; who does not obey the Orthodox Church and distances himself from it (schismatic); who believes in the secret powers of creatures and tries to act with them; who is fortune-telling; who blindly believes in ordinary events in life, giving them divine power; who is lazy to learn the Law of God, and who trusts more in man than in God. How did God once punish people for forgetting God, true faith in Him, and His holy law? The Flood.

  The Second Commandment of God   What is the second commandment of God?   An idol is an idol, in general, any thing or creature that people consider to be the true God. Every likeness is every image of earthly objects. Yelika - what. Woe is above. Bottom - bottom. Below - and not.   What does God forbid with this commandment?

It prohibits the worship of idols or any material images of an invented deity. What do the pagans bow to? In the sky: the sun, the moon, the stars; on earth: animals, birds, plants; in water: fish, reptiles, etc. Isn't it a sin to bow to icons? It is not a sin to bow down to icons, or images, because when we pray before icons, we do not bow to wood or paint, but to God depicted on the icon or to His saints, imagining them in our minds before us.

  The third commandment of God   is "Do not accept, do not accept, do not use." In vain - in vain.   By this commandment, God forbids the use of the name of God when it is not necessary, for example, in jokes, in empty conversations. The same commandment forbids: - blasphemy against God (the Jews blasphemed the Lord, saying that He casts out demons by the power of Beelzebub, the prince of demons: Matt. 12:24); - murmuring against Him (

the Jews repeatedly murmured against God during their wanderings in the Arabian desert: Num. II, 4-6); - lying under oath[9]; - blasphemy (Belshazzar, the last king of Babylon, feasting with his nobles, drank wine from the sacred vessels of the temple of Solomon, stolen by Nebuchadnezzar; for this blasphemy he was killed the same night, and other nations took possession of his kingdom)

; - godliness without need, and especially in unrighteousness, which is a grave sin before God. When can and should the name of God be used? When we pray, when we have pious conversations, when, at the request of our superiors, we swear, we take an oath, and in all these cases we must use the name of God with fear and reverence.   The fourth commandment of God,   the Sabbath, is rest. The Sabbath day is a feast day. And so that.

Holy day - to do good deeds on a certain day.   What does God command by this commandment? He commands us to work six days of the week, to attend to our own business, and to devote the seventh day to good deeds: to pray to God in church, to read spiritually useful books at home, to give alms, and so on. Which of the seven days should be devoted to good deeds?

In the Old Testament the feast day was the Sabbath, or the seventh day on which God, after the creation of the world, rested from all His works; from the time of Christ's resurrection, the Sabbath was replaced by Sunday, or the day on which Jesus Christ was resurrected. In addition to Sundays, are there no other days that should be dedicated to God-pleasing deeds? Eat. These are the feasts of the Lord, such as, for example, the Nativity of Christ (25 Dec. 10]), the Baptism of the Lord (6 January), the Transfiguration of the Lord (6 August).

Feasts of the Mother of God, for example, the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos (September 8), the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos (August 15). Feasts in honor of saints, for example, the day of the Nativity of John the Baptist (June 24), the day of the Beheading of John the Baptist (August 29), the day of the Supreme Apostles Peter and Paul (June 29). What else is commanded by the fourth commandment? It is commanded to observe fasts.

What fasts are established by the Orthodox Church? 1)                  Great Lent, or St. Forty Days, on which we usually fast, confess and commune. This fast was established in imitation of the forty-day fast of the Lord Jesus Christ in the wilderness and was established in order for us to worthily meet the feast of the Resurrection of Christ. (Begins every year for seven weeks (weeks)

before the feast of Easter and consists of 40 days and Holy Week.) 2)                  The fast before the feast of the Nativity of Christ, or the Nativity Fast, or Filippov. (It begins on November 15 - after the day of the Apostle Philip - and lasts 40 days until December 25, i.e. until the feast of the Nativity of Christ.) 3)

                  The Dormition Fast before the feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos (from the 1st to the 15th of August), otherwise known as the Lady. 4)                  Peter's Fast, or Petrovka. (

It always begins a week after Trinity Day and lasts until June 29, the day of the Apostles Peter and Paul, and therefore the duration of this fast depends on the time of Pascha.) There are also one-day fasts, or fasting days, namely: 1)      The Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross (September 14). 2)      The Beheading of John the Baptist (August 29). 3)

      Epiphany Eve (January 5). 4)      Wednesday and Friday of each week. Why is it proper to fast on Wednesday and Friday? On Wednesday - in memory of the betrayal of Jesus Christ to suffering, and on Friday in memory of His very suffering and death. Who sins against the fourth commandment of the Divine Commandment? He who spends his weekdays in idleness, who spends Sundays and feast days in a non-Christian way, and who does not observe fasts.