If God had wanted us to

live in a permissive
society, He would have
given us The Ten
Suggestions, not the Ten
Commandments.
-Zig Ziglar

The
Decalog
 The ten
commandments are
moral imperatives
of how to love
others and to follow
Christs own
command to love.
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Commandment
no. 1
"I am the Lord your God: you
shall not have other gods
before me."
First Commandment
"Ignorance of God is the principle and explanation of all moral
deviations."
-St. Paul

Can be found in Exodus 20:2-5 and Deuteronomy 5:6-9

This commandment speaks about loyalty to God.
Nourish and protect the three theological virtues with
prudence and vigilance.
"I am the Lord, your
God."
 THREE
THEOLOGICAL
VIRTUES
No. 1
FAITH
Ways of Sinning against Faith

1. Voluntary Doubt: disregard to hold as

true what God has revealed and what the
FAITH
Church proposes for belief.
2. Involuntary Doubt: hesitation in
believing and difficulty in overcoming
objection connected with faith. Believing in God and
rejecting everything
3. Incredulity: neglect of revealed truth and that is opposing it.
willful refusal to assert to it.
Ways of Sinning against Faith

4. Heresy: obstinate denial of some truth;

opinion or doctrine opposing teachings or FAITH
belief of Church.
5. Apostasy: total repudiation of Christian
faith. Believing in God and
6. Schism: refusal of submission or rejecting everything
separation from Church and its beliefs. that is opposing it.
 THREE
THEOLOGICAL
VIRTUES
No. 2
HOPE
Sins against Hope

1. Despair
Man ceases to hope for his personal salvation HOPE
from God, for help in attaining it or for the
forgiveness of his sins.
Confident
It is contrary to God's goodness, to his justice expectation of
- for the Lord is faithful to his promises - and divine blessing and
to his mercy. the beatific vision of
God.
Sins against Hope
2. Presumption

Upon own Upon God's

capacity power or
HOPE
mercy
Man hopes that Man hopes to Confident
he will be able to obtain forgiveness expectation of
without divine blessing and
save himself
the beatific vision of
without help conversion and
God.
from high. glory without
merit or effort.
 THREE
THEOLOGICAL
VIRTUES
No. 3
CHARITY
Sins against God's Love
1. Indifference
neglects or refuses to reflect on divine
charity; it fails to consider its prevenient
goodness and denies its power.
2. Ingratitude
CHARITY
fails or refuses to acknowledge divine charity
and to return him love for love.
Love God above all
3. Lukewarmness things and all the
hesitation or negligence in responding to creatures for Him
divine love; it can imply refusal to give and because of Him.
oneself over to the prompting of charity.
Sins against God's Love

4. Acedia (Spiritual Sloth)

goes so far as to refuse the joy that comes from
God and to be repelled by divine goodness. CHARITY
5. Hatred of God
comes from pride.
Love God above all
it is contrary to love of God, whose goodness it
denies, and whom it presumes to curse as the one things and all the
who forbids sins and inflicts punishments. creatures for Him
and because of Him.
"You shall have no other
gods before me."
The First Commandment Prohibits:

SUPERSTITION

Departure from the worship due for the true God. It expresses
itself in various forms of divination, magic, sorcery and spiritism.
To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to
their mere external performance, apart from the interior
dispositions that they demand, is to fall into superstition.
The First Commandment Prohibits:

POLYTHEISM AND IDOLATRY

It divinizes creatures, power, money or even demons.

Man commits idolatry whenever he honors and reveres a
creature in place of God, whether this be gods or demons (e.g.,
satanism), power, pleasure, race, ancestors, the state, money,
etc.
The First Commandment Prohibits:

IRRELIGION

Evidenced in tempting God whether words or deeds (tempting

God by putting His almighty power to the test).
Sacrilege wrong treatment of the sacraments and its rituals.
Simony is the buying or selling of spiritual things (e.g.
Sacraments from Priests)
The First Commandment Prohibits:

ATHEISM

It rejects and denies God's existence.

Atheistic humanism falsely considers man to be an end to
himself, and the sole maker, with supreme control, of his own
history.
Based on a false conception of human autonomy, exaggerated
to the point of refusing any dependence on God.
The First Commandment Prohibits:

AGNOSTICISM

Agnostics affirms that God is incapable of being known, as if He

was incapable of revealing Himself.
Involves indifferentism and practical atheism (doesn't accept or
reject claims about God).
 The first I
commandment n
summons man to
believe in God, to hope
in him, and to love him c
above all else. o
n
The duty to offer God
authentic worship c
concerns man both as l
an individual and as a u
social being.