The first three commandments, divide the Decalogue, correspond exactly to the justice that God demands of his rational creatures to be practiced toward him. Over the centuries the Church has coined a word that perfectly identifies the justice that we must practice toward God, it is the virtue of religion. What is religion? Religion is the justice that his rational creatures owe to their Creator. God has certain rights and he cannot, there is no way that God cannot demand of his rational creatures what is identified by the first three commandments of the Decalogue. The first commandment of divine justice which is the first practice of the virtue of religion is to adore him alone; no one, no other creature dare be honored or worshiped or adored as God. The one creature who is in constant competition with God for demanding the kind of attention of admiration and, though we hesitate using the word, adoration which is due to God alone is ourselves. Egoism is not just a word in the vocabulary, it is, on the premises we are here describing, the opposite of that monotheism which God commanded in the first precept of the Decalogue.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 19:27:16 +0000
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