That power belongeth unto God

[Pastor Rune Enoe]

Brethren & Sistren, let's consider one of the greatest (and most overlooked) miracles in the Bible - the 4th commandment.

The 10 commandments are listed twice in the Bible:

Exodus 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Deuteronomy 5:12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.

It would appear there's a small contradiction: What were God's actual words? Did He say "remember" or "Keep". Only one of them can be true; He can't have it both ways. Or can He?

Of course, He can. There's not a thing God cannot do. Ancient Rabbinic literature has decided that God spake both words simultaneously, or in Rashi's words, "The words “remember (זָכוֹר)” and “keep (שָׁמוֹר)” (Deut. 5:12) were pronounced with one utterance." (link)

"With one utterance"!! This means that God spake the two words at once. Exodus and Deuteronomy are both true. Or as the Bible phrases it:

Psalm 62:11 God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.

There's a message here for all the scoffers, Catholics, wickers and atheists, who plague this board: Whenever you ERRONEOUSLY think you have found a contradiction in the Bible - you have only proved the omnipotence of God. That power belongeth unto God!

[Bobby-Joe]

Re: That power belongeth unto

Excellent post Brother Prune. You point out the key point that separates the saved from the damned; the realization that God speaks out of both sides of His divine face at once! Thus do you get the ark having two and seven of every animal; threw the Godly power of Divine doublespeak! PRAISE!

[Brother Temperance]

That power belongeth unto God

Brethren & Sistren, let's consider one of the greatest (and most overlooked) miracles in the Bible - the 4th commandment.

The 10 commandments are listed twice in the Bible:

Exodus 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Deuteronomy 5:12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.

It would appear there's a small contradiction: What were God's actual words? Did He say "remember" or "Keep". Only one of them can be true; He can't have it both ways. Or can He?
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There's a message here for all the scoffers, Catholics, wickers and atheists, who plague this board: Whenever you ERRONEOUSLY think you have found a contradiction in the Bible - you have only proved the omnipotence of God. That power belongeth unto God!

An excellent post. But while we're at it, it may be wise to "remember" what happens to those who don't keep the sabbath day:
Numbers 15:32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.

33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
34 And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.
35 And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp. 36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.

Frankly, unless you believe the death penalty should be reinstated for working on Sunday, you have no right to call yourself a Christian.

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

Re: That power belongeth unto God

Another excellent sermon, Pastor. When people see "contradictions" or "absurdities" in the Bible, that doesn't prove that the Bible is false; instead, it proves that those people are damned:

I Cor. 2:11-14: For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.

Remember that the next time Mrs. Van Helltopay or some other scoffer tries to point out "contradictions" or "absurdities" in the Bible.