Question 109. What are the sins forbidden in the second commandment?

 

Question 109. What are the sins forbidden in the second commandment? 

Answer. The sins forbidden in the second commandment are, devising, consulting, commanding, using, or approving in any manner any religious worship, not instituted by God himself; making any image or likeness of any creature, either inwardly in our hearts, or outwardly, of the whole or any one of the three persons of the Godhead; and worshipping and serving God in such made-up images; and corrupting the worship of God by superstitious devices, whether invented by ourselves, or received from others by tradition, under the pretense of institutions, customs, piety, good will, or any other pretense; simony, sacrilege, and all negligence, contempt, obstruction, and rebellion against the worship and ordinances which God hath appointed.

 

God forbids the sanctification of man-made images, figures, or memorials. Acts 17:29-30 “Since then we have become the offspring of God, we should not think that the Godhead is like gold or silver or stone, something carved by human skill and device. The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all people everywhere to repent.”

 

God forbids the sanctification of festivals or days. Galatians 4:9-11 "But now that you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and beggarly elementary things, to which you want to be enslaved again? You observe days and months and seasons and years. I fear for you, lest I have labored over you in vain." Today, celebrations created by church communities (such as Lent, Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc.) are moving away from their original purpose and toward sanctification.

Some people call the church community building a temple and deify it. So they call the church building a holy temple, and many pastors think that they are priests of the Old Testament era and that the clothes they wear during worship are holy clothes. Among the believers, there are those who deify the bread and cup used during the Eucharist and deify them.

Luke 22:19-20 “And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, ‘This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.’ In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.’” To commemorate means to remember and be thankful for the covenant Jesus spoke of through the Eucharist, but to treat the bread and wine as sacred is to not understand the meaning of the Eucharist.

If believers today try to keep and practice all that was done in the Old Testament era, they do not know the coming of Jesus Christ and it is the same as denying it. Therefore, everything in the Old Testament era was completely completed and ended because of the coming of Jesus Christ. However, if believers try to remember and practice it again, they become those who are not in Jesus Christ.

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