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The syntagma „began to call on the name of the Lord” is an important excerpt in the Primeval history. This expression is connected to Enosh, who developes worship and brings hope that mankind which is constantly distancing from God, will be salvaged. However, most frequently we connect the acquaintance of the God’s name with telling about the call of Moses and God self-presentation in a burning bush, translated usually as a: „I Am who I Am” (Exod 3,14-15). Although these above fragments seem to be in a contrary, consist their reciprocal theological coherence. Basing on historical-critical methods of working on biblical text Gen 4,26 and Exod 3,14-15 the article collates the results of analysis of excerpts. It allows to understand the God’s identity and significance of His name more profoundly. Enosh didn’t need to know the name YHWH in order to praise the Lord. „Later on”, God reveals His name to Moses bringing also salvage for sons of Israel. God gives the possibility to be saved, to be salvaged in Him, in a relationship with Him through human worship .
Vox Patrum
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2013
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vol. 59
87-111
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The article is the attempt to analyze the teaching of early christian apologists about possession and exorcisms in Church. They recognize that possession in the strict sense applies to a human body. By contrast, spiritual enslavement consists in introducing someone into impiety. Evil spirits, after turning away from their Creator, envy people the grace of God and try to take them away from God and to enslave. They claim to be gods and demand sacrifices and a cult. Magic is also the way to enslavement, because the effectiveness of magic is connected with the power of demons. An exorcism is a kind of spiritual fight in which a christian, in the name of Jesus, commands demons and liberates the possessed person. Exorcisms are the manifestation of God’s power, which beats evil spirits and exposes their lies. Although the main reason of the liberation is the power of God’s name, faith and ardent prayer of a possessed person and these who pray for him have also an im­pact on that process. Christians who live in the grace of God are under the care of Christ, so they don’t have to fear demons.
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Looking at some reputedly religious phenomena in today’s world we could openly ask whether these phenomena don’t fall, in certain cases, into a category of a new kind of idolatry which means replacing God with a creature. It is the world of human sensations and experiences that should be especially taken into consideration, sensations and experiences which are often regarded as religious or which, in some cases, undergo the process of absolutisation, whereas this is only a kind of concentration on oneself or on a particular thing. It has been noticed quite accurately, that modern times can be characterised by a shift “from wooden idols to spiritual idols”. Therefore, there is an urgent need for philosophical and theological perspective on this broad sphere of experiences, and for a question whether those experiences create new idols and, by the same token, whether they are idolatrous in character. To answer these questions responsibly and coherently we have to define the origins of idolatry and concurrently find the appropriate criteria which will enable us to evaluate theologically respective phenomena which may appear questionable. This very issue constitutes the subject of this study.
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