Understanding the First Commandment and its Implications

This first commandment is you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. Love Jesus more than you love children, more than you love parents, surely, more than you love anything. Jesus says, “If you don’t love me more than you love your parents, you are not worthy of me.

If you don’t love me more than you love your children, you are not worthy of me.” To not be worthy of him means you won’t have him. If you don’t love Jesus, you won’t have Jesus.

If that deepest, fullest love isn’t for Jesus, then we are not worthy of Jesus. Loving Jesus is unfathomable and foundational and transformative because you devote him above all things. Today, the term “love” has become one of the most repeatedly used and tainted of words, a word to which we assign quite different connotations.

Psychology has programmed our generation to believe that self-expression is the uppermost Good. If you don’t feel it, it isn’t genuine and, therefore, not existent. This, shared with the meaning that love is almost solely a heartfelt feeling originating deep inside us, makes the view that one should act affectionate despite not feeling it to be domineering and a pollute of love. The command to love God with everything, and others as ourselves, frequently attacks this kind of love, tyrannizes our accepted desires and troubles our self-actualization.

Can love be commanded? Against the commandment of love, these questions raise opposition. No one has ever met God, so how can we love him? Likewise, love can’t be commanded; it is ultimately an emotion that is either there or not. It cannot be constructed by the mind. God does not mandate us an emotion that we are incompetent at creating. He loves us, he constructs us to perceive and understand his love, and since he has “loved us first,” love can flourish as a reaction inside us.

“If we love God, we shall love his name and never speak it except with reverence and respect. We shall never use it as an expletive, as an expression of anger or impatience or surprise; we shall do nothing to bring infamy upon his name.” (Armino pg 319). The Sabbath, or day of rest, is so introductory that it was started by God at the time of creation. God did not choose to rest because He was weary, and the day was not set for man to relax after a week of labor. The Sabbath is the conclusion of creation. By compelling this day of rest, we appreciate God’s hopes for man to relax, and it gives man a day to thank and show his appreciation regarding God. Such a statement is not a true oath because Scarlett has no intention of making an oath. This type of oath is referred to as an assertory oath.

This type of oath is referred to as a promissory oath. This kind of oath calls upon God as a witness to what a person intends to do in the future. In this example, the sister intends to slug her brother if he touches her bike. Such a statement is not a true oath because the witness has no intention of making an oath. This type of oath is referred to as an assertory oath. This is an example of “Ridicule of the Faith.” It involved irreverent dispositions that come in the form of sarcastic remarks or ridiculous caricatures with respect to Christian customs or moral behavior. This is a “promise and commitment” vow. A vow that involves the expressed commitment to fulfill what is stated in the promise. This is a “free will” vow. It does not have a tie to God like in the “promise and commitment” or “serious obligation” vow. Mark’s vow does not entail God as a witness or a vow made to God with another person as a witness. Therefore Mark’s vow is not obligatory. Laura and Theresa’s father knows the decision he made was incorrect to do. His conscious is telling him not to follow through with this decision. As far as we know, it also doesn’t have a tie to God like in “promise and commitment” or “serious obligation” vow.

Therefore, his decision and vow are not obligatory, and he can change them. Peter does not promise to God or promise to another person with God as a witness. Peter did not vow to Sarah, he also did not give a ring to Sara directly, and it’s not like Peter is asking to have the ring returned to him. Peter doesn’t need to follow through with his promise. In this circumstance, David did vow to God in a “promise and commitment” way. A vow differs from a promise in that a vow is much more binding than a wish or an intention to engage in some good action. David had the intention to engage in a good action of being a doctor serving in Asia/Africa. David should follow through with his vow; if he is a really good doctor, the job offer will come around again another time. Yes. There are ways to help make Sunday a day of rest and worship, and one of those ways is no practice works of charity and mercy. Most states in the USA have ‘Good Samaritan’ laws that oblige doctors to stop and render emergency treatment under certain circumstances. In this case, Mrs. Duncan could have felt obligated to help since she is a doctor.

However, by helping, she is also practicing works of charity and mercy. I think it would have been evil for Mrs. Duncan to turn her back on someone in need when she knows she can offer her level of help and potentially save someone’s life. Yes. Catherine was unaware of the change in Mass; she even made an attempt to attend the service. It is her school’s responsibility to have Mass available for their students who wish to attend. It was out of Catherine’s hands that Mass was canceled, and she was unable to go. Not really. I understand Jacob not being able to attend morning mass due to a late night. To me, that is okay since he was still intending to try to attend the late Mass. I understand wanting to watch the Packers game.

However, he could have left to attend the 5 pm game and dealt with missing the end of the game, but he didn’t. Now he’s tired and feels the 6 pm mass is too far away. To me, just because someone goes to Mass every single Sunday doesn’t make them a better person or better Christian than someone who only goes to Mass on Christmas and Easter. We all have different ways of expressing and loving God. Some people pray every night or set time aside to study faith. Sometimes just being around family is enough for people to feel God’s love. If Jacob is a consistent person who attends Mass, missing one service isn’t the end of the world, and he will be back next weekend and on his normal routine.

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