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Clear all filtersBaltimore Catechism · Lesson 30, question 316
The first Commandment helps us to keep the great Commandment of the love of God because it commands us to adore God alone.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 30, question 317
We adore God by faith, hope, and charity, by prayer and sacrifice.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 30, question 318
The first Commandment may be broken by giving to a creature the honor which belongs to God alone; by false worship; and by attributing to a creature a perfection which belongs to God alone.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 30, question 319
Those who make use of spells and charms, or who believe in dreams, in mediums, spiritists, fortunetellers and the like, sin against the first Commandment, because they attribute to creatures perfections which belong to God alone.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 30, question 320
Sins against faith, hope, and charity are also sins against the first Commandment.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 30, question 321
A person sins against faith: 1st, by not trying to know what God has taught; 2d, by refusing to believe all that God has taught; 3d, by neglecting to profess his belief in what God has taught.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 30, question 322
We fail to try to know what God has taught by neglecting to learn the Christian doctrine.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 30, question 323
They who do not believe all that God has taught are the heretics and infidels.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 30, question 324
They who neglect to profess their belief in what God has taught are all those who fail to acknowledge the true Church in which they really believe.Read the source passage →
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Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 30, question 325
They who fail to profess their faith in the true Church in which they believe cannot expect to be saved while in that state, for Christ has said: "Whoever shall deny Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father who is in heaven."Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 30, question 326
We are obliged to make open profession of our faith as often as God's honor, our neighbor's spiritual good, or our own requires it. "Whosoever," says Christ, "shall confess Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven."Read the source passage →
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Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 30, question 327
The sins against hope are presumption and despair.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 30, question 328
Presumption is a rash expectation of salvation without making proper use of the necessary means to obtain it.Read the source passage →
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Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 30, question 329
Despair is the loss of hope in God's mercy.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 30, question 330
We sin against the love of God by all sin, but particularly by mortal sin.Read the source passage →