Friday, March 20, 2015
Youcat commented through CCC. Question n. 1 – Part I.
(Youcat answer) We
are here on earth in order to know and to love God, to do good according to his
will, and to go someday to heaven.
A deepening through
CCC
(CCC 1) God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a
plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed
life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to
man. He calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength.
He calls together all men, scattered and divided by sin, into the unity of his
family, the Church. To accomplish this, when the fullness of time had come, God
sent his Son as Redeemer and Saviour. In his Son and through him, he invites
men to become, in the Holy Spirit, his adopted children and thus heirs of his
blessed life.
Reflecting and
meditating
(Youcat comment) To be a human
being means to come from God and to go to God. Our origin goes back farther
than our parents. We come from God, in whom all the happiness of heaven and
earth is at home, and we are expected in his everlasting, infinite blessedness.
Meanwhile we live on this earth. Sometimes we feel that our Creator is near;
often we feel nothing at all. So that we might find the way home, God sent us
his Son, who freed us from sin, delivers us from all evil, and leads us
unerringly into true life. He is “the way, and the truth, and the life” (Jn
14:6).
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 285) Since the beginning the Christian faith has been
challenged by responses to the question of origins that differ from its own.
Ancient religions and cultures produced many myths concerning origins. Some
philosophers have said that everything is God, that the world is God, or that
the development of the world is the development of God (Pantheism). Others have
said that the world is a necessary emanation arising from God and returning to
him. Still others have affirmed the existence of two eternal principles, Good
and Evil, Light and Darkness, locked, in permanent conflict (Dualism,
Manichaeism). According to some of these conceptions, the world (at least the
physical world) is evil, the product of a fall, and is thus to be rejected or
left behind (Gnosticism). Some admit that the world was made by God, but as by
a watch-maker who, once he has made a watch, abandons it to itself (Deism).
Finally, others reject any transcendent origin for the world, but see it as
merely the interplay of matter that has always existed (Materialism). All these
attempts bear witness to the permanence and universality of the question of
origins. This inquiry is distinctively human.
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