The Third of the Ten Commandments is Related to God’s Most Holy Name Alone:
You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. (Exo 20:7)
Elsewhere we read of God’s unique and most high name:
Let them praise the name of the LORD, for his name alone is exalted; his splendor is above the earth and the heavens. (Psa 148:13)
…you have exalted above all things your name and your word. (Psa 138:2)
…your name alone do we honor. (Isa 26:13)
No one is like you, O LORD; you are great, and your name is mighty in power. (Jer 10:6)
…your adversaries misuse your name. (Psa 139:20)
Some believe those truths are under severe attack. How? The Catholic Magisterium teaches to misuse Mary’s name violates the command to not misuse God’s name!
2146 The second commandment forbids the abuse of God’s name, i.e., every improper use of the names of God, Jesus Christ, but also of the Virgin Mary and all the saints. (CCC 2146)
FYI, What the Catholic church calls the ‘second commandment’ there is actually the third commandment. The Catholic church ignores the real second commandment for obvious reasons:
You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not BOW DOWN to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments. (Exo 20:4-6)
“The Likeness of Male or Female” OMITTED
Shocking but true – note the following quote and especially the three dots (ellipsis), which indicates missing words in the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
2129 The divine injunction included the prohibition of every representation of God by the hand of man. Deuteronomy explains: “Since you saw no form on the day that the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire, beware lest you act corruptly by making a graven image for yourselves, in the form of any figure. . . . “ It is the absolutely transcendent God who revealed himself to Israel. “He is the all,” but at the same time “he is greater than all his works.” He is “the author of beauty.” (CCC 2129)
The footnote attached to that ellipsis, as just mentioned, is Deut. 4:15-16 and that passage reads:
Therefore watch yourselves very carefully. Since you saw no form on the day that the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire, beware lest you act corruptly by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, THE LIKENESS OF MALE OR FEMALE.
The Catholic magisterium wants to conceal those 6 words, the likeness of male or female, because they themselves continue to violate that command with their millions of images in the form of male and female.
Getting back to God’s name being misused, the third of the Ten commandments (not the second one) is the one related to God’s holy name. Here it is again:
You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. (Exo 20:7)
Had God wanted to include sinful man’s name to an equal importance with his own sacred name it would state so, but it surely does not. Just the thought of sinful people being elevated to the unique importance of God’s most high and exalted name is disturbing. Again, scripture says:
…you have exalted above all things your name and your word. (Psa 138:2)
The compound problem there is: the Catholic teaching not only lowers and devaluates Almighty God’s name to the level of Mary and the names of Catholic saints, but lethally elevates their names to be on a par with God’s most high name to not be misused. That too has led people into an idolatrous view of his sinful creation, including Mary.
Mary is “the All-Holy One” in Catholicism
BTW, Catholicism also wrongly teaches Mary was sinless and is the All-Holy One:
493 The Fathers of the Eastern tradition call the Mother of God “the All-Holy” (Panagia), and celebrate her as “free from any stain of sin, as though fashioned by the Holy Spirit and formed as a new creature”. By the grace of God Mary remained free of every personal sin her whole life long. (CCC 493)
2677 Holy Mary, Mother of God: With Elizabeth we marvel, “And why is this granted me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?” Because she gives us Jesus, her son, Mary is Mother of God and our mother; we can entrust all our cares and petitions to her: she prays for us as she prayed for herself: “Let it be to me according to your word.” By entrusting ourselves to her prayer, we abandon ourselves to the will of God together with her: “Thy will be done.”
Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death: By asking Mary to pray for us, we acknowledge ourselves to be poor sinners and we address ourselves to the “Mother of Mercy,” the All-Holy One. We give ourselves over to her now, in the Today of our lives. And our trust broadens further, already at the present moment, to surrender “the hour of our death” wholly to her care. May she be there as she was at her son’s death on the cross. May she welcome us as our mother at the hour of our passing to lead us to her son, Jesus, in paradise. (CCC 2677)
The exaltation of Mary, as demonstrated above, is in direct opposition to God’s word, for God alone is the Holy One (Isa. 1:4; Ezek. 39:7; Hos. 11:9; etc.), and we should never pray to Mary. Scripture also states the following attribute about God:
Who will not fear you, O Lord, and bring glory to your name? For YOU ALONE ARE HOLY. All nations will come and worship before you, for your righteous acts have been revealed. (Rev 15:4)
Let them know that you, whose name is the LORD– that YOU ALONE ARE THE MOST HIGH over all the earth. (Psa 83:18)
Let them praise the name of the LORD, for his name ALONE is exalted; his splendor is above the earth and the heavens. (Psa 148:13)
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, (Rom 3:23)
If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives. (1 John 1:10)
For the Catholic magisterium to claim Mary has never sinned is to call God a liar and to show his word has no place in their lives, based on 1 John 1:10. Mary was not sinless and our trust and hope must not be in her for anything, especially our soul’s salvation. We must have a trusting and submitting faith in the PRECIOUS Lord Jesus, the Savior. That means 100% trust and submissive faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and 0% in Mary, the sacraments and being a Catholic. Get more here https://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/catholic.htm
