THE LAW OF GODI Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. II Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them, for I the Lord 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; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me, and keep My commandments. III Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain. IV Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the Seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. ln it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maid. servant nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the Seventh day: Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. V Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. VI Thou shalt not kill. VII Thou shalt not commit adultery- VIII Thou shalt not steal. IX Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. X Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's. -Exodus 20:3-17.
THE LAW OF GOD AS CHANGED BY MANI I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me. [The Second Commandment has been left out] II [actually Ill] Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. III [IV] Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day. [The Sabbath Commandment has been changed] IV [V] Honor thy father and thy mother. V [VI] Thou shalt not kill. VI [VII] Thou shalt not commit adultery. VII IVI/I] Thou shalt not steal. VIII [IX] Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. IX [X- First Part] Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife. X [X- Second Part] Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods. The General Catholic Catechism. "Q.-Have you any other way of proving that the [Catholic] Church has power to institute festivals of precept? "A.-Had she not such power. .she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week for Saturday, the seventh day, a change for which there is no scriptural authority. "-Doctrinal Catechism, p. 174 [Roman Catholic] . "Prove to me from the Bible alone that I am bound to keep Sunday holy. There is no such law in the Bible. It is a law of the holy Catholic Church alone. The Bible says 'Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.’ The Catholic Church says, No. By my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day and command you to keep holy the first day of the week. And Lo! The entire civilized world bows down in reverent obedience to the command of the Holy Catholic Church." Thomas Enright, CSSR, President, Redemptorist College, Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 18, 1884. [Roman Catholic] .
THE LAW OF GOD IN THE NEW TESTAMENTI "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve."-Matthew4:10. II "Little children, keep yourselves from idols." "Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God. we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device." 1 John 5:21; Acts 17:29. III "That the name of God and His doctrine be not blasphemed." 1 Timothy 6: 1. IV "Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day:' "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath: therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath." "For He spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all His works." "There remaineth therefore a keeping of a Sabbath to the people of God. For he that is entered into His rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from His." "For by Him were all things created that are in heaven, and that are in earth." Matthew 24:20; Mark 2:27-28; Hebrews 4:4, 9, 10 margin; Colossians 1:16. V "Honor thy father and thy mother." Matthew 19: 19. VI "Thou shalt not kill." Romans 13:9. VII "Thou shalt not commit adultery." Matthew 19:18. VIII "Thou shalt not steal." Romans 13:9. IX "Thou shalt not bear false witness." Romans 13:9. X "Thou shalt not covet." Romans 7: 7.
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