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First and Second Commandment

God's name

Yahweh

Definition of Yahweh

I Am Who I am

Who and where did God reveal his name in the Old Testament?

Moses on Mount Sinai

Trinity of Persons

Father, Son, Holy Spirit

Old Testament; Yahweh
New Testament;

Father-Son-Holy Spirit

God's name indicates

Nature (He Who Is)

God's title refers to

Activity

God's Titles

Adonai
Elohim
Sabaoth
El Shaddai

Adonai

The Master of the Universe

Elohim

Lord of Power and Might

Sabaoth

Lord of the Heavenly Armies

El Shaddai

The Provider

When, who and where are Jews allowed to pronounce God's Name?

Yahweh was so holy that the scribes decided that it could only be pronounced once a year (Day of Atonement) by the High Priest in the most holy temple.

When were Israelites allowed to utter the name of God outside Holy Temples?

Israelites are prohibited to utter God's name outside of Holy Temples and say his title, Adonai in prayers and scriptures.

One of God's name that is a pseudonym obtained by intersecting the consonants of the name, Yahweh (YHWH) and the title, Adonai (AOA).

Jehovah

Founder of Jehovah's Witness

Charles Taze Russell in 1870

Definition and Origin of Kyrios

Means "The Lord." Yahweh and Adonai translated Hebrew to Greek in the Septuagint (Bible).

This word is avoided because it was used in reference to Olympian Gods.

Theos

Title used to identify God the father, as well as Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.

Kyrios

Writers of the New Testament; Greek
Reference Bible;

Septuagint

Books removed from the Old Testament by Martin Luther because they were written in Greek instead of Hebrew. These books are included in the Septuagint, which was commonly accepted by the Apostles and by the early Church.

Judith
Wisdom
Tobit
Sirach
Baruch
First Maccabees
Second Maccabees

Since the time of the apostles, this kind of bible is composed of 73 books and must have the Imprimatur of a bishop in the copyright page.

Catholic Bible

No. of books in the Old Testament

46

No. of books in the New Testament

27

This kind of bible is composed of only 66 books because Martin Luther arbitrarily removed from the Old Testament 7 Deuterocanonical Books (1529).

Protestant Bible

Real reason Martin Luther removed the 7 Deuterocanonical Books.

2 Maccabees spoke of Purgatory, which he did not believe.

Second Commandment

You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain

Positive Commands

Sanctifying God's Name
Taking Oaths & Vows

Negative Commands

Blasphemy
Perjury
Profanation

To honor God's Name by means of prayer, preaching, and practicing holiness of life

Sanctifying God's Name

To make pledges and promises in God's Name

Taking Oaths & Vows

To use God's Name in interjections and curses

Blasphemy

To lie under oath or to disregard a pledge

Perjury

To use God's Name for sacrilegious purposes

Profanation

Ways to Sanctify the Name of God?

Prayer
Preaching
Practicing

Praising God's Name

Prayer

Proclaiming God's name

Preaching

Living in God's name

Practicing

Activity that sanctifies the name of God

Prayer is invokes to atone for our sins, praise and adore him, ask for petitions and intercessions, and to give thanks for his many blessings.

Nature wherein the prayer is addressed to the Father, through the Son, in the Spirit.

Trinitarian

Prayer that is considered Trinitarian

Christian Prayer

King in the Bible who sanctified God's Name by Prayer

King David

A task we must do whenever we preach the Word of God

Sanctify the name of God because we make it known.

Greatest promoter of the name of God who promoted the Christogram "IHS" throughout the whole world and sanctified God's name by Preaching

St. Bernardine of Siena

IHS Extended and its Definition

Iesus Hominum Salvator - Jesus the Savior of men

Reason Practicing sanctifies the name of God

We inspire others to become holy and to praise him.

Saint who sanctified God's Name by Practicing holiness of life

St. Joseph

Pledges made to man in God's Name

Oaths

Solemn promises made directly to God

Vows

Reason Jews took their oaths

In the name of Yahweh

First oath maker who requested his servant to put his hand under his thigh in taking an oath

Abraham

Name of Abraham's servant

Eliezer

Location Greeks used to make their oaths

Temples of their many gods

Most famous oath taken by the physicians promising to practice medicine with integrity

Hippocratic Oath

Location Romans used to take oaths on

Jupiter Stone located in his Temple in Rome

Device where oath-makers are requested to insert their hands in, asking for the hand to be crushed in case of perjury

Mouth of Truth

People who take oaths by raising their right hand and placing the left on the Bible.

Christian Countries

Voluntary pledge that some Jews take to consecrate a period of their life exclusively to God

Nazirite Vow

Three basic rules Nazirites follow

Abstinence from alcohol
Refrain from cutting the hair on the head
Avoiding touching corpses or graves

Three most famous cases of Nazirites in the Bible

Samson
Samuel
John the Baptist

Bible character who was a Nazirite from birth

Samson

Solemn promises of perpetual and exclusive fidelity that the Bride and the Groom make to God during the Sacrament of Matrimony

Marriage Vows

Three solemn promises of Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience, profesed by the Religius to consecrate their life to the Lord

Religious Vows

Evangelical Counsels

Poverty
Chastity
Obedience

Sin that may become unforgivable and is considered gravely serious that it was punishable with death in the Old Testament

Blasphemy

Act of lying under oath, or of disregarding a pledge.

Perjury

Saint who committed Perjury when he denied three times under oath that he knew Jesus

St. Peter

US President who was accused of Perjury for lying under oath about his extramarital affair with Monica Lewinski (1998)

Bill Clinton

Act condemned by Jesus and commanded not to swear at all and be truthful at all times

Perjury

Priests and the religious who break their perpetual promises, as well as married persons who have separated from their spouse without a serious cause are guilty of this negative command.

Perjury

Archbishop who broke his vows when he married Maria Sung in 2001

Archbishop Melingo

% of Catholic Marriages that end up in divorce or illegal separation, worldwide

15%

Activities of Profanation

Vulgar shows and jokes, for the practice of divination, or in association with false deities

Sylvester Stallon and fellow ageing actors committed a negative command by imitating the Last Supper

Profanation

Singer who is fond of using the name of Jesus and of holy things in vain and her art name is a Profanation against the Virgin Mary

Madonna

"Like a Prayer" and "the Confession Tour" are examples of this negative command

Profanation

Members of the heretic sect profane the name of God by worshipping Jose Rizal as a divine being and the reincarnation of Jesus Christ

Rizalistas

We receive this at Baptism, which should identify our mission and inspiration in life.

Christian Name

Man whos name was changed into Peter since his mission was to become the Rock of the Church

Simon

Mission of the name "Peter"

"Rock of the Church"

The Church recommends that this is not foreign to Christian sentiments. Sacred and lasts for all eternity and should not be substituted with a nickname.

Baptismal Name

Name of God

Yahweh

Achievement of god that led to the production of the 10 Commandments.

Bringing the Jews out of the Land of Egypt.

Commandments relation to god and man.

The commandments are a covenant between god and his people.

Why does the first commandment start with an introduction?

Follows pattern of ancient royal agreements: king reveals his name and important deeds; in return, the people are expected to render loyalty and obedience.

Does the Decalogue apply only to the Jews or to all men?

God saved the Jews from Egypt while man was saved from sin through Jesus.

Where can a person find the Decalogue?

It is inscribed in his conscience as God wrote the commandments in every human's conscience. Man will only find it if he is not blinded by ignorance or vice.

State the First Commandment.

I am the Lord your God: you shall not have strange gods before me.

List the Positive Commands (3)

Faith, hope, and love.

To know the existence and nature of God.

Faith

To wait for God as the final purpose of our life.

Hope

To worship and serve God as our Creator and Provider.

Love

List the Negative Commands (7)

Atheism & agnosticism
Polytheism & idolatry
Heresy, schism & apostasy
Satanism
Divination
Indifference, ingratitude & sacrilege
Presumption & despair

To deny God's existence or to ignore him.

Atheism & Agnosticism

To believe in and worship false idols.

Polytheism & Idolatry

To believe in false doctrine, to deny the Pope, or to abandon the Church.

Heresy, Schism & Apostasy

To adore Lucifer and his fallen angels.

Satanism

To recourse to supernatural powers, demons, or the souls of the dead to foresee the future or to influence the course of events.

Divination

To have no appreciation, concern, or respect for God.

Indifference, ingratitude & Sacrilege

To believe in self-righteousness, or to lose hope in salvation.

Presumption & Despair