In this case, it is "yes" under certain specific circumstances, and "no" under others. No doubt, however, it is just easier---and involves less actual thinking---for you to simply ignore the literary context altogether.
I suggest you enroll in a Remedial Literacy class immediately.
Gaudium de veritate,
Cruciform
+T+
I don't know how much clearer God or Jesus could have said it.
Exodus 20:4-5 4 “You
shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 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 parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
Matthew 23:9 9 And
do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven.
Tell me, If your Dad had told you that you shall not go to a party and you went anyway reasoning that your Dad didn't mean that specific party, would he have been pleased with you going?