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Post by teresahrc on Jul 21, 2009 17:39:42 GMT -5
So you don't believe that God has given the Church authority to teach us about His nature? Does God speak to us through men?
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Post by Ramon on Jul 21, 2009 22:03:32 GMT -5
So you don't believe that God has given the Church authority to teach us about His nature? Does God speak to us through men? We can never understand God fully. We are but limited creatures, who can never understand the Almighty. There is no definition of God. That which is defined, is limited. God has revealed things about him through Holy Tradition (i.e., Holy Scriptures, etc), but in truth we can never know fully or be part of his essence. For example, we believe and confess the Holy Trinity, and while the Church has explain it, as far as it possible, it remains a utter Mystery, just like the Holy Incarnation. This remind me of the story of Saint Augustine the Blessed: "One Father of the Church, St. Augustine, studied the mystery of the Holy Trinity and although he was at his wits' end, he still could not comprehend it. One day he was walking on the sandy beach by the ocean. There churned in his mind the mystery of the Holy Trinity. He was talking to himself: "One God, but three Persons. Three Persons--not three Gods but one God. What does it mean? How can it be explained? How can my mind take it in?" And so he was torturing his mind and beating his brains out, when he saw a little boy on the beach. He approached him to see what he was doing. The child had dug a small hole in the sand. With his little hands he was carrying water from the ocean and was dumping it in the little hole. St. Augustine asked, "What are you doing, my child?" The child replied, "I want to put all of the water of the ocean into this hole." Once more St. Augustine asked, "But is it possible for all of the water of this great ocean to be contained in this little hole?" And the child asked him in return, "If the water of the ocean cannot be contained in this little hole, then how can the Infinite Trinitarian God be contained in your mind?" And the child disappeared. He was actually a little angel. St. Augustine learned his lesson. He reverently thanked God, Who taught him in such a miraculous way that the mystery of the Holy Trinity cannot be comprehended with human reasoning. It is a matter of faith rather than of human reasoning. Whoever believes in God lives the mystery of the Holy Trinity and does not require rational proof." ( biserica.org/Publicatii/Catechism/cathholy.htm). Finally, I believe Holy Scriptures. Those who wrote the book therein was inspired by the Holy Spirit. It is not like they made it up. God can not lie because He is not capable of lying (Numbers 23:19: 1 Samuel 15:29, Psalm 92:15: Malachi 3:6: Romans 3:4: Titus 1:2: Hebrews 6:18: James 1:17-18). In IC.XC, Ramon |
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Post by Ramon on Jul 21, 2009 22:13:51 GMT -5
what you quoted is what a "man" said about God! But Saint Paul (traditionally) was inspired to write the Book of Hebrews...... ;D |
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