What is your understanding on this commandment?
"Why is 'You shall have no other gods before me' in the Ten Commandments?"
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Man has free will allowing him to choose between options.
The Bible verse you refer to tells those who have chosen to believe in God that they must not take other things or beings as God, that He God is strictly one and only. and they must not deviate from that
The arrogantly rebellious streak in man is such that “even if they were to see every sign [of the truth], they would not believe in it, so if they see the path of rectitude, they do not choose to follow it-whereas, if they see a path [full of their desires, though it may be a path] of error, they take it as the path [for them]” HQ 7:146
For example even though in Isaiah 43:11 God clearly declares “I, even I, am the Lord, and besides Me there is no saviour.” many have taken a creation of God as their saviour
1- “Like you, they are wrong about many things” ---- since you claim to follow only what comes from your “authoritative body” one might think that your judgemental statement I just quoted must have come from that “authoritative body” Well actually that can’t be so unless your “authoritative body” is as self-contradictory as you are. Your “authoritative body” has issued a clear public declaration not only that "The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator”, but that “IN THE FIRST PLACE amongst [them] are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind's judge on the last day." (that’s in CCC841 of your “authoritative body” that is Catechism 841 of the Catholic Church)
2- “until "he puts away the things (limited understandings) of a child." ----- So you are an adult matured beyond needing scripture and get your instructions directly from God while those who look to scripture to find out what their religion is saying are stuck at the child stage. I think you really can’t see the arrogance in that. If religion/God is a delusion, as some claim, then getting your instructions directly from God must be taking that “delusion” to its ultimate limit. There's very little to stop someone of your belief entrusted with power from, say, turning off the water supply to and killing off a community because God told him to do so.
If you have nothing reasonable to add to this discussion then I’m out.At various points the author calls attention to the penalty incurred by those who refuse to accept any of the articles therein set down.
The Father Incomprehensible, the Son Incomprehensible, and the Holy Ghost Incomprehensible
So likewise the Father is Almighty, the Son Almighty, and the Holy Ghost Almighty. And yet they are not Three Almighties but One Almighty.
So there is One Father, not Three Fathers; one Son, not Three Sons; One Holy Ghost, not Three Holy Ghosts. And in this Trinity none is afore or after Other, None is greater or less than Another, but the whole Three Persons are Co-eternal together, and Co-equal
Who, then, is the author? The results of recent inquiry make it highly probable that the Creed first saw the light in the fourth century, during the life of the great Eastern patriarch, or shortly after his death
The "damnatory", or "minatory clauses", are the pronouncements contained in the symbol, of the penalties which follow the rejection of what is there proposed for our belief. It opens with one of them: "Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith". The same is expressed in the verses beginning: "Furthermore, it is necessary" etc., and "For the right Faith is" etc., and finally in the concluding verse: "This is the Catholic Faith, which except a man believe faithfully and firmly, he cannot be saved". Just as the Creed states in a very plain and precise way what the Catholic Faith is concerning the important doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation, so it asserts with equal plainness and precision what will happen to those who do not faithfully and steadfastly believe in these revealed truths..
.From a dogmatic standpoint, the merely historical question of the authorship of the Creed, or of the time it made its appearance, is of secondary consideration. The fact alone that it is approved by the Church as expressing its mind on the fundamental truths with which it deals, is all we need to know.