Saturday, March 28, 2015
Youcat commented through CCC. Question n. 4 – Part II.
(Youcat answer - repeated) Yes. Human reason can know God
with certainty.
A deepening through
CCC
(CCC 33) The human
person: with his openness to truth and beauty, his sense of moral goodness,
his freedom and the voice of his conscience, with his longings for the infinite
and for happiness, man questions himself about God's existence. In all this he
discerns signs of his spiritual soul. The soul, the "seed of eternity we
bear in ourselves, irreducible to the merely material" (GS 18 § 1; cf. 14
§ 2), can have its origin only in God. (CCC 34) The world, and man, attest that
they contain within themselves neither their first principle nor their final
end, but rather that they participate in Being itself, which alone is without
origin or end. Thus, in different ways, man can come to know that there exists
a reality which is the first cause and final end of all things, a reality
"that everyone calls God" (St. Thomas Aquinas, STh I, 2, 3).
Reflecting and
meditating
(Youcat comment) The world
cannot have its origin and its destination within itself. In everything that
exists, there is more than we see. The order, the beauty, and the development
of the world point beyond themselves toward God. Every man is receptive to what
is true, good, and beautiful. He hears within himself the voice of conscience,
which urges him to what is good and warns him against what is evil. Anyone who
follows this path reasonably finds God.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 46) When he listens to the message of creation and to
the voice of conscience, man can arrive at certainty about the existence of
God, the cause and the end of everything. (CCC 47) The Church teaches that the
one true God, our Creator and Lord, can be known with certainty from his works,
by the natural light of human reason (cf. Vatican Council I, can. 2 § 1: DS
3026). (CCC 35) Man's faculties make him capable of coming to a knowledge of
the existence of a personal God. But for man to be able to enter into real
intimacy with him, God willed both to reveal himself to man, and to give him
the grace of being able to welcome this revelation in faith. The proofs of
God's existence, however, can predispose one to faith and help one to see that
faith is not opposed to reason.
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