今日真道圣言/2013年6月9日

威斯敏斯特大要理问答

问103：第一诫命是什么？

答：第一诫命是：“除了我以外，你不可有别的神”

Q. 103. Which is the first commandment?

A. The first commandment is, Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

问104：第一诫命所要求的责任是哪些？

答：第一诫命所要求的责任是：认识并承认上帝是独一的真神，是我们的神；因此我们要敬拜与荣耀祂，借着思念默想，记念高举，尊荣敬拜，选择归向，渴慕敬畏祂；相信祂；信靠祂，仰望祂，因祂欢欣，以祂为乐；热心事奉祂；呼求祂，将一切赞美感谢归给祂，全人全然顺服祂；在每件事上留心讨祂喜悦，为任何事得罪祂时而忧伤；并存谦卑的心与祂同行。

Q. 104. What are the duties required in the first commandment?

A. The duties required in the first commandment are, the knowing and acknowledging of God to be the only true God, and our God; and to worship and glorify him accordingly, by thinking, meditating, remembering, highly esteeming, honoring, adoring, choosing, loving, desiring, fearing of him; believing him; trusting, hoping, delighting, rejoicing in him; being zealous for him; calling upon him, giving all praise and thanks, and yielding all obedience and submission to him with the whole man; being careful in all things to please him, and sorrowful when in anything he is offended; and walking humbly with him.

问105：第一诫命中所禁止的罪，是哪些？

答：第一诫命中所禁止的罪是：无神论，否认或不承认有上帝；拜偶像，主张或敬拜多神，或在独一真神之外的任何假神；不承认或确信祂是上帝，我们的上帝；省略或忽视此诫命中所吩咐祂当得的任何事物；对祂存无知健忘，误会谬解，不敬虔或邪恶的念头；大胆好奇的探究祂隐密的旨意；对上帝一切的亵渎与恨恶；自恋，自私自利，以及所有放肆，放纵我们的心思意志情感在其他事物上，将这些事物全部或部份与祂分离；虚空妄信，不信，异端，迷信，不信靠，绝望，固执任性，对审判无知，硬心，骄傲，僭越，属肉体的安全感，试探上帝；使用非法手段，倚靠人为方法；贪爱世俗享乐；腐败，盲目，轻率的热心；不冷不热，对于神的事情麻木；远离上帝，背道变节；向圣徒，天使或其他受造物祷告敬拜；所有交鬼结盟，或听从其建议；将人们当作我们信心与良心的主宰；藐视轻慢上帝与祂的诫命；敌挡祂的圣灵，让圣灵担忧，对祂的安排不满与不耐烦，因祂加诸我们的患难而视祂为愚昧；将我们所是所有所能作的好事，赞美归功于运气，偶像或自己或其他受造物。

Q. 105. What are the sins forbidden in the first commandment?

A. The sins forbidden in the first commandment, are, atheism, in denying or not having a God; idolatry, in having or worshiping more gods than one, or any with or instead of the true God; the not having and avouching him for God, and our God; the omission or neglect of anything due to him, required in this commandment; ignorance, forgetfulness, misapprehensions, false opinions, unworthy and wicked thoughts of him; bold and curious searching into his secrets; all profaneness, hatred of God; self-love, self-seeking, and all other inordinate and immoderate setting of our mind, will, or affections upon other things, and taking them off from him in whole or in part; vain credulity, unbelief, heresy, misbelief, distrust, despair, incorrigibleness, and insensibleness under judgments, hardness of heart, pride, presumption, carnal security, tempting of God; using unlawful means, and trusting in lawful means; carnal delights and joys; corrupt, blind, and indiscreet zeal; lukewarmness, and deadness in the things of God; estranging ourselves, and apostatizing from God; praying, or giving any religious worship, to saints, angels, or any other creatures; all compacts and consulting with the devil, and hearkening to his suggestions; making men the lords of our faith and conscience; slighting and despising God and his commands; resisting and grieving of his Spirit, discontent and impatience at his dispensations, charging him foolishly for the evils he inflicts on us; and ascribing the praise of any good we either are, have, or can do, to fortune, idols, ourselves, or any other creature.