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To: jlallen who wrote (55279)	7/2/1999 3:15:00 PM
From: Achilles	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Thanks for the quick response, JLA. But it is kind of hard to put your interpretation of #1 'in the gas-tank' (so to speak). Is this an encouragement to pursue true religion? or a prohibition against pursuing false religion? And (more importantly in the context of this particular discussion), is this an instruction that you as an American are comfortable with your government issuing? On #2, yes, I think that is normally the way that modern believers extract meaning from this text: graven images means don't put anything above God. Of course, the historian might object that the commandment existed for several thousand years before it was subjected to that interpretation, but that would be hypercritical. A nit picker, of course, might object that this text doesn't say that its ok to have idols as long as they are of secondary importance to God (i.e., it's ok for Mammon to be important to you as long as it's less important than the Almighty): Jehovah here is not asking to be the top god but the only one.