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by Encyclopedia_John on January 19th, 2005
No, they do not omit it. I checked the Catechism of the Catholic Church at the official Vatican site, www.vatican.va, and it includes all the commandments found in Exodus ch. 20 and Deuteronomy ch. 5. They are just numbered differently than the Protestant numbering. Note that in the Bible, there is no numbering of the commandments (other than to say there are ten of them), so it's up to the reader to divide them up into ten. It's not always clear when one commandment ends and another begins.
In the Protestant tradition, the first commandment is "You shall have no other gods before Me" and the second is "You shall not make any graven image." The Catholic tradition includes the "graven image" line as part of the first commandment; it is not omitted at all. The second commandment then becomes "You shall not take the name of thy Lord thy God in vain", which is the Protestant 3rd commandment.
by wilyelder on September 14th, 2006
In the Roman Religion the first two commandments are grouped together as the first commandment. And the the last commandment to not covet is mechanically divided into 2 commandments.
This was done to de-emphasize idolatry, which the Roman religion has not been willing to give up.
by Anonymous on May 19th, 2008
"Idolatry" means that you are worshiping a material object, and that you believe that the object itself before you is holy.
Catholicism has never condoned or practiced idolatry. Praying to a statue is quite different from praying with a statue or painting in front of you to remind you of whom you are praying to, or to centre your thoughts.
And as for the people who like to be controversial without thinking before hand, Catholicism itself, the religion, represents none of the apocalyptic woes of conformity you abhor. Bad people can contort religion to gain mass following, because yes, that is the nature of humanity. And guess what? You are not above human nature.
by iwnit on February 24th, 2008
"Various religions divide these statements among the Commandments in different ways":
"The Ten Commandments, or Decalogue, are a list of religious and moral imperatives that according to religious tradition, were written by God and given to Moses on the mountain referred to as "Mount Sinai" (Exodus 19:23) or "Mount Horeb" (Deuteronomy 5:2) in the form of two stone tablets. They feature prominently in Judaism and Christianity. In Biblical Hebrew language, the commandments are termed עשרת הדברים (translit. Aseret ha-Dvarîm) and in Rabbinical Hebrew עשרת הדברות (translit. Aseret ha-Dibrot), both translatable as "the ten statements." The name "Decalogue" is derived from the Greek name δεκάλογος or "dekalogos" ("ten statements") found in the Septuagint (Exodus 34:28, Deuteronomy 10:4), which is the Greek translation of the Hebrew name.
The phrase "Ten Commandments" generally refers to the very similar passages in Exodus 20:2–17 and Deuteronomy 5:6–21. Some distinguish between this "Ethical Decalogue" and a series of ten commandments in Exodus 34 that are labeled the "Ritual Decalogue".
The commandments passage in Exodus contains more than ten imperative statements, totalling fourteen or fifteen in all. However, the Bible itself assigns the count of "ten" to the list, using the Hebrew phrase aseret had'varim. Various religions divide these statements among the Commandments in different ways, and may also translate the Commandments differently."
Source and further information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_commandments
(you can also find there a translation of the text of the Ten Commandments according to Exodus 20:2–17 and Deuteronomy 5:6–21).
The different divisions of the text in Ten Commandments according to various traditions can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_commandments#Division_of_the_Commandments
by RavageBeauty on March 10th, 2006
No.
by PUGWASHJW on February 26th, 2006
In response to Archaeologist. The Catholic church DOES have images. People DO KISS thos images. To me that is worship of those same images. Anmd the Bible says NOTHING in regard to worshiping Jesus' mother, Mary. She was honoured and blessed in being chosen to give birth to Jesus, but is not the channel to pray to God. Only Jesus has that privilege.
by Revelator on June 16th, 2004
The Church of Rome oftentimes omits the second commandment completely from her Catechisms, as for example in the Maynooth Catechism and Butler's Irish Catechism. Having omitted the second commandment, Rome then changes the tenth commandment into two parts in order still to have ten commandments
by Paul S on January 8th, 2009
Why ask the Vatican if a Catholic answer is valid - what would you expect them to say? To settle the dispute, review how the Jewish faith interprets the Ten Commandments. Their interpretation shows the Catholic Church is hiding the commandment that forbids idols. The Catholic Church further hides its idols by calling their religious statues "icons" - not idols - but there is no difference.
by joemizzi on February 24th, 2008
Abridged forms of Catholic catechisms, especially those intended for children, often omit the prohibition to make and worship graven images.
The larger catechisms, including the recent Catechism of the Catholic Church, include the words, but then go on to deny that the Church breaks that commandment.
The Catholic Church teaches that it venerates the images of saints and worships images of Christ, because that honor is said to pass on to the person represented by the image. Catholics are called to worship and prostrate themselves before the image of Christ.(See Council of Trent, Session 25).
That is exactly what the Second Commandment forbids: "you shall not bow down before them or worship them" (Exodus 20:5 NAB).
by DiSTurBiA on February 24th, 2008
they omit, and edit whatever they can to keep control of the masses.
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correct. I am Roman Catholic and we have all ten commandments. (why would the Church omit one anyway?)
by Wisdom on September 1st, 2005
The acusation of omitting the 2nd is because many non-Catholic consider the veration of saints idol worship.
by Glenn Blaylock on October 31st, 2005
exactly!
by Grandma Roses - my avatar is my real dog on November 22nd, 2005
Wrong! They do omit the 2nd Commandment & separate one of the other Commandemnts by joining it to another.
by Answers101 on March 3rd, 2006
Answers101 is displaying an attitude that does not reflect well on many Christians. They assume that they know better than the practitioners of a particular faith what they believe and, in their pride refuse to accept it when someone who practices that faith tells him that he is wrong.
by Glenn Blaylock on February 24th, 2008
well, i always look at the first four Commandments we keep are to our relationship with God & the last six are to our relationship with fellow man.....
just my personal observation, for what it may be worth
by thatsJustme on January 9th, 2009
This is why the Savior condensed the 10 Commandments into the two great commandments, Love God and Love your fellow men. if you truly do these two things, then you will follow the 10.
by Glenn Blaylock on January 9th, 2009