Thursday, October 1, 2015
Youcat commented through CCC - Question n. 76 - Part IV.
(Youcat
answer - Repeated) “For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven”
(Nicene Creed).
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 460)
The Word became flesh to make us "partakers
of the divine nature" (2 Pt 1:4): "For this is why the Word
became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering
into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a
son of God" (St. Irenaeus, Adv.
haeres. 3, 19, 1: PG 7/1, 939). "For the Son of God became man so that
we might become God" (St. Athanasius, De
inc. 54, 3: PG 25, 192B). "The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to
make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man,
might make men gods" (St. Thomas Aquinas, Opusc. 57, 1-4).
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) In Jesus
Christ, God reconciled the world to himself and redeemed mankind from the
imprisonment of sin. “God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten
Son” (Jn 3:16). In Jesus, God took on our mortal human flesh (incarnation),
shared our earthly lot, our sufferings, and our death, and became one like us
in all things but sin.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 230)
Even when he reveals himself, God remains a mystery beyond words: "If you
understood him, it would not be God" (St. Augustine, Sermo 52, 6, 16: PL 38, 360 and Sermo
117, 3, 5: PL 38, 663).
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