The First Commandment forbids the worship of false gods. While we in this day and age don't have too much actual outright idol worship, this commandment is frequently broken by those who set up anything as being more important than God. Money, material things, worldly pursuits. I've noticed that some actually use the human intellect as a benchmark as to a person's ultimate worth, and as the sole method of determining what is right or wrong. I've always considered one person who has a simple and childlike faith in God, someone who is not an intellectual (Mother Teresa for example), to be the better of one hundred PhD's with a genius IQ, but no spirituality, or belief in anything other than the human intellect.
Relying solely on the flawed and imperfect human intellect alone will result in moral relativism - no absolute good or evil, which eventually leads to rationalization of some very terrible acts - ie world history since "the Enlightenment" of the 1700's
What do you think??
2007-05-25
07:45:59
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