The Great Commandments Flashcards
The______ are divine positive laws
Ten Commandments
Some moral theologians categorized the Ten Commandments as a______ because, aside from the figures and letters in the Bible, these are moral laws revealed by God to Moses.
In fact, in the Old Testament there are 613 laws, according to Bible scholars, and many of them were dietary.
revealed morality
The expression “Ten Commandments” is a translation of the Hebrew “ten words” found in Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 4:13; 10:4.
Traditionally, they are known as the____ which applies to the commandments found in Deuteronomy 5:7-21 that speaks of the two tables of stone (Deuteronomy 5:22).
Decalogue
French scholar______ (1363- 1429) wanted to provide a more positive , scripture-based formation to Christians and to overcome the minimalist claims of simply avoiding sin. Thus, Gerson turned to the Ten Commandments, which he called _______
John Gerson
“the rock of Christian Ethics.”
summons man to believe in God, to worship Him, to love Him and to hope in Him above all else.
Adoring Him, praying to Him, offering Him the worship that belongs to Him, fulfilling the promise and promises and vows made to Him are acts of virtue of religion which fall under obedience to the First Commandment (nos. 2134-2135).
Thus believers are called to act according to their faith in God.
1st commandment
superstition, idolatry, divination and magic, irreligion, atheism and agnosticism in various forms violate the
First Commandment
is the deviation of religious feeling and of the practices this feeling imposes.
It can even affect the worship we offer the true God, e.g., when one attributes an importance in some way magical to certain practices otherwise lawful or necessary.
To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their more external performance, apart from the interior dispositions that they demand
Superstition
Consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, interpretation of omen and lots, the phenomenon of clairvoyance, and recourse to mediums all conceal a desire for power over time, history and, in the last analysis, other human beings, as well as a wish to conciliate hidden powers.
They contradict the honor, respect and loving fear that we owe to God alone.
Violates 1st commandment
All forms of magic or sorcery, by which one attempts to tame occult powers, is to place them at one’s service and have a supernatural power over others - even if this were for the sake of restoring their health are gravely contrary to the virtue of religion
Violates 1st commandment
Man commits______ when he tempts God by putting His goodness and almighty power to test by word or deed;
irreligion
Violates 1st
_____which consists in profaning or treating unworthily the sacraments and other liturgical actions, as well as persons, things or places consecrated to God;
sacrilege
Violates 1st C
______which is the buying or selling of spiritual things
simony
Violates 1st C
Atheism can be in different forms, like practical materialism which restricts its needs and aspirations to space and time; atheistic humanism which falsely considers man to be “an end to himself, and the soel maker, with supreme control, of his own history; and those looking for the liberation through economic and social liberation
Violates 1st C
2nd Commandment:
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain
1st commandment
You shall have no other gods before me
The______ prescribes respect for the Lord’s name. It governs our speech in sacred matters. God reveals His name and confides His name to those who believe in Him, in His personal mystery. Respect for His name is an expression of the respect owed to the mystery of God Himself and to the whole sacred reality it evokes. Thus, the sense of the sacred is part of the virtue of religion
Second Commandment
The name of the Lord is Holy. Thus, the Second Commandment forbids every improper use of God’s name such as blasphemy and false oaths which make God to be a witness of alie; perjury, untruthful and irrelevant swearing in the name of God
Violates 2nd C
Blasphemy, in itself a grave sin, consists in uttering against God - inwardly or outwardly - words of hatred, reproach, or defiance, in speaking ill of God, in failing in respect toward Him in one’s speech, in misusing God’s name. Such prohibition also extends to language against Christ’s Church, the saints, and sacred things
Violates 2nd C
3rd Commandment
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy
The seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. The Sabbath which represented the completion of the first creation, has been replaced by Sunday which recalls the new creation inaugurated by the resurrection of Christ
3rd commandment
● It is a sign of irrevocable covenant. It is set apart for the praise of God, His work of creation and His saving actions on behalf of Israel. As God rested from His six days’ creation we, who are made in His image, need time to worship God and to refresh ourselves.
● Observing the holy days of obligation is a serious duty of believers. To restrain people from the exercise of religious duties on these days is to violate a basic human right. Believers testify to their faith when they take time to celebrate the Lord’s Day.
3rd commandment
4th Commandment
Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you”
God has willed that, after Him, we should honor our parents to whom we owe life and who have handed on to us the knowledge of God.
We are obliged to honor and respect all those whom God, for our good, has vested with His authority
4th commandment
Respecting this commandment provides, along with spiritual fruits of peace and prosperity. Conversely, failure to observe it brings great harm to communities and not individuals
4th C
Also covers duties to all in authority: teachers, employers, civil and religious leaders and others to whom the community welfare is entrusted
4th c
5th Commandment
You shall not kill
reminds us that human life is sacred, it involves the creative action of God and it remains forever in a special relationship with the Creator who is its sole end.
God alone is the Lord of life from its beginning until its end.
No one under any circumstance can claim for Himself the right to directly destroy an innocent human being
5th c
All forms of murder and violence go against the ____ Commandment’s prescription.
Thus, intentional homicide, infanticide, fratricide, parricide, suicide, genocide, terrorism, abortion, euthanasia, addictive use of drugs, alcohol or other substances, and many other offenses against human life are violations of this Commandment.
5th C
This may be extended as well to unjust social structures that cause great inequalities, poverty and death of many people
5th C
6th Commandment
You shall not commit adultery
The ____ Commandment reminds us that God is love and in Himself
● He lives a mystery of personal loving communion.
Creating the human race in His own image, God inscribed the humanity of man and woman the vocation, and thus, the capacity and ability of love and communion sacramentalized by marriage
6th C
Fidelity means more than avoiding extramarital affairs. It puts the spouse first in sickness and health, in good times and bad. The conjugal act is the specific pleasure and duty reserved for the married. It is a source of sexual identity, affirmation, healing, hope and thanksgiving.’
Violates 6th C
The following are also considered as violations of the Sixth Commandment:
divorce, morally offensive separation, polygamy, incest, and free union
The Commandment
You shall not steal
The_____ Commandment forbids unjustly taking or keeping the goods of one’s neighbor and wronging him in any way with respect to his goods.
It commands justice and charity in the care of earthly goods and the fruits of men’s labor.
For the sake of the common good, it requires respect for the universal destination of goods and respect for the right to private property.
Christian life must strive to order this world’s goods to God and to fraternal charity
7th C
“Not to share one’s wealth with the poor is to steal from them and to take away their livelihood. It is not our own goods which we hold, but theirs”
7th C
to destroy the biological diversity of God’s creation, to degrade the integrity of the earth by causing changes in its climate, by stripping the earth of its natural forests or destroying its wetlands, to contaminate the earth’s waters, its land, its air, and its life, and to commit a crime against the natural world is a sin against ourselves and a sin against God
Violates 7th C
8th Commandment
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor
The ____ Commandment forbids misrepresentation of the truth in our relations with others. This moral prescription flows from the vocation of the holy people to bear witness to their God who is the truth and will the truth.
8th C
Offenses against the truth are expressed by word or deed or a refusal to commit oneself to moral uprightness. They are fundamental infidelities to God and they undermine the foundations of the covenant
8th C
God is the source of truth. His Word is the truth.
His Law is the truth. His faithfulness endures to all generations. Since God is so true, the members of His people are called to live in truth.
Truthfulness is the virtue which consists in showing oneself true in deeds and truthful in words, and in guarding against duplicity, dissimulation and hypocrisy
8th C
False witness and perjury, rash and baseless judgment, detraction and calumny, flattery, adulation, boasting, irony, lying, gossip and slander are offenses against the truth. These are all disrespect of the reputation and honor of the human person
Violates 8th C
9th Commandment
You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife
forbids and warns us against lust and carnal concupiscence. It requires one to purify his/her heart and practice temperance, decency & discretion. It requires the virtue and gift of chastity, purity of intention, purity of vision and modesty
9th C
10th Commandment
You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.
It forbids passion for riches and their attendant power, as well as the immoderate desire to have them for oneself.
forbids coveting the goods of another, as the root of theft, robbery and fraud, which the Seventh Commandment forbids.
Lust of the eyes’’ leads to the violence and injustice forbidden by the Fifth Commandment (no. 2534). It therefore forbids greed, avarice, envy, and all the criminal desires
10th C
