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Ten commandments.... justification of the legislation....
The commandment to love God and one's neighbour comprises all the commandments that God made known to mankind through Moses, and thus man observes each of these ten commandments if he fulfils the great commandment to love God and one's neighbour. It is extremely important to be informed about the origin of these ten commandments, because there are so many speculations about them that can easily lead us to doubt divine love. At that time, conditions among fellow human beings were all too characteristic of their lack of love. And the one God was no longer remembered; the inclination to the world, the love of mammon, of all earthly pleasures was indescribably great, and they respected neither their fellow man's property nor what they owed to their God and creator. They surrendered themselves willlessly to satan's power and paid homage to everything that was his share. And God brought terrible misery upon the people who had forgotten Him, forcing them to repent. They regocnized their low spiritual state and therefore asked God for help from their physical and spiritual affliction. God then made His will known through Moses in a form that illuminated all the details in order to clearly show the people the wrongness of their way of life. The legislation at Sinai was so obvious that even the most hardened sinner regocnized the power and greatness of God and now had to regocnize God's will, which demanded a deep inner conversion from him. He gave His laws through Moses with an iron voice, through which He harshly illuminated people's way of life and reproached them for their sinful behaviour. For this did not correspond in the slightest to the divine requirements, and mankind was so blinded at that time that every commandment had to be given to them in order to make them realize their wrongdoing. What contributed to their physical well-being they took for themselves without a second thought, without considering the well-being of their fellow human beings, and thus they did not acknowledge the eternal deity through their behaviour.... they did nothing to please God, but everything to harm their neighbour and seek their own advantage. The spiritual low became so obvious that God took pity on them and sent them news of His power and omnipotence and of His love, which demanded the same from His creatures.... And Jesus Christ taught the same on earth, He placed love for God before everything else and added love for one's neighbour as confirmation of love for God to this greatest commandment, and thus anyone who respects these two commandments, which every person's purpose in life should be to fulfil, will fulfil the divine will....
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DESET ZAPOVIJEDI.... OBRAZLOŽENJE DAVANJA ZAKONA....
Zapovijed Ljubavi prema Bogu i prema bližnjemu obuhvaća sve zapovijedi koje je Bog ljudima objavio kroz Mojsija, tako da dakle čovjek slijedi svaku od tih deset zapovijedi kad ispunjava veliku zapovijed Ljubavi prema Bogu i prema bližnjemu. Neobično je važno biti obaviješten o uzroku nastajanja tih deset zapovijedi, jer u opticaju su tolike pretpostavke glede toga koje bi lako mogle dovesti do toga da se dovede u pitanje Božanska Ljubav. U ono vrijeme među ljudima je bilo takvo stanje koje je jako odražavalo njihovu ne-Ljubav-nost. I nije se više slavilo jednog Boga; težnja za svijetom, ljubav prema Mammonu, prema svim zemaljskim zadovoljstvima bila je neopisivo velika, i oni nisu cijenili niti posjed drugog čovjeka, niti to što su bili dužni svom Bogu i Stvoritelju. Oni su se bezvoljno predavali vlasti Sotone i obožavali su sve što je bilo od njegovog interesa.
A Bog je dopustio da užasna bijeda zadesi one ljude koji su Ga bili zaboravili, i time ih prisilio na unutarnji zaokret. Oni su prepoznali svoje nisko duhovno stanje i stoga su Boga zaprosili za pomoć iz svoje tjelesne i duhovne nevolje. Onda je Bog putem Mojsija objavio Svoju volju u jednom obliku koji je razjasnio sve pojedinosti, kako bi ljudima u svoj jasnoći predočio sve ono što je neispravno u njihovom načinu života. Davanje zakona na Sinaju bilo je tako očigledno, da je i najokorjeliji griješnik prepoznao silu i veličinu Boga a tada morao i prepoznati volju Boga, Koji je od njega zahtijevao duboki unutarnji zaokret.
On je putem Mojsija zaštrašujućim glasom dao Svoje zakone, putem kojih je On način života ljudi ekstremno rasvijetlio i njima prebacio njihov grješni život. Jer on nije bio ni najmanje usklađen sa Božanskim zahtjevima, a čovječanstvo je u to vrijeme bilo tako zaslijepljeno, da su mu morale biti dane sve zapovijedi kako bi im učinile vidljivim njihovu nepravičnost. Što god je pridonosilo njihovom tjelesnom uživanju bez razmišljanja su koristili bez da su obraćali pažnju na dobrobit bližnjega, tako da putem svog postupanja nisu ni priznavali vječno Božanstvo.... Nisu činili ništa kako bi živjeli Bogu ugodnim životom, s druge strane sve da bi oštetili bližnjega i izvukli svoju vlastitu korist.
Duhovna depresija bila je toliko izražena da se Bog smilovao i dao da im se objavi Njegova Sila i Svemoć, kao i Njegova Ljubav koju je isto tako zahtijevao od Njegovih stvorenja.... I Isus Krist je na Zemlji naučavao isto to, On je Ljubav prema Bogu pretpostavljao svemu drugome i Ljubav prema bližnjemu je dodao kao potvrdu toj najvećoj zapovijedi, Ljubavi prema Bogu, i s obzirom na to Božansku Volju će ispunjavati onaj tko poštuje te dvije zapovijedi, ispunjavanje kojih bi trebao biti smisao i središte života svakog čovjeka.
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