emo:
1. Moving away from abuse is easier said than done - especially for a child. Also, do you mean that because I still felt compassion for my parents, I'm not actually breaking the 5th commandment?
I could imagine how tough that would be especially as the child is innocent and doesn't have anyone to take a stand. I don't see how you were breaking the law. You still care about your parents. It was hard enough as it was to understand what injustice was done in the first place.
2.No wonder I couldn't find the passage - it was nowhere near the burning bush! In the Exodus passages you mention, LORD is translated from Yahweh, not Elohim (which could be interpreted 'lord') so this doesn't address
Actually this is what I meant: this is about the burning bush story
Exodus 3:15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, the LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
....my dilemma or the confusion with the NT passages which seem on reading to imply that Jesus and God aren't the same.
Many people have the wrong idea of who Christ is and why He came to earth. This keeps them from really knowing, not only Jesus Christ, but the Father as well. While He was on earth, Jesus answered some of them:
"Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also" (John 8:19).
The official Jehovah's Witness position is that Jesus Christ is not God. Unfortunately the wording of some passages in the New World Translation has been based on this opinion rather than on the actual words of the original.
Christ is called God in the New Testament!
"But unto the Son he saith, 'Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom" (Heb. 1:8).
HIB
