WLC Q109 — What sins are forbidden in the second commandment?

CON catechism-qa · status:draft · license:PD

Question

What sins are forbidden in the second commandment?

Answer

The sins forbidden in the second commandment are, all devising, counseling, commanding, using, and any wise approving, any religious worship not instituted by God himself; the making any representation of God, of all or of any of the three persons, either inwardly in our mind, or outwardly in any kind of image or likeness of any creature whatsoever; all worshiping of it, or God in it or by it; the making of any representation of feigned deities, and all worship of them, or service belonging to them; all superstitious devices, corrupting the worship of God, adding to it, or taking from it, whether invented and taken up of ourselves, or received by tradition from others, though under the title of antiquity, custom, devotion, good intent, or any other pretense whatsoever; simony; sacrilege; all neglect, contempt, hindering, and opposing the worship and ordinances which God hath appointed.

Links

• part_of source-manifest/wlc
• precedes catechism-qa/wlc-q110

Source

• source-manifest/wlc — Westminster Larger Catechism (1647) (PD, OPC)
• evidence_grade: D_doctrinal_textbook