Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Youcat commented through CCC. Question n. 43 – Part IV.
(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 301) With creation, God does not abandon his creatures
to themselves. He not only gives them being and existence, but also, and at
every moment, upholds and sustains them in being, enables them to act and
brings them to their final end. Recognizing this utter dependence with respect
to the Creator is a source of wisdom and freedom, of joy and confidence: For
you love all things that exist, and detest none of the things that you have
made; for you would not have made anything if you had hated it. How would anything
have endured, if you had not willed it? Or how would anything not called forth
by you have been preserved? You spare all things, for they are yours, O Lord,
you who love the living (Wis 11:24-26). (CCC 320) God created the universe and
keeps it in existence by his Word, the Son "upholding the universe by his
word of power" (Heb 1:3), and by his Creator Spirit, the giver of life.
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 300) God is infinitely greater than all his works:
"You have set your glory above the heavens" (Ps 8:1; cf. Sir 43:28).
Indeed, God's "greatness is unsearchable" (Ps 145:3). But because he
is the free and sovereign Creator, the first cause of all that exists, God is
present to his creatures' inmost being: "In him we live and move and have
our being" (Acts 17:28). In the words of St. Augustine, God is
"higher than my highest and more inward than my innermost self" (St.
Augustine, Conf. 3, 6, 11: PL 32,
688).
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