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Monday, 13 July 2009 16:00 |
On Gratitude For Life
Here we see this almost confusing teaching again—that faith is a gift from God. I say ‘confusing’ because this might lead someone to believe that man’s salvation is somehow predetermined (or predestined) by God’s decision to give faith to this or that person. But predestination, as you know, is an idea rejected by the Catholic Church. The next paragraph of the catechism specifically refutes the idea by describing faith as a human act. That would also seem to contradict paragraph 152, unless that is, you’re able to accept certain paradoxes, and Catholic teaching is absolutely full of paradoxes.
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009 14:17 |
On Faith In The Holy Spirit
Back in Paragraph 150, we discussed the way to proceed in faith, even when our understanding of doctrine doesn’t conform to the truth. In this paragraph, we talk about faith in the Holy Spirit, which often involves trusting in God when our emotions don’t conform to the truth.
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Tuesday, 09 June 2009 17:18 |
On Our Belief In Christ
One of the great things about our religion is that it doesn’t offer “God” as some sort of abstract idea. God is something to us, not just anything. Even in the Old Testament, God did things, said things, and even expected men to do things in return. In the New Testament, the idea of one God materializes before us in a way that doesn’t happen in other religions.
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009 15:33 |
On Trusting Things We Don't Understand
Every now and then, I come upon a teaching that I can’t quite grasp. Not in the sense that I can’t grasp mysteries (these are never completely ‘graspable’), but in the sense that it seems contrary to logic. It’s like when I was in grade school, learning about negative numbers. I just couldn’t understand how you can multiply a positive by a negative number, and end up with a negative number. It didn’t compute.
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Monday, 11 May 2009 14:19 |
On Becoming A Religious Fanatic
This paragraph, even after studying it for some time, can be a bit confusing. On the one hand, it would seem that faith is a submission to God’s will. On the other hand, the Church very plainly teaches that faith is a gift from God. Now by these two concepts, you can almost see a form of predestination. The submission to God is a gift from God. So if someone doesn’t submit, could that mean that they simply weren’t given the gift of faith?
I’ll be touching on this subject in a much deeper sense as we move along. For now, let us just say that we USE our faith to come closer to Christ.
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