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To: srweaver
I don't want to bring down everyone’s wrath on the Rabbi but he and the Catechism of the Catholic Church are in agreement on this. The Catechism states: “God's truth is his wisdom, which commands the whole created order and governs the world. God, who alone made heaven and earth, can alone impart true knowledge of every created thing in relation to himself.”

Furtherm St. Bonaventure explains that God created all things “not to increase his glory, but to show it forth and to communicate it”, for God has no other reason for creating than his love and goodness: “Creatures came into existence when the key of love opened his hand.”

15 posted on 04/16/2010 2:41:26 PM PDT by Natural Law
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To: Natural Law

Sorry but you lost me.

I took the one (rabbi) to say the “meaning of our existence is completely beyond our comprehension,” while the other (Catholic catechism/Bonaventure) says “God shows forth and communicates His glory” and “He alone can impart true knowledge of the relationship of His creatures to Himself.”

I don’t disagree with the latter, as my knowledge of God which is real, though nor exhaustive, depends on Him giving me the ability to live and reason coupled with Him choosing to reveal Himself to me in ways I can understand.


22 posted on 04/16/2010 3:26:00 PM PDT by srweaver (Never Forget the Judicial Homicide of Terri Schiavo)
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