Sunday, May 3, 2015
Youcat commented through CCC. Question n. 22.
(Youcat answer) Someone who believes is seeking a
personal union with God and is ready to believe God in everything that he shows
(reveals) about himself.
A deepening through
CCC
(CCC 150) Faith is first of all a personal adherence of man
to God. At the same time, and inseparably, it is a free assent to the whole truth that God has revealed. As personal
adherence to God and assent to his truth, Christian faith differs from our
faith in any human person. It is right and just to entrust oneself wholly to
God and to believe absolutely what he says. It would be futile and false to
place such faith in a creature (Cf. Jer 17:5-6; Ps 40:5; 146:3-4). (CCC 151)
For a Christian, believing in God cannot be separated from believing in the One
he sent, his "beloved Son", in whom the Father is "well
pleased"; God tells us to listen to him (Mk 1:11; cf. 9:7). The Lord
himself said to his disciples: "Believe in God, believe also in me"
(Jn 14:1). We can believe in Jesus Christ because he is himself God, the Word made
flesh: "No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the
Father, he has made him known" (Jn 1:18). Because he "has seen the
Father", Jesus Christ is the only one who knows him and can reveal him (Jn
6:46; cf. Mt 11:27).
Reflecting and
meditating
(Youcat comment)
At the beginning of faith, there is often an emotional disturbance or
uneasiness. The person senses that the visible world and the normal course of
things cannot be all there is. He feels touched by a mystery and follows the
traces that point to the existence of God and gradually finds the confidence to
speak to God and finally to unite himself to him in freedom. In John’s Gospel
it says, “No one has ever seen God; the only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom
of the Father, he has made him known” (Jn 1:18). That is why we must believe
Jesus, the Son of God, if we want to know what God would like to communicate to
us. Believing, therefore, means accepting Jesus and staking one’s whole life on
him.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 152) One cannot believe in Jesus Christ without sharing
in his Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit who reveals to men who Jesus is. For
"no one can say "Jesus is Lord", except by the Holy Spirit"
(1 Cor 12:3), who "searches everything, even the depths of God…. No one
comprehends the thoughts of God, except the Spirit of God" (1 Cor
2:10-11). Only God knows God completely: we believe in the Holy Spirit because he is God. The Church never ceases to proclaim her faith in one only God: Father,
Son and Holy Spirit.
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