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"Thou shalt not take the name of the L ORD thy God in vain" (KJV; also "You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God" and variants, Biblical Hebrew: לֹא תִשָּׂא אֶת-שֵׁם-יהוה אֱלֹהֶיךָ לַשָּׁוְא, romanized: Lōʾ t̲iśśāʾ ʾet̲-šēm-YHWH ʾĕlōhēḵā laššāwəʾ ) is the second or third (depending on numbering) of God's ...
Rather than use an idol, God chose to reveal himself in words, by working through people, and by working in history. [36] According to the Book of Joshua, Abraham came from a land and a family that worshiped strange gods. [37] However, when their God revealed himself to Abraham and called him to leave his native land for Canaan, he did so. [38]
Religious disaffiliation is the act of leaving a faith, or a religious group or community. It is in many respects the reverse of religious conversion.Several other terms are used for this process, though each of these terms may have slightly different meanings and connotations.
Turning away: "Apostasy is also pictured as the heart turning away from God (Jeremiah 17:5–6) and righteousness (Ezekiel 3:20). In the OT it centers on Israel's breaking covenant relationship with God through disobedience to the law (Jeremiah 2:19), especially following other gods (Judges 2:19) and practicing their immorality (Daniel 9:9–11 ...
At this, Jesus said to him, “Get away, Satan! It is written: ‘The Lord, your God, shall you worship, and him alone shall you serve.’” In the King James Version of the Bible, the text reads: Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
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In the Hebrew Bible, the term repentance comes from the Hebrew word group that means "turn away from". [5]: 1007 David Lambert believes that "It is in the writings of rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity that it attains the status of a technical term, a basic item of an emerging religious lexicon".
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