Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Youcat commented through CCC. Question n. 3 – Part III.
(Youcat answer - repeated) God has placed in our hearts a
longing to seek and find him. St. Augustine says, “You have made us for
yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.” We call this
longing for God Religion.
A deepening through
CCC
(CCC 283) The question about the origins of the world and of
man has been the object of many scientific studies which have splendidly
enriched our knowledge of the age and dimensions of the cosmos, the development
of life-forms and the appearance of man. These discoveries invite us to even
greater admiration for the greatness of the Creator, prompting us to give him
thanks for all his works and for the understanding and wisdom he gives to
scholars and researchers. With Solomon they can say: "It is he who gave me
unerring knowledge of what exists, to know the structure of the world and the
activity of the elements… for wisdom, the fashioner of all things, taught
me" (Wis 7: 17-22).
Reflecting and
meditating
(Youcat comment) It is natural
for man to seek God. All of our striving for truth and happiness is ultimately
a search forthe one who supports us absolutely, satisfies us absolutely, and
employs us absolutely in his service. A person is not completely himself until
he has found God. “Anyone who seeks truth seeks God,whether or not he realizes
it” (St. Edith Stein).
(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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