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1 Prol | know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you
2 Prol | Christ whom you have sent."1~"God our Saviour desires all
3 Prol, 0, 1 | of man - to know and love God~
4 Prol, 0, 1, 1 | 1 God, infinitely perfect and
5 Prol, 0, 1, 1 | time and in every place, God draws close to man. He calls
6 Prol, 0, 1, 1 | fullness of time had come, God sent his Son as Redeemer
7 Prol, 0, 1, 3 | 3 Those who with God's help have welcomed Christ'
8 Prol, 0, 2, 4 | that Jesus is the Son of God so that believing they might
9 Prol, 0, 2, 7 | and correspondence with God's plan depend essentially
10 Prol, 0, 3, 12 | of teaching the People of God. Through the bishops, it
11 Prol, 0, 4, 14 | expounds revelation, by which God addresses and gives himself
12 Prol, 0, 4, 14 | by which man responds to God (Section One). the profession
13 Prol, 0, 4, 14 | summarizes the gifts that God gives man: as the Author
14 Prol, 0, 4, 14 | baptismal faith in the one God: the almighty Father, the
15 Prol, 0, 4, 15 | the Catechism explains how God's salvation, accomplished
16 Prol, 0, 4, 16 | created in the image of God: beatitude, and the ways
17 Prol, 0, 4, 16 | chosen, with the help of God's law and grace (Section
18 Prol, 0, 4, 16 | of charity, specified in God's Ten Commandments (Section
19 1, 1, 0, 26 | and lived in observance of God's commandments and in prayer,
20 1, 1, 0, 26 | Faith is man's response to God, who reveals himself and
21 1, 1, 0, 26 | divine Revelation by which God comes to meet man (Chapter
22 1, 1, 1 | CHAPTER ONE~MAN'S CAPACITY FOR GOD~
23 1, 1, 1 | I. The Desire for God~
24 1, 1, 1, 27 | 27 The desire for God is written in the human
25 1, 1, 1, 27 | because man is created by God and for God; and God never
26 1, 1, 1, 27 | is created by God and for God; and God never ceases to
27 1, 1, 1, 27 | by God and for God; and God never ceases to draw man
28 1, 1, 1, 27 | man to himself. Only in God will he find the truth and
29 1, 1, 1, 27 | called to communion with God. This invitation to converse
30 1, 1, 1, 27 | invitation to converse with God is addressed to man as soon
31 1, 1, 1, 27 | man exists it is because God has created him through
32 1, 1, 1, 28 | expression to their quest for God in their religious beliefs
33 1, 1, 1, 28 | being:~From one ancestor (God) made all nations to inhabit
34 1, 1, 1, 28 | that they would search for God and perhaps grope for him
35 1, 1, 1, 29 | and vital bond of man to God" (GS 19 # 1) can be forgotten,
36 1, 1, 1, 29 | which makes him hide from God out of fear and flee his
37 1, 1, 1, 30 | Although man can forget God or reject him, He never
38 1, 1, 1, 30 | happiness. But this search for God demands of man every effort
39 1, 1, 1, 30 | others who teach him to seek God.~You are great, O Lord,
40 1, 1, 1 | Ways of Coming to Know God~
41 1, 1, 1, 31 | 31 Created in God's image and called to know
42 1, 1, 1, 31 | him, the person who seeks God discovers certain ways of
43 1, 1, 1, 31 | proofs for the existence of God, not in the sense of proofs
44 1, 1, 1, 31 | These "ways" of approaching God from creation have a twofold
45 1, 1, 1, 32 | can come to a knowledge of God as the origin and the end
46 1, 1, 1, 32 | what can be known about God is plain to them, because
47 1, 1, 1, 32 | is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. Ever
48 1, 1, 1, 33 | questions himself about God's existence. In all this
49 1, 1, 1, 33 | have its origin only in God.~
50 1, 1, 1, 34 | reality "that everyone calls God".10~
51 1, 1, 1, 35 | existence of a personal God. But for man to be able
52 1, 1, 1, 35 | real intimacy with him, God willed both to reveal himself
53 1, 1, 1, 35 | faith.(so) the proofs of God's existence, however, can
54 1, 1, 1 | III. The Knowledge of God According to the Church~
55 1, 1, 1, 36 | holds and teaches that God, the first principle and
56 1, 1, 1, 36 | would not be able to welcome God's revelation. Man has this
57 1, 1, 1, 36 | created "in the image of God".12~
58 1, 1, 1, 37 | difficulties in coming to know God by the light of reason alone:~
59 1, 1, 1, 37 | knowledge of the one personal God, who watches over and controls
60 1, 1, 1, 37 | concern the relations between God and man wholly transcend
61 1, 1, 1, 38 | of being enlightened by God's revelation, not only about
62 1, 1, 1 | How Can We Speak about God?~
63 1, 1, 1, 39 | of human reason to know God, the Church is expressing
64 1, 1, 1, 40 | 40 Since our knowledge of God is limited, our language
65 1, 1, 1, 40 | equally so. We can name God only by taking creatures
66 1, 1, 1, 41 | a certain resemblance to God, most especially man, created
67 1, 1, 1, 41 | the image and likeness of God. the manifold perfections
68 1, 1, 1, 41 | the infinite perfection of God. Consequently we can name
69 1, 1, 1, 41 | Consequently we can name God by taking his creatures"
70 1, 1, 1, 42 | 42 God transcends all creatures.
71 1, 1, 1, 42 | to confuse our image of God --"the inexpressible, the
72 1, 1, 1, 42 | short of the mystery of God.~
73 1, 1, 1, 43 | Admittedly, in speaking about God like this, our language
74 1, 1, 1, 43 | it really does attain to God himself, though unable to
75 1, 1, 1, 43 | and that "concerning God, we cannot grasp what he
76 1, 1, 1, 44 | religious being. Coming from God, going toward God, man lives
77 1, 1, 1, 44 | Coming from God, going toward God, man lives a fully human
78 1, 1, 1, 44 | freely lives by his bond with God.~
79 1, 1, 1, 45 | to live in communion with God in whom he finds happiness:
80 1, 1, 1, 46 | certainty about the existence of God, the cause and the end of
81 1, 1, 1, 47 | teaches that the one true God, our Creator and Lord, can
82 1, 1, 1, 48 | 48 We really can name God, starting from the manifold
83 1, 1, 1, 48 | of the infinitely perfect God, even if our limited language
84 1, 1, 1, 49 | the light of the living God to those who do not know
85 1, 1, 2 | CHAPTER TWO~GOD COMES TO MEET MAN~
86 1, 1, 2, 50 | natural reason man can know God with certainty, on the basis
87 1, 1, 2, 50 | an utterly free decision, God has revealed himself and
88 1, 1, 2, 50 | the benefit of all men. God has fully revealed this
89 1, 1, 2 | Article 1~THE REVELATION OF GOD~
90 1, 1, 2 | I. God Reveals His "Plan of Loving
91 1, 1, 2, 51 | 51 "It pleased God, in his goodness and wisdom,
92 1, 1, 2, 52 | 52 God, who "dwells in unapproachable
93 1, 1, 2, 52 | Son.3 By revealing himself God wishes to make them capable
94 1, 1, 2, 53 | specific divine pedagogy: God communicates himself to
95 1, 1, 2, 53 | pedagogy using the image of God and man becoming accustomed
96 1, 1, 2, 53 | one another: the Word of God dwelt in man and became
97 1, 1, 2, 53 | accustom man to perceive God and to accustom God to dwell
98 1, 1, 2, 53 | perceive God and to accustom God to dwell in man, according
99 1, 1, 2 | Revelation~In the beginning God makes himself known~
100 1, 1, 2, 54 | 54 "God, who creates and conserves
101 1, 1, 2, 55 | sin. "After the fall, (God) buoyed them up with the
102 1, 1, 2, 56 | race was shattered by sin God at once sought to save humanity
103 1, 1, 2, 58 | into one the children of God who are scattered abroad".15~
104 1, 1, 2, 58 | are scattered abroad".15~God chooses Abraham~
105 1, 1, 2, 59 | together scattered humanity God calls Abram from his country,
106 1, 1, 2, 60 | prepare for that day when God would gather all his children
107 1, 1, 2, 61 | s liturgical traditions.~God forms his people Israel~
108 1, 1, 2, 62 | 62 After the patriarchs, God formed Israel as his people
109 1, 1, 2, 62 | the one living and true God, the provident Father and
110 1, 1, 2, 63 | is the priestly people of God, "called by the name of
111 1, 1, 2, 63 | first to hear the word of God",21 The people of "elder
112 1, 1, 2, 64 | 64 Through the prophets, God forms his people in the
113 1, 1, 2, 64 | redemption of the People of God, purification from all their
114 1, 1, 2 | Fullness of All Revelation"25~God has said everything in his
115 1, 1, 2, 65 | In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers
116 1, 1, 2, 65 | Son."26 Christ, the Son of God made man, is the Father'
117 1, 1, 2, 65 | Any person questioning God or desiring some vision
118 1, 1, 2, 68 | 68 By love, God has revealed himself and
119 1, 1, 2, 69 | 69 God has revealed himself to
120 1, 1, 2, 70 | witness to himself that God gives in created things,
121 1, 1, 2, 71 | 71 God made an everlasting covenant
122 1, 1, 2, 72 | 72 God chose Abraham and made a
123 1, 1, 2, 72 | descendants. By the covenant God formed his people and revealed
124 1, 1, 2, 73 | 73 God has revealed himself fully
125 1, 1, 2, 74 | 74 God "desires all men to be saved
126 1, 1, 2, 74 | to the ends of the earth:~God graciously arranged that
127 1, 1, 2, 75 | Revelation of the most high God is summed up, commanded
128 1, 1, 2, 75 | communicate the gifts of God to all men. This Gospel
129 1, 1, 2, 79 | and active in the Church: "God, who spoke in the past,
130 1, 1, 2, 81 | Scripture is the speech of God as it is put down in writing
131 1, 1, 2, 81 | its entirety the Word of God which has been entrusted
132 1, 1, 2, 85 | interpretation of the Word of God, whether in its written
133 1, 1, 2, 86 | superior to the Word of God, but is its servant. It
134 1, 1, 2, 93 | of truth, the People of God, guided by the sacred teaching
135 1, 1, 2, 95 | supremely wise arrangement of God, sacred Tradition, Sacred
136 1, 1, 2, 97 | sacred deposit of the Word of God" (DV 10) in which, as in
137 1, 1, 2, 97 | pilgrim Church contemplates God, the source of all her riches.~
138 1, 1, 2, 99 | of faith, the People of God as a whole never ceases
139 1, 1, 2, 100 | interpreting the Word of God authentically has been entrusted
140 1, 1, 2, 101 | condescension of his goodness God speaks to them in human
141 1, 1, 2, 101 | words: "Indeed the words of God, expressed in the words
142 1, 1, 2, 102 | words of Sacred Scripture, God speaks only one single Word,
143 1, 1, 2, 102 | one and the same Word of God extends throughout Scripture,
144 1, 1, 2, 102 | who was in the beginning God with God has no need of
145 1, 1, 2, 102 | in the beginning God with God has no need of separate
146 1, 1, 2, 103 | taken from the one table of God's Word and Christ's Body.66~
147 1, 1, 2, 104 | it really is, the word of God".67 "In the sacred books,
148 1, 1, 2, 105 | 105 God is the author of Sacred
149 1, 1, 2, 105 | the Holy Spirit, they have God as their author, and have
150 1, 1, 2, 106 | 106 God inspired the human authors
151 1, 1, 2, 106 | compose the sacred books, God chose certain men who, all
152 1, 1, 2, 107 | error teach that truth which God, for the sake of our salvation,
153 1, 1, 2, 108 | religion of the "Word" of God, "not a written and mute
154 1, 1, 2, 108 | eternal Word of the living God, must, through the Holy
155 1, 1, 2, 109 | 109 In Sacred Scripture, God speaks to man in a human
156 1, 1, 2, 109 | wanted to affirm, and to what God wanted to reveal to us by
157 1, 1, 2, 112 | by reason of the unity of God's plan, of which Christ
158 1, 1, 2, 113 | Tradition the living memorial of God's Word, and it is the Holy
159 1, 1, 2, 117 | Thanks to the unity of God's plan, not only the text
160 1, 1, 2, 119 | interpreting the Word of God."88~But I would not believe
161 1, 1, 2, 122 | whole divine pedagogy of God's saving love: these writings "
162 1, 1, 2, 122 | storehouse of sublime teaching on God and of sound wisdom on human
163 1, 1, 2, 123 | Testament as true Word of God. the Church has always vigorously
164 1, 1, 2, 124 | 124 "The Word of God, which is the power of God
165 1, 1, 2, 124 | God, which is the power of God for salvation to everyone
166 1, 1, 2, 124 | on the ultimate truth of God's Revelation. Their central
167 1, 1, 2, 124 | object is Jesus Christ, God's incarnate Son: his acts,
168 1, 1, 2, 126 | on what Jesus, the Son of God, while he lived among men,
169 1, 1, 2, 128 | typology, which discerns in God's works of the Old Covenant
170 1, 1, 2, 130 | of the divine plan when "God [will] be everything to
171 1, 1, 2, 130 | lose their own value in God's plan, from the mere fact
172 1, 1, 2, 131 | and power of the Word of God that it can serve the Church
173 1, 1, 2, 135 | Scriptures contain the Word of God and, because they are inspired,
174 1, 1, 2, 135 | they are truly the Word of God" (DV 24).~
175 1, 1, 2, 136 | 136 God is the author of Sacred
176 1, 1, 2, 137 | attentive above all to what God wants to reveal through
177 1, 1, 2, 140 | proceeds from the unity of God's plan and his Revelation.
178 1, 1, 2, 140 | other; both are true Word of God.~
179 1, 1, 3 | THREE~MAN'S RESPONSE TO GOD~
180 1, 1, 3, 142 | Revelation, "the invisible God, from the fullness of his
181 1, 1, 3, 143 | intellect and his will to God.2 With his whole being man
182 1, 1, 3, 143 | man gives his assent to God the revealer. Sacred Scripture
183 1, 1, 3, 143 | calls this human response to God, the author of revelation, "
184 1, 1, 3, 144 | its truth is guaranteed by God, who is Truth itself. Abraham
185 1, 1, 3, 146 | seen":7 "Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to
186 1, 1, 3, 147 | divine approval".10 Yet "God had foreseen something better
187 1, 1, 3, 148 | Gabriel, believing that "with God nothing will be impossible"
188 1, 1, 3, 149 | believe in the fulfilment of God's word. and so the Church
189 1, 1, 3 | Believed"16~To believe in God alone~
190 1, 1, 3, 150 | personal adherence of man to God. At the same time, and inseparably,
191 1, 1, 3, 150 | to the whole truth that God has revealed. As personal
192 1, 1, 3, 150 | As personal adherence to God and assent to his truth,
193 1, 1, 3, 150 | entrust oneself wholly to God and to believe absolutely
194 1, 1, 3, 150 | Jesus Christ, the Son of God~
195 1, 1, 3, 151 | Christian, believing in God cannot be separated from
196 1, 1, 3, 151 | Father is "well pleased"; God tells us to listen to him.18
197 1, 1, 3, 151 | his disciples: "Believe in God, believe also in me."19
198 1, 1, 3, 151 | Christ because he is himself God, the Word made flesh: "No
199 1, 1, 3, 151 | flesh: "No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in
200 1, 1, 3, 152 | everything, even the depths of God. . No one comprehends the
201 1, 1, 3, 152 | comprehends the thoughts of God, except the Spirit of God."23
202 1, 1, 3, 152 | God, except the Spirit of God."23 Only God knows God completely:
203 1, 1, 3, 152 | the Spirit of God."23 Only God knows God completely: we
204 1, 1, 3, 152 | of God."23 Only God knows God completely: we believe in
205 1, 1, 3, 152 | Holy Spirit because he is God.~The Church never ceases
206 1, 1, 3, 152 | proclaim her faith in one only God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.~
207 1, 1, 3, 153 | Christ, the Son of the living God, Jesus declared to him that
208 1, 1, 3, 153 | heaven".24 Faith is a gift of God, a supernatural virtue infused
209 1, 1, 3, 153 | man must have the grace of God to move and assist him;
210 1, 1, 3, 153 | heart and converts it to God, who opens the eyes of the
211 1, 1, 3, 154 | authentically human act. Trusting in God and cleaving to the truths
212 1, 1, 3, 154 | intellect and will to God who reveals",26 and to share
213 1, 1, 3, 155 | command of the will moved by God through grace."27~Faith
214 1, 1, 3, 156 | because of the authority of God himself who reveals them,
215 1, 1, 3, 156 | accordance with reason, God willed that external proofs
216 1, 1, 3, 157 | founded on the very word of God who cannot lie. To be sure,
217 1, 1, 3, 158 | that is, of the totality of God's plan and the mysteries
218 1, 1, 3, 159 | and reason. Since the same God who reveals mysteries and
219 1, 1, 3, 159 | reason on the human mind, God cannot deny himself, nor
220 1, 1, 3, 159 | faith derive from the same God. the humble and persevering
221 1, 1, 3, 159 | it were, by the hand of God in spite of himself, for
222 1, 1, 3, 159 | spite of himself, for it is God, the conserver of all things,
223 1, 1, 3, 160 | human, "man's response to God by faith must be free, and...
224 1, 1, 3, 160 | very nature a free act."39 "God calls men to serve him in
225 1, 1, 3, 161 | is impossible to please (God) " and to attain to the
226 1, 1, 3, 162 | entirely free gift that God makes to man. We can lose
227 1, 1, 3, 162 | nourish it with the word of God; we must beg the Lord to
228 1, 1, 3, 163 | below. Then we shall see God "face to face", "as he is".47
229 1, 1, 3, 164 | by sight";49 we perceive God as "in a mirror, dimly"
230 1, 1, 3, 166 | person to the initiative of God who reveals himself. But
231 1, 1, 3, 167 | our mother, responding to God by faith as she teaches
232 1, 1, 3, 168 | catechumen: "What do you ask of God's Church?" and the answer
233 1, 1, 3, 169 | 169 Salvation comes from God alone; but because we receive
234 1, 1, 3, 172 | all people have only one God and Father.58 St. Irenaeus
235 1, 1, 3, 175 | ceasing, under the action of God's Spirit, this deposit of
236 1, 1, 3, 176 | adherence of the whole man to God who reveals himself. It
237 1, 1, 3, 176 | will to the self-revelation God has made through his deeds
238 1, 1, 3, 178 | must believe in no one but God: the Father, the Son and
239 1, 1, 3, 179 | a supernatural gift from God. In order to believe, man
240 1, 1, 3, 181 | believers. "No one can have God as Father who does not have
241 1, 1, 3, 182 | contained in the word of God, written or handed down,
242 1, 1, 3 | Apostles Creed~I believe in God the Father almighty, creator
243 1, 1, 3 | Creed~We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, ~
244 1, 1, 3 | Christ, ~the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the
245 1, 1, 3 | begotten of the Father, ~God from God, Light from Light,
246 1, 1, 3 | of the Father, ~God from God, Light from Light, true
247 1, 1, 3 | Light from Light, true God from true God, ~begotten,
248 1, 1, 3 | Light, true God from true God, ~begotten, not made, of
249 1, 2, 0, 192 | the Credo of the People of God of Paul VI.12~
250 1, 2, 0, 197 | enter into communion with God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
251 1, 2, 1 | CHAPTER ONE~I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER~
252 1, 2, 1, 198 | profession of faith begins with God, for God is the First and
253 1, 2, 1, 198 | faith begins with God, for God is the First and the Last,1
254 1, 2, 1, 198 | everything. the Credo begins with God the Father, for the Father
255 1, 2, 1, 198 | and the foundation of all God's works.~
256 1, 2, 1 | Article 1~"I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER ALMIGHTY, CREATOR
257 1, 2, 1 | Paragraph 1. I BELIEVE IN GOD~
258 1, 2, 1, 199 | 199 "I believe in God": this first affirmation
259 1, 2, 1, 199 | the whole Creed speaks of God, and when it also speaks
260 1, 2, 1, 199 | it does so in relation to God. the other articles of the
261 1, 2, 1, 199 | articles help us to know God better as he revealed himself
262 1, 2, 1, 199 | profess their belief in God."2~I. "I BELIEVE IN ONE
263 1, 2, 1, 199 | I. "I BELIEVE IN ONE GOD"~
264 1, 2, 1, 200 | begins. the confession of God's oneness, which has its
265 1, 2, 1, 200 | inseparable from the profession of God's existence and is equally
266 1, 2, 1, 200 | is equally fundamental. God is unique; there is only
267 1, 2, 1, 200 | unique; there is only one God: "The Christian faith confesses
268 1, 2, 1, 200 | Christian faith confesses that God is one in nature, substance
269 1, 2, 1, 201 | 201 To Israel, his chosen, God revealed himself as the
270 1, 2, 1, 201 | O Israel: the LORD our God is one LORD; and you shall
271 1, 2, 1, 201 | shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and
272 1, 2, 1, 201 | Through the prophets, God calls Israel and all nations
273 1, 2, 1, 201 | to him, the one and only God: "Turn to me and be saved,
274 1, 2, 1, 201 | ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.. .
275 1, 2, 1, 202 | Jesus himself affirms that God is "the one Lord" whom you
276 1, 2, 1, 202 | contrary to belief in the One God. Nor does believing in the
277 1, 2, 1, 202 | any division into the One God:~We firmly believe and confess
278 1, 2, 1, 202 | that there is only one true God, eternal infinite (immensus)
279 1, 2, 1, 202 | nature entirely simple.~II. GOD REVEALS HIS NAME~
280 1, 2, 1, 203 | 203 God revealed himself to his
281 1, 2, 1, 203 | meaning of this person's life. God has a name; he is not an
282 1, 2, 1, 204 | 204 God revealed himself progressively
283 1, 2, 1, 204 | covenant on Sinai.~The living God~
284 1, 2, 1, 205 | 205 God calls Moses from the midst
285 1, 2, 1, 205 | being consumed: "I am the God of your father, the God
286 1, 2, 1, 205 | God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
287 1, 2, 1, 205 | the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of
288 1, 2, 1, 205 | the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob."9 God is the God
289 1, 2, 1, 205 | and the God of Jacob."9 God is the God of the fathers,
290 1, 2, 1, 205 | God of Jacob."9 God is the God of the fathers, the One
291 1, 2, 1, 205 | faithful and compassionate God who remembers them and his
292 1, 2, 1, 205 | from slavery. He is the God who, from beyond space and
293 1, 2, 1, 205 | and wills to do it, the God who will put his almighty
294 1, 2, 1, 205 | who I Am"~Moses said to God, "If I come to the people
295 1, 2, 1, 205 | Israel and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent
296 1, 2, 1, 205 | what shall I say to them?" God said to Moses, "I AM WHO
297 1, 2, 1, 206 | AM" or "I AM WHO I AM"), God says who he is and by what
298 1, 2, 1, 206 | name is mysterious just as God is mystery. It is at once
299 1, 2, 1, 206 | hence it better expresses God as what he is - infinitely
300 1, 2, 1, 206 | or say: he is the "hidden God", his name is ineffable,
301 1, 2, 1, 206 | ineffable, and he is the God who makes himself close
302 1, 2, 1, 207 | 207 By revealing his name God at the same time reveals
303 1, 2, 1, 207 | for the past ("I am the God of your father"), as for
304 1, 2, 1, 207 | I will be with you").12 God, who reveals his name as "
305 1, 2, 1, 207 | reveals himself as the God who is always there, present
306 1, 2, 1, 208 | 208 Faced with God's fascinating and mysterious
307 1, 2, 1, 208 | face in the presence of God's holiness.13 Before the
308 1, 2, 1, 208 | glory of the thrice-holy God, Isaiah cries out: "Woe
309 1, 2, 1, 208 | O Lord."15 But because God is holy, he can forgive
310 1, 2, 1, 208 | fierce anger. . . for I am God and not man, the Holy One
311 1, 2, 1, 208 | our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts,
312 1, 2, 1, 209 | respect for the holiness of God, the people of Israel do
313 1, 2, 1, 209 | acclaimed: "Jesus is LORD."~ ~"A God merciful and gracious"~
314 1, 2, 1, 210 | people had turned away from God to worship the golden calf,
315 1, 2, 1, 210 | worship the golden calf, God hears Moses' prayer of intercession
316 1, 2, 1, 210 | Moses asks to see his glory, God responds "I will make all
317 1, 2, 1, 210 | proclaims, "YHWH,~YHWH, a God merciful and gracious, slow
318 1, 2, 1, 210 | the LORD is a forgiving God.20~
319 1, 2, 1, 211 | Am" or "He Is", expresses God's faithfulness: despite
320 1, 2, 1, 211 | give up his own Son for us, God reveals that he is "rich
321 1, 2, 1, 211 | realize that "I AM"."23~God alone IS~
322 1, 2, 1, 212 | revelation of the divine name. God is unique; there are no
323 1, 2, 1, 212 | years have no end."25~In God "there is no variation or
324 1, 2, 1, 212 | shadow due to change."26 God is "HE WHO IS", from everlasting
325 1, 2, 1, 213 | contains then the truth that God alone IS. the Greek Septuagint
326 1, 2, 1, 213 | divine name in this sense: God is the fullness of Being
327 1, 2, 1, 213 | everything that he is.~III. GOD, "HE WHO IS", IS TRUTH AND
328 1, 2, 1, 214 | 214 God, "HE WHO IS", revealed himself
329 1, 2, 1, 214 | divine name. In all his works God displays, not only his kindness,
330 1, 2, 1, 214 | He is the Truth, for "God is light and in him there
331 1, 2, 1, 214 | there is no darkness"; "God is love", as the apostle
332 1, 2, 1, 214 | apostle John teaches.29~God is Truth~
333 1, 2, 1, 215 | forever."30 "and now, O LORD God, you are God, and your words
334 1, 2, 1, 215 | now, O LORD God, you are God, and your words are true";31
335 1, 2, 1, 215 | are true";31 this is why God's promises always come true.32
336 1, 2, 1, 215 | promises always come true.32 God is Truth itself, whose words
337 1, 2, 1, 215 | tempter who induced doubt of God's word, kindness and faithfulness.~
338 1, 2, 1, 216 | 216 God's truth is his wisdom, which
339 1, 2, 1, 216 | and governs the world.33 God, who alone made heaven and
340 1, 2, 1, 217 | 217 God is also truthful when he
341 1, 2, 1, 217 | teaching that comes from God is "true instruction".35
342 1, 2, 1, 217 | We know that the Son of God has come and has given us
343 1, 2, 1, 217 | know him who is true."37~God is Love~
344 1, 2, 1, 218 | was able to discover that God had only one reason to reveal
345 1, 2, 1, 218 | was again out of love that God never stopped saving them
346 1, 2, 1, 219 | 219 God's love for Israel is compared
347 1, 2, 1, 219 | mother's for her children. God loves his people more than
348 1, 2, 1, 219 | his most precious gift: "God so loved the world that
349 1, 2, 1, 220 | 220 God's love is "everlasting":41 "
350 1, 2, 1, 220 | you."42 Through Jeremiah, God declares to his people, "
351 1, 2, 1, 221 | further when he affirms that "God is love":44 God's very being
352 1, 2, 1, 221 | affirms that "God is love":44 God's very being is love. By
353 1, 2, 1, 221 | in the fullness of time, God has revealed his innermost
354 1, 2, 1, 221 | his innermost secret:45 God himself is an eternal exchange
355 1, 2, 1, 221 | IMPLICATIONS OF FAITH IN ONE GOD~
356 1, 2, 1, 222 | 222 Believing in God, the only One, and loving
357 1, 2, 1, 223 | It means coming to know God's greatness and majesty: "
358 1, 2, 1, 223 | greatness and majesty: "Behold, God is great, and we know him
359 1, 2, 1, 223 | Therefore, we must "serve God first".47~
360 1, 2, 1, 224 | living in thanksgiving: if God is the only One, everything
361 1, 2, 1, 225 | the image and likeness of God.50~
362 1, 2, 1, 226 | created things: faith in God, the only One, leads us
363 1, 2, 1, 226 | use everything that is not God only insofar as it brings
364 1, 2, 1, 226 | from him: ~My Lord and my God, take from me everything
365 1, 2, 1, 226 | from you. ~My Lord and my God, give me everything that
366 1, 2, 1, 226 | closer to you ~My Lord and my God, detach me from myself to
367 1, 2, 1, 227 | 227 It means trusting God in every circumstance, even
368 1, 2, 1, 227 | you Everything passes / God never changes Patience /
369 1, 2, 1, 227 | Obtains all Whoever has God / Wants for nothing God
370 1, 2, 1, 227 | God / Wants for nothing God alone is enough.52~IN BRIEF~
371 1, 2, 1, 228 | O Israel, the LORD our God is one LORD..." (Dt 6:4;
372 1, 2, 1, 228 | unique, without equal. . . If God is not one, he is not God" (
373 1, 2, 1, 228 | God is not one, he is not God" (Tertullian, Adv. Marc.,
374 1, 2, 1, 229 | 229 Faith in God leads us to turn to him
375 1, 2, 1, 230 | when he reveals himself, God remains a mystery beyond
376 1, 2, 1, 230 | understood him, it would not be God" (St. Augustine, Sermo 52,
377 1, 2, 1, 231 | 231 The God of our faith has revealed
378 1, 2, 1, 231 | faithfulness" (Ex 34:6). God's very being is Truth and
379 1, 2, 1, 233 | for there is only one God, the almighty Father, his
380 1, 2, 1, 234 | life. It is the mystery of God in himself. It is therefore
381 1, 2, 1, 234 | means by which the one true God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
382 1, 2, 1, 235 | Son and the Holy Spirit, God the Father fulfils the "
383 1, 2, 1, 236 | refers to the mystery of God's inmost life within the
384 1, 2, 1, 236 | to all the works by which God reveals himself and communicates
385 1, 2, 1, 236 | illuminates the whole oikonomia. God's works reveal who he is
386 1, 2, 1, 237 | mysteries that are hidden in God, which can never be known
387 1, 2, 1, 237 | unless they are revealed by God".58 To be sure, God has
388 1, 2, 1, 237 | revealed by God".58 To be sure, God has left traces of his Trinitarian
389 1, 2, 1, 237 | before the Incarnation of God's Son and the sending of
390 1, 2, 1, 237 | Spirit.~II. THE REVELATION OF GOD AS TRINITY~The Father revealed
391 1, 2, 1, 238 | 238 Many religions invoke God as "Father". the deity is
392 1, 2, 1, 238 | and of men". In Israel, God is called "Father" inasmuch
393 1, 2, 1, 238 | the world.59 Even more, God is Father because of the
394 1, 2, 1, 238 | his first-born son".60 God is also called the Father
395 1, 2, 1, 239 | 239 By calling God "Father", the language of
396 1, 2, 1, 239 | indicates two main things: that God is the first origin of everything
397 1, 2, 1, 239 | care for all his children. God's parental tenderness can
398 1, 2, 1, 239 | motherhood,62 which emphasizes God's immanence, the intimacy
399 1, 2, 1, 239 | first representatives of God for man. But this experience
400 1, 2, 1, 239 | therefore to recall that God transcends the human distinction
401 1, 2, 1, 239 | neither man nor woman: he is God. He also transcends human
402 1, 2, 1, 239 | standard:63 no one is father as God is Father.~
403 1, 2, 1, 240 | 240 Jesus revealed that God is Father in an unheard-of
404 1, 2, 1, 241 | Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God";
405 1, 2, 1, 241 | with God, and the Word was God"; as "the image of the invisible
406 1, 2, 1, 241 | the image of the invisible God"; as the "radiance of the
407 1, 2, 1, 241 | radiance of the glory of God and the very stamp of his
408 1, 2, 1, 242 | Father, that is, one only God with him.66 The second ecumenical
409 1, 2, 1, 242 | the only-begotten Son of God, eternally begotten of the
410 1, 2, 1, 242 | light from light, true God from true God, begotten
411 1, 2, 1, 242 | light, true God from true God, begotten not made, consubstantial
412 1, 2, 1, 245 | person of the Trinity, is God, one and equal with the
413 1, 2, 1, 249 | Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the
414 1, 2, 1, 253 | confess three Gods, but one God in three persons, the "consubstantial
415 1, 2, 1, 253 | themselves but each of them is God whole and entire: "The Father
416 1, 2, 1, 253 | Spirit is, i.e. by nature one God."84 In the words of the
417 1, 2, 1, 254 | distinct from one another. "God is one but not solitary."86 "
418 1, 2, 1, 256 | considered in himself is entirely God. . . the three considered
419 1, 2, 1, 257 | Trinity and first Unity!"93 God is eternal blessedness,
420 1, 2, 1, 257 | undying life, unfading light. God is love: Father, Son and
421 1, 2, 1, 257 | Father, Son and Holy Spirit. God freely wills to communicate
422 1, 2, 1, 258 | the New Testament, "one God and Father from whom all
423 1, 2, 1, 260 | economy is the entry of God's creatures into the perfect
424 1, 2, 1, 260 | home with him":101~O my God, Trinity whom I adore, help
425 1, 2, 1, 260 | leave you, O my unchanging God, but may each minute bring
426 1, 2, 1, 261 | faith and of Christian life. God alone can make it known
427 1, 2, 1, 262 | 262 The Incarnation of God's Son reveals that God is
428 1, 2, 1, 262 | of God's Son reveals that God is the eternal Father and
429 1, 2, 1, 262 | Son is one and the same God.~
430 1, 2, 1, 263 | Spirit is one and the same God. "With the Father and the
431 1, 2, 1, 266 | Catholic faith: We worship one God in the Trinity and the Trinity
432 1, 2, 1, 268 | divine attributes, only God's omnipotence is named in
433 1, 2, 1, 268 | might is universal, for God who created everything also
434 1, 2, 1, 268 | everything and can do everything. God's power is loving, for he
435 1, 2, 1, 269 | confess the universal power of God. He is called the "Mighty
436 1, 2, 1, 269 | strong and mighty" one. If God is almighty "in heaven and
437 1, 2, 1, 269 | Nothing is impossible with God, who disposes his works
438 1, 2, 1, 270 | 270 God is the Father Almighty,
439 1, 2, 1, 270 | shed light on one another: God reveals his fatherly omnipotence
440 1, 2, 1, 271 | 271 God's almighty power is in no
441 1, 2, 1, 271 | in no way arbitrary: "In God, power, essence, will, intellect,
442 1, 2, 1, 271 | Nothing therefore can be in God's power which could not
443 1, 2, 1, 271 | intellect."110~The mystery of God's apparent powerlessness~
444 1, 2, 1, 272 | 272 Faith in God the Father Almighty can
445 1, 2, 1, 272 | experience of evil and suffering. God can sometimes seem to be
446 1, 2, 1, 272 | the most mysterious way God the Father has revealed
447 1, 2, 1, 272 | crucified is thus "the power of God and the wisdom of God. For
448 1, 2, 1, 272 | of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of
449 1, 2, 1, 272 | For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the
450 1, 2, 1, 272 | men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men."111
451 1, 2, 1, 273 | embrace the mysterious ways of God's almighty power. This faith
452 1, 2, 1, 273 | will be impossible with God", and was able to magnify
453 1, 2, 1, 274 | nothing is impossible with God. Once our reason has grasped
454 1, 2, 1, 274 | has grasped the idea of God's almighty power, it will
455 1, 2, 1, 276 | the "almighty and eternal God" (“omnipotens sempiterne
456 1, 2, 1, 276 | will be impossible with God" (Gen 18:14; Lk 1:37; Mt
457 1, 2, 1, 277 | 277 God shows forth his almighty
458 1, 2, 1, 277 | his friendship by grace. "God, you show your almighty
459 1, 2, 1, 278 | If we do not believe that God's love is almighty, how
460 1, 2, 1, 279 | 279 "In the beginning God created the heavens and
461 1, 2, 1, 279 | up when it confesses that God the Father almighty is "
462 1, 2, 1, 279 | Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to raise us up again.~
463 1, 2, 1, 280 | is the foundation of "all God's saving plans," the "beginning
464 1, 2, 1, 280 | which "in the beginning God created the heavens and
465 1, 2, 1, 280 | earth": from the beginning, God envisaged the glory of the
466 1, 2, 1, 284 | intelligent and good Being called "God"? and if the world does
467 1, 2, 1, 284 | the world does come from God's wisdom and goodness, why
468 1, 2, 1, 285 | said that everything is God, that the world is God,
469 1, 2, 1, 285 | is God, that the world is God, or that the development
470 1, 2, 1, 285 | world is the development of God (Pantheism). Others have
471 1, 2, 1, 285 | necessary emanation arising from God and returning to him. Still
472 1, 2, 1, 285 | that the world was made by God, but as by a watch-maker
473 1, 2, 1, 286 | origins. the existence of God the Creator can be known
474 1, 2, 1, 286 | was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was
475 1, 2, 1, 287 | for all of human life that God in his tenderness wanted
476 1, 2, 1, 287 | have of the Creator,124 God progressively revealed to
477 1, 2, 1, 287 | and formed it, this same God reveals himself as the One
478 1, 2, 1, 288 | the covenant of the one God with his People. Creation
479 1, 2, 1, 288 | and universal witness to God's all-powerful love.126
480 1, 2, 1, 289 | its origin and its end in God, its order and goodness,
481 1, 2, 1, 290 | 290 "In the beginning God created the heavens and
482 1, 2, 1, 290 | of Scripture: the eternal God gave a beginning to all
483 1, 2, 1, 290 | Hebrew bara - always has God for its subject). the totality
484 1, 2, 1, 291 | Word. . . and the Word was God. . . all things were made
485 1, 2, 1, 291 | New Testament reveals that God created everything by the
486 1, 2, 1, 292 | faith: "There exists but one God. . . he is the Father, God,
487 1, 2, 1, 292 | God. . . he is the Father, God, the Creator, the author,
488 1, 2, 1, 292 | CREATED FOR THE GLORY OF GOD"~
489 1, 2, 1, 293 | was made for the glory of God."134 St. Bonaventure explains
490 1, 2, 1, 293 | Bonaventure explains that God created all things "not
491 1, 2, 1, 293 | communicate it",135 for God has no other reason for
492 1, 2, 1, 293 | explains:~This one, true God, of his own goodness and "
493 1, 2, 1, 294 | 294 The glory of God consists in the realization
494 1, 2, 1, 294 | which the world was created. God made us "to be his sons
495 1, 2, 1, 294 | grace",138 for "the glory of God is man fully alive; moreover
496 1, 2, 1, 294 | s life is the vision of God: if God's revelation through
497 1, 2, 1, 294 | is the vision of God: if God's revelation through creation
498 1, 2, 1, 294 | obtain life for those who see God."139 The ultimate purpose
499 1, 2, 1, 294 | purpose of creation is that God "who is the creator of all
500 1, 2, 1, 294 | THE MYSTERY OF CREATION~God creates by wisdom and love~
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