Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Youcat commented through CCC - Question n. 63.
(Youcat
answer) The human soul is created directly by God and is not “produced” by the
parents.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 366)
The Church teaches that every spiritual soul is created immediately by God - it
is not "produced" by the parents - and also that it is immortal: it
does not perish when it separates from the body at death, and it will be
reunited with the body at the final Resurrection (Cf. Pius XII, Humani generis: DS 3896; Paul VI, CPG §
8; Lateran Council V (1513): DS 1440).
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) Man’s soul
cannot be the product of an evolutionary development out of matter or the result
of a generative union of the father and mother. With every man, a unique,
spiritual person comes into the world; the Church expresses this mystery by
saying that God gives him a soul, which cannot die; even if the person loses
his body in death, he will find it again in the resurrection. To say, “I have a
soul”, means that God created me not only as a creature but as a person and has
called me to a never-ending relationship with him.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 367)
Sometimes the soul is distinguished from the spirit: St. Paul for instance
prays that God may sanctify his people "wholly", with "spirit
and soul and body" kept sound and blameless at the Lord's coming (1 Th
5:23). The Church teaches that this distinction does not introduce a duality
into the soul (Cf. Council of Constantinople IV (870): DS 657).
"Spirit" signifies that from creation man is ordered to a
supernatural end and that his soul can gratuitously be raised beyond all it
deserves to communion with God (Cf. Vatican Council I, Dei Filius: DS 3005; GS 22 § 5; Humani
generis: DS 3891).
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