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CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
The article ofefrs arguments that are aimed at proving that the idea of human rights not only complies with the Christian teaching but is actually rooted into it. With this view, the point that the idea has an antichristian nature is being criticized. Those who support the point think that «the natural law in its orthodox interpretation» stipulates no rights, only obligations to God. Thus, they conclude that the natural law does not contain any inalienable human rights. Contrariwise, the author of the article states with reference to the Holy Scripture and works of church fathers that the commandments of God are not obligations of a human being to God, but conditions that allow him or her to come up closer and closer to the image and likeness of God. Moreover, God by definition can not be a subject of either ethics or law. He is omnipotent, and a human being can give nothing to Him. Commandments are necessary to people, as they, as a whole, present a formula of human dignity value. At the same time the commandments point out the natural limits of man’s freedom. Disregard of the point leads to immoral extension of human rights in the modern world