The human being as the highestvalue
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The aimof this studyis to show the reasons whythe human being is considered the highest value on earth and why no onehas the right touse other people as means to achieve one’s own goals.The fact that the human being is of the greatest value entails that everything that constitutes his humanity is also of great value e.g. human body or freedom. The Bible confirms that the human being has the highest value among all the creationand describes the characteristics determining his uniqueness.The Scripture says that man is loved bythe Creator himself. The human being is similar to God, in that he is able to love andreceive love.Everyhuman being is also priceless.No money can buy a person andno one is allowedto treat an otheras their own.The human being is endowed with consciousness and freedom, itis a person, not a thing. Human’s value is infinite also because there are noborders to human development, i.e. the human being will never become so similar to God as to stops triving to be like the Creator. Human exceptional value and dignitylie as well in the fact that the human being is endowed with conscience and called to holiness and eternal lifeface to facewith God.The ultimate confirmation ofman'svalue is the work of salvation, namely the fact that God took on human nature, and allowed himself to benailed to the cross to redeem man from sin and from the influence of Satan.
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