until the following yearly observance. Christ's death on the cross would once and for all, take away the need for men to ceremoniously sacrifice bulls and goats in observance of His future coming. Because He is, The Lamb of God. In His sacrificial death was fulfilled the great hope of all men who accept the Lordship of Christ to receive eternal life.

Moses later greatly expanded the 10 Commandments, writing the first five books of what was to become the Old Testament. (called the Torah) Since the days of Moses the reality that no man can live up to the demands of the law and thus earn eternal live has been vastly expanded on in two ways. First was the to-whom, of-whom salvation was extended, and second was the extraordinary expansion of the 10 Commandments to become God's Word in the form of the completed Bible, comprised of the Old and New Testaments. The point of division logically enough, were the days when God took on the form of a man, became mortal, and dwelled among us. 

As Christ's time/ministry on earth was coming to a close, the Jews rejected Christ and basically approved of His crucifixion before the Roman Governor Pilate. As was foretold, God moved His focus on salvation from the primarily the Jew, to include the gentile nations. With the coming in other words of Christ, came the inclusionary message of salvation through belief in Him, for all men. Not just the Jew, and certainly the Gospel messengers/preachers, were not just the Jew but also gentiles. And as by the time of Christ the Old Testament had become complete through the additional writings of the prophets. The events of the New Testament as seen through the eyes of the Apostles was about to be authored. As I say mostly by the Apostles, but in part by some significant other of God's servants.

God in His omniscience and to demonstrate the point-- As the 10 Commandments were yet being chiseled out on the tablets of marble by God Himself, and in the presence of Moses. The very people of God recently called out of Egypt and left in the care of Aaron while Moses is occupied with the Lord on Mount Sinai, are at the foot of the mountain engaged in making a graven image to worship. Melting their gold rings and jewelry, and making a golden calf. Points of the law, Commandments 1 through 10, are not the measure of a man's life at the judgment. Men are to be judged against the life of God's own Son, the Lord Jesus Who died on the cross. It's ridiculous for any man to point out another man's shortcomings. We're ALL undone. Born dead in trespass and sin. The ONLY way to life is through to recognize our own sin. Then to recognize that only God is sovereign and to accept the gift of life through the perfect sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, Whose shed blood unlike the blood of bulls and goats, covers man's sin forevermore. It's a choice, not a measurement. Accept that or reject that, it's the decision we were created to make.

So whether back in Moses time, 1445 BC, or our own day 2021 AD, men outside of Christ are a sorry lot. Laugh all you want at the profound richness of God's truths there Cardfan. I still say inwardly you have to know better. Your concerns about graven images are a bit misplaced in our time, because no true Christian would ever make such a bone headed blunder. But we both know what you were trying to say. Cardfan thinks Christians have confused the former President with God, and has decided to have himself a good old horse laugh. Enjoy it, the joke is on any man who rejects so great a salvation.


Define irony. A guy who doesn't know God, doesn't know a thing about Scripture, and cannot therefore distinguish lies from the truth, nonetheless thinks he is in a position to judge the whole of God's creation, and revise all of reality and God's own true followers as being fools.

1.  I know that’s an idol and Trump is a false prophet and you folks are worshipping him and it. 

SAD!

Liar. It is sad to see such a prolific liar with nothing better to do with his time.