Jul 16, 2026 · 38 min · 9 segments
Alice explores how the third commandment emphasises that in Christ we become fully human, even as Jesus fully represents the Father.
Okay, so today we're going to look at the third one, which has been, all of them are pretty misrepresented, but this one is probably the most misrepresented commandment, because some translations are, you shall not take the Lord's name in vain.
Is everyone in agreement that that's what we think blasphemy is, when you use religious terms as a kind of expression of frustration, expletively? It's actually really not that at all.
So that's why this is quite an exciting one.
It's actually about becoming fully human.
Can we all just say that? Becoming fully human.
So it's a body of humanity called the ancient Israelites who were designed to represent heaven on earth, represent Yahweh in human form.
That's the third commandment.
So the first two are don't worship other gods.
And then the third one is therefore be fully human.
Be yourself because when you are fully human, you will represent me and therefore who you are supposed to be.
So it's... about understanding this idea of name.
So you might have come across this sort of multiple movements, not in my name and not in our name.
It began with US citizens who were maybe anxious or critical of President Bush's foreign policy responses in the aftermath of 9-11.
So he declared a war on terror, and then there were a lot of kind of movements that came out of that saying, not in my name.
So that was about communities and democratic countries saying what the government is doing on their behalf does not represent them, doesn't represent their will.
But this also affected religions as well.
So on the bottom left...
We have a movement that was in Islam where Muslim men and women were saying, not in my name, to some of the practices of ISIS.
So that wasn't like a democratically elected government, but it was a religion that they identified with, that also ISIS identified with, and were doing things that other Muslims were saying, not in my name.
So there's something about representation through the name.
Okay, so today we're going to look at the third one, which has been, all of them are pretty misrepresented, but this one is probably the most misrepresented commandment, because some translations are, you shall not take the Lord's name in vain.
Is everyone in agreement that that's what we think blasphemy is, when you use religious terms as a kind of expression of frustration, expletively? It's actually really not that at all.
So that's why this is quite an exciting one.
It's actually about becoming fully human.
Can we all just say that? Becoming fully human.
So it's a body of humanity called the ancient Israelites who were designed to represent heaven on earth, represent Yahweh in human form.
That's the third commandment.
So the first two are don't worship other gods.
And then the third one is therefore be fully human.
Be yourself because when you are fully human, you will represent me and therefore who you are supposed to be.
So it's... about understanding this idea of name.
So you might have come across this sort of multiple movements, not in my name and not in our name.
It began with US citizens who were maybe anxious or critical of President Bush's foreign policy responses in the aftermath of 9-11.
So he declared a war on terror, and then there were a lot of kind of movements that came out of that saying, not in my name.
So that was about communities and democratic countries saying what the government is doing on their behalf does not represent them, doesn't represent their will.
But this also affected religions as well.
So on the bottom left...
We have a movement that was in Islam where Muslim men and women were saying, not in my name, to some of the practices of ISIS.
So that wasn't like a democratically elected government, but it was a religion that they identified with, that also ISIS identified with, and were doing things that other Muslims were saying, not in my name.
So there's something about representation through the name.
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