Monday, June 29, 2015
Youcat commented through CCC. Question n. 43 – Part III.
(Youcat answer - repeated) No. God, not chance, is the
cause of the world. Neither in its origin nor with respect to its intrinsic
order and purposefulness is it the product of factors working “aimlessly”.
A deepening through
CCC
(CCC 299) Because God creates through wisdom, his creation
is ordered: "You have arranged all things by measure and number and
weight" (Wis 11:20). The universe, created in and by the eternal Word, the
"image of the invisible God", is destined for and addressed to man,
himself created in the "image of God" and called to a personal
relationship with God (Col 1:15, Gen 1:26). Our human understanding, which
shares in the light of the divine intellect, can understand what God tells us
by means of his creation, though not without great effort and only in a spirit
of humility and respect before the Creator and his work (Cf. Ps 19:2-5; Job
42:3). Because creation comes forth from God's goodness, it shares in that
goodness - "and God saw that it was good… very good" (Gen 1:4, 10,
12, 18, 21, 31) - for God willed creation as a gift addressed to man, an
inheritance destined for and entrusted to him. On many occasions the Church has
had to defend the goodness of creation, including that of the physical world
(Cf. DS 286; 455-463; 800; 1333; 3002). 299
Reflecting and
meditating
(Youcat comment)
Christians believe that they can read
God’s handwriting in his creation. To scientists who talk about the whole world
as a random, meaningless, and aimless process, Pope John Paul II pointed out in
reply in 1985, “Given a universe in which there is such a complex organization
of its elements and such a wonderful purposefulness in its life, talking about
chance would be equivalent to giving up the search for an explanation of the
world as it appears to us. In fact it would be tantamount to accepting effects without
cause. It would be an abdication of human reason, which in this way would be
refusing to think and to search for a solution to problems.”
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 49) Without the Creator, the creature vanishes (GS 36).
This is the reason why believers know that the love of Christ urges them to
bring the light of the living God to those who do not know him or who reject
him.
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