5.God’s commandments

5. God’s commandments
Dear brothers and sisters!
“You shall not kill!” (Ex 20:13) – God’s brief prohibition carries in itself a profound message about human life. “You don’t touch human life ”= is inviolable for you. So, your right to your life and the life of another is not is absolutely. You can’t do what you want with life. The commandment protects life as unrepeatable and irreplaceable value. The reason for the inviolability and hence the sanctity of human life is
that every human being is not only the product of human birth, and therefore of human will, but the original creation of God. “You have created my bowels, you have met me in my mother’s life,” says the psalmist,d he continues, “Your eyes saw me when I wasn’t portrayed, and your book has all my days, only imaginary, for I have not survived yet ”(Ps. 139: 13.16). God “weaved” us – figuratively, that by combining two principles – the body and the soul, as the threads on the yarn, he created a human person. This “Plucking” has taken place already in the womb of the mother, not after birth, and more importantly, this new creation man is not a one-time idea of ​​God, as if God suddenly thought he wanted me, but that we were thinking God, seen by God, and therefore wanting God before we actually exist. Value of our life, therefore, transcends our life. On the one hand, we have existed as ideas in God’s mind since eternity,d we are called by God to cross the threshold of death and live with Him forever. It is for this very reason that human life is sacred and inviolable from beginning to end. I’m made, that is, wanted by God, but I am also called to eternal communion with God. Life is a gift and a vocation. If we speak of vocation, we mean the special plan of God that God has with every man and which God suggests a person to find his life mission. Therefore, we claim that every human life regardless of his quality has an incalculable value. This physical life, or life in the body, is the initial, focused phase on salvation. We are not only here as products of the exuberance of nature, but as persons wanted and targeted by God and therefore beings with sense. A Christian cannot say that “my life has no meaning”. If he were true, he would say humbly, “I do not see the meaning of my existence, for I have not yet discovered it.” The meaning of human life it is not in his quality as I live here, but in the will of God and his plan with me, regardless of circumstances (whether I am handicapped, healthy, poor, rich). “So whoever destroys God’s temple will destroy God,” writes St. the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians (1 Cor 3:17), that is explains that “the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit”. This is another reason. God be decided to dwell in our bodies as temples. So killing or destroying a person is an attack against the temple, against God Himself. Thus, because of God’s revelation, blessed John Paul II. in his encyclical Gospel vitae confirmed this will of God: “by Christ’s authority, granted to Peter and his successors, in communion with the bishops to the Catholic Church, I affirm that the direct and deliberate killing of a human being is always profoundly immoral (EV 57) This category includes: murder, genocide, unfair war, direct abortion, euthanasia, abortive contraception, suicide, abuse. However, this commandment is not limited to these serious crimes against man and life, but contains in yourself and the “go against life”. E.g. harm to health by excessive alcohol consumption, excessive alcohol consumption smoking, drugs, refreshment, stubbornness not to cure, lack of rest, mental blackmail, exasperated anger …