Introduction
How did Human Rights grow in history and how have the Christian dogmas been fulfilled that by Christ? I will review this question by exploring the different levels of understanding and how are human rights rooted in the divine one.
God created humans and the world in which they live in. Christian faith believes that all affirmations of human rights are embedded within this reality where God transcends the world and yet is present within it.
Human rights are not only natural rights because man is loved by God. When discussing the issue of human rights, the Christian faith does not imply we stop at the metaphysics thoughts or natural law. Because the human rights involve the natural and the supernatural one, and both are known through reason and revelation whereby reason is enlightened by revelation. Additionally, this leads us to think about the doctrine of the Catholic Church and other Christian churches which always call for the protection of the personal dignity of the human being. Therefore, human rights are not at the level of physical needs: shelter,
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We all agree that the source of human rights is implicit in natural law. In Mesopotamia, historians discovered different legislations from the third and the second millennium to protect human rights such as UruKagina (2355 BC) and Ur-Nammu (2100 BC), then Hammurabi (1750 BC), and the second version of Hammurabi legislation in Babylon (approximately 1550 BC). But, one cannot identify transcendent source of rights in these Mesopotamian human rights declarations, perhaps some seeds! The dignity of an individual is the basic presupposition of human rights. It expresses the notion of the common good. This notion guides us to a transcendent understanding of the dignity of the person and has a significant value which one can discover through the second