Who could not place all hope in him? Who could not love him when contemplating the treasures of goodness and love he has poured out on us? Hence the formula God employs in the Scripture at the beginning and end of his commandments: 'I am the LORD.'" 8Ģ087 Our moral life has its source in faith in God who reveals his love to us. He is almighty, merciful, and infinitely beneficent. It follows that we must necessarily accept his words and have complete faith in him and acknowledge his authority. When we say 'God' we confess a constant, unchangeable being, always the same, faithful and just, without any evil. 7Ģ086 "The first commandment embraces faith, hope, and charity. He is the same who brought your fathers out of Egypt "by his powerful hand and his outstretched arm." We do not place our hope in some other god, for there is none, but in the same God as you do: the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. We do not think that our God is different from yours. than he who made and ordered the universe. There will never be another God, Trypho, and there has been no other since the world began. Man's vocation is to make God manifest by acting in conformity with his creation "in the image and likeness of God": 6 The revelation of the vocation and truth of man is linked to the revelation of God. You shall not go after other gods." 5 God's first call and just demand is that man accept him and worship him.Ģ085 The one and true God first reveals his glory to Israel. "YOU SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD AND HIM ONLY SHALL YOU SERVE"Ģ084 God makes himself known by recalling his all-powerful loving, and liberating action in the history of the one he addresses: "I brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage." The first word contains the first commandment of the Law: "You shall fear the LORD your God you shall serve him. . . It is written: "You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve." 4 You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth you shall not bow down to them or serve them. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. "YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND" Catechism of the Catholic Church - PART 3 SECTION 2 CHAPTER 1 ARTICLE 1 CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
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