Is the Second Commandment Obsolete? - D Paul Graunke - February 1976

D Paul Graunke

EARLY CHRISTIANS were reserved in explicitly depicting Christ, choosing instead such symbols as the lamb. In 1956 Hollywood made a highly successful movie on the life of Moses and the emancipation of ancient Israel called The Ten Commandments. If religious epics are ever again in vogue, they ought to make a movie on the history of the post-New Testament era of church history and call it The Ten Amendments. It would depict how Christianity through the centuries has paid much lip and liturgical service to the Ten Commandments, while often amending, revising, or wholesale abandoning them in doctrine and actual practice. Naturally, Hollywood would concentrate on lapses of the commandments concerning murder and adultery. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library