Saturday, July 18, 2015
Youcat commented through CCC - Question n. 52 - Part II.
(Youcat answer - repeated) Heaven is God’s milieu, the
dwelling place of the angels and saints, and the goal of creation. With the
words “heaven and earth” we designate the whole of created reality.
A deepening through
CCC
(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.
Reflecting and
meditating
(Youcat comment)
Heaven is not a place in the universe. It
is a condition in the next life. Heaven is where God’s will is done without any
resistance. Heaven happens when life is present in its greatest intensity and
blessedness—a kind of life that we do not find on earth. If with
God’s help we arrive someday in heaven, then waiting for us will be “what no
eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has
prepared for those who love him” (1 Cor 2:9).
(CCC
Comment)
(CCC 327) The profession of faith of the Fourth Lateran
Council (1215) affirms that God "from the beginning of time made at once (simul) out of nothing both orders of
creatures, the spiritual and the corporeal, that is, the angelic and the
earthly, and then (deinde) the human
creature, who as it were shares in both orders, being composed of spirit and
body" (Lateran Council IV (1215): DS 800; cf. DS 3002 and Paul VI, CPG §
8)
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