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The Biblical Annals
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1979
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vol. 26
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issue 1
5-12
PL
The first commandment of the Decalogue contains a general part (Exod. 20,3; Deut. 5,7), and the detailed part (Exod. 20,4-6; Deut. 5,8-10). The general part expresses the truth, that the object of worship must be transcendent, so it can only be God. The detailed part forbids making pictures of Jahwe, since figurativeness in the worship can lead to negation of absolute transcendence of God against the world. The transcendence of God Jahwe more than monotheism differentiates the religion of the Old Testament from the religion of the Antient East.
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During the fourth pilgrimage to Poland in 1991, John Paul II based his teaching on the Decalogue, on the “ten simple words”. In his homily delivered in Koszalin, he referred to the first commandment that provides the foundations to understand all of them. God who presents the Decalogue to His people, is the same God who liberated them from Egypt. Therefore, Decalogue cannot limit human freedom, on the contrary, it helps the people to grow strong. The One who speaks to Moses on the Mount Sinai is God the Father who – as revealed in the New Testament – generates the Son from Eternity and sends us the Spirit. Thus, we could say that the Trinitarian dimension does not weaken the invocation: “You shall have no other gods before me”, but it enlightens and strengthens it. Decalogue allures not only to its goodness and truth, but also to its beauty. The first commandment presents the initial confrontation with the world which, in the name of deceptive humanism, places a human being before God. This false humanism will manifest itself in all sorts of ideologies. In the twentieth century it was Nazism, but above all, it was Communism, while today they are different versions of neo-Marxism that especially attack the biblical anthropology, closely related to the first commandment.
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Jan Paweł II oparł swe nauczanie podczas IV pielgrzymki do Polski w 1991 roku na Dekalogu, „dziesięciu prostych słowach”. W Koszalinie podjął pierwsze przykazanie, które stanowi podstawę interpretacyjną dla pozostałych przykazań. Bóg, który daje Dekalog, jest tym samym Bogiem, który wyzwolił swój lud z Egiptu. Dekalog zatem nie ogranicza ludzkiej wolności, ale pomaga jej dojrzeć i umocnić się. Ten, który przemawia do Mojżesza na Górze Synaj, to Bóg Ojciec, który – jak to zostaje objawione w Nowym Testamencie – rodzi odwiecznie Syna i posyła nam Ducha. Wymiar trynitarny nie tylko nie osłabia wezwania: „Nie będziesz miał bogów cudzych przede Mną”, ale je tłumaczy i wzmania. Dekalog pociąga swoim dobrem, prawdą, ale także pięknem. Pierwsze przykazanie stanowi podstawowe pole konfrontacji ze światem, który w imię fałszywego humanizmu stawia człowieka w miejscu Boga. Ten fałszywy humanizm przejawia się w różnego rodzaju ideologiach. W XX wieku był to nazizm, a przede wszystkim komunizm, nato¬miast dzisiaj są to różne wersje neomarksizmu, które atakują szczególnie biblijną antropologię, ściśle związaną z pierwszym przykazaniem.
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When Paul VI published the encyclical "Humanae vitae" fi{y years ago, not only did he confirm the unchanging position of the Church on artificial methods of birth control, but also elevated the status of parents. Parents were bestowed upon a title which the Church had previously mostly given only to apostlesand mystics – “free and responsible collaborators of God the Creator”. The present population decline within the Western civilisation appears to be strongly favoured by the mass “silent apostasy”, which manifests itself in practice as a “contraceptive mentality”. Couples' refusal of life goes hand in hand with the refusal to collaborate with the personal and active God. Although contraception involves the sexual sphere, it is a violation not of the Sixth Commandment (contrary to what one might think), but of the First one. The pill undoubtedly contributes radically to the changing of the vision of man, woman, loyalty and parental generosity, but most importantly, it is damaging to one's relation of trust with God. It is no longer God who decides upon the shape of life. Pope Paul VI spoke half a century ago from the position of one who took into serious consideration the prospect of eternal life and God's presence in the human existence. His objection to the voices of the majority only confirmed the fact that truth is not achieved by means of a survey or votingof a survey or voting.
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