Baptism, why? (III) The purpose..what the church say
continuing...
Well, yes, why don't we ask God what is His purpose in creating us? What is our lives purpose then? Where can we find answer from God? where can we hear His voice? Maybe we can start from the Bible and the Church.
I have been reading CCC (Cathecism of the Catholic Church) for sometime, and it is great. I found the wisdom that God gives to the church. And even amazingly, the questions on why God creates us and what is His purpose, is written plainly inside it.
The bible also says that God has revealed this mystery."For he has made known to us in all wisdom and insight the mystery of his will, according to his purpose which he set forth in Christ " Eph1:9
This is what is written in CCC.
51 "It pleased God, in his goodness and wisdom, to reveal himself and to make known the mystery of his will. His will was that men should have access to the Father, through Christ, the Word made flesh, in the Holy Spirit, and thus become sharers in the divine nature."
St. Paul said, "for through him we both have access in one Spirit tothe Father. " Eph 2:18
And let us listen to our first Pope, St. Peter, said "by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, that through these you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of passion, and become partakers of the divine nature. " 2 Ptr 1:4
from CCC again
460 The Word became flesh to make us "partakers of the divine nature":"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." "For the Son of God became man so that we might become God.""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."
How amazing it is, it speaks the same thing as the book that I read before. God's will was that we, all of us, should have access to GOD, and in this way we become sharers in the divine nature. God wants to share His life to us. He wants us to become sharer in His divinity, His divine nature. We become partakers of the divine nature, St Peter said. And as St.Thomas Aquinas said, "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."
Next: The purpose...our desire
---to be continue
Well, yes, why don't we ask God what is His purpose in creating us? What is our lives purpose then? Where can we find answer from God? where can we hear His voice? Maybe we can start from the Bible and the Church.
I have been reading CCC (Cathecism of the Catholic Church) for sometime, and it is great. I found the wisdom that God gives to the church. And even amazingly, the questions on why God creates us and what is His purpose, is written plainly inside it.
The bible also says that God has revealed this mystery."For he has made known to us in all wisdom and insight the mystery of his will, according to his purpose which he set forth in Christ " Eph1:9
This is what is written in CCC.
51 "It pleased God, in his goodness and wisdom, to reveal himself and to make known the mystery of his will. His will was that men should have access to the Father, through Christ, the Word made flesh, in the Holy Spirit, and thus become sharers in the divine nature."
St. Paul said, "for through him we both have access in one Spirit tothe Father. " Eph 2:18
And let us listen to our first Pope, St. Peter, said "by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, that through these you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of passion, and become partakers of the divine nature. " 2 Ptr 1:4
from CCC again
460 The Word became flesh to make us "partakers of the divine nature":"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." "For the Son of God became man so that we might become God.""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."
How amazing it is, it speaks the same thing as the book that I read before. God's will was that we, all of us, should have access to GOD, and in this way we become sharers in the divine nature. God wants to share His life to us. He wants us to become sharer in His divinity, His divine nature. We become partakers of the divine nature, St Peter said. And as St.Thomas Aquinas said, "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."
Next: The purpose...our desire
---to be continue
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