charrot551
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The First Commandment which relates to the love of God is: "Thou shalt not have strange gods." For an understanding of this Commandment, one must know how of old it was violated.Some worshipped demons . "all the gods of the Gentiles are all devils."(2) This is the greatest and most detestable of all sins. Even now the are many who transgress this Commandment: All such as practice divinations and fortune telling. Such things, according to St.Augustine, cannot be done without some kind of pact with the devil . "I would not that you should be made partakers with devils."(3)
Some worshipped the heavenly bodies, believing the stars to be gods: "They
have imagined the sun and the moon to be the gods that rule the world."[4]
For this reason Moses forbade the Jews to raise their eyes, or adore the
sun and moon and stars: "Keep therefore your souls carefully . . . lest
perhaps lifting up thy eyes to heaven, thou see the sun and the moon, and
all the stars of heaven, and being deceived by error thou adore and serve
them, which the Lord thy God created for the service of all the nations."[5]
The astrologers sin against this Commandment in that they say that these
bodies are the rulers of souls, when in truth they were made for the use of
man whose sole ruler is God.
Others worshipped the lower elements: "They imagined the fire or the wind
to be gods."[6] Into this error also fall those who wrongly use the things of
this earth and love them too much: "Or covetous person (who is a server of
idols)."[7]
EZ. 14:5-8
Thus would i bring back to their senses the house of Istrael, who have become strange from me through all their idols.Therefore say to the house of Istrael:Thus says the Lord God:Return and be converted from your idols; turn yourselves away from all your abominations.For if anyone of the house of Istrael is estranged from me, and holds the memory of his idols in his heart and keeps the occasion of his sin before him, yet ask a prophet to consult me for him, I ,the Lord, will be his answer in person. I will turn against that man, and make of him an example and a byword. I will cut him off from the midst of my people.Thus you shall know that i am the Lord.
Some worshipped the heavenly bodies, believing the stars to be gods: "They
have imagined the sun and the moon to be the gods that rule the world."[4]
For this reason Moses forbade the Jews to raise their eyes, or adore the
sun and moon and stars: "Keep therefore your souls carefully . . . lest
perhaps lifting up thy eyes to heaven, thou see the sun and the moon, and
all the stars of heaven, and being deceived by error thou adore and serve
them, which the Lord thy God created for the service of all the nations."[5]
The astrologers sin against this Commandment in that they say that these
bodies are the rulers of souls, when in truth they were made for the use of
man whose sole ruler is God.
Others worshipped the lower elements: "They imagined the fire or the wind
to be gods."[6] Into this error also fall those who wrongly use the things of
this earth and love them too much: "Or covetous person (who is a server of
idols)."[7]
EZ. 14:5-8
Thus would i bring back to their senses the house of Istrael, who have become strange from me through all their idols.Therefore say to the house of Istrael:Thus says the Lord God:Return and be converted from your idols; turn yourselves away from all your abominations.For if anyone of the house of Istrael is estranged from me, and holds the memory of his idols in his heart and keeps the occasion of his sin before him, yet ask a prophet to consult me for him, I ,the Lord, will be his answer in person. I will turn against that man, and make of him an example and a byword. I will cut him off from the midst of my people.Thus you shall know that i am the Lord.
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