Brother Don,

If your reading of the second commandment is correct, then there is no essential difference between 1)--have no other gods, and 2)--don't make any other gods. I think that's a serious misreading of the text. The 2nd Commandment needs to move us along to the next step, namely what is and is not proper worship for the One God.

I wish I were more convincing or persuasive. If you (or others) are interested, beside the exposition of the law found in the Larger Catechism, there are a number of excellent expositions of the law by some outstanding Puritan exegetes, such as Thomas Watson, or even earlier by John Calvin. Later teachers in the same vein have been pretty consistent.

God bless your studies in his Word.

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Rev. Bruce G. Buchanan
ChainOLakes Presbyterian Church, CentralLake, MI


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