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Secondly, he actually has no idea what a commandment is. The ninth commandment of LaVeyan Satanism is a statement, not a commandment. It's also one of those things that looks deep and meaningful until you realize how superficial it actually is.
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Actually, that just proves that he's more knowledgable than the last 2000-years worth of Western theologicians. The Ten Commandments aren't commandments either; the phrase in Hebrew translates literally to "The Ten Things" and, coincidentally enough, non-literally to "The Ten Statements".
Because of this mistranslation, Christianity has had to shift the border between the first and second 'Statements' in order to turn the first in to an active 'Commandment'. Different streams of Christianity set the border seperately, but you can see that what they all have in common is that what is the second commandment in Judaism is included in the first for the Christian ones.
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#1: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery
#2: Do not have any other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol...(etc)
#3: You shall not make wrongful use of the name of your God.
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#1: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Do not have any other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol...(etc)
#2: You shall not make wrongful use of the name of your God.
#10 is split in to two lower down.
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Preface: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery
#1: Do not have any other gods before me.
#2: You shall not make for yourself an idol...(etc)
#3: You shall not make wrongful use of the name of your God.
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#1: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Do not have any other gods before me.
#2: You shall not make for yourself an idol...(etc)
#3: You shall not make wrongful use of the name of your God.
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