Youcat commented through CCC - Question n. 70 - Part II.

YOUCAT Question n. 70 - Part II. How does God draw us out of the whirlpool of evil?

(Youcat answer - repeated) God does not just look on as man gradually destroys himself and the world around him through the chain reaction of sin. He sends us Jesus Christ, the Savior and Redeemer, who snatches us from the power of sin.       

A deepening through CCC

(CCC 421) Christians believe that "the world has been established and kept in being by the Creator's love; has fallen into slavery to sin but has been set free by Christ, crucified and risen to break the power of the evil one…" (GS 2 § 2).     

Reflecting and meditating 

(Youcat comment) “No one can help me” — this maxim of human experience is no longer accurate. Wherever man may have strayed by his sins, God the Father has sent his Son there. The consequence of sin is death (cf. Rom 6:23). Another consequence of sin, however, is the marvelous solidarity of God, who sends us Jesus as our friend and Savior. Therefore original sin is also called felix culpa ( happy fault): “O happy fault… which gained for us so great a Redeemer!” (Liturgy of the Easter Vigil).

(CCC Comment)

(CCC 412) But why did God not prevent the first man from sinning? St. Leo the Great responds, "Christ's inexpressible grace gave us blessings better than those the demon's envy had taken away" (St. Leo the Great, Sermo 73, 4: PL 54, 396), and St. Thomas Aquinas wrote, "There is nothing to prevent human nature's being raised up to something greater, even after sin; God permits evil in order to draw forth some greater good. Thus St. Paul says, 'Where sin increased, grace abounded all the more'; and the Exsultet sings, 'O happy fault,…which gained for us so great a Redeemer!'"(St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, I, 3, ad 3; cf. Rom 5:20).       

(The next question is: Why are the reports about Jesus called “the Gospel”, “the Good News”?)