Pastor has mentioned on various occasions that he likes "You shall have no other gods" much better than the older catechism which said "You shall have no other gods before Me." He says that, as a child, he thought it sounded like "You shall have no other gods before Me" meant that it was okay to have other gods, so long as you kept the true God as #1.
And yet, maybe that's the way it is.
Maybe that's the way it has to be.
Not that it's okay to have other gods.
But that we recognize that we do have other gods.
And that we always will in this life.
And having other gods does not mean we're not Christians.
It just means that we're Christians plagued by the Old Adam.
Having other gods is sinful and must be repented.
But struggling with that sin does not mean we are altogether lost.
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