Decoding the 10 Commandments: What Rome Changed

In an attempt to support the SDA retelling of history regarding the sabbath, Doug Batchelor evidences he didn't do his homework and clearly borrowed quotes that either he or his assistant found online and parroted. We fact check these claims with the sources and see who is and isn't being truthful with history.

CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Intro: Doug Batchelor
1:18 - Doug's Theological Presentation
3:24 - Exploring the Catholic Encyclopedia
6:45 - Augustine's Commandment Count
7:40 - Origen's Commandment Interpretation
11:28 - 2nd Commandment Removal Controversy
12:19 - Avoiding Bad Arguments with Roman Catholics
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The Gospel of Jesus Christ:
Man is a sinner (Romans 3:23; 1 John 1:8) and our sin has separated us from our Maker (Isaiah 59:2). In His grace, God entered into His own creation in the person of Jesus Christ (John 1:1-14; Col. 1:19), born of a virgin (Matt. 1:23), and lived a perfect and sinless life, fulfilling all the Law’s demands (2 Cor. 5:21; Matt. 5:17), on a mission by God the Father to save sinners from condemnation (John 3:16-18, 6:37-40). He paid the penalty for sin which is death (Romans 6:23) and bore the sins of His people in His body on a cross (1 Peter 2:24), making propitiation by His blood (Romans 3:25). He died, was buried, and resurrected in the same body He died in on the third day for our justification (1 Cor. 15, Romans 4:25; Luke 24:39). By a living faith (James 2:18) in the Person and Work of Jesus (Romans 10:9-10), God graciously declares a person righteous (Romans 4:5), they are reconciled to their Creator (Romans 5:10-11), given Christ’s righteousness in full (Phil. 3:8-9), sealed with the Holy Spirit (Eph. 1:13), and have peace with God (Romans 5:1). They are born again of the Spirit (1 John 5:1, Titus 3:5), adopted into His family (Eph. 4:5–7), and are granted eternal resurrection life in Jesus Christ (1 John 5:11), set free to do good works that please Him (Eph. 2:10; 1 John 2:3-4). Jesus will physically return one day to judge the living and the dead (1 Peter 4:5; Acts 24:15; John 5:24-5), throwing the wicked out of His Kingdom (Matt. 13:41-3), but His people will be spared from the wrath to come (1 Thess. 1:10) to dwell in union with God forever (Rev. 21:3).

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[Adrian_Mason]

At 00:16 the full photo is shown but Douge ignores it at 00:30 🤔

[hotwax]

I don't know if you also noticed this, but when the 4th commandment appears in that photo it clearly says "the seventh day is the Sabbath" if you look closely, yet Doug claims in that same presentation that the Catholic Church "changed" the Sabbath from the seventh day to the first. Judging by that fact alone, I have to conclude that he's being intentionally dishonest rather than ignorant, ruling out Hanlon's razor. And in any case, when Adventists invoke the Ten Commandments, they're almost always specifically referring to the Sabbath commandment, not to all ten, so when they say that the Catholic Church "changed the Ten Commandments, " they could just as easily mean in some cases that the Catholic Church changed the Sabbath (which is also false: we have records of the early church father holding weekly worship on Sundays, well before the modern Catholic Church was formed).

While we're on the subject, I have a related story to tell within my own family and experience growing up in Adventism. My gma was the first in my immediate family to convert to Adventism in the 1970s, and as she went, so went the rest of them. Her oldest son, my uncle, later became a minister in the LCMS, and on several occasions she confronted him with this exact same issue of "changing the Ten Commandments" by combining the first and second while splitting the tenth. She also (in her misunderstanding) thought they had deleted the fourth. My uncle explained to her in a way I found convincing that they were the same Ten Commandments that were simply divided differently (since having other gods is idolatry by definition and they need to divide one in order to keep ten total). I still have a conviction on keeping the seventh-day Sabbath and disagree with that division of the Ten Commandments, but to say they were "changed" is simply false.

[sarahkatelingerfelt]

Adventism is a house of cards, thank you for all your work and dedication exposing the leaders who who exploit emotionally and financially with misinformation.

[otgenesis]

I had a debate with an sda about this very topic today. What a mess that was

[katrinalucas]

Well interestingly... I have been watching a Jewish messianic teacher Tom Bradford who states that in the original Hebrew in the margin are numbers, which show the first commandment (actually properly interpreted as words, cos they have a differentword for commandments) is actually God stating his name YHWH and he is responsible for getting them out if Egypt. The second is actually the combining of no other God's and no idols. He states how important it was that Israel knew who God was. So even adds to the complications of SDA teaching. I certainly believed what they said on this subject.... makes me wonder what else has been manipulated 😢

[craigsherman]

The Catholic Church did not change the 10 Commandments, they are in every Catholic Bible. The Catholic Church also declares idolatry a mortal sin.

The first commandment condemns polytheism. It requires man neither to believe in, nor to venerate, other divinities than the one true God. Scripture constantly recalls this rejection of “idols, [of] silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see.” These empty idols make their worshippers empty: “Those who make them are like them; so are all who trust in them.”* God, however, is the “living God”* who gives life and intervenes in history. - The First Commandment, CCC 2112

Idolatry not only refers to false pagan worship. It remains a constant temptation to faith. Idolatry consists in divinizing what is not God. Man commits idolatry whenever he honors and reveres a creature in place of God, whether this be gods or demons (for example, satanism), power, pleasure, race, ancestors, the state, money, etc. Jesus says, “You cannot serve God and mammon.”* Many martyrs died for not adoring “the Beast”* refusing even to simulate such worship. Idolatry rejects the unique Lordship of God; it is therefore incompatible with communion with God.* - The First Commandment, CCC 2113

Well, so much for removing that teaching from the 1st Commandment.

[eternity_dabu]

Baptist
Dr. Edward T. Hiscox, a paper read before a New York ministers' conference, Nov. 13, 1893. reported in New York Examiner, Nov. 16, 1893. "There was and is a commandment to keep holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day was not Sunday. It will be said, however, and with some show of triumph, that the Sabbath was transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week .... Where can the record of such a transaction be found? Not in the New Testament - absolutely not. Dr. Edward T. Hiscox New York Examiner
"To me it seems unaccountable that Jesus, during three years' intercourse, with His disciples, often conversing with them upon the Sabbath question ... never alluded to any transference of the day; also, that during forty days of His resurrection life, no such thing was intimated.
"Of course, I quite well know that Sunday did come into use in early Christian history ... But what a pity it comes branded with the mark of paganism, and christened with the name of the sun god, adopted and sanctioned by the papal apostasy, and bequeathed as a sacred legacy to Protestantism!"

William Owen Carver, The Lord's Day in Our Day, p. 49. "There was never any formal or authoritative change from the Jewish seventh-day Sabbath to the Christian first-day observance." William Owen Carver The Lord's Day in Our Day

[sbblando]

I don't think you're Catholic. But thank you for doing your research and giving the Catholic side on this issue. Accusations like this are often repeated over and over.

[eternity_dabu]

PROTESTANT CONFESSIONS
The following quotations are from Protestants. Undoubtedly all of these noted clergymen, scholars, and writers kept Sunday, but they all frankly admit that there is no Biblical authority for a first-day sabbath. Protestant theologians and preachers from a wide spectrum of denominations have been quite candid in admitting that there is no Biblical authority for observing Sunday as a sabbath.
Anglican/Episcopal
Isaac Williams, Plain Sermons on the Catechism, vol. 1, pp. 334, 336. "And where are we told in the Scriptures that we are to keep the first day at all? We are commanded to keep the seventh; but we are nowhere commanded to keep the first day... The reason why we keep the first day of the week holy instead of the seventh is for the same reason that we observe many other things, not because the Bible, but because the church has enjoined it." Isaac Williams Plain Sermons on the Catechism

Canon Eyton, The Ten Commandments, pp. 52, 63, 65. "There is no word, no hint, in the New Testament about abstaining from work on Sunday .... Into the rest of Sunday no divine law enters ... The observance of Ash Wednesday or Lent stands exactly on the same footing as the ovservance of Sunday." Canon Eyton The Ten Commandments

Bishop Seymour, Why We Keep Sunday. "We have made the change from the seventh day to the first day, from Saturday to Sunday, on the authority of the one holy Catholic Church." Bishop Seymour Why We Keep Sunday

[eternity_dabu]

Congregationalist
Dr. R. W. Dale, The Ten Commandments (New York: Eaton & Mains), p. 127-129. " .... it is quite clear that however rigidly or devotedly we may spend Sunday, we are not keeping the Sabbath ... The Sabbath was founded on a specific Divine command. We can plead no such command for the obligation to observe Sunday ... There is not a single sentence in the New Testament to suggest that we incur any penalty by violating the supposed sanctity of Sunday." Dr. R. W. Dale The Ten Commandments

Timothy Dwight, Theology: Explained and defended (1823), Ser. 107, vol. 3, p. 258. " ... the Christian Sabbath [Sunday] is not in the Scriptures, and was not by the primitive Church called the Sabbath." Timothy Dwight Theology: Explained and defended

Disciples of Christ
Alexander Campbell, The Christian Baptist, Feb. 2, 1824, vol. 1. no. 7, p. 164. "But, 'say some, "it was changed from the seventh to the first day. ' Where? when? and by whom? No man can tell. No; it never was changed, nor could it be, unless creation was to be gone through again: for the reason assigned must be changed before the observance, or respect to the reason, can be changed! It is all old wives' fables to talk of the change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day. If it be changed, it was that august personage changed it who changes times and laws ex officio - I think his name is Doctor Antichrist." Alexander Campbell The Christian Baptist ex officio Doctor Antichrist

First Day Ovservance, pp. 17, 19. "The first day of the week is commonly called the Sabbath. This is a mistake. The Sabbath of the Bible was the day just preceding the first day of the week. The first day of the week is never called the Sabbath anywhere in the entire Scriptures. It is also an error to talk about the change of the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday. There is not in any place in the Bible any intimation of such a change." First Day Ovservance,

[DaniRiti-qv]

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, And prudent in their own sight! Isaia 5, 20-21)

[thegreatcontroversychannel]

I was raised Catholic, so no surprise to me that Catholics teach that Christians should obey all ten of the Ten Commandments. That is how I came to accept the actual Sabbath once I was shown that Sunday is not the seventh day.

[umabrijmohun]

Silly me, I did a Bible study with Doug, Amazing Facts and joined SDA well that taught me a lesson never listen to these preachers but rather study the Bible for ourselves .. Doug is a blind guide

[richardkramer]

Read all the Catholic documents and then read the king James version Bible and make your own decision.

[kipchorngwonektiroto]

Batchelor,
SHOULD I BELIVE E.G. WHITRE OR THE BIBLE?
There is much in the writings of E.G. White that is unbiblical.
Examples:
1. Was the plan of salvation made before or after the fall?
E.G. White says AFTER the fall (Great Controversy, p.347)
The Bible says BEFORE (Ephesians 1:4:; 1 Peter 1:18)
Should I believe EGW or the Bible?
2. Was Adam deceived by Satan? E.G.
White says YES (Evangelism, p. 598)
The Bible says NOPE (1 Timothy 2:14)
Should I believe EGW or the Bible?
3. Did pre-flood human beings mate with animals to produce amalgamated creatures?
E.G. White says YES (Spiritual Gifts Vol. 3, p 64 )
The Bible says NOPE (Genesis 1:24-25- Nowhere in the Bible is it indicated there was amalgamation of human beings and animals before the flood)
Should I believe EGW or the Bible?
4. Was the tower of Babel built before or after the flood?
E.G. White says BEFORE (Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 119)
The Bible says AFTER (Genesis 11:4)
Should I believe EGW or the Bible? 4.
Who bears human's sins?
E.G. White says SATAN (The Great Controversy, p. 422, 485-486)
The Bible says JESUS (1 Peter 2:24)
Should I believe EGW or the Bible?
I have read so much of what EGW wrote and what others in the church and outside have written about her writings. She calls her writings "little light" that lead people to "greater light", the Bible. The truth is her writings are leading me away from the Bible. Should I believe the Bible or clear heresies of E.G. White?

[ksgraham]

"APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION"
where is that in the Scriptures?

[drluk]

😂😂😂. Coveting is just coveting, whether wife or money. Just like stealing is just stealing, whether a coin or a note

[jamesbond]

Oh … no… another who gives free room and board to the SDA Church and gives them free advertising. My dear friend..without the Holy Spirit u cannot understand the Word. You claim biblical evidence for the change of Sabbath to SUNday…??😂😂

[iangreen]

That sabbath commandment still says the seventh day.

[maureenmonteith]

Acts 5:39 KJV
But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.


The Seventh-day is the Sabbath of the Lord.


The forefathers you mentioned are not the voice of God!