There are a couple of really nice Lutheran ladies from Bellata who visit our shop from time to time. They normally buy cards (6 months supply at a time), but just before Christmas they bought a children's book called "The Lord's Prayer and Ten Commandments" It's a really nice little book for little children.
Quite tentatively they asked if they could return it "because they've got the commandments wrong." That seemed a bit odd, I thought. They explained that the book seemed to join two of the commandments about coveting together and then split out two of the others. They were teaching the children from the Lutheran Catechism and it would "confuse the kiddies" to have two different sets.
I looked at the book and then went and looked up Exodus 20, and surprisingly the book followed the text. So then I checked the list in Deuteronomy 5, and it was exactly the same.
It appears that the catechism is wrong and the little book was right- or perhaps their recollection of the catechism was awry. They said they would bring the catechism in and show it to me. They bought quite a few books so it wan't a hardship to return the one they didn't like.
I find my life is rather amusing at the moment!
It looks like a wonderful book. I'm always on the lookout for not-to-expensive books for my grandchildren, and I trust your recommendation. I ordered it just now and found it would ship from Florida and should arrive on my grandchildren's doorstep on February 27! Oh and by the way, my grandchildren go to Christ Lutheran Church! :lol:
ReplyDeleteI hope you don't have any disagreements on the correct number of commandments then!
ReplyDeleteI frequent the Adventist church here in Brazil, a Lutheran family that converted to Adventism, and the commandments have some changes, a venerable old man Lutheran was in explaining that the day of the guard is not specified in the your Bible so they kept Lutheran to Friday
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