Question 25: What is meant by transgression?

Answer: Doing what God forbids.

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Scriptural basis

  • 1 Samuel 3:8-14

  • 1 Samuel 15:22-23

  • Hosea 6:7

  • Romans 1:21-32

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Why is this important?

  1. What right does God have to forbid us from doing anything?
    [He is the Creator]

  2. Where do you learn what God forbids?
    [In the Bible]

  3. Do you know what God forbids?

 

Questions and answers from A Catechism for Boys and Girls by Erroll Hulse from Chapel Library