You shall have no other gods before me. Exodus 20:3 NASB Shall have – In May of 2014 we looked at the important difference between Greek thought and Hebrew thought in this verse. Usually translated “you shall not have,” the Hebrew verb plus negative, lo-yihye’, reveals an important characteristic of Hebrew thought. The translation, “shall…
“You shall have no other gods before Me.” Exodus 20:3 NASB gods – Today I want to make some comments on Michael Heiser’s book, The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible. Heiser’s basic position is that the biblical text, including the apostolic writings, rests on cultural and religious ideas that arise from Mesopotamian…
You shall have no other gods before Me. Exodus 20:3 NASB No other – “The vast majority of people are satisfied with compromises, or they remain unaware that they are worshipping a multitude of gods, that their actions constitute a maze of contradictions.”[1] Are you part of the “vast majority”? Living with compromises, contradictions and…
You shall have no other gods before Me. Exodus 20:3 ESV Before – “But it is only in the modern societies of the West that nonreligious man has developed fully. Modern nonreligious man assumes a new existential situation; he regards himself solely as the subject and agent of history, and he refuses all appeal to…
“You shall have no other gods before Me.” Exodus 20:3 NASB Gods – OK, be very honest. As honest as you can be, of course, since your honesty will still be a function of what you believe to be true. What you believe to be true about this commandment is probably something like this: “I…
You shall have no other gods before me. Exodus 20:3 NASB Shall have – In May of 2014 we looked at the important difference between Greek thought and Hebrew thought in this verse. Usually translated “you shall not have,” the Hebrew verb plus negative, lo-yihye’, reveals an important characteristic of Hebrew thought. The translation, “shall…
“You shall have no other gods before me.” Exodus 20:3 ESV You shall have no – When I visited the British Museum years ago, I bought a game about Egyptian hieroglyphics. It included many rubber stamps of hieroglyphs and an inkpad and provided instructions about constructing sentences by using these markings. Many years later when…
“You shall have no other gods before Me” Exodus 20:3 Before Me – We wouldn’t suspect that this would give us any translation problems but the truth is that this two-word phrase has created all kinds of difficulties. It doesn’t seem to mean “except me”. It might mean “against me” with an undertone of hostility…
