CVF 4 (1st and 2nd COMMANDMENT)

• Presumption is the distortion or vice

  directly opposed to the theological

  virtue of hope. It is an unwarranted or

  habitual expectation that eternal life

  will be gained without God's assistance,

  or that salvation will be granted

  regardless of one's personal response to

  God's grace.
• 1st commandment forbids these 5 sins:

  • Polytheism and Idolatry
  • Superstition
  • Irreligion
  • Sacrilege
  • Simony
• -Sloth (lack of physical or spiritual effort)
• • Spiritual indolence (habitual love of ease and comfort, and a disposition that avoids physical movement or mental or volitional activity)
• Polytheism and idolatry, which divinizes

  creatures, power, money, or even

  demons
• Superstition which is a departure from

  the worship due to the true God and

  which also expresses itself in various

  forms of divination, magic, sorcery, and

  spiritism
• Irreligion which is evidenced: in

  tempting God by word or deed;
• in sacrilege, which profanes sacred

  persons or sacred things, above all

  the Eucharist;
• In simony, which involves the buying

  and selling of spiritual things.
• Does the commandment of God, “You shall not make for yourself a graven image”, forbid the cult of images?

  In the Old Testament this commandment forbade

  any representation of God who is absolutely transcendent.
• Name holds special importance and power; stood for a person; knowing the name of someone gave power over that person.
• God's name in Hebrew (YHWH)
• Through this name God expressed His eternal self-sufficient uniqueness, His lordship over history’s temporal

  sequence of past, present, and future, in a saving, liberating presence.
• Philippians 2:9-11

  ...so that in JESUS’ name, every knee must

  bend...and every tongue proclaim: JESUS CHRIST

  IS LORD!”
• “name in vain" -meant more than coarse language
• 4 ways to use name in vain

  Using God’s name in sorcery,

  Invoking curses on others

  Conjuring up evil spirits

  Claiming the power inherent in God’s

  personal name to do harm to others
• As Christians, we are baptized in the name of

  the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy

  Spirit