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The Profession of Faith The Paschal Mystery
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If
man exists it is because God has created him through love and therefore
holds him in existence, leaving man with the need to acknowledge that love
through a quest to know and communicate with God, the creator. This has
shown itself since time began in various forms of religious expression.
Man, therefore, is a religious being, whether he knows it or not, and acknowledges
it or not. Man often rejects this essential by rejecting the need for God
through religious indifference or ignorance, a focus on the world and all
it can 'offer', the scandal of bad example, currents of thoughts hostile
to religion, the guilt of sinful behaviour causing man to hide or run away
from God out of fear and guilt.
Man searches for God through a hunger for truth and beauty, a sense of moral goodness, freedom and the voice of conscience, and the longings for the infinite and happiness. Within all these are the discernment of the spitirual soul which can only come from God. Man's faculties lead to the knowledge of the existence of a personal God and, through faith, grace, the natural light of human reason and divine revelation, can reach an intimate and close relationship with God. Proofs of the existence of God come about when man discovers ways of coming to know Him. In the physical world man discovers a beauty and order of the world leading the knowledge of God as the origian and the end of the universe. In the human person, man discovers a beauty, openness and honesty based on God's creation of man in His own likeness. However, man's knowledge of God is often hampered by obstacles which prevent the inborn God-given faculity to recognise and acknowledge His presence. The truths relating to God transcend the visible order of things and therefore call for self-surrender and abnegation. The obstacles are impounded by man's senses, imagination, and disordered appetites as a consequence of original sin. By natural reason, then, man can know God on the basis of His works in the world and through man himself, but also through divine revelation. Through a free decision, God had revealed and given Himself to man by revealing the mysteryand His plan of loving goodness. Christ, His beloved Son, was the means He chose to show us Himself. The Holy Spirit is the channel of revelation, helping us with a knowledge of God, an understanding of God as our creator, a realisation of God as our loving Father. Next Page: Divine Revelation |
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